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 […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Cops vs Thugs (1975) In 1963 Japan, a fragile peace exists between two rival Yakuza gangs that is overseen by hard boiled cop Kuno (Bunta Sugawara). Kuno is friends with gang leader Kenji (Hiroki Matsukata) and they often share information which is mutually beneficial to help keep the status quo. As you […]
Blu-ray & DVD: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (1972) Based on the play by Peter Nichols (who also wrote the screenplay for the movie) A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg tells the story of Bri (Alan Bates) and Sheila (Janet Suzman) who are parents to a severely disabled daughter. Their […]
Blu-ray: My Life As A Courgette (2016) 9 year old ‘Courgette’ (his nickname from his mother) is fatherless and lives in relative squalor with his alcoholic mother. When his solo attempt at amusing himself with empty beer cans that he collected from the litter filled floors goes horribly wrong, it results in the accidental death […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Reckoning (1970) Michael ‘Mick’ Marler (Nicol Williamson) is one of the top men at Grenville. He’s devious and committed and no one would ever know he’s the son of poor working class Irish immigrants from Liverpool. He has it all; the job, the big car, amazing house, vacuous friends and the […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Slayer (1982) Troubled artist Kay (Sarah Kendall) suffers with disturbing dreams and visions, which she also incorporates into her artwork. Her husband Eric (Frederick Flynn) decides to take her on holiday to a remote island to relax, along with her brother David (Alan McRae) and his wife, Brooke (Carol Kottenbrook). Once […]
DVD: Tower of London (1939) I reviewed the 1962 version of Tower of London here, and it was interesting to compare and contrast between that Roger Corman version and this 1939 movie directed by Rowland V. Lee. The story is still essentially the same; Prince Richard (Duke of Gloucester) is determined to be crowned King of […]
DVD: Dr. Cyclops (1940) Based on the short story of the same name by Henry Kuttner, Dr. Cyclops tells the story of Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker, whose untimely death in 1968 is a story itself!) who has been using radium to shrink animals. With his eyesight failing, he invites 3 fellow scientists to help with […]
Digital HD & DVD: Final Recall (2017) Five friends go on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods for some sun, swimming and sex. With impeccable timing, while all the carefree frolicking in the wilderness is happening, an alien invasion begins. The friends early fears though come from a mysterious ‘Hunter’ who is […]
Cinema & on demand: David Lynch – The Art Life (2016) “You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint…“ David Lynch – The Art Life is not a film retrospective, but a rather surprising documentary about David Lynch, the artist. Describing a time when he was sat in a water filled mud puddle as […]