Review: Everly
Exploitation, grindhouse, popcorn cinema. Call it what you will, I call it VITAL. As I write this, thousands of hungry movie fans are hopefully flocking to cinemas across America (and soon maybe the UK?) To see director Joe Lynch’s ‘Everly‘. Starring the beautiful and seemingly frozen in her 20’s Salma Hayek, who at 48 has proved […]
Review: Eskimo Nell
Blu-ray: Eskimo Nell (1975) A scriptwriter, a producer and a director (Michael Armstrong, Christopher Timothy and Terence Edmond) are persuaded to make a sex comedy film of the ‘poem’ Eskimo Nell by a dodgy Roy Kinnear. However, each of the three main backers wants their own leading lady (and man) in the role of Nell […]
Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau
Blu-ray: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) “What is the law?” rings the famous line from Burt Lancaster’s mad scientist in 1977’s classic adaptation of H.G. Wells ‘The Island of Dr Moreau’ The story of Shipwrecked sailor Braddock (no, not Chuck Norris) played by a youthful Michael York who comes ashore at the Island inhabited […]
Review: The Manchurian Candidate
Blu-ray: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 1952 and an American patrol is captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War, with the help of Russian scientists/spies, one soldier is programmed to become an assassin. (Very short synopsis, as I’d rather you watch this film and discover the twisty-turny story for yourself). Unfortunately some of the wonderful […]