Blu-ray: Eve (1962)Joseph Losey made some of the most interesting films of the 60s (The Servant…if you haven’t seen this film go out and buy it immediately, The Go Between, Criminal, Mr Klein) after being forced out of Hollywood.Although I’ve seen the famous cover of Jeanne Moreau as Eve/Eva, I’d never seen this film before […]
Blu-ray: Uncle Buck (1989)The Middle class, affluent Bob & Cindy Russell (Garret Brown & Elaine Bromka) along with their three kids: 15 year old and angry with her parents for uprooting her from her friends Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly), 8 year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), and 6 year old Maisy, have recently moved to Chicago because of […]
Digital HD: Becky (2020) Directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, from a screenplay by Nick Morris, Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye. Starring Lulu Wilson as Becky, Joel Mchale as her dad and ‘comedian’ Kevin James as the main bad guy, Becky is a little bit different to most thrillers. I do try to review films on […]
DVD & Digital HD: The Bay of Silence (2020)Beginning and ending in the Bay of Silence in Italy, this film (based on Lisa St. Aubin de Terán’s book) is an arthouse chiller/thriller where a husband tries to untangle his schizophrenic wife’s past life.Starring former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as Rosalind and Claes Bang (sexiest Dracula ever) as […]
Blu-ray: Out of Africa (1985)Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically.Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where she accepts […]
Digital HD: The Tunnel (2019)The Tunnel (or in its native language – Tunnelen) is another Norwegian disaster movie. “Oh” I hear you say “Another one”? Yes it seems a to be a ‘thing’ on Amazon Prime in the UK, hidden in the depths of its terrible GUI are some gems, a few of which Dave […]
The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) filmed in black and white, made in 2017 and directed by Robert Schwentke, is a film that you think is going to go one way, and hits you over the heads and goes the other. It tells the true story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed the stolen identity of a German […]
Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]
Blu-ray: Walkabout (1971)In 1970’s urban Australia a father (a worryingly unhinged John Meillon) takes his children on an adventure to the outback with the intention of murder/suicide. The children, a girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Luc Roeg the director’s son) are literally left in the sheering heat of the Australian outback. Thankfully they come across […]
Blu-ray: Bicycle Thieves (1948)Bicycle Thieves is along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, one of the most famous works of Italian neorealism, a movement that aimed to give Italian cinema a new degree of post war realism. Director De Sica wanted to show the dire poverty and huge unemployment of post war Italy and was unable to get financial […]
