4K UHD & Blu-ray: Full Circle: The Haunting of Julia (1977) After the shocking and sudden death of her daughter at the breakfast table due to chocking on a piece of apple, bereaved mother Julia (Mia Farrow) leaves her controlling husband Magnus (Keir Dullea) and moves into an old house in West London. The house has […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Appleyard College is a Victorian young ladies’ college somewhere in Australia, the students are about to have a Valentines Day treat; a picnic at Hanging Rock. In their cream and white cotton dresses, these beautiful, spoilt girls stuff their faces under the watchful eyes of Miss […]
Dredge is the debut game from developers Black Salt Games, and if this is any indication of what they are capable of, then I’ll be watching their output very closely from now on as I am absolutely loving my time with this game.The wonderful branching narrative begins with a fisherman who arrives at the island […]
Blu-ray: The Street Fighter Trilogy (1974)The Street FighterReturn of the Street FighterThe Street Fighter’s Last RevengeIf you want crazy martial arts action with a regular splattering of blood, then look no further than this Street Fighter set from Arrow Films, it’s one of the most entertaining trilogies you’re ever likely to watch.Shin’ichi Chiba (credited as Sonny […]
Blu-ray: The Last Hunter (1980)The first release from new UK boutique Blu-Ray label Treasured Films, The Last Hunter (seen here making its UK blu-ray debut) is just the type of film that I love, and one which I hadn’t watched since on an old VHS copy many years ago. Needless to say, this was a much […]
The 1980’s, movies and video games: 3 of my passions for many years now, so when we were offered a video game for review that begins in the 80’s where you assume the role of the head of your own movie studio, I was of course immediately intrigued.The premise of it all is a simple […]
Blu-ray: The Sword and the Claw (1975)I watched The Sword and the Claw just the other day, and yet I’m still processing what played out before my eyes. Just when I thought I’d seen about everything that the 101 Films AGFA releases could throw at me with these low budget indie movies, along comes this […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Naked Lunch (1991) William S. Burroughs’ novel ‘Naked Lunch’ was for many years deemed “unfilmable”, so stepping up to the challenge came director David Cronenberg who intertwined elements of Burroughs’ own remarkable biography with the content of the book, the end result being a cinematic experience that, while occasionally leaving the viewer confused, […]
Blu-ray: The AGFA Horror Trailer ShowIf you’ve read any of my reviews on here and/or listened to me chat about movies on our podcasts, then you’ll probably have a good idea about my taste in movies and if yours is similar to mine or not. If your cinematic loves align with me, then this is […]
4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The City of Lost Children (1995)The City of Lost Children directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is one of those ‘foreign’ films. Oh dear Lord how so many of us hate to read the subtitles (actually I don’t mind at all), but wait dear reader! There isn’t so much talking in […]