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 […]
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 […]
