DVD: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) Charles Dickens died in the middle of writing this his last (obviously!) novel and since then there has been enormous speculation about how he would have finished it. No one really knows, but writer Gwyneth Hughes went back to original sources, such as accounts of conversations Dickens had […]
DVD: The Brothers (1972) I love old TV series, I own nearly every single thing Oliver Tobias was in during the 1970s. I have the box sets of all kinds of crap you’ve probably never heard of. The good (I, Claudius, Luke’s Kingdom), the bad (By the Sword Divided) and the absolutely ESSENTIAL (original Poldark, […]
DVD: The Steve Martin Movie Collection Another great boxset release from Fabulous Films which contains plenty of laughs with 4 movies from Steve Martin. 3 of these movies we have previously reviewed and so I would encourage you to read our reviews on Bowfinger, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and Sgt. Bilko by clicking on […]
Blu-ray: The Villainess (2017) Hailing from South Korea, The Villainess has one of the most violently frenetic openings I’ve ever seen in an Asian thriller…or ANY movie. The sequence sees Ok-bin Kim as our ‘heroine’ Sook-hee, but from a first person view, channeling so many video games and a lot of Hardcore Henry as she […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Cat’s Eye (1985) Three ‘horror’ stories are intertwined by some crafty Stephen King winks. A man tries to give up smoking, a hood boss punishes his wife’s lover and a clever cat saves a little girl from a breath stealing monster. Cat’s Eye is directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King, […]
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 […]
