Review: Suddenly, Last Summer
Blu-ray: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 1937, in New Orleans, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn, who apparently spat in director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s face after his poor treatment of Montgomery Clift on set), a rich widow from a prominent local family, invites celebrated ‘Lobotomy’ doctor Cukrowitz (Montgomery Clift) to her home to discuss a huge donation to […]
Review: The Old Dark House
Blu-ray & DVD: The Old Dark House (1932) Good LORD. Where do you start with a film like The Old Dark House? Based on J.B. Priestley’s novel ‘Benighted’ this is definite ‘one off’ of a film. Anyone familiar with the work of James Whale will recognise his nod to German expressionism and Bauhaus, but this […]
Review: The Complete Skippy/The Adventures of Skippy
DVD: Review: The Complete Skippy/The Adventures of Skippy (1967-) “tut tut tut”…”what is it Skip?”…”tut tut tut”…”little Johnny has fallen down the well?”…”tut tut tut”…”we’d better go find him”. If the above means anything at all to you, then you probably grew up at the same time as myself and were transported via the magic […]
Review: Innocent
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 […]
Review: Breakhart Pass
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 […]
Review: Birth of the Dragon
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 […]
Review: Royal Pains – Complete Collection
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 […]
Review: Space Truckers
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 […]
Review: Drive-In Delerium, The New Batch
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 […]
Review: Buried
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 […]