Film and TV

Digital Download & DVD: Black Water: Abyss (2020)Five friends go off on an adventure trip to a remote cave system in Northern Australia, and while deep in the caves get trapped when a heavy storm floods their exit and they find themselves struggling to escape as the water level rises.Drowning isn’t their only danger though, […]

Curzon Home Cinema & Digital Download: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020)This new documentary examining the work of infamous photographer Helmut Burger is directed by journalist and filmmaker Gero von Boehm, friend of the late provocateur and his wife June. And for that very reason we have a very one-sided view of the […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Twins (1988)While Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone battled for cinematic action movie supremacy during the 1980s (my vote is naturally with Sly), it was Arnie who unequivocally came out on top when it came to dipping their toes into the world of comedy movies. Twins being a prime example of how Arnie could charm […]

Blu-ray: Sweet Charity (1969)Well you’re going to get a biased review here, because I love a good musical, and Sweet Charity is top 3 for me. The pedigree this film has: directed by Bob Fosse, book by Neil Simon and starring the wonderful Shirley Maclaine, Sweet Charity is an absolute treat. It’s also not your usual […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Junior (1993)Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his partner Dr. Larry Arbogast (Danny Devito) create a fertility drug called Expectane, which is designed to reduce the chances of miscarriage during pregnancy.  Although they’ve tested the drug on animals and it appears to work, the Food and Drug Administration, (as well as the […]

DVD: Rumble Fish (1983)Oh for so very long I have been enamoured with Motorcycle Boys (Mickey Rouke’s) jumper. A delicate cable knit, v-neck and sleeveless. The existence of this jumper is somewhat like the whole of the film, delicate, intricate, thoughtful and a little tangled. Based on classic teen book of the same name by […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Green Street (2005) Green Street is an odd film. It stars Elijah Wood as Matt, an American student who now lives in the UK after being expelled from his American University after being wrongfully accused of being a coke head. Matt ends up being friends with Pete (Charlie Hunnam) who is one […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Green Zone (2010)Based in 2003 American occupied Iraq, Green Zone is a military thriller written by Brian Helgeland and based on the 2006 book ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’ by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and  is directed by ‘Mr shaky cam’ Paul Greengrass.Boy is this a blokes film, it’s so damn macho and action packed […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Monkey – The Complete Series (1978-80) When I was about 14 I stayed at my (rich) friend Sandra Burrows house. Her parents owned a deli in Llangollen and I had been deemed worthy of sharing her double bed that Friday night so we could go to the youth club disco. We argued because […]

Digital Download & DVD: The Driver (2019)Set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, The Driver follows the titular “driver” (Mark Dacascos) as his hitherto quiet existence in a survivalists compound is shattered when the base is attacked, which summons a swarm of zombies (all of whom react only to sounds) that go on a […]