Film and TV

DVD: LBJ (2016) LBJ is the story of the enigmatic leader, Lyndon B. Johnson. Thrown into power soon after Kennedy’s assassination, the film tells the story of the events leading to Johnson’s eventual taking of the oval office. I had some kind of preconceived idea of how I was going to start this review as […]

DVD and VOD: Snake Outta Compton (2018) A giant mutant snakes is on the rampage in Compton, and it is up to an amateur rap group looking for a record deal try to save the day by killing it. If you like Troma movies, then you’ll like Snake Outta Compton, as this could easily be […]

Blu-ray: Berserk (1967) Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford) is the owner and ringmaster of a travelling circus, and is always looking for ways to get bigger audiences to the shows. When a series of ‘accidents’ happen in which some of the performers are killed, the takings rise as people are drawn to the circus wondering (hoping!) […]

Blu-ray: William Castle at Columbia – Vol 2 Zotz! (1962) A professor of ancient languages; Jonathan Jones (Tom Poston) comes into possession of an old coin with a strange inscription upon it. He translates the inscription and now finds himself gifted (or cursed!?) with 3 powers: if you point to someone, the person feels a sharp […]

Blu-ray: Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro is a wonder: male yet able to spin a feminist fairytale as good as any Angela Carter  novel. Set in what may be the early 1900’s, a ruined mansion surrounded by blood red clay is the visual centrepiece of Crimson Peak along with real ghosts (amazingly CGI lite, […]

DVD and Digital HD: Speed Kills (2018) With a cast that includes John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, James Remar, Jennifer Esposito, Matthew Modine and Tom Sizemore, there’s a lot of Hollywood ‘big hitters’ on display here. However, being a direct to DVD/Digital HD title, you know that things may not be as polished as in a […]

DVD: Lunatics – A Love Story (1991) Trapped in his apartment due to paranoid delusions of spiders crawling on his brain, sadistic doctors experimenting on him, and a group of rappers who appear whenever he puts music on, Hank (Ted Raimi) accidentally makes contact with Nancy (Deborah Foreman) when he mistakenly calls a public phone […]

DVD and Digital HD: Backtrace (2018) When a $20M bank heist doesn’t go to plan and ends in a violent shootout, it leaves Macdonald (Matthew Modine) with amnesia after a head injury. His loss of memory is the crux of the narrative of Backtrace, as he is the only surviving person who knows where the […]

Blu-ray: When a Stranger Calls (1979)  “Have you checked the children?” Those chilling 5 words resonate throughout When a Stranger Calls, and indeed also through When A Stranger Calls Back and the short film The Sitter (both of which are included on this fantastic limited edition release from Second Sight Films). Jill Johnson (Carol Cane) […]

Blu-ray: Day of the Dead (Ultimate Edition) (1985) Day of the Dead: the final part of George Romero’s original ‘Dead Trilogy’, that while not becoming the immediate hit that the previous ‘dead’ movie ‘Dawn of the Dead’ was, has aged like a fine wine and is now appreciated a lot more than it was upon […]