Blu-ray: Madigan (1968)Directed by Don Siegel and starring Hollywood legends Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda, this hard edged crime thriller set in Spanish Harlem bridges the gap between classic film noir and the gritty police procedurals of the 1970s.Widmark plays the titular Detective Daniel Madigan, who along with his partner Detective Rocco Bonaro (Harry Guardino) are given […]
Blu-ray: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is the 7th and final ‘Frankenstein’ Hammer film and sees the inimitable Peter Cushing return once more as Baron Victor Frankenstein, who while trying to convince the world that he can safely reanimate the dead, inevitably discovers that he leaves behind him […]
Blu-ray: Robin Hood at Hammer: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) A Challenge For Robin Hood (1967)In 1960’s Sword of Sherwood Forest, Richard Greene reprises the role he made famous in the classic television series The Adventures of Robin Hood and battles the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (played with relish by the always watchable Peter Cushing), while […]
Blu-ray: The Mummy (1959)Just 1 year after Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee battled onscreen as Doctor Van Helsing and Dracula, the actors are reunited in another retelling of a Universal Pictures horror classic that stars Cushing as archaeologist John Banning, while Lee is the titular mummy, hidden behind dirty and torn bandages..though you do get […]
Cinema: Fall (2022) The poster for Fall gives you a very clear idea – coupled with the title – of what this movie is about. Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and her best friend Hunter (Virginia Gardner) are climbing a mountain along with Becky’s attractive husband Ben (Mason Gooding). There is a Cliffhanger type accident and Ben […]
Blu-ray: Deathstalker & Deathstaker 2 (1983 & 1987)If ever a couple of review discs dropping through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers elicited a huge smile from me, it was when this 2 disc double feature from 101 Films appeared, bringing back memories of when I rented (and then bought) both movies on VHS way […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Dog Soldiers (2002) Neil Marshall, one of the great UK filmmakers, gave us a gift of lycanthropy with Dog Soldiers. A gritty, funny, gory tale of soldiers, one evil, one good, the others disgruntled, soggy, and out of their depth trapped in a house far away from anywhere in the middle of […]
Blu-ray: The Swimmer (1968)Based on John Cheever’s short story and written and directed by husband and wife team Frank (director) and Eleanor (writer) Perry.Starring Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, who at first seems to be the late 60s everyman, successful, affluent, charismatic, yet here he is, in your back garden, wanting to swim across your […]
Dual Format: Red Rock West (1993)Imagine a film starring Nic Cage AND Dennis Hopper. Sounds like a car crash? Nope, it’s a heaven-made match.Anything Nic Cage is in is watchable, whether or not he reigns it in or lets loose, he’s the most individual actor around and always brings his actorly weight to any part […]
Blu-ray: Monster (2003)Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) directorial debut is a hard watch. It gives us a slice of Aileen Wuornos – Infamous Floridian prostitute serial killer – live.As with most biographical films it has to ‘entertain’, so certain liberties are taken with the story (as with Christina Ricci playing her semi-fictionalised lover, Selby Wall who was […]