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 […]
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). […]
