Blu-ray & DVD: The Blue Lagoon (1980) Cousins Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) Lestrange (cool name) are on a voyage to some unknown destination with Richard’s father. After a fire onboard, the two children are shipwrecked with the ships cook Paddy Button (Leo McKern) on a beautiful desert Island. Poor old Randal Kleiser, hot […]
DVD, on demand & digital download: The Beaster Bunny (2014) The Beaster Bunny (AKA Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell) is trash…glorious, low budget, badly acted trash that I loved every minute of. A 50 foot Easter bunny is on the loose and on a killing spree that is seemingly unstoppable. The town Mayor is […]
Blu-ray & DVD: A Man for All Seasons (1966) Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield), Henry the VIII’s right hand man and Chancellor, is forced into a difficult position at the peak of his powers to obey Henry (Robert Shaw) and facilitate a divorce for his King from Katherine the Queen, who was too old to […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) takes her 4 year old daughter ‘Bunny’ to her first day at nursery school, but being in a rush to get back to her new home ready for the furniture and all their belongings to be delivered, she leaves Bunny in the care of a […]
DVD: Zombie Lake (1981) A French village is under attack by German soldiers during WWII, and while many of the villagers run for their lives, one of the female villagers puts her own life in peril to save one of the attacking soldiers. Love blossoms between them and the couple have a daughter. The villagers then rebel […]
DVD: The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993) I have very fond memories of watching The Animals of Farthing Wood with my children when they were young. We used to sit together as a family and I vividly remember that everyone enjoyed it and we all thought it was a lovely programme. Amazingly the same feelings […]
Cinema: Beauty and the Beast (2017) Belle is ‘odd’, she reads books, longs for adventure and refuses to fall into the arms of village ‘hard man’ Gaston and become his wife. Gaston is a vainglorious bully, who treats everyone with distaste and only wants Belle because he sees her as a challenge. Belle’s father takes […]
DVD: Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg (1978) While the Nazi sexplotation genre (yes, there IS such a thing!) could well be attributed to beginning with Love Camp 7 (so notorious that it was on the original BBFC ‘Video Nasty‘ list), it is Dyanne Thorne in Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS who kickstarted the genre into overdrive with […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Tower of London (1962) Roger Corman has always been the king of low budget filmmaking for me, and his name alone as either Director or Producer ensures that I’ll be watching. His skill of being able to eke out every last cent of the budget and put it on screen never fails to […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Two Rode Together (1961) “A John Ford western”. Those words alone are always enough for me to settle down in front of the screen in the knowledge that I’m going to have a great time, and Two Rode Together does nothing to dissuade me from that. Add into the mix a screenplay […]