Blu-ray: Phantom Lady (1944) Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) heads to a bar to drown his sorrows after an altercation with his wife, and it is here that he starts a conversation with a mysterious woman who gives him neither her name, nor her address. Having unused tickets to a show that he was going to […]
DVD: An Audience With The Goodies (2019) I remember watching The Goodies through the 1970’s and they were a huge part of my love of ‘silly’ comedy during my formative years. So when I was given the opportunity of reviewing An Audience With The Goodies, where Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Garden reunite for […]
DVD & Digital HD: Videoman (2018) I remember the 1980’s well, and especially the golden age of VHS, where collecting ex-rental videos and the thrill of the chase in searching for that elusive missing movie was a pastime that the ‘digital generation’ with everything at their fingertips can barely conceive. Videoman ticked all the nostalgia […]
DVD: Boar (2017) ‘Sadistic swine’ movies are definitely a niche genre and one in which Razorback would be the 1st (only?) to pop into peoples heads when asked to name one. Hot on it’s trotters should now be Boar; another Australian movie that pits human against beast in the untamed outback. There is no intricate, twisting narrative to […]
Blu-ray: The Last Movie (1971) Dennis Hopper, straight off the back of Easy Rider in 1969, was Hollywood’s new wonder kid. So the studio (run by old, studio system remnants) gave him a million dollars and free reign to make whatever the hell he wanted, with NO interference. Two years, and a long sojourn in […]
Blu-ray: Climax (2018) Much like Marmite, Kale, and anything with Simon Cowell in it, the films of Gaspar Noé are an acquired taste that, love them or loathe them, linger in the mind long after the credits have rolled. Climax once again will split viewers as to whether this is a visionary look at the human […]
DVD: Life With Cooper (1966 – 69) With a fez perched atop his towering 6′ 4″ frame, and catchphrase “just like that” never far away, Tommy Cooper brought laughter to millions of people throughout his career. Collapsing and dying of a heart attack on live television in 1984 (which I still remember my dad and […]
Blu-ray: Horror Express (1972) It’s the beginning of the 20th century and British anthropologist Professor Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow. Accompanying him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria, which, he believes, may prove to […]
Blu-ray: The Fifth Cord (1971) Alcoholic, ‘troubled’, journalist lush Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) is at a swish Italian nightclub spying on his ex-wife and casting his somewhat voyeuristic glance over the assembled Bohemian middle class as they snog and sway to what is possibly one of the oddest film scores I’ve ever heard (by Ennio […]
Blu-ray, DVD, VOD: Redcon-1 (2018) The zombie genre may well have been done to death (pun intended) in movies and video games, with even changes in the name of them to ‘virals’, ‘freaks’ and ‘infected’ trying to put a different slant on things…and don’t even get me involved in the whole debate of running vs […]