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 […]
Blu-ray: Cutter’s Way (1981)After vaguely seeing the aftermath of a murder as a woman’s body is thrown into a dustbin in a dark back alley, yacht salesman and gigalo Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) is encouraged by his Vietnam veteran best friend Alex Cutter (John Heard) to pursue the clues that he has and to identify […]
Blu-ray: Miami Blues (1990)Miami Blues has been a favourite of mine since first watching it on Laserdisc (remember those?) way back when, so upon hearing that Radiance Films were releasing a Limited Edition Blu-ray of it, I was very pleased indeed.Radiance Films are a new independent distribution company (make sure to read our reviews of […]
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 […]