Blu-ray: Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning After releasing volume 1 of the Ray Harryhausen boxset, Powerhouse Films have unleashed yet another amazing boxset, which this time contains 4 Hammer movies from the early 1960’s, all accompanied by a wealth of special features. Maniac (1963) Jeff Farrell (Kerwin Mathews) is a down on his luck painter […]
Blu-ray: Air America (1990) Young pilot Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) is reckless and doesn’t take orders too well, so when he loses his job and is recruited into a shady organisation running secret missions for the CIA in Laos during the Vietnam war, he is not too keen to be taking orders from Air […]
DVD: Dark Night (2016) “On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed […]
Blu-ray: The Slipper and the Rose – The Story of Cinderella (1976) In this very British take on the Cinderella tale by director Bryan Forbes, Prince Edward of Euphrania (Austria) (Richard Chamberlain) wants to marry for love while his Royal parents want a political alliance. Meanwhile, Cinderella’s (Gemma Craven) cruel stepmother (Margaret Lockwood) has banished […]
Blu-ray: Wolf (1994) Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) hits a wolf on a late night drive back home. Getting out of his car to inspect the prone body, the wolf suddenly leaps and bites him on his hand before running into the woods. As the days progress, Will begins to notice his senses becoming more acute […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Four Film Noir Classics. Arrow Academy have released a set of 4 Film Noirs, all much sought after, and here we have them on High Def Bluray and also DVD. First off ‘In The Dark Mirror’ (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak (The Killers). Twins (both played Olivia de Havilland) are involved in […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Stormy Monday (1988) Brendan (Sean Bean) is a young loner looking for work and a chance to earn an honest day’s pay. He happens to walk into a jazz club run by Finney, (Sting) who quickly takes a shine to Brendan offering him the opportunity to be more than just a cleaner. […]
Blu-ray: Pulp (1972) A year on from working together on Get Carter, writer/director Mike Hodges and cinematic legend Michael Caine team up once again for another crime movie, albeit one with a slightly quirky narrative. Mickey King (Caine) is a successful ‘pulp‘ novelist, whose titles ‘My Gun is Long’ and ‘The Organ Grinder’, give some […]
Blu-ray: The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, Volume 1: 1955-60 Surely Ray Harryhausen needs no introduction!? A pioneering special effects maestro, he is responsible for some of my fondest early movie watching memories…I still shudder whenever I see Talos slowly turn his head. But more of that particular memory when I review Volume 2 in this […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Animal Factory (2000) Based on the semi-autobiogahphical novel of the same name by Eddie Bunker and helmed by Steve Buscemi in only his 2nd time as director of a feature film, Animal Factory follows Ron Decker (Edward Furlong), a young man sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin State Prison for a drug dealing conviction, […]