Blu-ray & DVD: Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Full disclosure to begin…I don’t like jazz music. I REALLY don’t like jazz music. So, can I survive a 140 minute movie focusing on a jazz musician? Mo’ Better Blues begins with Bleek Gilliam as a child, learning to play the trumpet at the expense of going out […]
Blu-ray & DVD: My Life As A Dog (1985) Ingemar lives with his mother and brother, and in many ways he is a typical eleven year old boy. Although Ingemar isn’t a naughty child, trouble is never far away, and this becomes too much for his sick mother. They decide to take the difficult decision […]
DVD: Cardinal (Series 1) (2017) John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) is a demoted police officer working in the cold reaches of Algonquin Bay in Canada. Removed from the homicide squad due to chief Dyson’s (Kristen Thomson) belief that he was going overboard in his investigation of a missing First Nations girl. Vindicated when the girl’s body finally turns […]
DVD: Sgt. Bilko (1996) It’s always going to be difficult when attempting to remake/reboot/reimagine a beloved movie and/or character, especially one as iconic as Sgt. Ernie Bilko, played in the original 1950’s television series by Phil Silvers. I have fond memories of sitting with my dad watching Silvers bark out orders at his ragtag platoon […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Chase (1966) Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another more violent prisoner, escape from jail, and while escaping the other prisoner kills a local policeman, pinning the blame on Bubber. In the town Bubber comes from lives ‘honest’ Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando), and his wife Ruby (Angie Dickinson). Bubber’s wife Anna (Jane […]
Blu-ray: The Ghoul (2016) Chris (Tom Meeten) is a homicide detective who is called to London to investigate a strange double murder, where the victims appeared to keep moving forward despite being shot multiple times to the face and chest. With the help of his old colleague Jim (Dan Renton Skinner) and former girlfriend Kathleen (Alice Lowe), […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Suspicious Death Of A Minor (1975) Undercover cop Paolo Germi (Claudio Cassinelli) goes on the trail of a Milan criminal outfit following the murder of an underage prostitute. As Paolo’s investigations take him deeper into the seedy underworld of underage sex and prostitution, a killer-for-hire is systematically killing all potential witnesses […]
DVD: Dunkirk (2004) With the current global success of 2017’s Dunkirk, Arrow Films have re-released the 2004 BBC documentary. Does it complement or distract from Christopher Nolan’s modern masterpiece? 60 Minutes With let Steve Woolley take a look. Some historical events lose their impact over the years, constant retelling of the story reduces the effect […]
Blu-ray: A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hopeless but loyal aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), along with George’s sexy girlfriend Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) plan to rob a bank. Posing as a weapons expert and pretending to be her brother, Otto West (Kevin Kline), who is really Wanda’s […]
Cinema: Kills on Wheels (2016) “A wheelchair bound hitman recruits 2 other physically disabled people from a rehabilitation centre to help him kill unscrupulous villains“. If I were to leave it at the above short synopsis, you may well imagine a movie similar to I initially did when seeing the premise for Kills on Wheels; […]