Blu-ray & DVD: A Man for All Seasons (1966) Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield), Henry the VIII’s right hand man and Chancellor, is forced into a difficult position at the peak of his powers to obey Henry (Robert Shaw) and facilitate a divorce for his King from Katherine the Queen, who was too old to […]
Cinema: Beauty and the Beast (2017) Belle is ‘odd’, she reads books, longs for adventure and refuses to fall into the arms of village ‘hard man’ Gaston and become his wife. Gaston is a vainglorious bully, who treats everyone with distaste and only wants Belle because he sees her as a challenge. Belle’s father takes […]
Blu-ray: Woody Allen: Seven Films – 1986-1991 Arrow Academy’s third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen’s beloved Manhattan, and the […]
Blu-ray + DVD: Cover Girl (1944) New York Nightclub dancer Rusty (Rita Hayworth) has a happy life performing at her boyfriend Danny’s (Gene Kelly) club in Brooklyn, but her whole world changes once she wins the prestigious Cover Girl contest arranged by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger). Rusty’s fame brings more customers to Danny’s […]
Blu-ray + DVD: Raising Cain (1992) Normally I’d give a brief synopsis but occasionally, as with Raising Cain, it’s best to dive right on in. Brian De Palma has long been derided for being a Hitchcock copycat, and anyone familiar with his work has to (somewhat) agree, that Hitch is an influence. However, Give De […]
DVD: Delicious (2016) Leo (Iain Glen) is a successful hotel owner and top chef and is married to beautiful second wife Sam (Emilia Fox). But all is not as it seems, does Leo owe his success to first wife Gina (Dawn French) and her culinary skills? Did he steal her ideas? What a Christmas hotty ‘Delicious’ […]
Blu-ray: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) What a year 1967 was for Sidney Poitier, not only did he appear in ‘In the Heat of the Night‘ and ‘To Sir, with Love‘, but also starred in ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’, perhaps one of the first ‘true’ inter-racial love stories to be depicted on film […]
DVD: The Young Pope (2016) American Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) is surprisingly voted in to be the youngest pope in history. Having gone to a Convent school, and being somewhat ‘familiar’ with the rather odd lives of priests and nuns, I admit I was a little apprehensive about this series. I wrongly assumed it would […]
DVD: Donnie Darko (2001) I normally like to start my reviews off with a little synopsis, just to get you in the mood. However, sometimes this is impossible, either because any information about this film will give the plot away or, as in the case of Donnie Darko, not only would I give the plot […]
Blu-ray: Fright Night (1985) When Charley Brewster’s (William Ragsdale) new neighbours move in next door, their strange behaviour leads him to believe they could be…vampires. Made two years before The Lost Boys, Tom Holland’s first film is for me, the first true tweeny ‘aware of itself’ cult-horror. Although this is definitely deeply rooted in the […]
