DVD: Dunkirk (2004) With the current global success of 2017’s Dunkirk, Arrow Films have re-released the 2004 BBC documentary. Does it complement or distract from Christopher Nolan’s modern masterpiece? 60 Minutes With let Steve Woolley take a look. Some historical events lose their impact over the years, constant retelling of the story reduces the effect […]
Blu-ray: A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hopeless but loyal aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), along with George’s sexy girlfriend Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) plan to rob a bank. Posing as a weapons expert and pretending to be her brother, Otto West (Kevin Kline), who is really Wanda’s […]
Cinema: Kills on Wheels (2016) “A wheelchair bound hitman recruits 2 other physically disabled people from a rehabilitation centre to help him kill unscrupulous villains“. If I were to leave it at the above short synopsis, you may well imagine a movie similar to I initially did when seeing the premise for Kills on Wheels; […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Love of a Woman (1953) “A job is something a woman has until she meets the right man”. André Lorenzi The above line delivered mid-way through Jean Grémillon’s movie with a straight face by Massimo Girotti proves to be the catalyst of a love story between a Doctor and Engineer. Dr […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) When terminally ill Count Hervé de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur) realises that his days are numbered, he retreats into a secret hiding place inside his castle. Learning of his supposed death, his family gather expecting great riches to be bestowed upon them, only to be told that they […]
DVD: Black Gunn (1972) If I was to read a review that simply said: “Black Gunn is a blaxploitation movie starring Jim Brown and Martin Landau” that would be enough right there and I’d be ordering it immediately. For those of you with similar tastes to myself, then skip down to the bottom of this […]
DVD: The Jerk, Too (1984) The Jerk, Too isn’t so much a sequel to the 1979 Steve Martin comedy classic The Jerk, but reimagines the story of Navin who sets out to travel from his humble family abode in the country to the big bright lights of Los Angeles. Apparently this was the pilot show […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The National Health (1973) The National Health intertwines the real life happenings on a male NHS ward where resources are low and death is not uncommon, with a fantasy soap opera world (entitled ‘Nurse Norton’s Affair’) in the same building, which has plush surroundings and everyone is miraculously cured, all wrapped up […]
Blu-ray: Aquarius (2016) Sônia Braga is a tour de force as the central character Clara, the last resident of Aquarius Apartments in Recife Brazil. Her stubborn refusal to sell up and move out brings her into conflict with the planners and developers who want her out of her very desirable beach front property. A running […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Deadly Affair (1966) Charles Dobbs (James Mason…a man whose voice I could listen to all day) has an innocuous chat with Foreign Office employee Samuel Fennan (Robert Flemying) in a park, but hours later Fennan is found dead after an apparent suicide. Hobbs is not satisfied that is was indeed suicide […]