Blu-ray: My Generation (2017) ‘We decided that we aint gonna be Mickey Mouse anymore’ As the 1960’s dawned, Maurice Micklewhite was struggling. A working class Cockney trying to cut it as an actor, his 30’s approached he was still in Rep and scrapping for bit parts on TV. He was rapidly coming to the conclusion […]
DVD: Pacific Banana (1981) Imagine the lovechild of two 1970’s cinematic stalwarts of British comedy; ‘Carry On Pacific’ gets fruity with ‘Confessions of an Airline Pilot’. The result of this naughty tryst would be Pacific Banana. The story is a simple one: Martin (Graeme Blundell) loses his erection every time that he sneezes. A condition […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Defiant Ones (1958) I have tried, in vain, to find some contemporary reactions or reviews for The Defiant Ones, but so far I haven’t come across anything, as I’m quite intrigued by the sanitised ‘anti-racism’ story of this film. We see a small argument between 2 prisoners being transported in a […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Endless (2017) Hal (Tate Ellington) and Tim (Lew Temple) are 2 brothers who escaped a mysterious cult 10 years ago for fear that everyone would be killed in a ‘death pact’. Upon receiving a videotape from a member of the cult which shows that everyone is still alive and well, they […]
DVD: Cinderella (2000) There isn’t much of the traditional in Simply Media’s releases of Cinderella. Zezolla (later named Cinderella…Marcella Plunkett) lives with her father (David Warner), who arrives home one day with a new wife, Claudette (Kathleen Turner) and her two daughters Goneril (Katrin Cartlidge) and Regan (Lucy Punch). Right away you get the feeling […]
DVD: Nights of Cabiria (1957) Directed by Federico Fellini and starring his wife and past star of La Strada, Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria is a heartbeeaking story about a prostitute in Rome who searches for true love in vain. Winning the 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this was the second straight year […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Death Wish 2, 3, 4, 5 (1982 – 1994) Paul Kersey; a man so unlucky in love and life, that whoever gets emotionally involved with him, inevitably ends up dead…or at the very least, severely injured. Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment and the fantastic blu-rays that popped through the door here at 60MW […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Tracker (2002) 1922, Australia. 3 white men (The Fanatic, The Follower, The Veteran) are on horseback, while a native Australian tracker (the titular ‘The Tracker’) leads them on foot as they hunt down another native Australian man (The Fugitive) who is accused of murdering a white woman. Their trek across the […]
DVD: The Windsors Royal Wedding Special (2018) Following on from the success of The Windsors, a Royal Wedding Special arrives on DVD to coincide with…surprise, surprise, the Royal Wedding fervour that has swept the globe recently. For those of you not familiar with the The Windsors, then I urge you to go back and watch […]
Blu-ray: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 1937, in New Orleans, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn, who apparently spat in director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s face after his poor treatment of Montgomery Clift on set), a rich widow from a prominent local family, invites celebrated ‘Lobotomy’ doctor Cukrowitz (Montgomery Clift) to her home to discuss a huge donation to […]