Review: Boar
DVD: Boar (2017) ‘Sadistic swine’ movies are definitely a niche genre and one in which Razorback would be the 1st (only?) to pop into peoples heads when asked to name one. Hot on it’s trotters should now be Boar; another Australian movie that pits human against beast in the untamed outback. There is no intricate, twisting narrative to […]
Review: The Last Movie
Blu-ray: The Last Movie (1971) Dennis Hopper, straight off the back of Easy Rider in 1969, was Hollywood’s new wonder kid. So the studio (run by old, studio system remnants) gave him a million dollars and free reign to make whatever the hell he wanted, with NO interference. Two years, and a long sojourn in […]
Review: Climax
Blu-ray: Climax (2018) Much like Marmite, Kale, and anything with Simon Cowell in it, the films of Gaspar Noé are an acquired taste that, love them or loathe them, linger in the mind long after the credits have rolled. Climax once again will split viewers as to whether this is a visionary look at the human […]
Review: Life With Cooper
DVD: Life With Cooper (1966 – 69) With a fez perched atop his towering 6′ 4″ frame, and catchphrase “just like that” never far away, Tommy Cooper brought laughter to millions of people throughout his career. Collapsing and dying of a heart attack on live television in 1984 (which I still remember my dad and […]
Review: Horror Express
Blu-ray: Horror Express (1972) It’s the beginning of the 20th century and British anthropologist Professor Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow. Accompanying him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria, which, he believes, may prove to […]
Review: The Fifth Cord
Blu-ray: The Fifth Cord (1971) Alcoholic, ‘troubled’, journalist lush Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) is at a swish Italian nightclub spying on his ex-wife and casting his somewhat voyeuristic glance over the assembled Bohemian middle class as they snog and sway to what is possibly one of the oddest film scores I’ve ever heard (by Ennio […]
Review: Redcon-1
Blu-ray, DVD, VOD: Redcon-1 (2018) The zombie genre may well have been done to death (pun intended) in movies and video games, with even changes in the name of them to ‘virals’, ‘freaks’ and ‘infected’ trying to put a different slant on things…and don’t even get me involved in the whole debate of running vs […]
Review: Apt Pupil
Blu-ray: Apt Pupil (1998) When college student Tod Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that the old man Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) who lives nearby is in fact a Nazi war criminal, he confronts him with intentions to hear all of the grisly stories that his history tutors leave out. Striking a deal ensuring that Tod will […]
Review: Frog Dreaming
Blu-ray: Frog Dreaming (1985) Frog Dreaming (AKA ‘The Go-Kids’ and ‘The Quest’) is a timeless family adventure movie starring Henry Thomas who was still riding the wave of success from E.T. Cody (Henry Thomas) is an American kid living in Australia after the death of his parents. Staying with his Dad’s old friend, Cody loves […]
Review: The Boys in the Band
Blu-ray: The Boys in the Band (1970) Based on the Broadway hit of the same name, The Boys in the Band is full of caustic wit, savage putdowns, and conversations that will have you squirming in your seat as a New York apartment party spirals out of control. It’s Harold’s (Leonard Frey) birthday, and a […]