TINA: I love gin. In fact I love it so much I once wrote an essay on it. Ah I know what you’re thinking, and you are wrong. It was the history of gin in Britain, or as it was known in the 18th Century – Madam Geneva’. Let me introduce you to a splendid book […]
Blu-ray: A Boy and His Dog (1975)Based on the novella of the same name, A Boy and His Dog is very much a film of its time, directed by actor L.Q. Jones, it follows the adventures of Vic (a very young Don Johnson), a 15 yr old lad who with his dog Blood travel the post-apocalyptic wasteland of […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Videodrome (1983)One of those classic films that films fans love; unusual, brutal, a one of a kind. All from the mind of genius film maker David Cronenberg. Now I don’t like to give spoilers away in my reviews, just in case the viewer hasn’t seen the film and doesn’t want it ‘ruined’ […]
Cinema & Digital: Vesper (2022)Directed by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, Vesper was shot in Vilnius, Lithuania with cinematography by Feliksas Abrukauskas who gives it a real ‘otherworldly’ feel (reminding me a little of The 1988 New Zealand film The Navigator).It follows Vesper (the excellent Raffiella Chapman); a young teenager who is adept at bio-mechanics, who […]
Grimmfest 2022: Piggy (2022)Piggy (in Spanish Cerdita) is based on Carlota Pereda’s short feature film debut, winner of the Goya Award and the Forqué Award for Best Short Film in 2019. Laura Galán reprises her role from the short film as Sara, a dark haired very Spanish looking teenager. Sara is fat and all the village kids and teens […]
Back in the late 80s early 90s, Channel 4 was the king of late night UK television. Dangerous and ground breaking, it gave us half-pissed Friday night plebs a taste of what the wider world may hold. None more than Eurotrash presented by Antoine de Caunes and designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, and produced by Rapido (French) Television. […]
DVD: The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)Mary (Stefanie Scott) is being questioned by the local law enforcement, her eyes are covered with a piece of material, she can no longer see and blood is congealed on her cheeks from her eyes. The language of the script is biblical in line with the language used in the […]
Cinema: Fall (2022) The poster for Fall gives you a very clear idea – coupled with the title – of what this movie is about. Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and her best friend Hunter (Virginia Gardner) are climbing a mountain along with Becky’s attractive husband Ben (Mason Gooding). There is a Cliffhanger type accident and Ben […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Dog Soldiers (2002) Neil Marshall, one of the great UK filmmakers, gave us a gift of lycanthropy with Dog Soldiers. A gritty, funny, gory tale of soldiers, one evil, one good, the others disgruntled, soggy, and out of their depth trapped in a house far away from anywhere in the middle of […]
Blu-ray: The Swimmer (1968)Based on John Cheever’s short story and written and directed by husband and wife team Frank (director) and Eleanor (writer) Perry.Starring Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, who at first seems to be the late 60s everyman, successful, affluent, charismatic, yet here he is, in your back garden, wanting to swim across your […]
