Film and TV

DVD: Silent Running (1972)A favourite from watching on TV as a kid, Silent Running follows botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) as he lovingly tends to the only botanical specimens left from Earth, all based under the huge geodesic domes on the spaceship ‘Valley Forge’.When orders are received to destroy the project and return home, his fellow […]

Digital Download: You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020)My son was, as are most kids, obsessed with wrestling as a small child. It’s one of those things he ‘grew out’ of, and by the age of 11 The Undertaker, Triple H and The Hardy boys were replaced with Manchester Utd.I missed it though, missed the soap […]

Blu-ray: Late Phases (2014)Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is a cantankerous blind military veteran who, after the death of his wife, reluctantly moves into a retirement community at the insistence of his son.All is not peaceful though in this community, as people go missing at a far too regular occurrence, and so, after a shocking incident […]

DVD: Ted 1&2 (2012/15)Now I could go through the plot of Ted’s 1 and 2, but hell, if you missed out on these two films on release then you must be living in a cave in Outer Mongolia.Seth MacFarlane IS Ted; a fluffy teddy bear that is magically brought to life by John (Mark Wahlberg […]

Digital Download & DVD: Rogue (2020)Samantha O’Hara (Megan Fox) leads a squad of soldiers on a mission to rescue a hostage from a group of violent terrorists in the plains of Africa. The mission however does not go as planned, and a frantic retreat from the terrorists leads to vehicular chases, bloody gun battles, and […]

Blu-ray: The Sheltering Sky (1990)Many years ago I was on holiday in Lido De Jesolo, and as found in most hotels, someone had left behind a book, this time it was a copy of Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky.  I read it that week and fell in love with the story. I guess a story […]

Blu-ray & 4K UHD: Dawn of the Dead (1978)Allow me to begin with a bit of my history with Dawn of the Dead.In the early 1980’s my friends dad got a VHS player from Radio Rentals (hello to all our UK readers that remember renting TV’s and video players) and part of the special offer […]

Blu-ray: The Fu Manchu Cycle (1965-1969) I love watching anything with Christopher Lee in it, going back to being a child in the early 1970’s and watching old Hammer horror movies on the television. He has a certain screen presence which I always find captivating, and while the movies he is in vary in quality, […]

DVD: Coogan’s Bluff (1968)After carving a cinematic name for himself in the “Dollars Trilogy”, Clint Eastwood began to make waves in American cinema with Coogan’s Bluff, which paired him for the first time with director Don Siegel, a man who would become a key mentor for Eastwood as he progressed from being in front of the […]

DVD: Waterworld (1995)A box office bust on its release in 1995, Waterworld has thankfully come to be re-evaluated over the previous 25 years and is loved a lot more by cinephiles worldwide, though I’ve always enjoyed it since going to the cinema to watch it all those years ago.In a future where the polar ice […]