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 […]
Dual Format: Red Rock West (1993)Imagine a film starring Nic Cage AND Dennis Hopper. Sounds like a car crash? Nope, it’s a heaven-made match.Anything Nic Cage is in is watchable, whether or not he reigns it in or lets loose, he’s the most individual actor around and always brings his actorly weight to any part […]
Blu-ray: Monster (2003)Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) directorial debut is a hard watch. It gives us a slice of Aileen Wuornos – Infamous Floridian prostitute serial killer – live.As with most biographical films it has to ‘entertain’, so certain liberties are taken with the story (as with Christina Ricci playing her semi-fictionalised lover, Selby Wall who was […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Flatliners (1990)Flatliners is one of those early 90s films with one foot still in the 80s, directed beautifully by the master of neon camp Joel Schumacher and starring the epitome of late80s/early 90s mega film stars triptic of Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts (along with Oliver Platt and William Baldwin). […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Get Carter (1971)Based on Ted Lewis’s 1970 novel Jack’s Return Home, Get Carter tells the story of Jack Carter (Michael Caine), a London based gangster who returns to his hometown in Newcastle to find out about his brother’s supposedly ‘accidental’ death. Disobeying the London gang’s boss to stay put, he travels up North on the train to find […]
Blu-ray: Putney Swope (1969)Putney Swope is one of ‘those’ films…normally at 60MW towers before we watch a film we head over to YouTube and check out the trailer. Having seen the trailer for Putney Swope, I was NOT looking forward to seeing it…very 1960s, and… hummmm. Seeing Robert Downey Sr. directed it gave it some novelty value but […]
Blu-ray: Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)Never-before released on blu-ray in the UK, Diary of a Mad Housewife is one of those films you’ve heard about, but never got to see.Directed by Frank Perry (The Swimmer, Trilogy, Mommie Dearest) it stars Carrie Snodgrass as Tina the ‘mad’ housewife and the whole film is interestingly and unflinchingly […]
Blu-ray: Red Sonja (1985) Red Sonja, directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Clive Exton & George MacDonald Fraser, is based on the character Red Sonya of Rogatino created by Robert E. Howard (who also wrote Conan the Barbarian). This was Brigitte Nielsen’s first film (just before she married Sylvester Stallone) and also stars Sandahl Bergman (who was also in […]
