Film and TV

The narrative is a simple one; a group of 5 friends all get together at an exotic location for a pre-wedding party, part of which involves getting on a small boat to an isolated island for some ‘girl time’.

This 1986 film is the definition of a cult classic, a favourite of mine from the VHS days and now available in glorious 4K with a new scan overseen by the director (Robert Harmon).

Eddie; seeped in booze, wobbling through life. Richie; vain, stupid, bossy, trying to be posh. Both of them ultra-violent (in a slapstick way) and in need of a shag off a nice bird in a smashing blouse.

Apparently, Red Sun is Quentin Tarantino’s favourite ‘spaghetti’ western, and it’s easy to see why.

A classic of not just the 90s, but one which still holds up strong today.

Schlitter: Evil in the Woods is a well made and tense genre movie that I recommend, and at only 70 minutes long it certainly doesn’t outstay its welcome.

You could definitely call it an early ‘revisionist’ Western that was inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in Colorado, made in 1969 it’s also a glaring allegory for the then contemporary Vietnam War.

Family reunions can be a bit stressful at the best of times, but I can assure you that none that you have sat through have ever been as nerve wracking as that experienced by the Davison family.

Yes the movie is ridiculous, especially when Orca display Mensa intelligence while destroying a small fishing village, but at no point does it ever get boring. It has characters that you care about, a fantastic action set piece never far away, AND a bloody big whale going on a crazed rampage…what more could you want!?

This film is very much of its time, like an ‘all woman’ Fatal Attraction where the women are either mad and promiscuous or needy and pliable for their man, yet angry and empowered when an employer tries to make Allie give him a BJ.