4K UHD: The Lighthouse (2019)Did you know dear reader, that there are 2 films called The Lighthouse, both based on the same incident in a Welsh lighthouse in the 1860s? That one, not as well known, THIS one however, is very well known down to its stellar cast (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) and hot director, Robert […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980)After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside. He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen.‘Serious’ actors tend […]
Bez -The Man, The myth.Bez (Mark Berry) what do I, a middle-aged woman in North Wales know about this person? NOT a lot. During the heyday years of The Happy Mondays at the Hacienda, I was in a one bed flat, flat broke, changing nappies. So, music wasn’t really that big on my list. Neither […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Based on a folk tale of the beast of Gévaudan about the mysterious killings that took place in France in the 1700s, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a one-of-a-kind film that really defies genre.Part Sherlock Holmes mystery, part historical fantasy, it tells the story of the hunt for a beast […]
DVD: It’s Complicated (2009)It’s Complicated boasts a stellar cast, and although I hate to begin a review like this, I feel the overwhelming urge to beg God to save me from films like this…the ‘romantic comedy’.Jane (Meryl Streep) is fabulously wealthy and owns a successful bakery in sunny California, and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin), an […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Appleyard College is a Victorian young ladies’ college somewhere in Australia, the students are about to have a Valentines Day treat; a picnic at Hanging Rock. In their cream and white cotton dresses, these beautiful, spoilt girls stuff their faces under the watchful eyes of Miss […]
4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The City of Lost Children (1995)The City of Lost Children directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is one of those ‘foreign’ films. Oh dear Lord how so many of us hate to read the subtitles (actually I don’t mind at all), but wait dear reader! There isn’t so much talking in […]
Blu-ray & DVD: EO (2022)Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, EO follows the life of donkey Eo and all the places he trots to, and the people he meets. An almost picaresque tale (without Eo being a rogue) or incidence and, yes, heartbreak and of course horror. Eo is a circus donkey […]
Blu-ray: The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)Adapted from the 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor and directed by James Whale, you can tell right from the start that The Kiss Before the Mirror is pre-Hayes code, as we see Lucy Bernsdorf skip through the garden of her lover (a very young Walter Pidgeon) before being led into the bedroom […]
Blu-ray: State of the Union (1948)I’ve never been a huge Spencer Tracy fan. To me he always seems to play himself; a somewhat grumpy American middle aged male, and more or less overshadowed here by the talent of his ‘girlfriend’ Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately I feel the same about his performance in Frank Capra’s State of […]
