Blu-ray: Aniara (2018)Aniara is a science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. The title comes from ancient Greek and means \’sad/despairing\’. The poem tells the tragedy of a spacecraft bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from a dying Earth. After an accident, the ship is ejected from the Solar System […]
Blu-ray: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) The problem with a lot of ‘true life’ stories in film is that they are invariably NOT true. My very cursory knowledge of Lon Chaney is that only the main points of this biopic are ‘real’. But it really doesn’t matter, mainly because the star of this film […]
DVD: Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special (1980)For those of you who may be unfamiliar with our titular hero, let me explain who Worzel Gummidge is.He is a walking, talking scarecrow who has a variety of interchangeable turnip, manglewurzel (YES, Manglewurzle) and swede heads, each of which suited a particular occasion, like tea with the Queen or […]
DVD: Never Grow Old (2019) Patrick Tate (Emile Hirsch) is an Irish immigrant who has inadvertently settled in Oregon on his way to California with his French wife, Audrey (Deborah Francois), and their two young children. Patrick is the towns undertaker, and what was once a lucrative business in the ‘wild west’ has become few […]
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 […]
