Review: Memento
Blu-ray: Memento (2000)Based on the short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan, Director Christopher Nolan kind of broke the mould and gave a whole new genre of film with Memento.It tells the story of Leonard Shelby, who we find out as the story progresses is a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia – short-term memory loss […]
Review: Bagpuss
DVD & Blu-ray: Bagpuss – The Complete Series.Bagpuss…surely one of the most beloved kids shows for people of a certain age and here in its entirety on both DVD & Blu-ray, now fully restored in HD from the film negatives.Bagpuss made its debut on British television on February 12th 1974, and the synopsis is a […]
Review: The House by the Cemetery 4K UHD Limited Edition
4K UHD: The House by the Cemetery (1981)I’ve always loved the movies of Lucio Fulci, so it was a treat to hear that Arrow Films were releasing The House by the Cemetery as a Limited Edition 4K UHD Blu-ray…and this most definitely looks better than I’ve ever seen it.The third and final instalment in his […]
Review: The Rev
Intrigued upon reading the synopsis of The Rev, the fact that it happened not too far down the road from 60MW Towers and was set during my favourite decade (the 80s), meant that I just had to give this a watch.In 1985, Detective Inspector Gwyn Roberts was sent to the North Wales seaside town of […]
Review: Chopper – Limited Edition Blu-ray
Blu-ray: Chopper (2000)First time director Andrew Dominik, (who later went on to direct The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), tells some of the Mark “Chopper” Read story. Dipping in an out of his life, including some bits, and ignoring others, we get a sort of ‘encapsulated’ version of this most singular […]
Review: The Others 4K UHD
It’s 1945, and Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) lives in a huge, isolated house on Jersey with her 2 children Ann and Nicholas who she keeps locked away as they’re ‘Photosensitive’. One day 3 people turn up as servants, it seems that Grace has advertised, and as if by magic they appear. Their dress is antiquated […]
Review: ‘The Film Vault’ 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K UHD Limited Edition
4K UHD & Blu-ray: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Wave 2 of Warner Brothers “Film Vault” series of releases is here, consisting of Jaws, Apollo 13, The Shawshank Redemption and 2001: A Space Odyssey.It was an absolute pleasure to review Goodfellas from Wave 1 and also make an unboxing video of it too, so I was […]
Review: Creepshow Season One
I loved watching the original Creepshow series back in the 1980s along with the movies too, so I was very happy indeed when horror streaming channel Shudder began showing a new series back in 2019.With Creepshow series 4 debuting on Friday 13th October 2023, it is the perfect time for Acorn Media International to release […]
Review: King on Screen
Blu-ray: King on Screen (2022)What can I say about Stephen King that hasn’t been said already? Known predominantly as a horror author, his written work has covered supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy, as well as being made into more movies and television shows than you can shake the proverbial stick at.King on Screen showcases […]
Review: Trumptonshire
As a child of the 60s, Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley were all essential viewing as I was growing up, Gordon Murray’s timeless classics transporting me and many other kids (and adults too) into an alternate stop motion world where all the events were narrated by the unforgettable voice of Brian Cant. The beautiful set […]