Blu-ray & DVD: Varieté (1925) Widely regarded as a classic of German cinema, Varieté (1925) gets a 2k restoration and a soundtrack, but is Varieté the spice of life? 60 Minutes With sent Steve Woolley for a night at the circus. So we get a black and white German film with English subtitles set in a circus? […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Castle Keep (1969) Towards the latter stages of WWII, Major Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster) is leading a small group of American soldiers when the Count of Maldorais (Jean-Pierre Aumont) gives them shelter in his castle, in the hope that they will defend it against the advancing Germans. What follows is not your […]
Blu-ray: Terror In A Texas Town (1958) When wealthy businessman McNeil (Sebastian Cabot) wants to take over Prairie City and the land and farms around it, he hires ‘man in black’ gunfighter Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young) to get rid of them, and if that fails, kill them. Terror In A Texas Town is a western […]
DVD: Kojak: The Belarus File (1985) The Price of Justice (1987) Ahhh, the 1970’s; a time when an ageing bald man could walk around with a bag full of lollipops saying ‘Who loves ya, baby?” and “Cootchie-coo!” at passersby and nobody would reach for the pepper spray. Kojak originally aired on American television between 1973 […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) hates the piano lessons which he takes under the stern eye of Dr Terwilliker (Hans Conried), while his widowed mother Heloise (Mary Healy) watches and encourages him to be even better. Bart’s only confidant is Mr Zabbladowski (Peter Lind Heyes), the […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Sinbad Trilogy (1958, 73, 77) Before I start my review I should probably tell you that I am totally biased towards the Sinbad films and in fact any film Ray Harryhausen had a hand in. To me his work is peerless. Harryhausen IS given credit for his work by many auteurs, […]
DVD: The Closer We Get (2015) The Closer We Get is a film that shouldn’t work, its premise seems far too thin; a white middle-class family reuniting over the illness of a mother. However nothing is what it seems and we soon discover that it’s not the movie that writer/director/narrator Karen Guthrie intended to make […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Mickey One (1965) Consisting of a narrative that often visually reflects the freeform jazz music that runs through its 93 minute running time, Mickey One can leave the viewer thinking “what the hell is going to happen next?” and more to the point “what the hell is happening NOW!?” Director Arthur Penn eschews the […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Nekromantik 2 (1991) Originally released as a 3 disc special edition in December 2015, Arrow Films have re-released Nekromantik 2 in a dual format edition which loses the exclusive postcards, soundtrack CD and 100 page ‘Anatomy of Desire’ book, but keeps all the juicy special features which take you deeper into the making […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Pulse (2001) A group of people in Tokyo experience a strange phenomena when co-workers and friends begin to mysteriously disappear and a message appears on computer screens asking “Do you want to meet a ghost“. After the suicides of several friends, 3 strangers explore a rapidly degenerating Tokyo and discover that the secret […]