Blu-ray & DVD: Friendship’s Death (1987) I’ve never come across Friendship’s Death before and on reading the synopsis I immediately got the feeling it would be an hour long art-slog. And although it can be placed in the ‘arty’ box, it’s also an intriguingly good watch. Written and directed by the late English critic […]
Released by Arrow Films as a box set, Years of Lead consists of five 1970s Italian Crime dramas. At the time they were made Italy was going through a time of political instability, Political corruption was rife and there were many acts of left and right wing terrorism leading the population of Italy to unsurprisingly […]
DVD: Centennial (1978) Centennial is a 12 episode American television miniseries based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James A. Michener that aired in America from October 1978 to February 1979. It tells the story of a town and the inhabitants of Centennial, Colorado, from 1795 to the 1970s and was produced by John Wilder. It was one […]
DVD & Digital: The Best of Men (2012)Based on the true story of the birth the Paralympic Games, The Best of Men stars Eddie Marsan as Dr. Ludwig Guttmann; a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany, who towards the end of WWII arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital and is disgusted to see the way in which the […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Brabham (2020) Jack Brabham remains the only person to have won the F1 Driver’s and Constructor’s Championships in his own car and is a true motorsport legend. Taking on and defeating the giants of Ferrari, Lotus and Maserati are only a small part though of the life of Jack Brabham, his […]
DVD & Digital: Don’t Look Back (2020)A group of people witness a violent assault in a public park, none of them intervening as a man is battered to death.Vilified both in the general media and social media, the witnesses soon discover that their inaction during the attack has invoked a mysterious and deadly force that […]
DVD & Digital: Parallel (2018)What would you do if you had easy access to infinite parallel versions of our own world, each having their own differences in technology, art, literature, etc that have occurred over many years adjacent to ours?This is the quandary 4 friends find themselves in when they discover a secret room in […]
Digital: Flashback (2020)Fredrick Fitzell (Dylan O’Brien) is a young man with a corporate job, a long-time girlfriend who wants assurances about their future, and a sick mother.All of his current world is turned upside down though when a chance meeting with someone from his younger days results in unsettling flashbacks into his past.Slowly piecing together […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Duel (1971)A lone man (Dennis Weaver) in a car being terrorised by a mystery driver in a truck may not sound the most thrilling narrative thread to hang a 90 minute movie on, but under the assured direction of a young Steven Spielberg from a story by Richard Matheson, Duel has kept viewers […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Line of Duty (Series 6)Please see my previous reviews of all 5 series of Line of Duty for background up to this new series.Also – spoilers!Possibly one of the best TV series around, this much needed and looked forward to series 6 of Line of Duty was essential viewing a few weeks […]