Film and TV

Blu-ray: Columbia Noir #5: Humphrey Bogart Following on from the previous 4 Columbia Noir box sets from Powerhouse Films (make sure to search “Columbia” on our website to read the reviews for them), #5 focuses on Humphrey Bogart, who in 1999, the American Film Institute selected as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. […]

Blu-ray: Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (1979) Available for the first time on Blu-ray here in the UK, Rock ‘N’ Roll High School centres around Ramones superfan Riff Randel (P.J. Soles) who is desperate to see and meet the band when they play in her local town music venue. High school principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov) […]

Dual Format: The Razor’s Edge (1946)Based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same name, The Razor’s Edge stars all the big hitters from 1946: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall (who plays Maugham), with a bit part for Elsa Lanchester.The Razor’s Edge tells the story of Larry Darrell (Power who in real life was a […]

Blu-ray: Murphy’s War (1971)A very different story from the Max Chatto novel, Murphy’s War starring real life married couple Peter O’Toole and Siân Phillips and directed by Peter Yates, is a showcase for O’Toole’s acting.Set in South America, filmed in Malta and Venuzula, it tells the story of the last survivor of a UK WW2 Nazi torpedoed ship, who […]

The Sundance London surprise film this year was Halina Reijns Bodies Bodies Bodies. Picked up by A24, and bound to be one of the biggest indie hits of the Summer, the film revolves around a group of rich 20-somethings celebrating a hurricane party in a big house in the middle of nowhere. In between the festivities […]

Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: High Crime (1973)High Crime is one of Italy’s more famous Poliziotteschi films, made during a period  of socio-political turmoil in Italy and high crime rates.They were infamous for their  graphic violence, rape, organised crime, car chases, and corruption, with cops and criminals normally tough working class loners, who act outside a corrupt bureaucratic system.This one stars my […]

Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: The Last Metro (1980)The Last Metro, made in 1980, written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu and winning nearly every award going, is a classic of cinema that passed me by.It follows the actors and workers of a theatre in Montmartre during the Nazi occupation of Paris in […]

Digital: Cop Secret (2021) Tango and Cash, Murtaugh and Riggs, Starsky and Hutch; all names you’re more than likely familiar with thanks to their exploits in cinemas and on television screens worldwide. You can now add to that list Bússi and Hörður: a couple of Icelandic cops whose relationship goes deeper (very deep in fact, going […]

Blu-ray: Wild Things (1998) Alas, they don’t make film like this anymore. What’s that? NO sigh of relief from Tina? No feminist outburst? Nope, just a genuine lament at the loss of ‘sex-thrillers’ such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and director Jon Macnaughton’s Wild Things. Apparently star and producer Kevin Bacon said this script was […]

Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021) Having not watched 2014’s Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, I went into this sequel hesitant as to how much of the narrative would be reliant on a knowledge of the events so far. I needn’t have worried though, as despite some of the lore of this particular undead […]