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. […]
Blu-ray & Digital HD: Sea Fever (2019)Graduate student and oceanographer Siobhán (Hermione Corfield) boards an Irish trawler in preparation of studying some aquatic lifeforms. Little does she know that the tables are about to be turned on who will be the dominant species.Immediately putting the crew in a state of unease due to her being […]
Blu-ray: Why Don’t You Just Die (2018) Wide eyed Matvei (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) turns up at a door in a Russian apartment block, hiding a hammer behind his back. He’s nervous, he’s there at the behest of his girlfriend Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde) and his intent is murder. Andrei (Vitaliy Khaev) answers the door, he’s a burly, […]
Blu-ray: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a man obsessed with expanding the powers of human sight. Not content with his experiments on animals, he tries his serum on his own eyes.The initial results of his self-testing are positive, allowing him to see a far greater spectrum of light, […]
DVD: A Bigger Splash (1973)A Bigger Splash was filmed in 1973 and is a British biographical documentary film about David Hockney’s breakup with his then partner Peter Schlesinger from 1970 to 1973. Directed by Jack Hazan, and featuring many of Hockney’s circle including designers Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark, artist Patrick Procktor, gallery owner John Kasmin […]