Blu-ray: The Cat O’Nine Tails (1971) Franco Arnò (Karl Malden) is a retired blind journalist who lives with his niece and makes a living from writing crossword puzzles. While taking a walk one evening, he overhears a suspicious conversation between 2 men who are sat in a car parked outside a scientific medical institution where genetic […]
DVD: Your Move (2017) Written, directed, produced and starring Luke Goss, Your Move is certainly a labour of love for him and will succeed or fail, in a large part, due to his input. David (Goss) is a successful New York businessman, who while on a video call to his wife (a famous ex-olympian) and […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Silver Bullet (1985) A series of unexplained murders are occurring in the quiet town of Tarker’s Mill and the residents, pushed to breaking point, decide to hunt down the killer. When many of the vigilantes are killed, it is the unlikely hero of the young wheelchair bound Marty (Corey Haim), along with […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Chaplin (1992) How on earth do you fit Charlie Chaplin’s life into a two hour film? Well, you can’t. You can only skip lightly through it, and this is what director Richard Attenborough does. Based on Charlie’s autobiography and a screen play by whiter than white Bryan Forbes, here we have an extremely […]
Blu-ray: Inferno (1964) Acclaimed director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolque, The Wages of Fear) began work on what he planned to be his most ambitious piece of work yet. Set in a French lakeside town, Inferno tackled the darkest depths of jealousy, as controlling hotelier Marcel (Serge Reggiani) suspects his wife Odette (Remy Schneider) of being unfaithful […]
DVD: Namatjira Project (2017) On seeing this latest release from Umbrella Entertainment, I assumed it was a documentary about a contemporary Australian artist I’d personally never heard of; Albert Namatjira. I very wrongly thought it would be a retrospective of his work, but instead I got a very hard hitting documentary more of less about the […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Man From Hong Kong (AKA: Dragon Flies) (1975) BUY. THIS. IMMEDIATELY. A three word review with all you need to know. What? You want to know more!? Okay then, watch the trailer below and THEN go to the Umbrella Entertainment website and order. Some people STILL undecided? Then read through the […]
Blu-ray: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) and Dr. Watson (Colin Blakely) are surprised when Gabrielle (Geneviève Page) arrives on their doorstep both soaking wet and suffering from amnesia. Through a series of Holmes famous deductions, they ascertain that they need to locate Gabrielle’s husband, which leads them to Scotland […]
DVD: A Chorus Line (1985) I LOVE Musicals, oh hang on, a bit TOO broad. I love most musicals. I’m thinking On the Town, West Side Story, yes, even La La Land. And you know what I love MORE than musicals? People dancing. No I’m not talking ‘Strictly‘ dancing with the stars here, no proper […]
DVD: Breaker Morant (1980) I think people won’t really know Edward Woodward unless they are ‘of a certain age’, then they’ll mainly remember him as David Callan (in Callan) and as the original Equalizer Robert McCall. Movie fans will possibly remember him as the virgin human sacrifice in The Wicker Man. Definitely a ‘man’s man’ […]