Film and TV

Blu-ray: The Street Fighter Trilogy (1974)The Street FighterReturn of the Street FighterThe Street Fighter’s Last RevengeIf you want crazy martial arts action with a regular splattering of blood, then look no further than this Street Fighter set from Arrow Films, it’s one of the most entertaining trilogies you’re ever likely to watch.Shin’ichi Chiba (credited as Sonny […]

Blu-ray: The Last Hunter (1980)The first release from new UK boutique Blu-Ray label Treasured Films, The Last Hunter (seen here making its UK blu-ray debut) is just the type of film that I love, and one which I hadn’t watched since on an old VHS copy many years ago. Needless to say, this was a much […]

Blu-ray: The Sword and the Claw (1975)I watched The Sword and the Claw just the other day, and yet I’m still processing what played out before my eyes. Just when I thought I’d seen about everything that the 101 Films AGFA releases could throw at me with these low budget indie movies, along comes this […]

4K UHD Blu-ray: Naked Lunch (1991) William S. Burroughs’ novel ‘Naked Lunch’ was for many years deemed “unfilmable”, so stepping up to the challenge came director David Cronenberg who intertwined elements of Burroughs’ own remarkable biography with the content of the book, the end result being a cinematic experience that, while occasionally leaving the viewer confused, […]

Blu-ray: The AGFA Horror Trailer ShowIf you’ve read any of my reviews on here and/or listened to me chat about movies on our podcasts, then you’ll probably have a good idea about my taste in movies and if yours is similar to mine or not. If your cinematic loves align with me, then this is […]

4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The City of Lost Children (1995)The City of Lost Children directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is one of those ‘foreign’ films. Oh dear Lord how so many of us hate to read the subtitles (actually I don’t mind at all), but wait dear reader! There isn’t so much talking in […]

Blu-ray: Bob Clark Horror CollectionChildren Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)Deathdream (1974)Black Christmas (1974)The latest (number 29) in 101 Films “Black Label” releases, the Bob Clark Horror Collection showcases the directors early horror output before he went on to more widespread acclaim with Porky’s (1981) and A Christmas Story (1983).I’d only ever watched Children Shouldn’t […]

Blu-ray & DVD: EO (2022)Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, EO follows the life of donkey Eo and all the places he trots to, and the people he meets. An almost picaresque tale (without Eo being a rogue) or incidence and, yes, heartbreak and of course horror. Eo is a circus donkey […]

Blu-ray: The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)Adapted from the 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor and directed by James Whale, you can tell right from the start  that The Kiss Before the Mirror is pre-Hayes code, as we see Lucy Bernsdorf skip through the garden of her lover (a very young Walter Pidgeon) before being led into the bedroom […]

Blu-ray: State of the Union (1948)I’ve never been a huge Spencer Tracy fan. To me he always seems to play himself; a somewhat grumpy American middle aged male, and more or less overshadowed here by the talent of his ‘girlfriend’ Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately I feel the same about his performance in Frank Capra’s State of […]