DVD: Versailles (Series 3) More sex and ruffles from French pay TV operator Canal Plus in its English-language series about Versailles and the French aristocracy who dwell there in Monsieur. A fantastic beginning with a horse galloping into shot, its hooded horseman arriving at the deepest dungeon in the Bastille, removing the hood we find […]
Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980) After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside. He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen. ‘Serious’ actors tend to […]
DVD: The Senator (2017) In July, 1969, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) younger brother of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy calls his cousin, Joe Gargan (Ed Helms) to arrange for hotel rooms on Martha’s Vineyard for the ‘Boiler Room Girls’; his brother Robert’s campaign staff. They travel to the infamous Chappaquiddick Island, where he goes to […]
Blu-ray: Sam Fuller at Columbia (1937-61) (Well it’s certainly taken me a long time to get through this box set (apologies to Powerhouse Films). Sam Fullerhad an interesting life before he started in film, aged 17 he moved to New York and got a job as a crime reporter. He then went on to write […]
Blu-ray & DVD: King of Hearts (1966) Soldier and ornithologist Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent by his commanding officer (Adolfo Celi) to disarm a bomb that has been placed in the French town of Marville by retreating German soldiers at the end of WW1. Of course the path is not smooth and Plumpick ends […]
Blu-ray: The Navigator – A Medieval Odyssey (1988) A lot of the films that have had an ‘effect’ on me, were viewed late at night, alone, after my parents or partner had gone to bed, and normally on BBC 2. Films that are unavailable to watch, or so expensive to buy that you simply can’t […]
DVD: Plebs (2013 – ) Plebs was first broadcast on ITV2 from March 2013, and COMPLETELY passed us by at 60MW Towers. I’d seen the odd advert for it, but just never seemed to catch it when it was on. Normally when we get offered full series of TV shows I am quite hesitant, as unless I’ve […]
DVD: Filmworker (2017) “An abusive relationship? No, I was quite willing”, so says Stanley Kubrick’s assistant Leon Vitali after the release of Filmworker, and it’s a telling quote as at times, this 2017 American documentary film directed by Tony Zierra about Vitali, can be a hard watch. After being hand picked to play the part of Lord Bullingdon […]
Blu-ray: Re-Animator (1985) Volume 1 of Umbrella Entertainment’s new ‘Beyond Genres’ series of releases arrived in the mail room here at 60MW Towers, and an audible squeal of delight was emitted as I saw it was one of my favourite movies of all time: Re-Animator. The packaging is wonderful, with striking artwork adorning its cover […]
Blu-ray & DVD: No Way Out (1950) In No Way Out (his first film), Sidney Poitier plays Dr Luther Brooks, and from the beginning you can see this 23 year old actor was already something special. It’s the story of a young black doctor intern’s struggle against the racial prejudice he meets in his life and […]
