Film and TV

Blu-ray & DVD: Tower of London (1962) Roger Corman has always been the king of low budget filmmaking for me, and his name alone as either Director or Producer ensures that I’ll be watching. His skill of being able to eke out every last cent of the budget and put it on screen never fails to […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Two Rode Together (1961) “A John Ford western”. Those words alone are always enough for me to settle down in front of the screen in the knowledge that I’m going to have a great time, and Two Rode Together does nothing to dissuade me from that. Add into the mix a screenplay […]

DVD: Female Vampire (1975) With more wild 70’s bush on show than an entire series of Percy Thrower’s Gardeners’ World, Female Vampire sets it stall out early from the very first shot when Countess Irina Karlstein (Lina Romay) walks slowly towards camera dressed in only knee high boots, a leather belt and a cloak that is wide open […]

Blu-ray: Greenberg (2010) Florence (Greta Gerwig) is an assistant and general dogsbody for the Greenberg family. She cares for their children, picks up their groceries, keeps their house clean and appears to be at their beck and call. The family are going on holiday and whilst they are away Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is going […]

Blu-ray + DVD: The Last Detail (1973) Based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail tells the story of 2 Navy ‘lifers’; ‘Badass’ Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and ‘Mule’ Mulhall (Otis Young) who are tasked with escorting young sailor Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) from Norfolk, Virginia to a Navy prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. […]

Blu-ray: Woody Allen: Seven Films – 1986-1991 Arrow Academy’s third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen’s beloved Manhattan, and the […]

Blu-ray + DVD: We Are The Flesh (2016) WHAT.THE.HELL‽ Three words (and an interrobang…more on being pretentious later) that could be the entire review for this movie. My work here is done. Goodbye. What? You want more? Okay then, here’s a few more words for you: incest, ejaculation, cannibalism, erections, nudity and necrophilia. Starting to […]

Blu-ray + DVD: Cover Girl (1944) New York Nightclub dancer Rusty (Rita Hayworth) has a happy life performing at her boyfriend Danny’s (Gene Kelly) club in Brooklyn, but her whole world changes once she wins the prestigious Cover Girl contest arranged by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger). Rusty’s fame brings more customers to Danny’s […]

Blu-ray: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) On one hand, it’s a bit jarring to see Sam Peckinpah’s notorious Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) so lovingly packaged on two discs with an accompanying booklet and a host of extras. After all it’s a film which seems to go out of […]

DVD: More American Graffiti (1979) In 1973 America was in a mess: a President deeply dividing the nation, its involvement in a war that no one wanted and the streets were erupting in demonstrations. It was a little surprise that American Graffiti a film that looked to an America a decade earlier and whose soundtrack […]