4K UHD & Blu-ray: Martin (1976)Martin (John Amplas) is a young man who believes that he is a vampire (whether he is or not is left to you to decide when the end credits roll), not your usual “shy away from crucifixes, hide from the sunlight” vampire, rather one who hungers for blood and takes […]
DVD: The Borrowers (1997)Based on Mary Norton’s 1950’s novels of The Borrowers (basically just the size of the characters and the character’s name remains), but fear not reader, for this Hollywood make over is a delight to watch and very much one of those ‘family’ films of the 90’s.Moved from its original British setting to […]
Blu-ray: Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938)Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife is one of those 1930’s Hollywood screwball comedies that ping and zing with dialogue that can still make you chuckle 90 years later. On the French Riviera, Grumpy and wealthy businessman Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper, who is rather miscast in this role) wants to buy JUST a pajama top, as […]
Blu-ray: Four Film Noir Classics Vol 2The Suspect (1944)The Sleeping City (1950)Thunder on the Hill (1951)Six Bridges to Cross (1955)Following on from Vol 1, Arrow release another bundle of 4 great movies, each of them accompanied by the usual high quality special features that we’ve come to love and expect from Arrow.Without giving too much […]
Blu-ray: Fill ‘Er Up With Super (1976)Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman and already has a rocky relationship with his wife, but when his boss insists that he has to deliver a Chevrolet station wagon across France from Lille to the Cote d’Azur to his rich client, thereby missing an important family event, his marital […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: The Sisters Brothers (2018)Based on the book by Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers kind of passed 60MW by on its 2018 release, amazing considering we are huge western fans. Ah, but I must correct myself dear reader. The Sister’s Brother’s may sound like a western, it may look like a western, but […]
DVD & Digital: Upright (2019 – )Despite beginning in 2019, I’d never watched any episodes of Upright, so of course the new Series 1 & 2 DVD box set is a great way to catch up on everything (or revisit if you’re already familiar with it).Starring Tim Minchin and Milly Alcock as Lucky and Meg, […]
Blu-ray: Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) Director Todd Solondz has this knack of making the most unattractive and morally corrupt characters…sympathetic. He’s also one of the best American, sort of ‘unknown’, filmmakers around, mainly because he’s so …. different, showing empathy for the underbelly of America. Welcome to the Dollhouse follows the Weiner family, mainly […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Living (2022) Any script by Kazuo Ishiguro is certain to be special, and ‘Living,’ adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), is quite…. beautiful in that utterly British, restrained way that Ishiguro excels in. Set in a post war, 1953 London, it tells the story of a sad, grey man, a ‘gentleman’; […]
DVD: Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) Bumper Box Vol 4.The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)The Stolen Airliner (1955)Blow Your Own Trumpet! (1958)The Missing Note (1961)The Big Catch (1968)Blinker’s Spy-Spotter (1972)The Flying Sorceror (1974)Mr Selkie (1978)Gabrielle and the Doodleman (1984)Born in the 60’s and growing up in the 70’s, the Children’s Film Foundation were a staple part of […]