Review: Ben
Blu-ray: Ben (1972) “They’re eating us alive down there!” While Second Sight’s Willard restoration is a 4K scan of the original camera negative, they are very open in their press release that their upgrade of 1972’s rat horror sequel is instead a new HD transfer, restored using the best-surviving archive print. Ben’s picture quality is […]
Review: George Romero – Between Night and Dawn
Blu-ray & DVD: George Romero – Between Night and Dawn George Romero; a name synonymous with slow moving zombies and his classic ‘Dead Trilogy’ (there were of course more, but it is the first 3, especially for me, which always warrant repeat viewings every now and again). There was much more to George Romero though […]
Review: The Steve Martin Movie Collection
DVD: The Steve Martin Movie Collection Another great boxset release from Fabulous Films which contains plenty of laughs with 4 movies from Steve Martin. 3 of these movies we have previously reviewed and so I would encourage you to read our reviews on Bowfinger, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and Sgt. Bilko by clicking on […]
Review: J.D.’s Revenge
Blu-ray & DVD: J.D.’s Revenge (1976) Isaac “Ike” Hendricks (Glynn Turman) is a hardworking law student in New Orleans, who on a night out with friends gets persuaded to go onstage at a club and be hypnotised. It is while under hypnosis that Ike becomes possessed by the spirit of the malevolent J.D. Walker, a […]
Review: The Villainess
Blu-ray: The Villainess (2017) Hailing from South Korea, The Villainess has one of the most violently frenetic openings I’ve ever seen in an Asian thriller…or ANY movie. The sequence sees Ok-bin Kim as our ‘heroine’ Sook-hee, but from a first person view, channeling so many video games and a lot of Hardcore Henry as she […]
Live Event: W.A.S.P. – The Tivoli, October 22nd, 2017.
“BUCKLEY…ARE YOU READY’ The above words are ones that I never thought I’d hear Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. shout at the Tivoli. Thankfully I was there when he did. And so were many others at a sold out Tiv. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Crimson Idol (a conceptual album which tells the story of Jonathan […]
Review: The Richard Pryor Movie Collection
DVD: The Richard Pryor Movie Collection Richard Pryor was a comedy legend both on the movie screen in his acting roles, and on stage in his stand-up routines, where his social satire often cut close to the bone. Thanks to Fabulous Films, you can now buy a boxset of 4 of his movies that will […]
Review: The Party
Blu-ray: The Party (1968) Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an inept Indian actor whose bumbling antics result in him being fired from a movie set and told that he’ll never work in the business again. However, through a communication mixup, he inadvertently gets invited to a swish Hollywood party at the home of the […]
Review: Cat’s Eye
Blu-ray & DVD: Cat’s Eye (1985) Three ‘horror’ stories are intertwined by some crafty Stephen King winks. A man tries to give up smoking, a hood boss punishes his wife’s lover and a clever cat saves a little girl from a breath stealing monster. Cat’s Eye is directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King, […]
Review: Red Christmas
DVD: Red Christmas (2016) Diane (Dee Wallace) is a widowed mother whose only wish is to have a relaxing Christmas day with her estranged family. Unfortunately for her, an event that happened 20 years ago will have ramifications for them all. Kudos have to go to writer/director Craig Anderson, whose trials and tribulations in getting […]