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DVD & Blu-ray: Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War (2019)This film starts with Carina Birrell, and her dad (granddaughter and son of Harry) rummaging about in their garden shed, eventually lifting up cans of very old film. As I continued to watch the film I wondered if this were true or just for […]

Blu-ray & 4K UHD: The Babadook (2014)In Jennifer Kent’s feature directorial debut, based on her 2005 short film ‘Monster’, Essie Davis plays Amelia Vanek, mother to six-year-old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman).Amelia’s husband dies in the crash that occurs as they race to hospital because she is in labour with Samuel, and now living alone with […]

Blu-ray: Major Dundee (1965)Regular readers will know my favourite genre is the Western and I admit to feeling quite ashamed that I had never seen Major Dundee before this glorious 4k scan Arrow Films release. What a beautiful package it is, from the packaging to the film.During the Minnesota Dakota Indian War of 1862, Union forces […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Friendship’s Death (1987) I’ve never come across Friendship’s Death before and on reading the synopsis I immediately got the feeling it would be an hour long art-slog. And although it can be placed in the ‘arty’ box, it’s also an intriguingly good watch.   Written and directed by the late English critic […]

Released by Arrow Films as a box set, Years of Lead consists of five 1970s Italian Crime dramas. At the time they were made Italy was going through a time of political instability, Political corruption was rife and there were many acts of left and right wing terrorism leading the population of Italy to unsurprisingly […]

DVD: Centennial (1978) Centennial is a 12 episode American television miniseries based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James A. Michener that aired in America from October 1978 to February 1979. It tells the story of a town and the inhabitants of Centennial, Colorado, from 1795 to the 1970s and was produced by John Wilder. It was one […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Line of Duty (Series 6)Please see my previous reviews of all 5 series of Line of Duty for background up to this new series.Also – spoilers!Possibly one of the best TV series around, this much needed and looked forward to series 6 of Line of Duty was essential viewing a few weeks […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Shock Wave – Hong Kong Destruction (2020)Shock Wave: Hong Kong Destruction (AKA: Shock Wave 2) is a Hong Kong based Chinese language action film which apparently is NOT a direct sequel, but is in fact a stand alone story featuring new characters but the same cast as number one. Written and directed by […]

Sixteen year old Alice Palmer (Talia Zucker) drowns while swimming with her family on holiday in Australia. On their return home, strange things happen, leading the family to believe they’re being haunted by the ghost of Alice.Alice’s  brother Mathew (Martin Sharp) sets up video cameras around the house to record Alice’s ghost. He later confesses […]

Blu-ray: The Stylist (2020)Based on the short film of the same name by writer/director Jill Gevargizian, The Stylist tells the story of Claire (Najarra Townsend) who is a solitary  hairdresser working in a small salon somewhere in America.As she cuts her clients hair she drifts off imagining what their lives must be like, and if she […]