Blu-ray: The Train (1964) Just as WW2 is about to end, Von Waldheim; (Paul Scofield) a Nazi commander in charge of the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, begins to stockpile as much art as he can on a train bound for Germany before the allies take Paris back. Can Labiche (Burt Lancaster) and fellow […]
Cinema: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George Miller takes us back to the wasteland of a dystopian future where life is cheap and the only things that matter are water, petrol and bullets. Not a remake but rather another adventure to add to the other Mad Max movies, and now Miller’s very distinct style comes […]
DVD: Coherence (2013) A group of early-thirties, middle class, American friends (Nicolas Brendon, Emily Baldoni) gather for a dinner party as a comet passes overhead. Things quickly begin to go…‘weird’. One of my favourite films for the last few years is the Indie Sci-fi Another Earth, it has a really original feel to it, and […]
DVD: Your Cheatin’ Heart (1990) Dorwood Crouch is doing time for armed Robbery. His wife Cissie (Tilda Swinton) asks local food writer Frank McClusky (John Gordon Sinclair) to help her clear his name. Cissie believes Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott) a ‘musical’ fish seller has framed him. All this happens with a backdrop of some great […]
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 […]
