Digital: Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)Directed by Malaysian/Chinese director Sam Quah Sheep Without a Shepherd is a remake of the 2013 Indian/Malayalam film ‘Drishyam’ by Jeethu Joseph.This new Chinese remake starrring Xiao Yang, Tan Zhuo and Joan Chen tells the story of a Chinese family living in Thailand. Weijie, his wife Ayu and their two […]
DVD & Digital: The Seventh Day (2021)I like Guy Pearce, when I see he’s in a movie I automatically think it’s going to be at least interesting, if not good. However, it seems that Guy’s armour has a chink in it and the last few films he’s been in have been clangers despite his talents. […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery (1997)The problem with writing a review of a hugely popular film like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is… most film fans have seen it. So you’re just re-treading old water. The test is, after 24 years, is it still funny? Made by ex-Saturday […]
Blu-ray: Carla’s Song (1996) Set in 1987, Carla’s Song tells the story of the love affair between Glaswegian bus driver George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a beautiful, homeless, Nicaraguan refugee living in Glasgow. This is a film of two halves. The first part takes place in Glasgow where George meets Carla, follows […]
DVD & Digital: Enslaved (2020)What a strange programme Enslaved is. I was hoping for an in-depth exploration of the journey and let’s be honest, torture, of the human slave trade from Africa. But what transpires is a very uneven ‘sort of’ history programme that is mainly about diving for evidence of slave ships. Made by […]
Cinema & Digital: The Reckoning (2020)After watching the trailer for Neil Marshall’s new movie The Reckoning, I was expecting something along the lines of Hagazussa or even Robert Eggers The Witch. But alas no, the promise of witches and huge devils rampaging through the English countryside during the Plague of 1665 is trailer-only fodder. I […]
Blu-ray: The Head Hunter (2018)Before watching The Head Hunter I read a few reviews of this independent ‘made on a low budget’ shortish film. Clocking in at 70 minutes, a lot of comments by viewers can be condensed into ‘It’s a bit too long’ and ‘it needs to be 30 minutes long’.Hmmm I thought, this does […]
Blu-ray: Raw (2016)What an amazing first feature for director Julia Ducournau. Released in 2016, Raw is one of those films that seem to be sent from movie heaven it’s that good.It’s a coming of age story about Justine (Garance Marillier), a clever and somewhat sullen and spoilt second daughter of a strict vegetarian family.Justine begins to attend the […]
The Barcelona Vampiress (2020)The Barcelona Vampiress is based on the amazingly true story of Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés (1868 – 1913) he supposed ‘Spanish child serial killer’ who kidnapped, then prostituted an unknown number of children. The film itself is extremely stylised, the set design is purposely claustrophobic and graphic comic in look and is rather Terry Gilliam-esque in […]
Blu-ray: The Criminal Code (1930)The Criminal Code, based on the play by Martin Flavin, was originally produced on Broadway in 1929, and the great Boris Karloff, who appeared in the stage play, is recast here as Galloway, giving him his first noticeable role after being mostly cast in bit parts.Notably, the film is the first of Hawks’ four […]
