DVD: The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993) I have very fond memories of watching The Animals of Farthing Wood with my children when they were young. We used to sit together as a family and I vividly remember that everyone enjoyed it and we all thought it was a lovely programme. Amazingly the same feelings […]
Cinema: Beauty and the Beast (2017) Belle is ‘odd’, she reads books, longs for adventure and refuses to fall into the arms of village ‘hard man’ Gaston and become his wife. Gaston is a vainglorious bully, who treats everyone with distaste and only wants Belle because he sees her as a challenge. Belle’s father takes […]
DVD: Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg (1978) While the Nazi sexplotation genre (yes, there IS such a thing!) could well be attributed to beginning with Love Camp 7 (so notorious that it was on the original BBFC ‘Video Nasty‘ list), it is Dyanne Thorne in Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS who kickstarted the genre into overdrive with […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Tower of London (1962) Roger Corman has always been the king of low budget filmmaking for me, and his name alone as either Director or Producer ensures that I’ll be watching. His skill of being able to eke out every last cent of the budget and put it on screen never fails to […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Two Rode Together (1961) “A John Ford western”. Those words alone are always enough for me to settle down in front of the screen in the knowledge that I’m going to have a great time, and Two Rode Together does nothing to dissuade me from that. Add into the mix a screenplay […]
DVD: Female Vampire (1975) With more wild 70’s bush on show than an entire series of Percy Thrower’s Gardeners’ World, Female Vampire sets it stall out early from the very first shot when Countess Irina Karlstein (Lina Romay) walks slowly towards camera dressed in only knee high boots, a leather belt and a cloak that is wide open […]
Blu-ray, DVD, CD, Vinyl & Digital Download: Michael Schenker Fest: Live When you’re knocking out killer riffs on your 1st album appearance at only 15 years old, you can be pretty damn sure that a guitar fuelled career lays waiting in front of you, and while Michael Schenker never truly sustained the career highs that his […]
Blu-ray: Greenberg (2010) Florence (Greta Gerwig) is an assistant and general dogsbody for the Greenberg family. She cares for their children, picks up their groceries, keeps their house clean and appears to be at their beck and call. The family are going on holiday and whilst they are away Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is going […]
Blu-ray + DVD: The Last Detail (1973) Based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail tells the story of 2 Navy ‘lifers’; ‘Badass’ Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and ‘Mule’ Mulhall (Otis Young) who are tasked with escorting young sailor Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) from Norfolk, Virginia to a Navy prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. […]
Blu-ray: Woody Allen: Seven Films – 1986-1991 Arrow Academy’s third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen’s beloved Manhattan, and the […]