DVD & Blu-ray: 8 Mile (2002)8 Mile passed me by back in the day, and not being a rap fan I didn’t seek it out despite its director, Curtis Hanson being on my radar from The Wonder Boys and the amazing LA Confidential.Starring Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger, the […]
DVD & Digital Download: The Doorman (2020) When a military protection assignment goes horribly wrong, Ali (Ruby Rose) returns to civilian life in New York city. Given a job as the doorman at a hotel that is undergoing renovations and only has minimal occupants, Ali thinks that her problems are now behind her, though she […]
DVD & Digital: Persian Lessons (2020) It is the middle of WWII and Giles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews. While on a transportation lorry surrounded by fellow prisoners, he is offered a book in return for a sandwich that he is carrying. This book will […]
DVD & Blu-ray: The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud (2020) It’s 1990 and Sarah (Isabelle Allen) is a video game enthusiast who is particularly fond of playing a game starring the titular Max Cloud (Scott Adkins). Little does Sarah know that due to a weird series of events she will end up in the game, […]
Blu-ray: Light Sleeper (1992)Set against the dark rain soaked streets of a New York city covered in litter due to a sanitation strike, director Paul Schrader uses neon lighting and shadows (as so effectively utilised in American Gigalo) to create the backdrop to the life of John LeTour (Willem Dafoe); a reformed addict who is dealing […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Recon (2019) Based on the critically acclaimed novel Peace by Richard Bausch, four American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of an Italian mountain-side during the final days of the Second World War. Aided by an Italian civilian (Franco Nero) after witnessing the murder of an innocent woman by their Sergeant, the soldiers physical […]
UHD Blu-ray: Oldboy (2003) Based on the Japanese manga of the same name, Oldboy tells the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) who is taken from the streets after a drunken night out and finds himself locked up in a sparse single room apartment. Not knowing who did it, why they did it, or how […]
Blu-ray: The Valachi Papers (1972) Starring Charles Bronson (as Valachi) and directed by Terence Young, The Valachi Papers tells the true story of Joseph Valachi; a bag man for the New York Mob who first made the term “Cosa Nostra” known. In the early 1960s he testified to court that there was such a thing as […]
Blu-ray: Geronimo – An American Legend (1993)Geronimo: a name that most people are familiar with (usually as a loud shout before jumping off something), but whose life may not be so well known.Geronimo – An American Legend takes up the story of the Apache chief as the Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD: Relic (2020) This debut feature from writer-director Natalie Erika James is a hard watch, and although it comes under the banner of ‘Horror’, it’s not so much a horror film than an allegory for the real horror of Alzheimer’s disease. When Kay’s (Emily Mortimer) mum Edna (Robyn Nevin) goes missing, […]