Reviews

Blu-ray & DVD: Blood Feast (1963) Herschell Gordon Lewis, AKA ‘The Godfather of Gore’, gave cinema studios a blood-soaked kick up the backside when Blood Feast was released in 1963. Far from shying away from when anyone was killed, Lewis made close-up voyeuristic looks at bodily dismemberment the raison d’être for the cinema audience to […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Looking For Infinity: El Camino (2017) Looking For Infinity: El Camino gives a fascinating insight into a 500 mile pilgrimage along Spain’s 1200 year-old ‘Camino de Santiago’, also known as The Way of St Jude. The documentary follows a diverse group of people, all at varying points in their lives, as they take […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Bushwick (2017) Lucy (Brittany Snow) arrives in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bushwick with the intention of visiting her family. However, when she emerges from the subway, she sees that the neighbourhood is under attack by an unknown military force. Taking refuge in the basement of a nearby building, she is physically threatened […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Tout Va Bien (1972) Not unlike Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! – Jane Fonda and Yves Montand play the roles of ‘Her’ and ‘Him’, that is, a ‘modern’ couple in 1972. Director Jean-Luc Godard was told ‘If you use stars, people will give you money’, hence the hiring of two superstars for what a […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Andreas (Rutger Hauer) is an alcoholic living in rough Paris, when he is lent 200 Francs by a stranger he promises to pay the money back to a local church. However, his alcoholism stops him as random people from his past get in the way […]

DVD: The Return Of Captain Invincible (1983) WWII superhero Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) is adored by the American public for his heroics in battling the Nazis. This changes rapidly not long after the war, when he is wrongly accused of supporting the communist party and being ‘un-American’. With his reputation in tatters he retires to […]

DVD: Robbery Under Arms (1985) Based on Rolf Boldrewood’s 1882 colonial novel Robbery under Arms was made in 1985 as a film and simultaneously as this television series. Starting quite deliciously with Sam Neil snogging a rather posh lady for around 3 minutes, the series follows the adventures of Captain Starlight (Sam Neill) a charming […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966) It is the early 1800’s and pathologist Dr Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is called to a remote Carpathian village by Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli) to perform an autopsy on a woman who died in mysterious circumstances. The locals are convinced they are being haunted by the spirit of a […]

Blu-ray, DVD and VOD: Land Of Mine (2015) At the end of World War 2, the formerly Nazi occupied Denmark used remaining German soldiers to clear all the land mines left on Danish Beaches. Most of these soldiers were under 19 years old. Some were as young as 13. Some of the films we review […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) Rocky and Bullwinkle were once the hottest cartoon duo in Hollywood, but since their show was cancelled in 1964, they have had to endure relative obscurity, with their memories only being kept alive by reruns. Their enemies, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), Boris Badenov (Jason […]