Blu-ray: Wolf Hall (2015) Reading that Hilary Mantel’s novels ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring up the Bodies’ were being turned into a TV programme would fill some fans of the books with trepidation. The fact that it was to be a BBC production was great, but the problem would lie, for me, in who would star […]
Blu-ray: Road to Paloma (2014) Wolf (Jason Momoa) is on the run from the police and the FBI for murder. On his travels he picks up musician ‘Cash’ (Robert Homer Mollohan) and together they evade the law. That was probably the hardest Blurb I’ve had to write for a film, because in all truth, not […]
Blu-ray: Night Train Murders (1975) Two young girls, Margaret (Irene Miracle) and Lisa (Laura D’Angelo) are travelling by train from Germany to Italy to stay with Lisa’s family for Christmas. Also on the train are Blackie (Flavio Bucci) and Curly (Gianfranco De Grassi), who attempt to hide from the ticket collector. At first the girls […]
DVD: Hostages (AKA:Bnei Aruba) (2013) Doctor Yael Danon (the beautiful Ayelet Zurer) is a surgeon in a Tel Aviv hospital, when armed masked men break into her house and hold her husband (Jonah Lotan) and children hostage, she has moral choice to make; lose her family or kill the Israeli Prime Minister during an operation she […]
Blu-ray: Rollerball (1975) Set in the future, James Caan plays ‘man’s man’ Jonathan E; Captain of the Houston Rollerball team whose ruthless prowess in the game has made him famous worldwide. This idolation has attracted the discontent of the games’ corporate sponsors who want to suppress any displays of individualism fearing this could encourage some […]
Blu-ray: The Nightcomers (1971) In a stately manor somewhere in England lives a governess; Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), and her charges Miles and Flora, aided by the housekeeper (Thora Hird) and the handyman Peter Quint (Marlon Brando). Most horror fans will be familiar with the erotically charged predecessor of this film ‘The Innocents’, based on […]
Cinema: It Follows (2014) Jay (Maika Monroe) tells her sister and friends (Keir Gilchrist and Olivier Luccardi) she’s met a new man, and after a seemingly ordinary sexual experience with her new boyfriend, events take an unusual and horrific turn. Sex and death, the last girl, punishment for being sexually active, all the old familiars […]
Blu-ray: Eskimo Nell (1975) A scriptwriter, a producer and a director (Michael Armstrong, Christopher Timothy and Terence Edmond) are persuaded to make a sex comedy film of the ‘poem’ Eskimo Nell by a dodgy Roy Kinnear. However, each of the three main backers wants their own leading lady (and man) in the role of Nell […]
Blu-ray: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 1952 and an American patrol is captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War, with the help of Russian scientists/spies, one soldier is programmed to become an assassin. (Very short synopsis, as I’d rather you watch this film and discover the twisty-turny story for yourself). Unfortunately some of the wonderful […]
