Blu-ray: Edge of the Axe (1988) Released on Blu-ray for the 1st time, Edge of the Axe is ‘slasher’ movie that until now had surprisingly passed me by! So this fantastic new release from Arrow Films was the perfect way to introduce me to the axe swinging antics from director José Ramón Larraz. The narrative […]
DVD: Worzel Gummidge – The Complete Series (1979 – 89)For all the background history that you need to know about Worzel Gummidge, then please read this review by Tina of the fantastic Christmas Special (which is also included in this box set) which was released late last year.I’ve been a big fan of Worzel since […]
Blu-ray: Hitchhike To Hell (1983) Howard (Robert Gribbin) is a seemingly shy and retiring young man who lives alone with his mother since his sister ran away from home 6 years ago. He drives a laundry truck for a living and has a penchant for picking up hitchhikers. Unfortunately for the hitchhikers it’s the last […]
Blu-ray: Winter Kills (1979)Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon, Winter Kills is one of those films that Indicator excel in: a ‘lost’ film, unfamiliar yet on watching you can’t believe you’ve never seen it before.I suppose you could describe it as a black comedy about the fictional assassination of Jeff […]
Blu-ray: Orphans (1998) What a massive balls-up Film Four made by refusing to release Peter Mullan’s film Orphans in 1998. To add to that insult they took all of Mullan’s outtakes and…burned them. Wow! What a shame, and what a loss to the UK film industry because Orphans is a true work of genius, a […]
Blu-ray: Night Tide (1961) Dennis Hopper falls in love with a mermaid. The above sentence tells all you need to know if you’ll have any interest in watching Night Tide, but quite honestly, who wouldn’t want to watch it after that brief synopsis!? Johnny Drake (a young Dennis Hopper) is a sailor on shore leave […]
Blu-ray: Resurrected (1989) Kevin Deakin (David Thewlis) is a young soldier in the Falklands War who, while trying to help a fellow army member, is caught in the blast of a nearby explosion. Regaining a modicum of consciousness, he roams the desolate Isle until finally hunkering down for an extended period of time, confused and […]
DVD & Digital: 8 Days (2019 – ) It\’s present day and a huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth on a collision course with Europe. American rockets have failed to stop its now inevitable impact, and the residents from inside the \’kill zone\’ of the asteroids projected impact area are all desperately trying to get […]
Cinema: StarDog and TurboCat (2019) The year is 1969, and faithful dog Buddy (Nick Frost) is sent on a mission to explore the far reaches of space. During his mission an accident happens, and he is frozen in time for fifty years! Buddy wakes up in the town of Glenfield with no knowledge of what […]
Blu-ray: QT8: The First Eight (2019) Quentin Tarantino first came into the public eye in 1992 with his debut feature film Reservoir Dogs. 27 years later his 9th film, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, was released in cinemas worldwide, with critical acclaim from both critics and the general public. QT8: The First Eight is a […]