Blu-ray: Columbia Noir #5: Humphrey Bogart Following on from the previous 4 Columbia Noir box sets from Powerhouse Films (make sure to search “Columbia” on our website to read the reviews for them), #5 focuses on Humphrey Bogart, who in 1999, the American Film Institute selected as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. […]
Blu-ray: Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1979) Available for the first time on Blu-ray here in the UK, Rock ‘N’ Roll High School centres around Ramones superfan Riff Randel (P.J. Soles) who is desperate to see and meet the band when they play in her local town music venue. High school principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov) […]
Dual Format: The Razor’s Edge (1946)Based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same name, The Razor’s Edge stars all the big hitters from 1946: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall (who plays Maugham), with a bit part for Elsa Lanchester.The Razor’s Edge tells the story of Larry Darrell (Power who in real life was a […]
Blu-ray: Murphy’s War (1971)A very different story from the Max Chatto novel, Murphy’s War starring real life married couple Peter O’Toole and Siân Phillips and directed by Peter Yates, is a showcase for O’Toole’s acting.Set in South America, filmed in Malta and Venuzula, it tells the story of the last survivor of a UK WW2 Nazi torpedoed ship, who […]
The Sundance London surprise film this year was Halina Reijns Bodies Bodies Bodies. Picked up by A24, and bound to be one of the biggest indie hits of the Summer, the film revolves around a group of rich 20-somethings celebrating a hurricane party in a big house in the middle of nowhere. In between the festivities […]
The Sundance Film Festival London is currently taking place June 9th – 12th.Thom attended the press screenings on June 7th & 8th (and will be at the press screening of this years “surprise film” on June 13th…review to follow).Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.Directed by Sophie Hyde (last seen with the excellent Animals), Good Luck […]
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: High Crime (1973)High Crime is one of Italy’s more famous Poliziotteschi films, made during a period of socio-political turmoil in Italy and high crime rates.They were infamous for their graphic violence, rape, organised crime, car chases, and corruption, with cops and criminals normally tough working class loners, who act outside a corrupt bureaucratic system.This one stars my […]
Prior to this evening, my previous live music gig was on 24th January 2020…and we all know what happened not long after that! So it was with a great sense of excitement that I returned to my beloved Tivoli venue (where I hadn’t been for a gig since 24th October 2019) and FINALLY got to […]
Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: The Last Metro (1980)The Last Metro, made in 1980, written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu and winning nearly every award going, is a classic of cinema that passed me by.It follows the actors and workers of a theatre in Montmartre during the Nazi occupation of Paris in […]
Digital: Cop Secret (2021) Tango and Cash, Murtaugh and Riggs, Starsky and Hutch; all names you’re more than likely familiar with thanks to their exploits in cinemas and on television screens worldwide. You can now add to that list Bússi and Hörður: a couple of Icelandic cops whose relationship goes deeper (very deep in fact, going […]