Review: The Navigator – A Medieval Odyssey
Blu-ray & DVD: 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 […]
Review: An Angel At My Table
Blu-ray & DVD: An Angel At My Table (1990) Directed by the amazing Jane Campion, An Angel At My Table is based on writer Janet Frame’s three autobiographies: To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). Originally made as a three-part TV series for New Zealand […]
Review: Ghost Giant
Nigel Havers dressed as Fantastic Mr Fox, very charming.A room full of snake charmers, yep pretty charming.But not as charming as this. When I first heard of Ghost Giant I had a stupid yet logical thought. I wondered how no-one knew who this giant was. If a ghost is simply a non-corporeal version of a […]
Review: Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Blu-ray & DVD: Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993) There have been many cinematic outings for Robin Hood and his gang of merry men (the most recent being in 2018 with Taron Egerton in the lead role), but only one of them has Robin firing 6 arrows at once. Only one of them has a […]
Review: God’s Trigger
I mustn’t compare this to Hotline Miami, I mustn’t mention Hotline Miami, if I don’t mention Hotline Miami I’ll be fine..bugger. Right, start again. A demon and an angel walk into a bar and order a flaming sambuca and a glass of water. The barkeep at this particular establishment is an angry sort and mocks […]
Review: Kindergarten Cop 1&2
Blu-ray: Kindergarten Cop 1 (1990) Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016) While not the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (I always default to Predator), Kindergarten Cop certainly raises some genuine laughs, and he does far better in comedy movies than fellow 1980’s action star Sylvester Stallone. Kimble (Arnie) is a hardened cop whose been after drug dealer Cullen […]
Review: The Shootist
DVD: The Shootist (1976) Opening with a black and white montage of clips from John Wayne’s earlier films, Don Siegel’s (Bus Stop, Dirty Harry, The Killers) The Shootist was Wayne’s swan song. Mirroring Wayne’s own illness, this tells the story of John Books, a once lethal killer, who now just wants to die peacefully. Books arrives in […]
Review: Howard The Duck
Blu-ray & DVD: Howard the Duck (1986) A critical and commercial failure upon it’s release in 1986, Howard the Duck has gone on to acquire a cult following…and rightly so. How can you not want to watch a movie that has a cigar smoking talking duck from another planet, who saves the earth from extinction […]
Review: Anna and the Apocalypse
DVD & Digital HD: Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) The zombie/musical/horror/comedy/teen angst genre is limited in size to say the very least, and within this genre Anna and the Apocalypse stands proudly at the top. However, each individual section of this amalgam of genres doesn’t fare so well when viewed independently. Anna and the Apocalypse […]
Review: In Like Flynn
DVD & VOD: In Like Flynn (2018) I remember reading Errol Flynn’s biography ‘My Wicked Wicked Ways’, some years back and wondering how much of it was actually true, because to survive, intact, of what he described in his book is nothing short of a miracle. It was however, the most entertaining bio I’ve ever […]