Film and TV

Blu-ray & DVD: The Navigator – A Medieval Odyssey (1988) A lot of the films that have had an ‘effect’ on me, were viewed late at night, alone, after my parents or partner had gone to bed, and normally on BBC 2. Films that are unavailable to watch, or so expensive to buy that you […]

Blu-ray & DVD: An Angel At My Table (1990) Directed by the amazing Jane Campion, An Angel At My Table is based on writer Janet Frame’s three autobiographies: To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). Originally made as a three-part TV series for New Zealand […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993) There have been many cinematic outings for Robin Hood and his gang of merry men (the most recent being in 2018 with Taron Egerton in the lead role), but only one of them has Robin firing 6 arrows at once. Only one of them has a […]

Blu-ray: Kindergarten Cop 1 (1990) Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016) While not the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (I always default to Predator), Kindergarten Cop certainly raises some genuine laughs, and he does far better in comedy movies than fellow 1980’s action star Sylvester Stallone. Kimble (Arnie) is a hardened cop whose been after drug dealer Cullen […]

DVD: The Shootist (1976) Opening with a black and white montage of clips from John Wayne’s earlier films, Don Siegel’s (Bus Stop, Dirty Harry, The Killers) The Shootist was Wayne’s swan song. Mirroring Wayne’s own illness, this tells the story of John Books, a once lethal killer, who now just wants to die peacefully. Books arrives in […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Howard the Duck (1986) A critical and commercial failure upon it’s release in 1986, Howard the Duck has gone on to acquire a cult following…and rightly so. How can you not want to watch a movie that has a cigar smoking talking duck from another planet, who saves the earth from extinction […]

DVD & Digital HD: Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) The zombie/musical/horror/comedy/teen angst genre is limited in size to say the very least, and within this genre Anna and the Apocalypse stands proudly at the top. However, each individual section of this amalgam of genres doesn’t fare so well when viewed independently. Anna and the Apocalypse […]

DVD & VOD: In Like Flynn (2018) I remember reading Errol Flynn’s biography  ‘My Wicked Wicked Ways’, some years back and wondering how much of it was actually true, because to survive, intact, of what he described in his book is nothing short of a miracle. It was however, the most entertaining bio I’ve ever […]

Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: Walkabout (1971) I think Walkabout remains in a lot men’s minds because it features a naked, nubile 16 year old Jenny Agutter. However, Nicolas Roeg’s first foray into directing is a classic piece of cinema. One could say that it’s dated, but I think that’s part of its charm letting us […]

Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: The Likely Lads (1976) Continuing the story of Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) and Terry Collier (James Bolam), which began in 1964 with the television series of the same name, The Likely Lads movie makes its first appearance on Blu-ray courtesy of Network. Bob’s wife Thelma (Brigit Forsyth) still has no time […]