Review: Night Gallery
DVD: Night Gallery (1969 – 73) Night Gallery, hosted by The Twilight Zone’s Rob Serling was an American anthology series that aired on American television from 1969 to 1973, and not unlike The Twilight Zone it told of stories of horror and of the macabre. Serling served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major […]
Review: National Treasure
DVD: National Treasure (2016) If ever there was the perfect time for a programme like National Treasure it’s right now. As I write (Oct 2016) Donald Trump has been vilified for his misogynistic treatment of women (Pussygate) and Welsh footballer Ched Evans, convicted of rape and released after 2 year in prison, only last week […]
Review: Body Double
Blu-ray: Body Double (1984) Jake Scully, an actor who suffers from claustrophobia, house-sits for a friend in his amazingly huge and expensive house. Part of the ‘deal’ is he can spy on his neighbour who likes to ‘get off’ by doing naked sexy dancing with all the lights on across the road. Now I want […]
Review: The Angry Red Planet
DVD: The Angry Red Planet (1959) As I once again step into the wonderful world of low budget sci-fi thanks to the appropriately named kind people at Fabulous Films, I’m greeted by 2 familiar names as the title sequence begins on 1959’s The Angry Red Planet; Director Ib Melchior and writer Sidney Pink (read my reviews on The Time Travelers […]
The Keeping Room
DVD: The Keeping Room (2014) Two adult sisters (Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfield) and their (ex) slave (Muna Otaru) try to survive in an almost post-apocalyptic barren landscape during the American Civil war. I suppose one could call this a ‘revisionist western’, one that would hold hands with Meek’s Cutoff, The Beguiled and Cold Mountain. However, […]
Review: The Burning
Blu-ray: The Burning (1981) Released a year after Friday the 13th and continuing the ongoing trend of ‘slasher’ movies that would become part of the zeitgeist of the 1980’s, The Burning tells the story of ‘Cropsy’ (played by Lou David) who stabs, slices and chops his way through a succession of teenage campers…after first honing his skills on […]
Review: Prince Regent
DVD: Prince Regent (1979) Prince Regent from 1979 tells the story of George IV of Britain. In brief; George was the eldest son of George III and Queen Charlotte. The Hanoverian kings were notorious for having bad relations with their heirs, and George III and his son were no exception. George’s extravagant, and dissolute lifestyle caused his […]
Review: The Legend of King Arthur
DVD: The Legend of King Arthur (1979) Written by the BBC’s ‘go to’ history scribe Andrew Davies, and starring Emmerdale’s Andrew Burt as King Arthur, this series was shown on BBC1 in 1979. I (surprisingly) have no memory of it. It tells the iconic story of Arthur, how his mother was taken by Uther Pendragon […]
Review: Reptilicus
DVD: Reptilicus (1961) In all my years of movie watching, I’ve never watched a low budget, 1960’s Danish monster movie…until now. Thank you Fabulous Films. Directed by Sidney W. Pink, Reptilicus ticks all the check points in things that I love in these low budget movies, plus adds extra layers on top too. When copper miners […]
Review: Bella Mafia
DVD: Bella Mafia (1997) Sicilian Mafiosi Don Luciano (Dennis Farina) and his wife Graziella (Vanessa Redgrave) live in Sicily. Their son Michael (Michael Hayden) has an affair with Sophia (Nastassja Kinski), leaving her pregnant but unmarried. After Luciano refuses to traffic drugs, American mob boss Carolla (Tony Lo Bianco) has Michael killed. Based on Lynda […]