Film and TV

Blu-ray: Babe: Pig in the City (1998) A triumphant homecoming after being declared the best ‘sheep pig’ at the conclusion of the highly successful Babe, is swiftly followed by a crazy adventure in the city of Metropolis to try and save the future of the farm in this charming sequel co-written, produced and directed by George Miller. […]

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 […]