Blu-ray: Network (1976) “I’m going to kill myself on live TV” says Peter Finch’s strung out news anchor as he slumps on the bar. “We can call it suicide of the week! The Death Hour” is the nonchalant comeback from William Holden’s news commissioner. The tone is set for Sidney Lumet’s classic satire on a […]
Blu-ray: Futureworld (1976) “Would I have sex with a robot”? That’s probably not a question that you ask yourself too often, but if you were to visit Delos then it would surely be high on your list of queries, 2nd only perhaps to; “Have they REALLY fixed those robots since the crazy bald gunslinger short […]
DVD: Hostages (AKA:Bnei Aruba) (2013) Doctor Yael Danon (the beautiful Ayelet Zurer) is a surgeon in a Tel Aviv hospital, when armed masked men break into her house and hold her husband (Jonah Lotan) and children hostage, she has moral choice to make; lose her family or kill the Israeli Prime Minister during an operation she […]
Blu-ray: Rollerball (1975) Set in the future, James Caan plays ‘man’s man’ Jonathan E; Captain of the Houston Rollerball team whose ruthless prowess in the game has made him famous worldwide. This idolation has attracted the discontent of the games’ corporate sponsors who want to suppress any displays of individualism fearing this could encourage some […]
DVD: A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013) Following the death of her father, Jordan (Alix Elizabeth Gitter) goes to Silver Falls to live with her aunt and uncle. As you can imagine, Jordan struggles with her new way of life, making friends, going to a new school, walking in on her guardians getting it on […]
Blu-ray: Play Dirty (1969) Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is working port duty in North Africa overseeing incoming fuel supplies (mainly consisting of sipping booze and playing chess) and is reluctantly recruited into a mission behind enemy lines to blow up their fuel dump. Little does he know that the mission is just a decoy for the real […]
Blu-ray: The Nightcomers (1971) In a stately manor somewhere in England lives a governess; Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), and her charges Miles and Flora, aided by the housekeeper (Thora Hird) and the handyman Peter Quint (Marlon Brando). Most horror fans will be familiar with the erotically charged predecessor of this film ‘The Innocents’, based on […]
Blu-ray: From Bedrooms to Billions (2014) ‘From Bedrooms to Billions‘ is a masterpiece! I appreciate that this is a strange way to start a review but in all honesty I thought why not just get to the point and let you know what I really think. I also appreciate that I can’t just write I […]
DVD: Hostage (2011) It seems as though the news can not be switched on lately without at least one mention of terrorist activity from within the Middle East. So it seemed only natural that one morning ‘Hostage‘ (AKA ‘Kingdom of Dust’) should drop through the letterbox courtesy of the good people at 101 Films. Written and […]
Cinema: It Follows (2014) Jay (Maika Monroe) tells her sister and friends (Keir Gilchrist and Olivier Luccardi) she’s met a new man, and after a seemingly ordinary sexual experience with her new boyfriend, events take an unusual and horrific turn. Sex and death, the last girl, punishment for being sexually active, all the old familiars […]