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’ […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Orca (1977) Captain Nolan (Richard Harris) is a man who lives his life on the sea after the tragic death of his wife and child by a drunk driver. While hunting sharks to make money, he spears a passing whale and uses the boats crane to bring it on board. The whales […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Hounds of Love (2016) Loosely based on real life events, Hounds of Love is a nail biting psychological thriller by Australian writer/director Ben Young. Set in 1980’s Perth, Australia, John and Evelyn White (Stephen Curry and Emma Booth) are a depraved couple who abduct and murder young girls. Evelyn begrudgingly concedes to […]
DVD: L.A. Vengeance (AKA: Once Upon a Time in Venice) (2017) Bruce Willis. John Goodman. Jason Momoa. Famke Janssen. What a cast! What a letdown. Steve Ford (Willis) is a down on his luck Los Angeles private investigator whose love for his sister and her 15 year old daughter is only surpassed by the love […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Lost in Paris (2016) Written, directed, co-produced AND starring multi-tasking husband and wife comedians Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, Lost in Paris is regarded as something of a commercial breakthrough for the prolific, hard-working burlesque duo, who bagged French screen icon Emmanuelle Riva (who died shortly after the film’s release) and comedy […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Zoology (2016) Poor Natasha; middle-aged, still living with her mother, stuck in a nowhere Russian coastal town and bullied mercilessly in her job at the local Zoo where her only relief is interacting with the animals. And then there is her tail….. This is not just an enlarged coccyx but a full […]
DVD: Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) It is the Vietnam war and Norman Hopper (John Saxon) is on a jungle mission to rescue his fellow soldiers Charlie Bukowski (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) and Tom Thompson (Tony King) who are P.O.W’s. Unbeknownst to Hopper, they have been infected with a cannibal virus and are now happily chomping down on […]
DVD: Tommy’s Honour (2016) Based on the true story of Father and Son golfing legends ‘Old’ Tom and ‘Young’ Tommy Morris, Tommy’s Honour follows Tommy in his struggle to rise above the social standing that has trapped his father into serving the ‘gentlemen’ of golf. ‘Old’ Tom (Peter Mullan) is a golfer past his prime, and […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Witches (1967) Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together 5 Italian directors for an anthology movie. Their brief was very simple: to direct an episode in which Silvana Mangano (to whom he was married) plays a witch. Though the definition of ‘witch’ may well vary from story to story, especially if you […]