Blu-ray: Chained For Life (2018) Mabel (Jess Weixler) is a beautiful young actress who has taken the part of a blind girl in a hospital based horror movie which brings up the subject of bodily abnormalities. It is while on the set of the movie that she meets and befriends her co-star Rosenthal (Adam Pearson): […]
Blu-ray: The Pillow Book (1996)Peter Greenaway is well known as a golden director of languid art house movies that enrapture the viewer with their colour, emotion and exceptional mise en scène. The Pillow Book tells the story of Nagiko (Vivian Wu) who becomes obsessed with writing in all its forms after her father (Ken Ogata) […]
Vladimir is a super spy cat who loves getting his claws into every mission. During a seemingly routine assignment, things go badly wrong, and Vladimir takes the blame. Because of this he is sent away to a remote rig in the middle of the ocean. Here he meets Hector, who is a whiz with technology, […]
Blu-ray: Holiday (2018) Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) is a young and attractive woman caught up in the seedy world of drugs. The trophy girlfriend of a drug lord, she finds herself physically and mentally abused by almost every man that she comes into contact with. This changes when she inadvertently bumps into a friendly gentleman while […]
While out on a routine foot patrol, policeman Frank Penny (Aaron Eckhart) engages into a foot chase with a perp who is on the run. Facing each other in a dead end alley, Frank is forced to shoot the criminal when he draws a gun on him. Unfortunately for Frank, the now dead criminal had […]
Blu-ray: Relaxer (2018) Lime Wood Media (the people who have the fantastic ‘Indicator’ series of releases…many reviews of which can be found on our website) have launched their “Anti-Worlds” collection, of which the first 3 are available from 24th February 2020, and all will be reviewed here before release day. Set on the eve of […]
Blu-ray: Secret Friends (1991)Imagine if you will, that the majority of movies you watch at your local multiplex are the cinematic equivalent of artwork by Bob Ross…easy to look at landscapes that can tell a full story with a few cursory looks.Now imagine the cinematic equivalent of artwork by Jackson Pollock…made while he’s in the […]
Blu-ray: Endless Night (1972) Adapted from Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name, Endless Night stars Hywel Bennett as Michael Rogers; a young man who bounces from job to job, but has a long held dream of owning a picturesque piece of land called ‘Gypsy’s Acre’. While working as a chauffeur, Michael meets Ellie Thomson (Hayley […]
DVD & Digital: The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)Most people under 50 will have no idea what the ‘Profumo Affair’ was, so the BBC making a series about it was surprising, but then in an age where no one really knows for sure how many children our Prime Minister Boris Johnson has with various concubines, […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Boy do I love a feel-good film. Unfortunately there’s a fine line between feel-good and sloppy, where overly emotional histrionics ruin the story. Thankfully The Peanut Butter Falcon only has a few small hokey hiccups, but it is overwhelmingly a feel-good movie…emphasis on GOOD. I like Shia […]