Blu-ray & DVD: Montparnasse 19 (1958) Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani (Gérard Philipe), leads the typical bohemian artiste existence in Paris, and in between drinking himself to a stupor, and having sex with most of the women he knows, he paints, but is unable to sell any of his work due to his style. I’d actually […]
DVD: Detectorists (Series 3) (2017) It is with a genuinely heavy heart that I tell you that this series of Detectorists is to be the last. Over the last 2 series (all of which I’ve reviewed) we’ve followed the adventures, or rather middle aged musings of Lance (Toby Jones) and Andy (Mackenzie Crook). Andy and […]
DVD: Love, Lies and Records (2017) Kate (Ashley Jensen) is a registrar who works full time while coping with grumpy teenagers at home, office politics and also does some amateur sleuthing on the side. Living with (not married to) a policeman, she is popular, warm and kind, and everyone loves her. Well, everyone apart from […]
DVD: Eagle of the Ninth (1977) Eagle of the Ninth, originally a novel written for kids by Rosemary Sutcliff in 1954 is a story set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, and tells the tale of our hero, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila (perfect casting of Anthony Higgins, who stars […]
Blu-ray: The Apartment (1960) C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a man on the make, and the only way he can get ahead in his company is by loaning out his apartment to various bosses who take their mistresses there (instead of a hotel) for sex. He waits outside, in all weathers, patiently waiting for his […]
Blu-ray: Carrie (1976) Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy 16 year old girl who lives with her ‘eccentric’ religiously obsessed mother in a small American town. Carrie is bullied by her contemporaries, mainly because of her annoyingly odd mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), wild haired with a mad-but-sexy-vibe, who turns up at her ‘friends’ houses […]
DVD: Medici – Masters of Florence. Season 1 (2016) Set in 15th Century Florence, Cosimo Medici (Richard Madden) has inherited the Bank of Medici from his father Giovanni (Dustin Hoffman), who has been mysteriously poisoned. Through various flashbacks we are taken back to see the lives of young Cosimo and his brother Lorenzo and their […]
Blu-ray: The Slipper and the Rose – The Story of Cinderella (1976) In this very British take on the Cinderella tale by director Bryan Forbes, Prince Edward of Euphrania (Austria) (Richard Chamberlain) wants to marry for love while his Royal parents want a political alliance. Meanwhile, Cinderella’s (Gemma Craven) cruel stepmother (Margaret Lockwood) has banished […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Four Film Noir Classics. Arrow Academy have released a set of 4 Film Noirs, all much sought after, and here we have them on High Def Bluray and also DVD. First off ‘In The Dark Mirror’ (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak (The Killers). Twins (both played Olivia de Havilland) are involved in […]
DVD: The Vietnam War (2017) I have a degree in History. I spent three very happy years immersing myself in, mainly British History, but my love of the subject extends worldwide, and especially to America. Having said that, I know next to nothing about The Vietnam War. However, I am familiar with Ken Burns and […]
