Review: Torture Garden
Blu-ray: Torture Garden (1967) Amicus Productions made many fantastic movies between 1962 and 1977, though they are widely regarded for their horror anthologies of which Torture Garden was their 2nd. Torture Garden’s 4 short stories are framed by a group of people visiting Dr. Diablo’s fairground haunted house attraction. Dr. Diablo (Burgess Meredith) invites them […]
Review: The Peter Sellers Movie Collection
DVD: The Peter Sellers Movie Collection Another great boxset from Fabulous Films has 4 Peter Sellers movies that fall into a 10 year period between 1969-79. The Magic Christian (1969) Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) is an ostentatious, filthy rich man who adopts the homeless Youngman (Ringo Starr) and together they set out to mock […]
Review: The Brothers
DVD: The Brothers (1972) I love old TV series, I own nearly every single thing Oliver Tobias was in during the 1970s. I have the box sets of all kinds of crap you’ve probably never heard of. The good (I, Claudius, Luke’s Kingdom), the bad (By the Sword Divided) and the absolutely ESSENTIAL (original Poldark, […]
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 […]