Film and TV

DVD: Night Hunter (2018) Cynical police Lieutenant ‘Marshall’ (Henry Cavill) is tracking a serial rapist and murderer, when during his investigations he crosses paths with the vigilante duo of Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Lara (Eliana Jones), who have their own agenda for trying to capture the mysterious killer. When the suspect is captured, the tip […]

Blu-ray: Hammer Volume 4 – Faces of Fear  Following on from Volume 1: Fear Warning, Volume 2: Criminal Intent, and Volume 3: Blood & Terror, it was once again an absolute pleasure to sit down with the latest Hammer Films boxset release from Powerhouse Films in their ‘Indicator’ series. Volume 4 once again features 4 […]

DVD: Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Even during the early ‘silent’ era of cinema, filmmakers were aware that sound still played an important part in bonding the audience to the screen, often accompanying their movies with ‘in house’ musicians or separate musical playbacks. With the advent of synchronised sound, a new […]

Blu-ray: Secret Ceremony (1968)Secret Ceremony is one of those films I’d heard about but never seen. Directed by Joseph Losey of  \’The Servant\’ fame, this could have equally starred Dirk Bogarde and James Fox and the female roles replaced by males.It’s an odd film, disjointed and on reading up on it I think there is […]

DVD: Out of Africa (1985) Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically. Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where […]

DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) It’s 1962 America and Faber college, under the leadership of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), has its usual mix of fraternity (frat) houses. One of these (Delta house) is full of party loving, beer swilling, foul mouthed, sex addicted students who don’t give a damn about their studies and just […]

DVD: The Eiger Sanction (1975) Retired assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now works as an art professor, while also indulging his love of art by always wanting to add to his extensive collection of paintings. When an old friend of Jonathans is murdered, he comes out of retirement and must join a group of mountain […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Dead Center (2018) When Michael (Jeremy Childs) is brought into a morgue after committing suicide, everything seems normal. This soon changes when he gets up and leaves the morgue with no memory of who he is. When Michael is brought into the emergency psych ward of a hospital, troubled psychiatrist Daniel […]

DVD & Blu-ray: 7 – 63 UP (1964 – )How on earth do you write a review of one of the most comprehensive, relevant, important and astonishing documentaries ever made? How do you do justice in a few paragraphs to a literal life’s work? How can you encapsulate the joy, fear, emotion contained within?Quite simply, […]

Blu-ray: Aniara (2018)Aniara is a science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. The title comes from ancient Greek and means \’sad/despairing\’. The poem tells the tragedy of a spacecraft bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from a dying Earth. After an accident, the ship is ejected from the Solar System […]