Blu-ray: The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)Though released in 1970, London is still swinging as though it’s the 60s as top talent agent Peter Reaney (Rod Taylor) finds his world in turmoil after his wife leaves him and he moves in with best mate and fellow work colleague Val Pringle (James Booth).Unfortunately for […]
Blu-ray: The Eternal Daughter (2022)Director Joanna Hogg claims that The Eternal Daughter isn’t a ‘follow on’ from The Souvenir despite having the same characters and cast. I should add that I haven’t seen that film.Tilda Swinton plays Julie, a film maker and also plays her elderly mother in full scraggy neck make-up who return to […]
Blu-ray: Sound of Freedom (2023)When Sound of Freedom plopped onto 60MW towers floor, we argued, yes, argued because we were happy to watch, but terrified of reviewing this very talked about film.I’d heard all sorts of stuff about it, from its troubled production, Fox news’ advocacy, Mel Gibson and Kim Caviezel’s goggle eyed rantings about […]
Thanks to the BFI running a month long season of his work, and their excellent Blu-ray boxset this month has become all things Werner Herzog for me – call it Wernuary if you want.The BFI season is in celebration of a documentary about the great man’s career, one of these times where the subject of […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Mean Streets (1973)Mean Streets is a movie so full of energy both in front of the camera and behind it, that you need a quiet few moments to relax after the end credits roll. Directed by a young Martin Scorsese, who throws the viewer into every crevice of the narrative with a […]
Blu-ray: México Bárbaro II (2017)Our 1st review from our new partnership with Unearthed Films, and if this is any indication of their output, then I’m very much looking forward to reviewing many more throughout 2024 and beyond.México Bárbaro II is a horror anthology featuring the stories from a collection Mexican directors, each giving their own […]
What a shame this has been called ‘Freaks Vs The Reich’ here in the UK (it’s called “Freaks Out” elsewhere, which I think is a much better title), because you immediately think of some dire sci-fi channel film that has terrible special effects and a stupid story, when in fact you’d be missing out on […]
4K UHD: Carrie (1976)Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy 16 year old girl who lives with her ‘eccentric’ religiously obsessed mother in a small American town. Carrie is bullied by her contemporaries, mainly because of her annoyingly odd mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), wild haired with a mad-but-sexy-vibe, who turns up at her ‘friends’ houses […]
4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set: High Tension (2003) High Tension (also known as Switchblade Romance) directed by Alexandre Aja was one of the first films of ‘French extremity’ (most films by Aja and Gasper Noe). It tells the gory story of Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex (Maiwenn, the big blue opera singer in the Fifth Element), who on […]
Blu-ray: The Frightened Woman (AKA: The Laughing Woman)(1969)Dr. Sayer (Philippe Leroy) is the head of a philanthropic foundation with peculiar views on humanity’s issues, which young journalist Maria (Dagmar Lassander) finds out to her detriment when she is drugged by Dr. Sayer and subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre and sadistic acts while trapped […]