Blu-ray: Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 (1969 – 70)Released in both Standard and Deluxe Editions, Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 is the result of nearly 10 years work by Network’s award-winning in-house restoration team, working from the best available materials – from first generation 2-inch videotape masters to surviving […]
Blu-ray: Upgrade (2018)Technophobe Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) lives in a near-future world where technology controls virtually everything. However, Grey shuns societies fascination and reliance on all of the high-tech gadgets, and spends his time restoring vintage cars.One of Grey\’s clients is a reclusive billionaire who has made his fortune through artificial intelligence, and when a […]
DVD: Night Hunter (2018) Cynical police Lieutenant ‘Marshall’ (Henry Cavill) is tracking a serial rapist and murderer, when during his investigations he crosses paths with the vigilante duo of Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Lara (Eliana Jones), who have their own agenda for trying to capture the mysterious killer. When the suspect is captured, the tip […]
Blu-ray: Hammer Volume 4 – Faces of Fear Following on from Volume 1: Fear Warning, Volume 2: Criminal Intent, and Volume 3: Blood & Terror, it was once again an absolute pleasure to sit down with the latest Hammer Films boxset release from Powerhouse Films in their ‘Indicator’ series. Volume 4 once again features 4 […]
DVD: Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Even during the early ‘silent’ era of cinema, filmmakers were aware that sound still played an important part in bonding the audience to the screen, often accompanying their movies with ‘in house’ musicians or separate musical playbacks. With the advent of synchronised sound, a new […]
Blu-ray: Secret Ceremony (1968)Secret Ceremony is one of those films I’d heard about but never seen. Directed by Joseph Losey of \’The Servant\’ fame, this could have equally starred Dirk Bogarde and James Fox and the female roles replaced by males.It’s an odd film, disjointed and on reading up on it I think there is […]
DVD: Out of Africa (1985) Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically. Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where […]
DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) It’s 1962 America and Faber college, under the leadership of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), has its usual mix of fraternity (frat) houses. One of these (Delta house) is full of party loving, beer swilling, foul mouthed, sex addicted students who don’t give a damn about their studies and just […]
DVD: The Eiger Sanction (1975) Retired assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now works as an art professor, while also indulging his love of art by always wanting to add to his extensive collection of paintings. When an old friend of Jonathans is murdered, he comes out of retirement and must join a group of mountain […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Dead Center (2018) When Michael (Jeremy Childs) is brought into a morgue after committing suicide, everything seems normal. This soon changes when he gets up and leaves the morgue with no memory of who he is. When Michael is brought into the emergency psych ward of a hospital, troubled psychiatrist Daniel […]