Film and TV

DVD: Innocent (2018) Written by Matthew Arlidge (Silent Witness, Helen Grace novels) and Chris Lang (Dark Deart, Unforgotten) Innocent has the expectation of great things, and luckily it delivers. Starring Lee Ingleby (Line of Duty, Bob the Builder) as David Collins; a man who after seven years in prison is exonerated from killing his wife […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Breakhart Pass (1975) Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean (my Dads’s favourite author and whose books I grew up reading), Breakhart Pass is set on a locomotive at the height of the frontier era, as it makes it’s way through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army post. As […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Birth of the Dragon (2016) Loosely based on true events, while also adding a sprinkling of fantastical elements, Birth of the Dragon is a fictional story about the events surrounding a fight between a young Bruce Lee and martial arts master Wong Jack Man in 1960’s San Francisco. Young, hungry and looking for an […]

DVD: Royal Pains – Complete Collection (2009 – 16) Hank (Mark Feurstein) is a young rising star within the New York medical community…until one of his patients dies. This puts both his career and his personal life into turmoil, and so his younger brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) takes Hank on a trip to The Hamptons […]

Blu-ray: Space Truckers (1996) Intergalatic square pigs (yes, square pigs!), an army of killer robots, zero gravity sex, and Charles Dance having problems with his ‘electrical wang pulse’. These are just a few of the many reasons to watch Space Truckers, which makes its UK Blu-ray debut next week. Unlike the recently reviewed sci-fi movie […]

Blu-ray: Drive-In Delerium, The New Batch (2017) Clocking in at a mighty 373 minutes of mind-blowing gun-fights, motorcycle madness, car chases, heaving cleavages, marauding monsters, violent vigilantes, and FAR more besides, Drive-In Delirium, The New Batch presents 175 crazy theatrical trailers remastered in high definition, AND a bonus ‘VHS Delirium’ with 95 minutes of standard […]

DVD: Buried (2003) Lee Kingsley (Lennie James) begins a 10 year sentence for a firearms offence and grievous bodily harm. What the fellow prisoners and staff don’t know, is that he was protecting a member of his family from a violent criminal. Feeling depressed when his appeal is turned down, he gets himself ejected from […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a hard hitting story set at the end of the 19th century, about a young indigenous man pushed to his breaking point and beyond. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is an Aboriginal half-caste and […]

Blu-ray: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Director Roger Corman is probably best known for producing (414 at the moment!) and directing low budget horror and sci-fi movies, and when his work is discussed it is usually about his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price, or his ‘monster’ movies such as It Conquered the World […]

DVD: Singularity (2017) Elias van Dorne (John Cusack) is the CEO of the world’s biggest robotics company and the creator of ‘Kronos’; a super-computer designed to end all wars. Kronos however, decides that humans are the biggest threat to world peace and launches an attack to rid the planet of this warmongering ‘infestation’. Years later, […]