Film and TV

Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Chernobyl (2019) The world was a very different place indeed back in 1986.  There was no World Wide Web, social media involved passing fanzines around friends, and if you wanted to take video or photographs of something, then you sure as hell had better be prepared to carry around the correct equipment all the […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Flying Tigers (1942) John Wayne is synonymous with riding the range on a horse and chasing the bad guys, so it was initially a shock to see him as Capt. Jim Gordon, squadron leader of ‘The Flying Tigers’: an American volunteer group who fought the Japanese in China before America’s entry into […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Running Man (1987) It’s difficult to remember sci-fi being a seriously fun genre, even more difficult for someone born during the mid-90s. There is definitely sci-fi comedy, sure, but examples of sci-fi that isn’t an all-out comedy having fun with the endless capabilities of the genre seem few and far between what withall […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Voodoo Man (1944) Dr. Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) has grieved over the death of his wife for 22 years, but instead of visiting her grave with flowers and kind words, he has her (still perfectly formed) body in the basement of his house, where he attempts to bring her back to life by […]

Based on the novel by  of the same name by Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne was the final film to be made by director Jack Clayton. It’s 1950’s Belfast and Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith giving one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from her…see also The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie […]

Blu-ray: The Running Man (1963) Rex (Laurence Harvey) is a pilot and owns his own aircraft carrying a variety of goods for businesses across the world. When he is involved in a plane crash, he is lucky to escape with his life. However, he is not so lucky when he finds out that his insurance […]

Blu-ray: Scum (1979) Scum was a play before it was a film, and gained infamy because the late ‘great’ Mary Whitehouse thought it so abhorrent, she took the BBC to court over it, and won. Made by the (truly) great Alan Clarke (Made in Britain, The Firm, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) Scum was made […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Vanishing Point (1971) Kowalski (Barry Newman) works as a car delivery man, and when he is given a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, he ups the ante by making a bet that he can do the run in 15 hours. His speed limit breaking efforts to do […]

Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Watership Down (1978) Lovely fluffy animated bunnies frolicking in a field. Oh look, they talk as well! AND it has that nice song by Art Garfunkel in it too. Let’s gather the kids around the television and watch this together. The above is just some of the things that people who never read the […]

Blu-ray: Nightfall (1956) Based on a book written by David Goodis, and Directed by Jacques Tourneur  (Cat People, Night of the Demon), Nightfall is a quirky little ‘Noir’ starring  Aldo Ray as Jim, Brian Keith as bad guy John, Anne Bancroft as love interest Marie and James Gregory as Ben; an insurance investigator whose case […]