Film and TV

Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Pirates (2021)As an ageing white male living in the hills of Wales and a penchant for 80’s hair metal, I guess I’m not in the right demographic for a movie about 3 teenage lads in London spending New Years Eve 1999 desperately trying to get into a club to see in […]

Cinema & Digital Download: Dobermann (1997)Accidentally handed a gun while lying in his pram in the church during his own christening (I kid you not!), Yann Lepentrec dit Le Dob…AKA Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) grows up to lead, along with Nathalie dit Nat la Gitane (Monica Bellucci), a violent gang who find themselves in the middle of […]

Blu-ray: The Men (1950)During World War II, U.S. Lieutenant  Wilocek (Marlon Brando in his first cinema role) is shot in the back, severing his spinal cord. We next see him alone in his own room, away from the other injured soldiers in a VA hospital and refusing to see his fiancé Ellen (Theresa Wright). Cared for […]

Number 25 in 101 Films “Black Label” range of releases (make sure to read my review of their previous Black Label release Snowtown), Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 sci-fi/action movie set in the far flung future of 2021…which is scarily accurate at times, with citizens of Beijing all wearing face masks!Keanu Reeves (fresh off the […]

Blu-ray: STANLEY LONG’S ADVENTURES: A Seventies Sex Comedy ThreesomeConsisting of Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976), Adventures of a Private Eye (1977), and Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978), these British sex comedies piggybacked off the earlier success of the “Confessions” movies starring Robin Askwith.While not old enough to watch these movies on their original release […]

DVD: He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985) Released too late for me to get into as a child, and too early for my kids to latch onto, my knowledge and viewing history of both He-Man and She-Ra is limited to the 1987 Dolph Lundgren movie Masters of the Universe. So I went […]

Cinema: Wild Men (2021)Lumbering towards a local shop dressed in furs, a Viking enters and fills his shopping basket full of biscuits and crisps. On getting to the checkout he can’t pay because he has no money, and offers the cashier his axe in payment.  This isn’t a time traveller, it’s a man called Martin […]

Blu-ray: Rogue Cops and Racketeers – Two Crime Thrillers from Enzo G. CastellariFabio Testi stars as inspector Nico Palmieri in Enzo G. Castellari’s (Keoma, Inglorious Bastards) 1976 Italian crime Poliziotteschi drama The Big Racket. Sent to small Italian town, Palmieri and his partner take on a gang of criminals who have a racket demanding ‘safety’ money off […]

4K UHD Blu-ray: 12 Monkeys (1995)Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt are both on the top of their game in this fantastical tale directed by Terry Gilliam (directing a script not by himself for a change).Willis stars as James Cole; a prisoner from 2035 who is sent back to the 1990’s to try and get information on a virus that has […]

Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The Boy Behind the Door (2020)The feature film debut from writing-directing duo David Charbonier and Justin Powell, The Boy Behind the Door has twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey) trapped in a dark and mysterious house in the middle of nowhere after being abducted while out enjoying […]