Review: Brain Damage
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 […]
Review: Line of Duty Series 1-4
DVD: Line of Duty: Series 1-4 (2012 – 2017) Spoilers! How to write a review of a sprawling series that gives away no clues – impossible, so if you haven’t seen Line of Duty right from the beginning (there are now 4 series), do NOT read. In an age of ‘box set TV’, having to […]
Review: Experiment in Terror
Blu-ray & DVD: Experiment in Terror (1962) Single bank teller Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick) returns home late at night and is grabbed by a heavy-breathing asthmatic (Ross Martin) hiding in her garage. He threatens to kill her and her teenage sister Toby (Stefanie Powers) unless she steals $100,000 from her bank for him. He continues […]
Review: The Front
Blu-ray & DVD: The Front (1976) Howard Prince (Woody Allen) works as a cash register, running bets, losing money and in the words of his own brother, is a bum. His friend Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) is a television writer who has recently been blacklisted as being a communist sympathiser. Alfred approaches Howard and offers […]
Review: Catfight
Blu-ray: Catfight (2016) Veronica (Sandra Oh) and Ashley (Anne Heche) are former college acquaintances whose lives have taken them in different directions since they last saw each other. Veronica is a self entitled housewife who is a borderline alcoholic and an embarrassment to her successful husband, while Ashley is a struggling artist who lives with her […]
Review: Hard Times
Blu-ray & DVD: Hard Times (1975) Arriving alone in the depression hit New Orleans of 1933 with just $6 to his name, Chaney (Charles Bronson) has only his wits and his fists to get him through each day. When spotted by the quick talking Speed (James Coburn) during Chaney’s first bare knuckle fight in the city, he immediately […]
Review: Broadchurch Series 1-3
Blu-ray & DVD: Broadchurch Series 1-3 (2013-2017) Please be aware that this review gives away major spoilers, so if you’ve yet to watch this series, view before reading! Amazingly the popularity of the crime series didn’t begin with Nordic noir, and past series such as Minder, The Professionals, Cracker and Prime Suspect have been as […]
Review: House – The Complete Collection
Blu-ray & DVD: House – The Complete Collection (1985 – 1992) House: Roger Cobb (William Katt in a role which he describes as one of his all time favourites) is a horror novelist who is struggling to write a follow-up to his previous best seller. He inherits his Great Aunt’s old house (where she killed herself) and attempts […]
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 […]