Curzon Home Cinema & Digital Download: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020)This new documentary examining the work of infamous photographer Helmut Burger is directed by journalist and filmmaker Gero von Boehm, friend of the late provocateur and his wife June. And for that very reason we have a very one-sided view of the […]
Blu-ray: Sweet Charity (1969)Well you’re going to get a biased review here, because I love a good musical, and Sweet Charity is top 3 for me. The pedigree this film has: directed by Bob Fosse, book by Neil Simon and starring the wonderful Shirley Maclaine, Sweet Charity is an absolute treat. It’s also not your usual […]
DVD: Rumble Fish (1983)Oh for so very long I have been enamoured with Motorcycle Boys (Mickey Rouke’s) jumper. A delicate cable knit, v-neck and sleeveless. The existence of this jumper is somewhat like the whole of the film, delicate, intricate, thoughtful and a little tangled. Based on classic teen book of the same name by […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Green Street (2005) Green Street is an odd film. It stars Elijah Wood as Matt, an American student who now lives in the UK after being expelled from his American University after being wrongfully accused of being a coke head. Matt ends up being friends with Pete (Charlie Hunnam) who is one […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Green Zone (2010)Based in 2003 American occupied Iraq, Green Zone is a military thriller written by Brian Helgeland and based on the 2006 book ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’ by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and is directed by ‘Mr shaky cam’ Paul Greengrass.Boy is this a blokes film, it’s so damn macho and action packed […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Monkey – The Complete Series (1978-80) When I was about 14 I stayed at my (rich) friend Sandra Burrows house. Her parents owned a deli in Llangollen and I had been deemed worthy of sharing her double bed that Friday night so we could go to the youth club disco. We argued because […]
Digital HD & DVD: Blood and Money (2020)John Barr’s debut feature film Blood and Money casts Tom Berenger as a lone ageing hunter living in a camper van roaming the snowy wilds in America looking for an elusive buck to shoot.Quite early on it’s revealed that Berenger’s character Jim Reed is ill, and possibly dying as he […]
Blu-ray: Happy Gilmore (1996)Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) wants to be an ice hockey player but…he can’t skate and his temper tends to ruin any chance he has of being successful either in sport and love.After his girlfriend leaves him, he finds out his granny owes a shit ton of money to the IRS and has […]
Blu-ray: Brain Dead (1990)Dr. Rex Martin (Bill Pullman) is a top neurosurgeon, who surrounded by brains in jars, is studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illnesses. His friend Jim Reston (Bill Paxton in fine manic form) is a businessman at ‘Eunice’ and comes to see him. Jim needs help in delving into the mind of […]
Blu-ray: I, Monster (1971)Directed in 1971 by a very young (only 22) Stephen Weeks as his feature debut for Amicus Productions. Interestingly Amicus usually made vignette films, multiple stories in one film, but this time opted for a a full length adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (but the names are changed to […]
