Blu-ray: The Night of the Following Day (1969) Based on the novel The Snatchers by Lionel White, The Night of the Following Day was originally slated for Stanley Kubrick, but the director dropped the project due to rules about depicting kidnapping on screen in the early sixties. By 1969 these rules had gone and director Hubert Cornfield began […]
Blu-ray: Scary Movie (1991)101 Films have released yet another great AGFA title, fuelling my obsession for low budget indie films.Their latest title is 1991’s Scary Movie, starring an early performance from Academy Award nominee John Hawkes as wimpy nerd Warren.After awakening from a particularly scary nightmare, Warren’s premonition appears to be coming true, as an […]
Blu-ray: Enter Santo – The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man.SANTO VS. EVIL BRAIN (961)SANTO VS. INFERNAL MEN (1961)Not being familiar with El Santo (a real life Mexican luchador whose real name is Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta and who as well as wrestling starred in over 50 movies and was a Mexican folk hero), I was […]
Blu-ray: Death of a Gunfighter (1969)After a year of work, director Robert Totten (whose experience was in television directing Rawhide, Bonanza and Gunsmoke) left Death of a Gunfighter after ‘creative differences’ with star Richard Widmark. Widmark, whose previous film was Madigan, pulled in that films director – the great Don Siegel to take the reins. […]
Blu-ray: Who Killed Captain Alex? / Bad Black (2010/6)I first watched Who Killed Captain Alex? on YouTube a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. So when I saw that 101 Films were releasing it on blu-ray along with Bad Black (which I’d never seen) I was very excited.Both movies hail from “Wakaliwood” in […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: The Last Emperor (1987)The Last Emperor, adapted from Puyi’s 1964 autobiography, is without a doubt one of the last BIG epic films – there’s no CGI here, all the silk gowns, landscapes and extras are real. It was the first film ever to be allowed to be filmed in the real Forbidden […]
Cinema & Digital: Play Dead (2022)Chloe (Bailee Madison) fakes her own death to get inside a morgue and recover evidence that would incriminate her brother T.J. (Anthony Turpel) after a crime he has recently committed. Unfortunately for her the coroner (Jerry O’Connell) at the near abandoned morgue is a sick and twisted individual who is in […]
DVD: Detectorists – Complete CollectionFull disclosure: even though Tina has always been an avid fan of the Detectorists and waxed lyrical about it to me for ages now, I’d never sat down and watched any episodes until review discs for the complete collection arrived here at 60MW Towers. So I took it upon myself to […]
Blu-ray: A Woman Kills (1968)1960’s Paris and a series of prostitute murders are becoming big news until Hélène Picard (also a prostitute) is found guilty of the crimes and executed.However, the murders continue, and when executioner Louis Guilbeau (Claude Merlin) begins a relationship with the investigating officer, Solange (Solange Pradel), she soon uncovers far more than […]
Blu-ray: Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)1934 Tokyo, and gang boss Arakawa is nearing his final days and must appoint a successor.Nakai (Kôji Tsuruta) is chosen but refuses the position due to being an outsider, so he suggests Matsuda (Tomisaburô Wakayama) in his place. Unfortunately Matsuda is in jail and the elders of the gang won’t wait […]