Review: Kojak: The Belarus File / The Price of Justice
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 […]
Review: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
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 […]
Review: The Sinbad Trilogy
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, […]
Review: The Closer We Get
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 […]
Review: Mickey One
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 […]
Review: Nekromantik 2
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 […]
Review: Pulse
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 […]
Review: The 4 Marx Brothers at Paramount 1929 – 1933
Blu-ray: The 4 Marx Brothers at Paramount 1929 – 1933 People aged 30 and under have probably never experienced the pure joy of Saturday morning BBC television, where, just after ‘The Flashing Blade’ a 15 minute short would appear starring either Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton. Then in the afternoon, a whole film, starring Laurel and Hardy or […]
Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Blu-ray & DVD: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) Whilst police are investigating a multiple murder, they discover a body hidden in the basement of a house. This wouldn’t be out of place at a crime scene except, this particular body doesn’t seem to fit their investigation and the police are baffled. There are seemingly […]
Movies For Juniors – The Boss Baby
Cinema: The Boss Baby (2017) 7 year old Tim (Miles Bakshi) spends his days using his overactive imagination pretending to be an explorer, rocket ship pilot or whatever takes his fancy. His life is perfect as he shares adventures with his mom and dad (Lisa Kudrow & Jimmy Kimmel) who devote all their time to […]