Film and TV

Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Last House on the Left (2009)25 years ago I wrote my dissertation on women in horror, concentrating on the original (1972) Wes Craven directed Last House on the Left. I have watched that film so many times, I swore I’d never watch it again because it elicited a real […]

DVD: Nanny McPhee (2005)Recently widowed Mr Brown (Colin Firth) is finding it difficult to find a nanny who can control his 7 unruly children and begins to lose all hope when the 17th nanny he’s employed flees from the family home in distress.Enter the enigmatic Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), a woman of quite singular nature […]

Blu-ray: Brannigan (1975)Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to London to escort American mobster Ben Larkin (John Vernon) back to the U.S.A., but this seemingly innocuous assignment soon becomes a matter of life and death as Brannigan battles his way through the London streets.With Clint Eastwood a bonafide box office star by […]

Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Rape of the Vampire (1968)Jean Rollin’s debut is actually 2 short films put together to make up the running time to create a theatrical release, with both immediately establishing a precedent for his future work, with an obsession on eroticism and vampires.The first part of the film focuses on […]

Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Night of the Hunted (1980)Beginning with a scantily dressed woman running down a quiet road during the night, she is picked up by a concerned man (Robert, played by Alain Duclos) who ushers her into his car and offers safety from whatever/whomever she is fleeing from…as we then see a […]

4K UHD Blu-ray: Time Bandits (1981)Terry Gilliam, the master storyteller gave us all the gift of a fantastical trilogy: Brazil, Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and although all 3 films are highly thought of, I don’t know if they are widely accepted as the absolute genius that they are. So yes, I […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Teen Wolf (1985) Teen Wolf Too (1987)Yet more 80s films that passed me by, so I was very interested to see them.My first introduction to Michael J Fox was in Back to the Future and NOT Family Ties, and here in Fox’s first starring film role before Marty (released after BttF but […]

4K UHD: Weird Science (1985)Weird Science is a John Hughes film and was released in 1985. Most of you probably already are aware of this. Hummm, John Hughes, so loved by so many people, including me, all those warm fuzzy funny, yet emotional tweenie films about rich middle-class Americans (face it guys, it’s the truth) with […]

Blu-ray: Satan’s Little Helper (2004) Making its UK Blu-ray debut thanks to it being the 2nd release by UK Boutique label Treasured Films (make sure to read my review of their 1st release The Last Hunter), Satan’s Little Helper is a low budget shocker with a vein of silly humour running through it. 9 year […]

Blu-ray: Blood Money – Four Western Classics Vol. 2$10,000 for a MassacreVengeance is Mine Find A Place to DieMatalo! What’s this!? Arrow releasing a box set of Spaghetti westerns we haven’t seen before! BOOM!And what’s that?! Film 1  – 10,000 dollars for a Massacre is sort of …Django? Well actually is IS Django. Django only […]