Blu-ray: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Pete (Jason Segel) and Sarah are seemingly Hollywood’s cutest B-list couple. During a messy break-up, Sarah reveals that she is involved with another man. In the throws of an intense post-break-up depression, Pete decides to get away to the Hawaiian resort that he and Sarah always talked about getting away […]
Blu-ray: Crime and Punishment (1935) Directed by the infamous Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and adapted by Joseph Anthony and S.K. Lauren from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same title, Crime and Punishment was more or less a vanity project for Peter Lorre who starred in the lead role of Raskolnikov (here named Roderick […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Funny People (2009) Out of the recent Judd Apatow load Dave provided for me to review, Funny People was the one I was both most dreading yet most excited to revisit. Back when I was 14 Tarantino’s hyper violent, Nazi killing epic, Inglorious Basterds was released. Like any other spotty teenager with bad hygiene […]
Blu-ray: Knocked Up (2007) Knocked Up is a comedy from Judd Apatow about the trials and tribulations of unplanned pregnancy. After a one-night stand, Full-time stoner Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) and go-getting career woman Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) end up with more than just an awkward shag. Scott becomes pregnant and decides to keep it, […]
Blu-ray: BLOODY TERROR: The Shocking Cinema of Norman J Warren, 1976 – 1987 When questioned about their favourite horror directors, people often cite Italians such as Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci. Others go more mainstream and choose Americans like Wes Craven or John Carpenter. However, us Brits have a homegrown horror director, who might not […]
Blu-ray: Asylum (1972) Following on from my review of The House That Dripped Blood, Second Sight Films have also released a limited edition Blu-ray of Asylum. No need to read the review, just go and buy them both immediately. Ok then, for those of you who really want to know something about it… Asylum is […]
Blu-ray: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Amicus portmanteau movies were a staple part of my horror viewing while I was growing up, so it was great to see this fantastic Blu-ray release of The House That Dripped Blood by Second Sight Films drop through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers. Written by renowned screenwriter […]
Blu-ray: Hold Back The Dawn (1941) Back in 1941 when we were balls deep in WW2, America was making romantic dramas like Hold Back the Dawn, to alleviate the…you know…. guilt. Told in flashback to a Hollywood producer (stay with me…), Charles Boyer is Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian gigolo who is trapped in Mexico waiting […]
Blu-ray: FM (1978) Films always reflect the time in which they’re made, and FM has to be top of that list. Q-SKY radio station manager Jeff Dugan (Michael Brandon) employs an eclectic bunch of ‘kooky’ DJ’s. He soon finds that corporate management expects Jeff to use the station’s position at the top of the ratings […]
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 […]