DVD: I Kill Giants (2017) First things first: do not go into I Kill Giants with expectations of a ‘Harry Potteresque’ fantasy movie about a young girl battling huge cgi giants as proffered in the trailer below. Never has a trailer been so misleading since The Road to Terabithia sent unsuspecting kids into the cinemas, […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Bachelor Party (1984) For those of you (like myself) who were old enough to watch Bachelor Party upon its original release (either at the cinema or on VHS), a rewatch of this Fabulous Films Blu-ray/DVD will bring back fond memories of that wild decade of the 80’s and the over the top […]
Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980) After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside. He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen. ‘Serious’ actors tend to […]
Blu-ray: Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror After having the pleasure of reviewing both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Indicator Hammer box sets, it was with great anticipation that I sat down for Volume 3: Blood & Terror. Containing 4 movies from the Hammer vaults (all released on Blu-ray for the 1sttime) covering […]
DVD: The Senator (2017) In July, 1969, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) younger brother of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy calls his cousin, Joe Gargan (Ed Helms) to arrange for hotel rooms on Martha’s Vineyard for the ‘Boiler Room Girls’; his brother Robert’s campaign staff. They travel to the infamous Chappaquiddick Island, where he goes to […]
DVD: The Last Warrior (2018) The Last Warrior is a tale of Lyutobor; a warrior in medieval Europe who is forced to embark on a quest to save the lives of his wife and child in the face of an assassination attempt of his lord and subsequent kidnapping of his kin. Joined by one of […]
Blu-ray: Escape from Absolom (1994) Captain J.T. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a soldier convicted of murdering his commanding officer and is dumped into the prison island of Absolom. Here it is a matter of survival as 2 conflicting prisoner camps battle for supremacy on the island, as well as that elusive matter of escaping. One […]
Blu-ray: Sam Fuller at Columbia (1937-61) (Well it’s certainly taken me a long time to get through this box set (apologies to Powerhouse Films). Sam Fullerhad an interesting life before he started in film, aged 17 he moved to New York and got a job as a crime reporter. He then went on to write […]
Blu-ray & DVD: King of Hearts (1966) Soldier and ornithologist Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent by his commanding officer (Adolfo Celi) to disarm a bomb that has been placed in the French town of Marville by retreating German soldiers at the end of WW1. Of course the path is not smooth and Plumpick ends […]
Blu-ray: Von Ryan’s Express (1965) US pilot Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is shot down over enemy territory and placed in a German prisoner of war camp. It is here that he meets Major Eric Fincham (Trevor Howard) who has been in charge of the captured troops in the camp. Pulling rank on Fincham, Ryan […]