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 […]
Blu-ray: Burn After Reading (2008)Written and directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading features an ‘A’ list ensemble cast and is as funny now as it was in 2008.CIA analyst, Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) has ‘a drinking problem’ and is sacked. Osbourne is married to Katie (Tilda Swinton) who wants to leave him […]
Blu-ray: Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)Directed by Charles Jarrot a year after his huge success with Anne of a Thousand Days, and written by John Hale who was responsible for the first episode of the 1971 BBC series Elizabeth R (also starring Glenda Jackson who reprises her role as Elizabeth in this film), the time […]
Digital: Clean (2021) Working through the night, Clean (Adrien Brody) is a garbage man on the streets of America. He picks up the odd interesting discarded machine, repairs it, then sells it for pocket money at the local Pawn shop. He spends his time quietly and only really has any contact with a young girl […]
