I think a lot of people would pick out Kate Bush as an easy artist to imitate. Yes, we all remember (well those of us who are old enough) Faith Brown flailing her arms about on BBC 1 on a Saturday night, eyes agog, wailing out Wuthering Heights. And perhaps regular readers may think I am […]
DVD: Cardinal (Series 1) (2017) John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) is a demoted police officer working in the cold reaches of Algonquin Bay in Canada. Removed from the homicide squad due to chief Dyson’s (Kristen Thomson) belief that he was going overboard in his investigation of a missing First Nations girl. Vindicated when the girl’s body finally turns […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Chase (1966) Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another more violent prisoner, escape from jail, and while escaping the other prisoner kills a local policeman, pinning the blame on Bubber. In the town Bubber comes from lives ‘honest’ Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando), and his wife Ruby (Angie Dickinson). Bubber’s wife Anna (Jane […]
Tina gives an emotional and heartfelt chat about the Glen Campbell album Words….and gets Steve’s Twitter name wrong. It’s @Solidair01 Thank you for listening and if you enjoy any of the songs played in these shows, please support the artists by buying their music. If you leave a comment on the YouTube video below, please mention […]
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, […]
