Review: The Babadook 4K UHD
Blu-ray & 4K UHD: The Babadook (2014)In Jennifer Kent’s feature directorial debut, based on her 2005 short film ‘Monster’, Essie Davis plays Amelia Vanek, mother to six-year-old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman).Amelia’s husband dies in the crash that occurs as they race to hospital because she is in labour with Samuel, and now living alone with […]
Review: Eye of the Cat
Blu-ray: Eye of the Cat (1969)Written by Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano and directed by David Lowell Rich, Eye of the Cat stars Michael Sarrazin and Gayle Hunnicutt as Wylie and Kassia: a scheming couple who plan to rob Wylie’s wealthy cat-loving Aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker).However, their plans begin to unravel when Wylie’s phobia of cats is put to […]
Review: Major Dundee
Blu-ray: Major Dundee (1965)Regular readers will know my favourite genre is the Western and I admit to feeling quite ashamed that I had never seen Major Dundee before this glorious 4k scan Arrow Films release. What a beautiful package it is, from the packaging to the film.During the Minnesota Dakota Indian War of 1862, Union forces […]
Review: Boycie in Belgrade
DVD & Digital: Boycie in Belgrade (2020) Aubrey ‘Boycie’ Boyce has been on our screens now for 40 years, and is one of the very popular characters in the worldwide hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses, as well as it’s spin-off series The Green Green Grass. Portrayed by John Challis, Boycie, along with his long […]
Review: Friendship’s Death
Blu-ray & DVD: Friendship’s Death (1987) I’ve never come across Friendship’s Death before and on reading the synopsis I immediately got the feeling it would be an hour long art-slog. And although it can be placed in the ‘arty’ box, it’s also an intriguingly good watch. Written and directed by the late English critic […]
Review: Years of Lead
Released by Arrow Films as a box set, Years of Lead consists of five 1970s Italian Crime dramas. At the time they were made Italy was going through a time of political instability, Political corruption was rife and there were many acts of left and right wing terrorism leading the population of Italy to unsurprisingly […]
Review: Centennial
DVD: Centennial (1978) Centennial is a 12 episode American television miniseries based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James A. Michener that aired in America from October 1978 to February 1979. It tells the story of a town and the inhabitants of Centennial, Colorado, from 1795 to the 1970s and was produced by John Wilder. It was one […]
Review: The Best of Men
DVD & Digital: The Best of Men (2012)Based on the true story of the birth the Paralympic Games, The Best of Men stars Eddie Marsan as Dr. Ludwig Guttmann; a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany, who towards the end of WWII arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital and is disgusted to see the way in which the […]
Review: Brabham
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Brabham (2020) Jack Brabham remains the only person to have won the F1 Driver’s and Constructor’s Championships in his own car and is a true motorsport legend. Taking on and defeating the giants of Ferrari, Lotus and Maserati are only a small part though of the life of Jack Brabham, his […]
Review: Don’t Look Back
DVD & Digital: Don’t Look Back (2020)A group of people witness a violent assault in a public park, none of them intervening as a man is battered to death.Vilified both in the general media and social media, the witnesses soon discover that their inaction during the attack has invoked a mysterious and deadly force that […]