Blu-ray: FM (1978) Films always reflect the time in which they’re made, and FM has to be top of that list. Q-SKY radio station manager Jeff Dugan (Michael Brandon) employs an eclectic bunch of ‘kooky’ DJ’s. He soon finds that corporate management expects Jeff to use the station’s position at the top of the ratings […]
Cinema: Gwen (2018) Writer/director William McGregor (in his first full length film) gives us an eerie foray into the dark industrial revolutionary Hills of North Wales in Gwen. Set in 1855, Elen (Maxine Peake) and her daughters Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) and Mari (Jodi Innes) work the small holding up in the Snowdonia Hills while dad […]
Blu-ray: Double Face (1969) I can forgive Klaus Kinski anything, no one does deranged quite like him. On seeing Werner Herzog’s ‘Aguirre, Wrath of God’, then Fitzcarraldo, and then Crawlspace, I knew here was a man who, not unlike Dennis Hopper and Oliver Reed, was rather bonkers, but had the saving grace of being able […]
Blu-ray: Scum (1979) Scum was a play before it was a film, and gained infamy because the late ‘great’ Mary Whitehouse thought it so abhorrent, she took the BBC to court over it, and won. Made by the (truly) great Alan Clarke (Made in Britain, The Firm, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) Scum was made […]
Blu-ray: Nightfall (1956) Based on a book written by David Goodis, and Directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Night of the Demon), Nightfall is a quirky little ‘Noir’ starring Aldo Ray as Jim, Brian Keith as bad guy John, Anne Bancroft as love interest Marie and James Gregory as Ben; an insurance investigator whose case […]
Blu-ray: Black Joy (1977) Directed by Anthony Summers and released in ‘flares-tastic’ 1977, Black Joy is based on Jamal Ali’s acclaimed stage play ‘Dark Days and Light Nights’ and tells the story of Ben (Trevor Thomas), a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard way about life on the streets of Brixton. As soon as […]
I’ve always had a bit of a ‘thing’ for Hugh Jackman. You see dear reader, to me, Hugh is the perfect man. Handsome, manly, WOLVERINE, sensitive, can sing, can DANCE, a bit camp, funny, seems sincere, talented, charismatic, a complete package in more ways than one. The perfect man, because he could tap dance up […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Mary Reilly (1996) Perhaps I should mention that Julia Roberts who plays Mary Reilly was nominated for Worst Actress by the Razzie Awards, and Stephen Frears was nominated for Worst Director…both lost. However, that should tell you the reader that Roberts performance in Mary Reilly is nothing short of magnificently awful. Reilly […]
Blu-ray: The Big Clock (1948) I love Charles Laughton, he’s one of those actors, I suppose not really known or even in vogue now, that with the slightest twitch of his face, can emote a million feelings. He’s been in so many of my favourite films (Spartacus, Hobson’s Choice amongst many others) and I was […]
Blu-ray: Mega Time Squad (2018) I love time travel films. Time After Time, 12 Monkeys, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Terminator, Safety Not Guaranteed, all of them have that quirky ‘What would you do, if you could go back in time’? vibe going on. In Mega Time Squad, John (Anton Tennet) would rob a shit […]
