Film and TV

Blu-ray and DVD: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Irish seaman Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles) bumps into the beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and saves her from some muggers. They share a sexually charged carriage ride, and Elsa offers O’Hara a job on her yacht. He refuses when he finds out she’s married to a criminal […]

Blu-ray: The Amityville Horror (1979) When the Lutz’s knowingly move into a murder house with their children, they believe everything will be alright. No prizes to guess the outcome. How odd that despite having watched this a few times over the years, I had absolutely NO recollection of it, so my reviewing was more or […]

Blu-ray: Guerrilla (2017) Jas (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay) are lovers who half-arsedly support black power and immigrant causes but haven’t actually DONE anything. This attitude changes when a black friend of theirs is killed by the police and they finally commit to becoming ‘real’ revolutionary activists by busting a noted radical, Dhari (Nathaniel […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Evil Ed (1995) If you enjoyed the early works of Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, then Evil Ed is surely a movie that you have also seen. If not, then feel confident in ordering this immediately in the knowledge that you’ll soon be watching some low budget splatter, […]

DVD: Star Maidens (1976) Far away in a distant solar system, the citizens of the planet Medusa have no idea that a comet is on a deadly trajectory that will knock it out of its current orbit and send it spinning through space. The inhabitants are human in appearance (saves on expensive prosthetics) and it […]

Blu-ray and DVD: Property is No Longer a Theft (1973) Total (Flávio Bucci) is a lowly bank teller, living in borderline poverty with his father who was a bank teller before him. Total is frustrated by the way that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is exemplified by The Butcher (Ugo […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Wolf Guy (1975) I love bonkers movies, and this is a bonkers movie! This short synopsis will immediately help you to decide if Wolf Guy is for you or not: The only survivor of a werewolf clan massacre uses his once a month werewolf abilities to solve crimes and finds himself embroiled […]

DVD: Chucklevision – Series 3 (1989-90) “You do realise that we’re moving into a new field?” Won’t that be a bit draughty?” “No. A new field…the world of business” And so begins series 3 of Chucklevision, the first which started the now classic format of their shows which continued until the very last episode. No […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Phenomena (1985) Once again Arrow Films release the definitive package of a movie, and this time it’s the 1985 Dario Argento directed classic Phenomena, which comes packaged complete with a host of special features that will keep you entertained and enthralled for many hours. Jennifer (a very young Jennifer Connelly in only her […]

Blu-Ray & DVD: Brain Damage (1988) An elderly New York couple are keeping something captive in their bathroom and feeding it animal brains, but ‘it’ manages to escape into the nearby apartment of Brian (Rick Hearst). The ‘it’ in question is called Aylmer; an erudite centuries old phallic parasite whose charm and powers of persuasion […]