Cinema: Gwen (2018) Writer/director William McGregor (in his first full length film) gives us an eerie foray into the dark industrial revolutionary Hills of North Wales in Gwen. Set in 1855, Elen (Maxine Peake) and her daughters Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) and Mari (Jodi Innes) work the small holding up in the Snowdonia Hills while dad […]
DVD & Digital: Year of the Rabbit (2019) Detective Inspector Rabbit (Matt Berry) is a foul mouthed ‘copper’ in Victorian London. His penchant for ladies and alcohol often gets in the way of his police work, so thankfully his is joined by his new partner, Strauss (Freddie Fox); a young hapless detective whose reserved demeanour […]
Blu-ray: The Legacy (1978) Margaret Walsh (Katherine Ross) is mysteriously called across to the UK from her home in America on an undisclosed architect project. Accompanied by her partner Pete Danner (Sam Elliott), things begin to go awry from the moment they set foot in the UK. A motorcycle accident finds them both ‘rescued’ by […]
Blu-ray: Double Face (1969) I can forgive Klaus Kinski anything, no one does deranged quite like him. On seeing Werner Herzog’s ‘Aguirre, Wrath of God’, then Fitzcarraldo, and then Crawlspace, I knew here was a man who, not unlike Dennis Hopper and Oliver Reed, was rather bonkers, but had the saving grace of being able […]
Blu-ray: Day of the Panther / Strike of the Panther (1988) Director Brian Trenchard-Smith (see my review of his awesome movie ‘The Man From Hong Kong‘) once again delivers onscreen action mayhem with this ‘Panther’ double bill. Day of the Panther and its sequel Strike of the Panther, tell the story of martial arts expert, […]
DVD: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas (1996) “The Munsters or The Addams Family?“ A question often asked in my school playground back in the 1970’s, and one that is still asked by people today. For the record, my answer was always The Munsters, though I enjoyed them both. Herein lies my problem when watching The […]
Blu-ray: American Horror Project Vol. 2 Following on from American Horror Project Vol. 1 which was released back in 2016, Arrow Films have unearthed and restored 3 more obscure American horror movies which have more than likely flown under peoples movie radar until now. The superbly packaged box set contains Dream No Evil (1970), Dark […]
Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Chernobyl (2019) The world was a very different place indeed back in 1986. There was no World Wide Web, social media involved passing fanzines around friends, and if you wanted to take video or photographs of something, then you sure as hell had better be prepared to carry around the correct equipment all the […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Flying Tigers (1942) John Wayne is synonymous with riding the range on a horse and chasing the bad guys, so it was initially a shock to see him as Capt. Jim Gordon, squadron leader of ‘The Flying Tigers’: an American volunteer group who fought the Japanese in China before America’s entry into […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Running Man (1987) It’s difficult to remember sci-fi being a seriously fun genre, even more difficult for someone born during the mid-90s. There is definitely sci-fi comedy, sure, but examples of sci-fi that isn’t an all-out comedy having fun with the endless capabilities of the genre seem few and far between what withall […]