Film and TV

Blu-ray & DVD: Double Date (2017)On the cusp of his 30th birthday, nice guy with ginger hair Jim (Danny Morgan), who is also a virgin, finds out that his girlfriend is shagging someone else. To cheer him up his best mate Alex (Michael Socha) takes him out to a bar with a promise of losing his […]

Blu-ray: Flight of the Navigator (1986) A real classic from 1986, Flight of the Navigator is still a firm favourite with all kids from the 80s, me included. Directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton and Matt MacManus, it tells the story of 12 year old  David Freeman (Joey Cramer) […]

Memory: The Origins of Alien is the latest documentary written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, famous for ‘78/52’ the documentary which fetishistically dissected Hitchcock’s shower scene so eloquently. He now turns his gaze onto Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien.  Beginning with 3 furies (witches with the aliens teeth), he gives us a real sense […]

Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Critters Attack! (2019) Continuing the story of the \’Krites\’ from outer space, which began back in 1986 with the original Critters, this 5th entry into the movie series once again has the rolling balls of fur with the \’killer\’ appetite once again invading small town America in an effort to take […]

Blu-ray: The Missionary (1982) Written by and starring Michael Palin, The Missionary tells the story of the timid Reverend Charles Fortescue (Palin), who returns to London in 1906 after 10 years as a missionary in Africa and is tasked with saving the \’fallen women\’ of Soho. Charles fiancee Deborah (Phoebe Nicholls) is innocent to the […]

Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich & Josef Von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 Gosh how I love Indicator box sets, they give us beautifully restored films with the most amazing extras. So being able to experience this particular collection featuring the six Hollywood films made between 1930 and 1935 by Josef von Sternberg and starring his ‘creation’ Marlene […]

Blu-ray: In Bruges (2008) Imagine the joy I felt on seeing Colin Farrell as Ray in ‘In Bruges‘, excitedly run over to a film-in-film set with a delighted (Irish accented) cry of ‘Midgets! They’re filming fuckin MIDGETS’! Some films just have it, you know it’s going to be a belter and as the voiceover starts […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Big Bad Wolves (2013) Big Bad Wolves is a nerve jangling, buttock tightening, Israeli thriller that throws pitch black humour and bloody torture at you, all wrapped in a narrative that centres around pedophilia and murder. Sounds like fun, yeah? While not actually being a ‘fun’ watch, Big Bad Wolves does have […]

Blu-ray: Crack in the World (1965) Despite warnings from his fellow scientists, Dr. Stephen Sorenson (Dana Andrews) plans to use the geothermal energy from the Earth’s interior by detonating a thermonuclear device deep within the Earth’s core. Think of it as ‘extreme fracking’. Of course things don’t go exactly as planned and a huge crack […]

Blu-ray: The Colossus of New York (1958) Jeremy Spensser (John Baragrey) is an esteemed humanitarian who has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Happy and content with his work and his family life with his wife and son, everything is shattered into pieces when he is killed in a freak accident while trying to retrieve […]