Blu-ray: The Major and the Minor (1942) The Major and the Minor starring wonderful post-Astaire Ginger Rogers and extremely handsome Ray Milland, was Billy Wilder’s debut as a Hollywood director. It’s your run of the mill, girl meets man, man is engaged to another woman, the woman is a self-centred, self-serving harpy, man realises he […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Kaleidoscope (2016)Carl (Toby Jones) lives alone high up in a tower block in London. As the story progresses we get hints that he was in prison for some crime that may, or may not, be connected to sexual violence.He works in what seems to be a hospital gardens, but again, perhaps not.He’s […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Double Date (2017)On the cusp of his 30th birthday, nice guy with ginger hair Jim (Danny Morgan), who is also a virgin, finds out that his girlfriend is shagging someone else. To cheer him up his best mate Alex (Michael Socha) takes him out to a bar with a promise of losing his […]
Blu-ray: Flight of the Navigator (1986) A real classic from 1986, Flight of the Navigator is still a firm favourite with all kids from the 80s, me included. Directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton and Matt MacManus, it tells the story of 12 year old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) […]
Dave & Tina co-review Heavy Pettin\’ and Rock Goddess. Make sure to listen to our interview with Jody Turner. Heavy Pettin’ The previous time that I saw Heavy Pettin’ was when they supported KISS back in 1983 on the ‘Lick it Up’ tour, and if truth be told, I didn’t like them. Granted I was […]
Memory: The Origins of Alien is the latest documentary written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, famous for ‘78/52’ the documentary which fetishistically dissected Hitchcock’s shower scene so eloquently. He now turns his gaze onto Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien. Beginning with 3 furies (witches with the aliens teeth), he gives us a real sense […]
Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich & Josef Von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 Gosh how I love Indicator box sets, they give us beautifully restored films with the most amazing extras. So being able to experience this particular collection featuring the six Hollywood films made between 1930 and 1935 by Josef von Sternberg and starring his ‘creation’ Marlene […]
Blu-ray: In Bruges (2008) Imagine the joy I felt on seeing Colin Farrell as Ray in ‘In Bruges‘, excitedly run over to a film-in-film set with a delighted (Irish accented) cry of ‘Midgets! They’re filming fuckin MIDGETS’! Some films just have it, you know it’s going to be a belter and as the voiceover starts […]
Blu-ray: Being John Malkovich (1999) Now 20 years old (can you believe it?) Being John Malkovich was, and still is, a ‘one off’ kind of film. Very surreal, yet understandable. This was the first script made into a film by Charlie Kaufman, who is now seen as one of THE American writers of modern times. […]
Blu-ray: Sixteen Candles (1984) Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) comes downstairs on her 16th birthday and not one of her family has remembered, because her older sister Ginny is getting married the next day. The scowl on Sam’s face remains throughout the entire film. Sam is infatuated with school heart throb Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Jake opens […]
