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 […]
Live Event: Janet Gardner – The Factory, Manchester, May 26th, 2018
Falling in the middle of a Bank Holiday weekend, there were certainly a lot of events going on to capture peoples attention; Ed Sheeran playing just up the road at the Etihad Stadium, Manchesters great football rivals Liverpool playing in a Champions League final where the local populace were packing out sports bar to cheer […]
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 Last Tinker
Despite Nintendo’s triumphant return with “Odyssey” and indie developers Gears for Breakfast working wonders with “A Hat in Time”, 3D platformers have remained a pretty dormant genre. Microsoft threw their hat into the ring in 2017 with “Super Lucky’s Tale”, while former Rareware legends up and left to create “Yooka-Laylee”, both titles met with a […]
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 […]