Review: It Follows Limited Edition UHD
4K UHD & Blu-ray: It Follows (2014)Jay (Maika Monroe) tells her sister and friends (Keir Gilchrist and Olivier Luccardi) that she’s met a new man, and after a seemingly ordinary sexual experience with her new boyfriend, events take an unusual and horrific turn.Sex and death, the last girl, punishment for being sexually active, all the […]
Review: Carlito’s Way Limited Edition UHD
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Carlito’s Way (1993)Carlito’s Way wasn’t the huge ‘De Palma/Pacino’ hit everyone thought it would be, especially after Scarface, which even now, sort of amazes me as it’s a really great movie, seeped in De Palma influences (noir, Hitchcock), looks beautiful, especially in this new Arrow 4K release, and has set pieces that […]
Review: Good Boy
Digital: Good Boy (2022) Christian (Gard Løkke) is a young multimillionaire who lives in a large house left to him by his parents. Sharing the house with him is his “dog” Frank, who we see from the very beginning of the movie is in fact somebody dressed up in a fake dog costume, though committing […]
Review: Mancunian Man – The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow
You may well be thinking “who is Cliff Twemlow?”I know I certainly was when we were offered this for review, but thanks to this fantastic documentary I’m now not only a hell of a lot wiser to who he was, I also want to watch as many of his movies as I can now too.Cliff […]
Review: The Last House on the Left Limited Edition UHD
Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Last House on the Left (2009)25 years ago I wrote my dissertation on women in horror, concentrating on the original (1972) Wes Craven directed Last House on the Left. I have watched that film so many times, I swore I’d never watch it again because it elicited a real […]
Review: Nanny McPhee
DVD: Nanny McPhee (2005)Recently widowed Mr Brown (Colin Firth) is finding it difficult to find a nanny who can control his 7 unruly children and begins to lose all hope when the 17th nanny he’s employed flees from the family home in distress.Enter the enigmatic Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), a woman of quite singular nature […]
Review: Brannigan
Blu-ray: Brannigan (1975)Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to London to escort American mobster Ben Larkin (John Vernon) back to the U.S.A., but this seemingly innocuous assignment soon becomes a matter of life and death as Brannigan battles his way through the London streets.With Clint Eastwood a bonafide box office star by […]
Review: The Rape of the Vampire
Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Rape of the Vampire (1968)Jean Rollin’s debut is actually 2 short films put together to make up the running time to create a theatrical release, with both immediately establishing a precedent for his future work, with an obsession on eroticism and vampires.The first part of the film focuses on […]
Review: The Night of the Hunted
Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray: The Night of the Hunted (1980)Beginning with a scantily dressed woman running down a quiet road during the night, she is picked up by a concerned man (Robert, played by Alain Duclos) who ushers her into his car and offers safety from whatever/whomever she is fleeing from…as we then see a […]
Review: Time Bandits Limited Edition UHD
4K UHD Blu-ray: Time Bandits (1981)Terry Gilliam, the master storyteller gave us all the gift of a fantastical trilogy: Brazil, Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and although all 3 films are highly thought of, I don’t know if they are widely accepted as the absolute genius that they are. So yes, I […]