Cinema: Wild Men (2021)Lumbering towards a local shop dressed in furs, a Viking enters and fills his shopping basket full of biscuits and crisps. On getting to the checkout he can’t pay because he has no money, and offers the cashier his axe in payment. This isn’t a time traveller, it’s a man called Martin […]
Blu-ray: Rogue Cops and Racketeers – Two Crime Thrillers from Enzo G. CastellariFabio Testi stars as inspector Nico Palmieri in Enzo G. Castellari’s (Keoma, Inglorious Bastards) 1976 Italian crime Poliziotteschi drama The Big Racket. Sent to small Italian town, Palmieri and his partner take on a gang of criminals who have a racket demanding ‘safety’ money off […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: 12 Monkeys (1995)Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt are both on the top of their game in this fantastical tale directed by Terry Gilliam (directing a script not by himself for a change).Willis stars as James Cole; a prisoner from 2035 who is sent back to the 1990’s to try and get information on a virus that has […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The Boy Behind the Door (2020)The feature film debut from writing-directing duo David Charbonier and Justin Powell, The Boy Behind the Door has twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey) trapped in a dark and mysterious house in the middle of nowhere after being abducted while out enjoying […]
Blu-ray: One For the Road (2003)Directed by Chris Cooke from his 1999 short film Shifting Units, One For the Road tells the story of a group of men who have banned from driving and are on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers Unfortunately the ‘look’ of the film is rather off-putting. In a time of HD and […]
Blu-ray: The Scare Film Archives Vol.1 – Drug StoriesI remember as a kid here in the UK in the 1970’s watching public information films, then rewatching them many years later as an adult and thinking WTF!?The likes of The Green Cross Code man and an unintelligible cat called Charlie both told me how to stay safe […]
Blu-ray: Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)Another in 101 Films American Genre Film Archive range, Godmonster of Indian Flats tells the story of an eight-foot-tall toxic sheep monster that goes on the rampage destroying everything that gets in its way.If you think you’ve seen everything that cinema has to show, then think again. Prepare yourself for a […]
4K UHD Blu-ray – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)I remember watching Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer back when it was released, then searching the classified ads for the (inevitably 7th generation grainy VHS) uncut version once I’d discovered that what I first watched was censored.Now all these years later I get to […]
Dual Format: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) Adapted by Nigel Kneale from George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, this 1954 television drama has always been my favourite version to watch, especially now on this fantastic blu-ray release from the BFI. Winston Smith (Peter Cushing) begins to question the information that his totalitarian government dictate to society on a regular […]
Blu-ray: Shoot the Messenger (2006)“Everything bad that has happened to me has happened because I’m black,”And so begins Shoot the Messenger, a powerful entry in the history of Black British film, presented on Blu-ray for the very first time thanks to the BFI.Joseph Pascale (David Oyelowo) leaves his job as an IT consultant after reading […]