Blu-ray: The Fan (1996) The San Francisco Giants baseball team pay Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) $40M to hopefully lead them to a World Series title, and nobody is happier at this news than superfan and knife salesman Gil Renard (Robert De Niro). Gil likes to phone into a sports talk radio show hosted by Jewel […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Jakob’s Wife (2021) Anne (Barbara Crampton) is married to Jakob (Larry Fessenden); a minister in a small town, but after 30 years together she is feeling bored and wants some excitement back into her life. Her life changes drastically though after a chance meeting with “The Master”, and after discovering bite […]
Blu-ray: The Gunfighter (1950) Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) is a notorious gunfighter and widely known as the deadliest shot in the old west. This notoriety though brings with it a constant stream of gunslingers wanting bragging rights about being the one who finally managed to kill him. While Jimmy wants an end to his days […]
Blu-ray: Session 9 (2001)Gordon (Peter Mullan) is the boss of an asbestos removal company, and while suffering with his own personal demons, he is desperate to win the contract to clean up an abandoned State Mental Hospital.The rest of his crew have their own personal foibles that they bring into the project, but none of […]
Hong Kong’s film industry in the 1960s was dominated by Shaw Brothers (the studio founded by real-life brothers Run Run and Runme Shaw), but as the 60s turned into the 70s, other studios began to attract a slice of their audience.Undeterred by this new competition, Shaw Brothers upped their game even more and released hundreds […]
Blu-ray: My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)Widowed astronomer Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd) pushes the limits of a work experiment too far (way too far), with the unexpected result being a race of highly advanced aliens sending one of their own down to Earth to investigate what has caused the sudden cosmic disruption.Watching television transmissions to […]
Blu-ray: Mae West in Hollywood (1932-43)I’m betting that the words “Come up and see me sometime” was the first thing that went through your mind when you saw the title of this review, and to be honest with you, that would have been the same for me too before sitting down with this limited edition blu-ray […]
Blu-ray: The Last Matinee (2020)Set in 1993 (so no get outs of using a mobile phone to call for help), this homage to slasher/giallo movies of the past has a handful of characters trapped in a large movie theatre as a killer moves around unnoticed (at least for a little while), picking them off one […]
Blu-ray: The Last Broadcast (1998)Before The Blair Witch Project took the “found footage” genre into the mainstream, there was The Last Broadcast; shot on consumer level video equipment, with a budget that wouldn’t cover the cost of 1 days catering on a mainstream movie.Looking like a low budget television documentary (bordering on ‘mockumentary’) about the […]
Blu-ray: Naked (1993)Naked begins with Johnny (David Thewlis) having sex with an older woman in a dark back alley in Manchester, and when he begins to get too rough with her she runs away screaming at him.Escaping his home city in a stolen car to avoid retribution for his sexual misgivings, he arrives at the […]