Review: Michael Schenker Fest: Live
Blu-ray, DVD, CD, Vinyl & Digital Download: Michael Schenker Fest: Live When you’re knocking out killer riffs on your 1st album appearance at only 15 years old, you can be pretty damn sure that a guitar fuelled career lays waiting in front of you, and while Michael Schenker never truly sustained the career highs that his […]
Review: Greenberg
Blu-ray: Greenberg (2010) Florence (Greta Gerwig) is an assistant and general dogsbody for the Greenberg family. She cares for their children, picks up their groceries, keeps their house clean and appears to be at their beck and call. The family are going on holiday and whilst they are away Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is going […]
Review: The Last Detail
Blu-ray + DVD: The Last Detail (1973) Based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail tells the story of 2 Navy ‘lifers’; ‘Badass’ Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and ‘Mule’ Mulhall (Otis Young) who are tasked with escorting young sailor Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) from Norfolk, Virginia to a Navy prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. […]
Review: Woody Allen: Seven Films – 1986-1991
Blu-ray: Woody Allen: Seven Films – 1986-1991 Arrow Academy’s third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen’s beloved Manhattan, and the […]
Review: We Are the Flesh
Blu-ray + DVD: We Are The Flesh (2016) WHAT.THE.HELL‽ Three words (and an interrobang…more on being pretentious later) that could be the entire review for this movie. My work here is done. Goodbye. What? You want more? Okay then, here’s a few more words for you: incest, ejaculation, cannibalism, erections, nudity and necrophilia. Starting to […]
Review: Cover Girl
Blu-ray + DVD: Cover Girl (1944) New York Nightclub dancer Rusty (Rita Hayworth) has a happy life performing at her boyfriend Danny’s (Gene Kelly) club in Brooklyn, but her whole world changes once she wins the prestigious Cover Girl contest arranged by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger). Rusty’s fame brings more customers to Danny’s […]
Review: Sniper Elite 4
My history with the Sniper games starts with Sniper Elite 3, which I played co-operatively online with a friend. We had lots of fun working together as he would watch from afar, spotting enemies, as I snuck into a German encampment quietly taking out soldiers. The other game series we played together was Zombie Army […]
Review: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Blu-ray: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) On one hand, it’s a bit jarring to see Sam Peckinpah’s notorious Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) so lovingly packaged on two discs with an accompanying booklet and a host of extras. After all it’s a film which seems to go out of […]
Review: More American Graffiti
DVD: More American Graffiti (1979) In 1973 America was in a mess: a President deeply dividing the nation, its involvement in a war that no one wanted and the streets were erupting in demonstrations. It was a little surprise that American Graffiti a film that looked to an America a decade earlier and whose soundtrack […]
Review: The Anderson Tapes
Blu-ray: The Anderson Tapes (1971) Duke Anderson (Sean Connery) is released after serving a 10 year jail sentence and immediately re-kindles his relationship with ex- girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon), much to the chagrin of her current boyfriend who is keeping her in a life of luxury in a swish New York apartment block. Jaded with […]