Playing out within a non-linear narrative, this slow burn of a movie plays with your preconceptions and expectations, before metaphorically hitting you across the back of the head with a large object and making you reassess what may (or may not) happen next.Satu (Lene Kqiku) is hiking alone and becomes lost, then crosses paths with […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Blood and Black Lace (1964)‘Giallo’ means Yellow in Italian. This became the label for Italian detective thrillers as the early paperback thriller novels were adorned with yellow covers…so now you know.Mario Bava is the undoubted Godfather of Giallo. Giving fresh life to the horror genre in a way that was to be […]
Psycho, one of the most famous films of modern times, what can you say about it that hasn’t already been said a million times? Well actually, nothing, because the 4K check discs we were sent to review didn’t include this film as Arrow were only responsible for the 4K restorations of Psycho II, Psycho III […]
Words can not even begin to describe how happy I am that Fabulous Films have released both The Six Million Dollar Man AND The Bionic Woman Complete Collections on Blu-ray. I could just post a photo of my smiling face as I cradled both boxes in my arms…surrounded by love heart emojis.Growing up I WAS […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: It Follows (2014)Jay (Maika Monroe) tells her sister and friends (Keir Gilchrist and Olivier Luccardi) that 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 […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Carlito’s Way (1993)Carlito’s Way wasn’t the huge ‘De Palma/Pacino’ hit everyone thought it would be, especially after Scarface, which even now, sort of amazes me as it’s a really great movie, seeped in De Palma influences (noir, Hitchcock), looks beautiful, especially in this new Arrow 4K release, and has set pieces that […]
Digital: Good Boy (2022) Christian (Gard Løkke) is a young multimillionaire who lives in a large house left to him by his parents. Sharing the house with him is his “dog” Frank, who we see from the very beginning of the movie is in fact somebody dressed up in a fake dog costume, though committing […]
You may well be thinking “who is Cliff Twemlow?”I know I certainly was when we were offered this for review, but thanks to this fantastic documentary I’m now not only a hell of a lot wiser to who he was, I also want to watch as many of his movies as I can now too.Cliff […]
Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Last House on the Left (2009)25 years ago I wrote my dissertation on women in horror, concentrating on the original (1972) Wes Craven directed Last House on the Left. I have watched that film so many times, I swore I’d never watch it again because it elicited a real […]
DVD: Nanny McPhee (2005)Recently widowed Mr Brown (Colin Firth) is finding it difficult to find a nanny who can control his 7 unruly children and begins to lose all hope when the 17th nanny he’s employed flees from the family home in distress.Enter the enigmatic Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), a woman of quite singular nature […]