Blu-ray: Sweet Charity (1969)Well you’re going to get a biased review here, because I love a good musical, and Sweet Charity is top 3 for me. The pedigree this film has: directed by Bob Fosse, book by Neil Simon and starring the wonderful Shirley Maclaine, Sweet Charity is an absolute treat. It’s also not your usual […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Junior (1993)Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his partner Dr. Larry Arbogast (Danny Devito) create a fertility drug called Expectane, which is designed to reduce the chances of miscarriage during pregnancy. Although they’ve tested the drug on animals and it appears to work, the Food and Drug Administration, (as well as the […]
DVD: Rumble Fish (1983)Oh for so very long I have been enamoured with Motorcycle Boys (Mickey Rouke’s) jumper. A delicate cable knit, v-neck and sleeveless. The existence of this jumper is somewhat like the whole of the film, delicate, intricate, thoughtful and a little tangled. Based on classic teen book of the same name by […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Green Street (2005) Green Street is an odd film. It stars Elijah Wood as Matt, an American student who now lives in the UK after being expelled from his American University after being wrongfully accused of being a coke head. Matt ends up being friends with Pete (Charlie Hunnam) who is one […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Green Zone (2010)Based in 2003 American occupied Iraq, Green Zone is a military thriller written by Brian Helgeland and based on the 2006 book ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’ by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and is directed by ‘Mr shaky cam’ Paul Greengrass.Boy is this a blokes film, it’s so damn macho and action packed […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Monkey – The Complete Series (1978-80) When I was about 14 I stayed at my (rich) friend Sandra Burrows house. Her parents owned a deli in Llangollen and I had been deemed worthy of sharing her double bed that Friday night so we could go to the youth club disco. We argued because […]
Digital Download & DVD: The Driver (2019)Set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, The Driver follows the titular “driver” (Mark Dacascos) as his hitherto quiet existence in a survivalists compound is shattered when the base is attacked, which summons a swarm of zombies (all of whom react only to sounds) that go on a […]
Digital HD & DVD: Blood and Money (2020)John Barr’s debut feature film Blood and Money casts Tom Berenger as a lone ageing hunter living in a camper van roaming the snowy wilds in America looking for an elusive buck to shoot.Quite early on it’s revealed that Berenger’s character Jim Reed is ill, and possibly dying as he […]
Blu-ray: Happy Gilmore (1996)Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) wants to be an ice hockey player but…he can’t skate and his temper tends to ruin any chance he has of being successful either in sport and love.After his girlfriend leaves him, he finds out his granny owes a shit ton of money to the IRS and has […]
Digital HD & DVD: The Dare (2019)I can’t say too much about The Dare without giving away any of the narrative twists that occur while viewing. What I can say though is if you’re a fan of “torture porn” movies in the same (bloody) vein as Hostel and Saw, then you’ll feel right at home watching […]