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 […]
Blu-ray: To Sir, with Love (1967) Mark Thackery (Sidney Poitier); a black man from British Guyana, teaches at an inner city school in London hoping he will get a ‘real’ job in engineering. His class are disruptive, disenfranchised 15 year olds ready to leave school and get a job. Can he win them over and […]
Blu-ray: Two Women (1960) Italy in World War 2, widowed Cesira (Sophia Loren) leaves Rome with her devoutly religious daughter Rosetta when the city comes under attack by Allied forces. The pair escape to a small village, where they meet various people including Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Michele Di Libero. Throughout Sophia Loren’s career she’s made some cracking […]
Blu-ray: Magnum P.I. – The Complete Collection (1980-88) When faced with the entire 37 disc 8 season collection of Magnum, P.I. there’s only way to approach it; in an imaginary Hawaiian shirt and a cheeky grin. Fabulous Films have produced a corking set; every episode looks like it was filmed yesterday. So how do I […]
A few years back I caused a bit of a Twitter storm with a review of Wales Comic Con. I try to be ‘nice’ in reviews but am always aware that when I read a review I want the truth, good and bad. I am also a geek (yes it IS possible to be ‘old’ […]
Blu-ray: The World at War (1973) There are certain documentary television series that made an impact on me as a kid: Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and The World at War. My father, born in 1934 and interested in WW1 and WW2 would sit and watch, and I vividly remember sitting with him, hearing […]
