Blu-ray: The Big Gundown (1967)Released the same year as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Big Gundown has Lee Van Cleef once again strapping on a six shooter in the Old West and dishing out vengeance in his own inimitable style.Making his first ever starring role, Van Cleef is Jonathan ‘Colorado’ Corbett, a […]
DVD & Digital: Renegades (2022)Allow me to begin by first listing some of the cast members in Renegades: Lee Majors, Patsy Kensit, Danny Trejo, Michael Paré, Stephanie Beacham, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Ian Ogilvy, Nick Moran…a veritable cornucopia of acting talent that I’ve enjoyed watching for many years. So putting them all together in the same […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Goodfellas (1990)What can I say about Goodfellas that hasn’t already been said before!?A cinematic classic that is still just as powerful 30+ years since it first hit the big screen and is surely a part of any cinephiles collection.Well 1 thing I can confidently say is that this ‘The Film Vault’ […]
Blu-ray: The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)Conscientious factory worker Ludovico ‘Lulù’ Massa (an intense and hypnotic performance by Gian Maria Volontè ) devotes all of his energy to his monotonous piece work job, where he stands at a lathe all day cutting out pieces of metal.Blinkered to the factory bosses way of working and a […]
Blu-ray: Married to the Mob (1988)Directed by ex-Roger Corman employee Jonathan Demme, 1988’s Married to the Mob stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Angie De Marco; curly, dark haired ‘Noo Yawrk’ wife of Alec Baldwin’s Frank ‘The cucumber’ De Marco. Along with Dean Stockwell as Tony ‘The Tiger’ Russo; the mafia Don and Frank’s boss, Mercedes Ruehl as his […]
Blu-ray: Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)After boarding a train carriage already occupied by five other people, Dr. Terror, AKA Dr. Schreck (Peter Cushing) begins to foretell their futures using Tarot cards and five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating vine takes […]
Blu-ray: Mad God (2021)30 years in the making and painstakingly put together frame by frame by visual effects maestro Phil Tippett, Mad God is a visual and aural assault on the senses that keeps you wondering just what the hell is going to happen from minute to minute…and anything can happen in this (make sure […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Silent Running (1972)A favourite from watching on TV as a kid, Silent Running follows botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) as he lovingly tends to the only botanical specimens left from Earth, all based under the huge geodesic domes on the spaceship ‘Valley Forge’.When orders are received to destroy the project and return home, […]
BFI Limited Edition 2-disc Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: Nil by Mouth (1997)How do you review a film like Nil By Mouth? The actual story, well, there’s not much too it, a few things happen, but this isn’t a ‘story’ as such, it’s more a slice of life, it’s not a peek into, it’s a […]
Blu-ray: Nightmare at Noon (1988)Written and directed by Nico Mastorakis, starring Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy, Kimberly Beck, and Brion James…that’s all I needed to know before thinking “I’m in!”…and Nightmare at Noon certainly didn’t let me down.’The Albino’ (the always watchable Brion James, seen here with face “almost” all covered in white make-up […]