Blu-ray: Watermelon Man (1970) Good lord where do I start with this film? HOW do you review a film about a black man ‘whiteing up’ to rub it off and be a black man? Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, stars Godfrey Cambridge (who in 1965 was described by Time magazine as “one of […]
Blu-ray: Cisco Pike (1971) Cisco Pike is a 1971 drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). It’s […]
Blu-ray: The Woman/Offspring (2011/2009) This double release from Arrow features two films both centred on Pollyanna McIntosh as ‘The Woman’. When a young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in the town of Dead River, the local police immediately suspect a nomadic family of cannibals, which in itself is surprising. The cops KNOW about a family […]
DVD: Quantum Leap – The Complete Collection (1989 – 1993) Quantum Leap first aired in the UK in 1990 on BBC 2. I missed it. I was in Los Angeles and had already become quite obsessed with this sci-fi tale of Dr. Sam Beckett (the gorgeous Scott Bakula); a physicist who figuratively ‘leaps’ through his […]
Blu-ray: White Fire (1984)Allow me to begin by listing a few movies:Samurai CopShotgunHard Ticket to HawaiiGymkataThe Man From Hong KongMiami ConnectionStrike of the PantherDay of the PantherIf you are a fan of any of those cinematic masterpieces (yes, you read that correctly…masterpieces), then read no further and buy this IMMEDIATELY. You can thank me later.For […]
Digital HD: Proximity (2020) Isaac (Ryan Masson) is a young NASA employee, who while vlogging about himself on a hiking trip that is supposed to help with his ongoing mental issues, witnesses an object falling from the sky. His curiosity makes him head towards the crash site, when suddenly he is confronted by a classic […]
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 […]