Film and TV

DVD: Small Soldiers (1998) When a toy company gets taken over by a megalomanic new owner, 2 of its employees are tasked with creating a new line of toys that will dominate the market. Pushed for time and under constant pressure from the new boss, protocols are ignored and state of  the art military computer […]

VOD: DTF (2020) Some of my favourite documentaries are the ones that initially drew me in with their subject matter and then made unexpected (and usually very dark) tuns which left me open mouthed and exclaiming “WTF!?” (an acronym I do know the meaning of). A prime example being Abducted in Plain Sight, which myself and […]

The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) filmed in black and white, made in 2017 and directed by Robert Schwentke, is a film that you think is going to go one way, and hits you over the heads and goes the other. It tells the true story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed the stolen identity of a German […]

Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]

Blu-ray: Walkabout (1971)In 1970’s urban Australia a father (a worryingly unhinged John Meillon) takes his children on an adventure to the outback with the intention of murder/suicide. The children, a girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Luc Roeg the director’s son) are literally left in the sheering heat of the Australian outback. Thankfully they come across […]

DVD & Digital HD: Paydirt (2020)Damien Brooks (Luke Goss) is released from prison after being incarcerated for 5 years and immediately finds that the world has changed a hell of a lot during that time.However, one thing that hasn’t changed is his determination to find a buried bag of cash that went missing five years ago […]

DVD & Digital HD: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) Emma Collins (Tania Raymonde) is a marine biologist and has set up a mid-ocean laboratory called “Little Happy”, where her and her team are observing Great White sharks and the effect that climate change is having on them. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in […]

Blu-ray: Black Test Car + The Black Report (1962 + 1963) Black Test Car is an espionage thriller and tells the story of a corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company. “So far, so what” you may well be thinking, and so was I when I read the films synopsis […]

Cinema: Dreambuilders (2020) Minna is a young dreamer who lives with her father. They share a special bond which developed after Minna’s mother left them when she was younger. Minna’s life is about to be changed drastically when her new stepsister Jenny and her mother come to live with them.  Minna and Jenny are like […]

Blu-ray: Bicycle Thieves (1948)Bicycle Thieves is along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, one of the most famous works of Italian neorealism, a movement that aimed to give Italian cinema a new degree of post war realism. Director De Sica wanted to show the dire poverty and huge unemployment of post war Italy and was unable to get financial […]