Blu-ray: Screamers (1995) Based on the Philip K. Dick story “Second Variety”, Screamers is set on the distant mining planet Sirius 6B in the year 2078. The planet is a husk of its former self due to many years of conflict between 2 warring factions, while underground killing machines (the titular ‘Screamers’) are not only still […]
Digital HD: The Shed (2019)A hunter gets bitten by a vampire while walking through the woods at dawn, and when the rising sun burns the vampire into a pile of dust before his eyes, the hunter understandably panics and runs to the nearest shelter that he can find…the titular shed.While the hunter begins to transform […]
Blu-ray: Hagazussa (2017) Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (Hagazussa, an Old German term for Witch) is the directoral debut of Lukas Feigelfeld . The story takes place in medieval Germany/alps and tells the story Albrun (Aleksandra Cwen), a goat-herder who is ostracised by the villagers because they think she’s a witch. On reading the several 5 […]
DVD & Digital: Enemy Lines (2020)A team of allied commandos are sent to occupied Poland during WWII to extract a scientist from Nazis who are holding him and his family in a remote location while he works on a prototype atomic bomb.So far, so thrilling.However, Enemy Lines never really lives up to its exciting premise, and […]
DVD: The A-Team (1983 – 87) Spread over 22 discs, this great DVD box set (released on Blu-ray last year) from Fabulous Films contains 97 episodes from all 5 seasons of this classic 1980s television show, complete with some highly entertaining new commentary tracks and interviews. Running from 1983-87, The A-Team told the story of […]
Revenge is the first full length film directed by Coralie Fargeat and was lauded on its release a few months before ‘#Metoo’ kicked off. Starring Matilda Lutz as Jen, Kevin Janssens as Richard her married lover, and Vincent Colombe and Guillaume Bouchède as Richard friends and hunting buddies Stan and Dimitri. Revenge is a rape […]
Blu-ray: John Ford at Columbia, 1935 – 1958 It has been my pleasure to review many of the Indicator series of releases from Powerhouse Films, including their wonderful box sets. So once again it was with great anticipation that I sat back to watch the upcoming release of John Ford at Columbia, 1935 – 1958, […]
Blu-ray: The Strange One (1957)Powerhouse Films and their Indicator label seem to find the most interesting(ly odd) films to release, lost ‘classics’ of cinema that have passed most film fans by. The Strange One, adapted from Calder Willinghamis’ novel and stage play, was made in 1957 and was the film debut of Ben Gazzara and […]
Digital HD & DVD: We Summon the Darkness (2019)Three young female friends are on a road trip to watch a heavy metal band in the late 1980s, when en route they are passed by a van who inadvertently throw a discarded chocolate milkshake onto their car.Arriving at the gig and seeing the aforementioned van parked […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Night Clerk (2020) Bart (Tye Sheridan) works the night shift at a local motel, and during his shifts he spies on guests by watching video feeds from camera’s fitted in some rooms. Creepy? Yep, however Bart has an excuse; he’s watching to learn how to be ‘normal’ as he has Asperger’s. […]