Film and TV

Blu-ray: A.W.O.L. (1990) A.W.O.L. (AKA Lionheart ) from 101 Films is the Blu-ray debut for this action ‘classic’ which many consider to be Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best film. Made in 1990, Van Damme was already a name well known to fans of fight cinema, with such incredible action templates already under his black belt like Bloodsport, […]

Blu-ray: Black Eagle (1988) I’m going on record now and saying that I really love Van Damme movies. Van Damme was part of the new wave of action heroes in the 80’s and 90’s. Of course you had Arnie and Stallone who were also massive action heroes of mine however; this new breed of action […]

Blu-ray: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) At the engagement party of Dr Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier) and his fiancée, Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro), people begin to disappear. When brutilised bodies turn up it soon becomes clear that a madman has broken into the house , but who is responsible and […]

Blu-ray: The Train (1964) Just as WW2 is about to end, Von Waldheim; (Paul Scofield) a Nazi commander in charge of the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, begins to stockpile as much art as he can on a train bound for Germany before the allies take Paris back. Can Labiche (Burt Lancaster) and fellow […]

Cinema: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George Miller takes us back to the wasteland of a dystopian future where life is cheap and the only things that matter are water, petrol and bullets. Not a remake but rather another adventure to add to the other Mad Max movies, and now Miller’s very distinct style comes […]

DVD: Coherence (2013) A group of early-thirties, middle class, American friends (Nicolas Brendon, Emily Baldoni) gather for a dinner party as a comet passes overhead. Things quickly begin to go…‘weird’. One of my favourite films for the last few years is the Indie Sci-fi Another Earth, it has a really original feel to it, and […]

DVD: Your Cheatin’ Heart (1990) Dorwood Crouch is doing time for armed Robbery. His wife Cissie (Tilda Swinton) asks local food writer Frank McClusky (John Gordon Sinclair) to help her clear his name. Cissie believes Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott) a ‘musical’ fish seller has framed him. All this happens with a backdrop of some great […]

DVD: The Haunting of Radcliffe House (2014) The Haunting of Radcliffe House (AKA: Altar) is a new ghost story starring Hollywood old boy Matthew Modine and Brit Olivia Williams. Written and directed by British filmmaker Nick Willing who made the excellent Photographing Fairies in 1997. Set in the Yorkshire moors, Modine and Williams play Alec & Meg; a […]

Blu-ray: Coffy (1973) Pam Grier; if you can’t picture her then go now and Google her images. Google ‘Foxy Brown’. Now Google ‘Coffy’. I know she’s incredibly gorgeous but make no mistake guys and gals she’s one tough cookie, and in Jack Hill’s 1973 ‘blaxploitation’ classic she paints the screen red in this tale of […]

Blu-ray: Day of Anger (1967) By 1967 the ‘spaghetti western‘ (a subgenre of the traditional ‘Western’) was enjoying particular success with audiences worldwide. There seemed to be a pool of actors who kept appearing in sweaty close-up after sweaty close-up in every one of them; sometimes sat astride a horse before being shot, and other times […]