Blu-ray: Britannia Hospital (1982)Britannia Hospital is the final part of Lindsay Andersons’ trilogy about how weird and shit Britain was/is. It features Anderson’s ‘everyman’ character Mick Travis, and to really get a grip on Britannia Hospital it helps to know about Mick and the films that came before.Mick is played by Malcolm McDowell and features in […]
Blu-ray: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is based on Laurens van der Post’s trilogy of books that detail his experiences as a Japanese prisoner war in World War II and was the first English language film by Japanese Auteur Nagisa Oshima. Based in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in 1942, it tells the […]
Thankfully I finally took notice of my “Themed Tunes” co-host Steve constantly going on about how wonderful The Teskey Brothers are. After recording a show a few weeks back I went on YouTube and watched them play the song “Hold Me” (see below) from the ‘Live at the Forum’ album. Now those of you who […]
Blu-ray: Watermelon Man (1970) Good lord where do I start with this film? HOW do you review a film about a black man ‘whiteing up’ to rub it off and be a black man? Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, stars Godfrey Cambridge (who in 1965 was described by Time magazine as “one of […]
Blu-ray: Cisco Pike (1971) Cisco Pike is a 1971 drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). It’s […]
Blu-ray: The Woman/Offspring (2011/2009) This double release from Arrow features two films both centred on Pollyanna McIntosh as ‘The Woman’. When a young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in the town of Dead River, the local police immediately suspect a nomadic family of cannibals, which in itself is surprising. The cops KNOW about a family […]
DVD: Quantum Leap – The Complete Collection (1989 – 1993) Quantum Leap first aired in the UK in 1990 on BBC 2. I missed it. I was in Los Angeles and had already become quite obsessed with this sci-fi tale of Dr. Sam Beckett (the gorgeous Scott Bakula); a physicist who figuratively ‘leaps’ through his […]
Blu-ray: Hagazussa (2017) Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (Hagazussa, an Old German term for Witch) is the directoral debut of Lukas Feigelfeld . The story takes place in medieval Germany/alps and tells the story Albrun (Aleksandra Cwen), a goat-herder who is ostracised by the villagers because they think she’s a witch. On reading the several 5 […]
Revenge is the first full length film directed by Coralie Fargeat and was lauded on its release a few months before ‘#Metoo’ kicked off. Starring Matilda Lutz as Jen, Kevin Janssens as Richard her married lover, and Vincent Colombe and Guillaume Bouchède as Richard friends and hunting buddies Stan and Dimitri. Revenge is a rape […]
Blu-ray: The Strange One (1957)Powerhouse Films and their Indicator label seem to find the most interesting(ly odd) films to release, lost ‘classics’ of cinema that have passed most film fans by. The Strange One, adapted from Calder Willinghamis’ novel and stage play, was made in 1957 and was the film debut of Ben Gazzara and […]
