Blu-ray: Take Shelter (2011) Take Shelter is one of those films that flies underneath a lot of film fans radars. Reading the blurb about the film – Man (Michael Shannon) who lives with wife (Jessica Chastain) and deaf daughter in a small Ohio town begins to have apocalyptic dreams, and fears for his own sanity […]
Blu-ray & DVD: D.O.A. (1980) Love them or loathe them, the Sex Pistols had an undeniable impact on the music scene in the 1970’s, and one which still resonates today. D.O.A. A Right of Passage chronicles the rise and the fall of this UK punk rock band and focuses on their 1978 American tour, which […]
Blu-ray: Heathers (1988) It’s no surprise that Daniel Waters was just 23 when he wrote the script for Heathers. It’s unlikely that anyone over the age of 25 would be able to produce such a time-relative, spikey, darkest black, tour de force of teen angst. Film tends to reflect the time in which it’s made, […]
Blu-ray: Razorback (1984) Once again Umbrella Entertainment release a fantastic title under their ‘Beyond Genres’ collection. This time it is the 1984 Australian classic Razorback. When a child is killed by a rampaging boar (the titular ‘Razorback’), the Grandfather is accused of murder…because, who’s going to believe that an oversize boar is on a killing […]
Blu-ray: Ministry of Fear (1944) Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) has just been released from an asylum during WWII. On his journey home he stops at a village charity fair where a fortune teller informs him of the correct weight in the nearby ‘guess the weight of the cake’ competition. Upon giving the correct weight, he […]
Blu-ray: Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Footsteps in the Fog is a gothic thriller following the life of Stephen (Stewart Granger) after the death of his wife. A death he deliberately caused through poisoning. His cockney maid, Lily (Jean Simmons) finds out about the murder and uses it to blackmail Stephen for malicious, yet simple […]
DVD: Keeping Faith (2017-) Considering that 60MW Towers is in Wales, it was a bit of a no-brainer that we would want to watch Keeping Faith; a great television drama which showcases the superb Welsh landscapes with some gorgeous cinematography. Keeping Faith unravels its narrative at a slow pace, taking the time for the viewer […]
DVD: Tarantula (1955) A giant guinea pig. A mutated man. An experiment gone horribly wrong. The titular tarantula which has grown bigger than a house. A young (uncredited) Clint Eastwood as a fighter pilot. The above alone should already be tempting you to buy this title from Umbrella Entertainment. The planet is heading for disaster […]
Blu-ray: Oleanna (1994) Writer/director David Mamet brings to the screen his play ‘Oleanna’, which debuted onstage in 1992 and starred William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon in the 2 lead roles. 2 years later and Macy is still cast as college professor John, while Debra Eisenstadt replaces Pidgeon as Carol; one of John’s students. Oleanna […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Apprentice to Murder (1988) The cinematic equivalent of a firework that takes forever to light only to go off with an unsatisfying and weird pop minutes after you were convinced it was a dud. Apprentice to Murder tells the story of Billy (Chad Lowe), a full-time mill worker living in Pennsylvania in […]