Blu-ray: The Vikings (1958) During a Viking raid in England, Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine) rapes the queen, she secretly gives birth to a son Eric (Tony Curtis) who is captured and made a slave. Year later and in true Hollywood style he meets his half-brother Einar (Kirk Douglas) and falls in love with the Welsh Princess […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Tout Va Bien (1972) Not unlike Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! – Jane Fonda and Yves Montand play the roles of ‘Her’ and ‘Him’, that is, a ‘modern’ couple in 1972. Director Jean-Luc Godard was told ‘If you use stars, people will give you money’, hence the hiring of two superstars for what a […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Andreas (Rutger Hauer) is an alcoholic living in rough Paris, when he is lent 200 Francs by a stranger he promises to pay the money back to a local church. However, his alcoholism stops him as random people from his past get in the way […]
DVD: Robbery Under Arms (1985) Based on Rolf Boldrewood’s 1882 colonial novel Robbery under Arms was made in 1985 as a film and simultaneously as this television series. Starting quite deliciously with Sam Neil snogging a rather posh lady for around 3 minutes, the series follows the adventures of Captain Starlight (Sam Neill) a charming […]
Blu-ray, DVD and VOD: Land Of Mine (2015) At the end of World War 2, the formerly Nazi occupied Denmark used remaining German soldiers to clear all the land mines left on Danish Beaches. Most of these soldiers were under 19 years old. Some were as young as 13. Some of the films we review […]
4k Blu-ray: Blade Runner (1982) After a very checkered past Blade Runner is now universally accepted as a classic. Ridley Scott’s future-noir fantasy (from a novel by Philip K Dick) massively flopped in 1982, dismissed by critics and with the studio fiddling non-stop with the finished product. Late-in-the-day recuts, adding an explanatory narration and adding a […]
Cinema: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) *Massive spoilers so don’t read if you haven’t seen the film* Agent K (Ryan Gosling) is a Blade Runner, sent on a job to execute an old Nexus 6 Replicant (Dave Bautista), who knowing he is about to be retired, reveals that he has seen a miracle. Intrigued, K searches […]
Blu-ray & DVD: A Man Called Ove (2015) Widower Ove Lindahl (Rolf Larsgård) lives in a gated community in Sweden, and it appears his sole purpose in life is to make the residents adhere to the rules of the community by being a grumpy sod, by shouting at everyone (including small dogs), extreme rudeness and […]
Blu-ray & DVD: See No Evil (1971) After being blinded in a horse riding accident, Sarah (Mia Farrow) visits her uncle’s home to recuperate. Meanwhile, in the local village we see from a ‘first person’ perspective a man with distinctive cowboy boots do various ‘bad’ things. This is a real film of its time and […]
I don’t remember the first time I heard Neil Diamond sing, whether it was on the radio, a television show, and to my recollection my parents didn’t have any of his albums, but he’s always been there, I seem to have known his music forever and been able to sing along always. Seeing Neil was […]
