Blu-ray & DVD: D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) A young boy is being driven at high speed in a car while a helicopter chases them. Stopping briefly, the driver tells the boy to get out and run into the woods, before then driving away, only to crash and burn on a sharp bend. Alone in the woods, the […]
Blu-ray: Ring Limited Edition Collection (Ringu – 1998, Ringu 2 – 1999, Ringu 0 – 2000, Rasen (AKA Spiral) – 1998) The 1st ever UK Blu-ray release of Ring is a perfect 20th anniversary celebration of a classic J-Horror movie that made people do a double take at their televisions whenever the picture went a […]
Cinema: Sharkwater Extinction (2018) Sharks. That one word introduction has probably brought a multitude of mental images to you. I’m guessing that they include the movies Jaws, The Meg and the Sharknado franchise, while also having thoughts of surfers being attacked by mindless killers with “lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes”. Popular culture […]
Cinema: The Pretender (2017) Attending the 2019 Manchester Film Festival (review here), it was a delight to watch the UK premiere of The Pretender. It was proceeded by 3 short films: Little Miss Sumo: In Japan women are not allowed to be professional Sumo wrestlers and are only allowed to wrestle in school and college […]
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman (2000) Alvin is obsessed with monsters! Despite his fascination for horror, he is having terrible nightmares. This forces his long-suffering adopted father, Dave, to get rid of all of his scary memorabilia. This should solve the problem, but is there a real werewolf living next door to the […]
Blu-ray: The Merger (2018) Based on Damian Callinan’s one man play, The Merger tells the tale of Troy Carrington; erstwhile new age hippy (in thought, not in dress), the only Australian rules football player to make it out of the town of Bodgy Creek. A town filled with stereotypical ‘men’. Dubbed the ‘Town Killer’ because […]
Blu-ray: Irma la Douce (1963) Presented from a brand new 4k restoration on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, Irma la Douce looks as good as it’s ever done as Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLane light up the screen in this Billy Willy directed adaptation of the 1956 musical for the French theatre. […]
Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: Take Me High (1973) Cliff Richard sings his way through the streets of Birmingham, including ‘Brumburger’: an earworm of a song about a Birmingham burger joint. Reflect on that for a moment: Cliff Richard sings a song about a Birmingham burger joint. That alone would hook me into watching Take Me […]
Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) Thrilled to hear that they have inherited a cinema in the north of England after a distant relative passes away, Matt and Jean Spenser (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) see this as an end to all of their money worries and instantly plan to sell […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Class of 1984 (1982) When idealistic music teacher Andrew Norris (Perry King) moves to a rough inner city high school with thoughts of educating and inspiring a new classroom full of dedicated students, his initial enthusiasm is tempered when faced with the schools violent, drug dealing gang who insist on following their […]