Film and TV

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 […]

Blu-ray: Blood and Black Lace (1964) ‘Giallo’ means Yellow in Italian. This became the label for Italian detective thrillers as the early paperback thriller novels were adorned with yellow covers…so now you know. Mario Bava is the undoubted Godfather of Giallo. Giving fresh life to the horror genre in a way that was to be […]

Blu-ray: Midnight Run (1988) Many film fans say that Robert De Niro’s career crashed when he started doing comedy; The ‘Meet the Parents’ films, although financially successful, were to many an abuse of the great actors talents and maybe he shouldn’t DO comedy….well…. many years earlier was a film by Martin Scorsese about a mentally […]

Blu-ray: Wolf Hall (2015) Reading that Hilary Mantel’s novels ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring up the Bodies’ were being turned into a TV programme would fill some fans of the books with trepidation. The fact that it was to be a BBC production was great, but the problem would lie, for me, in who would star […]

DVD: Digging Up The Marrow (2014) Isn’t ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ probably the strangest title for a film? It conjures up images of dead things, bones, shovels, graveyards, necrophilia…. just me? ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ is actually the title of the new horror film from Adam Green. Adam Green is a name well known as […]

Blu-ray: Road to Paloma (2014) Wolf (Jason Momoa) is on the run from the police and the FBI for murder. On his travels he picks up musician ‘Cash’ (Robert Homer Mollohan) and together they evade the law. That was probably the hardest Blurb I’ve had to write for a film, because in all truth, not […]

Blu-ray: Night Train Murders (1975)  Two young girls, Margaret (Irene Miracle) and Lisa (Laura D’Angelo) are travelling by train from Germany to Italy to stay with Lisa’s family for Christmas. Also on the train are Blackie (Flavio Bucci) and Curly (Gianfranco De Grassi), who attempt to hide from the ticket collector. At first the girls […]

Blu-ray: Network (1976) “I’m going to kill myself on live TV” says Peter Finch’s strung out news anchor as he slumps on the bar. “We can call it suicide of the week! The Death Hour” is the nonchalant comeback from William Holden’s news commissioner. The tone is set for Sidney Lumet’s classic satire on a […]