Film and TV

Grimmfest 2022: Piggy (2022)Piggy (in Spanish Cerdita) is based on Carlota Pereda’s short feature film debut, winner of the Goya Award and the Forqué Award for Best Short Film in 2019. Laura Galán reprises her role from the short film as Sara, a dark haired very Spanish looking teenager. Sara is fat and all the village kids and teens […]

Blu-ray: The Wolfman (2010)Inspired by the classic Universal film The Wolf Man (1941), this 2010 retelling of the story of Lawrence Talbot (played in this version by Benicio Del Toro) keeps some of the details of its cinematic origin, while also adding many new layers…and some dubious cgi at times too. The basic story is the same: Talbot […]

Back in the late 80s early 90s, Channel 4 was the king of late night UK television. Dangerous and ground breaking, it gave us half-pissed Friday night plebs a taste of what the wider world may hold. None more than Eurotrash presented by Antoine de Caunes and designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, and produced by Rapido (French) Television. […]

Blu-ray: Bull (2021)I started watching Bull knowing absolutely nothing about it, then an hour and a half later as the end credits rolled, I found myself now being able to uncurl my fingers from the arm of the couch which I had been gripping tightly since…well, I’ll leave you to discover that for yourself, as […]

DVD: The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)Mary (Stefanie Scott) is being questioned by the local law enforcement, her eyes are covered with a piece of material, she can no longer see and blood is congealed on her cheeks from her eyes. The language of the script is biblical in line with the language used in the […]

Blu-ray: Scary Tales (1993)A shot-on-video horror anthology that reminded me of the zero budget movies I was involved with back in the early 90’s, Scary Tales shows what can be achieved with a few mates, the odd basement to film in, a lot of enthusiasm, and of course lashings of fake blood.Homemade horror doesn’t get […]

Blu-ray: Smut Without Smut Vol. 1: Things to Come (1976) + The Dirty Dolls (1973)There are many “adults only” genre movies, covering sci-fi, horror, action, etc…but what if these movies had the smut removed and you watched them just for their narrative rather than seeing writhing flesh every 10 minutes?This is the choice given to […]

DVD and Digital: Shattered Earth (2021)Isn’t it always the case…you spend 10 years building an expensive new tunnel, then just when you think all the hard work is done, along comes a series of natural disasters that threaten the lives of everyone trapped in there.I’ve long had a penchant for disaster movies and this ticks […]

Blu-ray: Madigan (1968)Directed by Don Siegel and starring Hollywood legends Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda, this hard edged crime thriller set in Spanish Harlem bridges the gap between classic film noir and the gritty police procedurals of the 1970s.Widmark plays the titular Detective Daniel Madigan, who along with his partner Detective Rocco Bonaro (Harry Guardino) are given […]

Blu-ray: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is the 7th and final ‘Frankenstein’ Hammer film and sees the inimitable Peter Cushing return once more as Baron Victor Frankenstein, who while trying to convince the world that he can safely reanimate the dead, inevitably discovers that he leaves behind him […]