4K UHD: Weird Science (1985)Weird Science is a John Hughes film and was released in 1985. Most of you probably already are aware of this. Hummm, John Hughes, so loved by so many people, including me, all those warm fuzzy funny, yet emotional tweenie films about rich middle-class Americans (face it guys, it’s the truth) with […]
Blu-ray: Blood Money – Four Western Classics Vol. 2$10,000 for a MassacreVengeance is Mine Find A Place to DieMatalo! What’s this!? Arrow releasing a box set of Spaghetti westerns we haven’t seen before! BOOM!And what’s that?! Film 1 – 10,000 dollars for a Massacre is sort of …Django? Well actually is IS Django. Django only […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Nocturnal Animals (2016)Based on the 1993 novel ‘Tony and Susan’ by Austin Wright, Nocturnal Animals was written, produced, and directed by Tom Ford in his second feature.Hmmm, Tom Ford, I know that name. Yes, you may do if you’re into fashion, because primarily Ford is a fashion designer and maker of lovely smells. WHAT the hell? You […]
Blu-ray: Cosa Nostra – Franco Nero in three Mafia Tales by Damiano DamianiCosa Nostra a collection of 3 ‘mafia’ films by director Damiano Damiani starring Franco Nero. The Day of the Owl (based on the novel of the same name) stars Franco Nero as police chief Bellodi in Sicily investigating the murder of truck driver Salvatore Colasberna, […]
Arriving just as the 1st band of the evening (Entity) were leaving the stage, myself & Dave settled into our usual place ready for the 2nd support band… Daxx & Roxane To me, there’s nothing like a band that has one member who is so into what he’s doing, and so cocksure, he takes you […]
4K UHD: The Lighthouse (2019)Did you know dear reader, that there are 2 films called The Lighthouse, both based on the same incident in a Welsh lighthouse in the 1860s? That one, not as well known, THIS one however, is very well known down to its stellar cast (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) and hot director, Robert […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980)After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside. He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen.‘Serious’ actors tend […]
Bez -The Man, The myth.Bez (Mark Berry) what do I, a middle-aged woman in North Wales know about this person? NOT a lot. During the heyday years of The Happy Mondays at the Hacienda, I was in a one bed flat, flat broke, changing nappies. So, music wasn’t really that big on my list. Neither […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Based on a folk tale of the beast of Gévaudan about the mysterious killings that took place in France in the 1700s, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a one-of-a-kind film that really defies genre.Part Sherlock Holmes mystery, part historical fantasy, it tells the story of the hunt for a beast […]
DVD: It’s Complicated (2009)It’s Complicated boasts a stellar cast, and although I hate to begin a review like this, I feel the overwhelming urge to beg God to save me from films like this…the ‘romantic comedy’.Jane (Meryl Streep) is fabulously wealthy and owns a successful bakery in sunny California, and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin), an […]
