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 […]
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 […]