Review: Burnt Offerings
Blu-ray: Burnt Offerings (1976) College lecturer Ben Rolf (the irrepressible Oliver Reed), his wife Marian (Karen Black) and their son David (Lee Montgomery) rent a sprawling mansion for the summer at a very cheap price. Accompanied by Aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis) they discover that the bargain they thought they had acquired is slowly turning into […]
Review: The Time Travelers
DVD: The Time Travelers (1964) Continuing my current run of reviewing sci-fi releases from Fabulous Films, next up is 1964’s The Time Travelers directed by Ib Melchior. Set in the year that it was made (1964), a group of 4 scientists are working on creating a screen that will allow them to see into the future. Things […]
The Beast With A Million Eyes
DVD: The Beast With A Million Eyes (1955) A huge carnivorous beast with one million eyes, a city in terror with the population fighting for their lives, an intergalactic spaceship that rivals anything in Independence Day, those are just a few of the things you WON’T see in Roger Corman’s 1955 zero budget sci-fi movie The Beast […]
Review: The Man From Planet X
DVD: The Man From Planet X (1951) I love 1950’s sci-fi movies (along with 1930’s horror movies, 1970’s cop movies and 1980’s action movies) and it was with some surprise to discover that I had never watched The Man From Planet X before now. What better way though to watch it for the first time than with Fabulous […]
Review: Slugs
Blu-ray: Slugs (1988) I devoured books during my teens and twenties, the majority of which fell into the horror genre. I’d scan the shelves of my local bookshop looking for the latest titles by James Herbert, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and many more. Then one fateful day in 1982 I spied the cover of a […]
Review: Bowfinger
Blu-ray: Bowfinger (1999) Has-been actor and now film producer Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) has $2,184 and a script; Chubby Rain. All he needs is a star, one particular star; Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) to be in his movie. With the aid of several friends; Kit’s look-alike brother Jiff (Eddie Murphy again) and an unsuspecting alien-fearing Kit, he begins […]
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
Blu-ray: The Importance of Being Ernest (1952) The film opens and closes with a brief ‘reminder’ that we are in a theatre watching a production of the play – and not a film. Based on Oscar Wilde’s final play (the initial production in the late 1800’s of which was infamously sabotaged by allegations of Wilde’s […]
Review: Sweet Bean
Blu-Ray: Sweet Bean (2015) Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is a middle aged man trying to make ends meet by working in a struggling pancake shop. He is beholden to work there by the spiteful owner due to owing a debt for a mistake he made when he was younger. Everyday he goes through the motions, making […]
Review: Dead End Drive-In
Blu-ray: Dead End Drive-In (1986) Imagine this; you’re at a drive-in that plays a variety of exploitation movies on loop. While the movies aren’t playing you have access to a diner serving burgers/fries, etc which you don’t have to pay for, and should you wish to partake there are also drugs available to you. How’s it sounding so […]
Review: Go Now
DVD: Go Now (1995) Builder and amateur footballer Nick (Robert Carlyle) meets and falls for Hotel worker Karen (Juliet Aubrey), will Nick’s unexplained and sudden Illness ruin their love? Written by Jimmy McGovern and MS sufferer Paul Henry Powell, Go Now was originally broadcast as part of a ‘Love Bites’ TV series on the BBC 20 years […]