Review: Elsa Fraulein SS
DVD: Elsa Fraulein SS (1977) Having previously seen Malisa Longo in the Screenbound release of Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg, there was a sense of déjà vu while watching her in Elsa Fraulein SS which was released into cinemas a year before Helga. Essentially playing a very similar character, her acting chops are not particularly stretched…unlike the […]
Review: Crimson
DVD: Crimson (AKA The Man with the Severed Head) (1976) When the greed of a gang member trips an alarm in the middle of a robbery, the resulting chaos sees Jack (the gang leader, played by Paul Naschy) shot in the head. Desperate to save his life, the gang force a surgeon and his wife […]
Review: The Entity
Blu-ray: The Entity (1982) Single mother of three Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey) is violently raped in her home by an invisible assailant. After seeking help from a Psychiatrist, who believes these attacks to be a symptom of mental illness, Carla resorts to getting help from a team of parapsychologists. Based on the book by Frank […]
Review: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Blu-ray & DVD: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) When beautiful Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) turns up at Private Investigator Rigby Reardon’s (Steve Martin) office asking for his help to find out who killed her father, Reardon remembers the advice his partner Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gave him ‘Never fall in love with a client’. Sometimes […]
Review: Fat City
Blu-Ray & DVD: Fat City (1972) Billy Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to pick up his boxing gloves again, plus give up the booze and one night stands after sparring with new kid on the block Eddie Munger (Jeff Bridges). Tully is a boxer way past his prime, who for probably not facing up to […]
Review: Bird on a Wire
DVD & Blu-ray: Bird on a Wire (1990) Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) has spent the last 15 years in witness protection, moving from job to job, never staying long in one place for fear of being seen by the former agents whom he helped put in jail. A chance encounter with the woman he loved […]
Review: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything
DVD: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything (2017) This release from Screenbound is a 90 minute documentary about the singer Mario Lanza, and includes ‘insights’ and commentary from UK Opera singers Leslie Garrett and Russell Watson, along with Joseh Valleja, Steve Hackett and Lanza’s daughter Ellisa. And what a sad story it is. Born […]
Review: The City of the Dead
Blu-ray & DVD: The City of the Dead (1960) Student Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson) is researching a paper on witchcraft, when her studies lead her to spend some time in Whitewood, a small village in New England and the location where the witch Elizabeth Selwyn was burnt at the stake centuries earlier while proclaiming a […]
Review: Caltiki and the Immortal Monster
Blu-ray & DVD: Caltiki and the Immortal Monster (1959) Archeologists are investigating an ancient Mayan city to try and ascertain the reason for the mysterious disappearance of its inhabitants. Led by Dr John Fielding (John Merivale) their greed for lost treasure invokes the wrath of the ancient god Caltiki. Their circumstances get even worse when […]
Review: The Big Heat
Blu-ray & DVD: The Big Heat (1953) Police detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates the suicide of a fellow officer, but when he’s contacted by the dead man’s mistress he suspects foul play. Finding out that the dead policeman has ties to local gang boss Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his right-hand man Vince Stone […]