Film and TV

Blu-ray: Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror After having the pleasure of reviewing both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Indicator Hammer box sets, it was with great anticipation that I sat down for Volume 3: Blood & Terror. Containing 4 movies from the Hammer vaults (all released on Blu-ray for the 1sttime) covering […]

DVD: The Senator (2017) In July, 1969, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) younger brother of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy calls his cousin, Joe Gargan (Ed Helms) to arrange for hotel rooms on Martha’s Vineyard for the ‘Boiler Room Girls’; his brother Robert’s campaign staff. They travel to the infamous Chappaquiddick Island, where he goes to […]

DVD: The Last Warrior (2018) The Last Warrior is a tale of Lyutobor; a warrior in medieval Europe who is forced to embark on a quest to save the lives of his wife and child in the face of an assassination attempt of his lord and subsequent kidnapping of his kin. Joined by one of […]

Blu-ray: Escape from Absolom (1994) Captain J.T. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a soldier convicted of murdering his commanding officer and is dumped into the prison island of Absolom. Here it is a matter of survival as 2 conflicting prisoner camps battle for supremacy on the island, as well as that elusive matter of escaping. One […]

Blu-ray: Sam Fuller at Columbia (1937-61) (Well it’s certainly taken me a long time to get through this box set (apologies to Powerhouse Films). Sam Fullerhad an interesting life before he started in film, aged 17 he moved to New York and got a job as a crime reporter. He then went on to write […]

Blu-ray & DVD: King of Hearts (1966) Soldier and ornithologist Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent by his commanding officer (Adolfo Celi) to disarm a bomb that has been placed in the French town of Marville by retreating German soldiers at the end of WW1. Of course the path is not smooth and Plumpick ends […]

Blu-ray: Von Ryan’s Express (1965) US pilot Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is shot down over enemy territory and placed in a German prisoner of war camp. It is here that he meets Major Eric Fincham (Trevor Howard) who has been in charge of the captured troops in the camp. Pulling rank on Fincham, Ryan […]

DVD: Bulletproof (2018) “The Sweeney meets Bad Boys” is an analogy that perfectly encapsulates Bulletproof; a series recently aired on Sky One and now making its debut on DVD courtesy of Acorn Media International. Aaron Bishop (Noel Clarke) and Ronnie Pike (Ashley Walters) are undercover cops and best friends, and during this 6 episode narrative […]

Blu-ray: The China Syndrome (1979) The China Syndrome is a series of hypothetical but completely possible events that would lead to the meltdown of a reactor. The core would melt through the container and deep into the earth, theoretically all the way to China. To say the stakes are high would be an understatement. The […]

Blu-ray: The Navigator – A Medieval Odyssey (1988) A lot of the films that have had an ‘effect’ on me, were viewed late at night, alone, after my parents or partner had gone to bed, and normally on BBC 2. Films that are unavailable to watch, or so expensive to buy that you simply can’t […]