Blu-ray: A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hopeless but loyal aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), along with George’s sexy girlfriend Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) plan to rob a bank. Posing as a weapons expert and pretending to be her brother, Otto West (Kevin Kline), who is really Wanda’s […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Reckoning (1970) Michael ‘Mick’ Marler (Nicol Williamson) is one of the top men at Grenville. He’s devious and committed and no one would ever know he’s the son of poor working class Irish immigrants from Liverpool. He has it all; the job, the big car, amazing house, vacuous friends and the […]
Cinema & on demand: David Lynch – The Art Life (2016) “You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint…“ David Lynch – The Art Life is not a film retrospective, but a rather surprising documentary about David Lynch, the artist. Describing a time when he was sat in a water filled mud puddle as […]
Blu-ray: The Big Knife (1955) Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) is a big Hollywood star and it seems he has it all, but his wife has left him and he has a terrible secret he needs to keep covered up, no matter what the cost. Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, […]
Blu-ray: Terror In A Texas Town (1958) When wealthy businessman McNeil (Sebastian Cabot) wants to take over Prairie City and the land and farms around it, he hires ‘man in black’ gunfighter Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young) to get rid of them, and if that fails, kill them. Terror In A Texas Town is a western […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Sinbad Trilogy (1958, 73, 77) Before I start my review I should probably tell you that I am totally biased towards the Sinbad films and in fact any film Ray Harryhausen had a hand in. To me his work is peerless. Harryhausen IS given credit for his work by many auteurs, […]
Blu-ray: The 4 Marx Brothers at Paramount 1929 – 1933 People aged 30 and under have probably never experienced the pure joy of Saturday morning BBC television, where, just after ‘The Flashing Blade’ a 15 minute short would appear starring either Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton. Then in the afternoon, a whole film, starring Laurel and Hardy or […]
DVD: Versailles (Series 1&2) (2015 – ) It is 1667 and the 28-year-old (George Blagden) ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV (14th) has finally taken over sole command of the whole of France. He commands his father’s hunting lodge in the swampy bug infested village of Versailles, to be extended into Europe’s most beautiful palace. His court […]
Blu-ray and DVD: OnEyed Jacks (1961) Rio (Marlon Brando) and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are moderately successful bank robbers. After Dad double crosses Rio resulting in him spending 5 years in jail, Rio searches for Longworth to exact his revenge, but then he meets Longworth’s stepdaughter Louisa (Pina Pellicer) and falls in love. Imagine the […]
Blu-ray and DVD: The Wild One (1953) When Johnny (Marlon Brando) and his motorcycle gang burst into Carbonville for a biker competition, they soon get kicked out of town for being hellraisers. They end up in nearby Wrightsville and continue to cause havoc. The local sheriff (Robert Keith) is helpless to stop them, and when […]
