Reviews

Blu-ray & DVD: The Reckoning (1970) Michael ‘Mick’ Marler (Nicol Williamson) is one of the top men at Grenville. He’s devious and committed and no one would ever know he’s the son of poor working class Irish immigrants from Liverpool. He has it all; the job, the big car, amazing house, vacuous friends and the […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Slayer (1982) Troubled artist Kay (Sarah Kendall) suffers with disturbing dreams and visions, which she also incorporates into her artwork. Her husband Eric (Frederick Flynn) decides to take her on holiday to a remote island to relax, along with her brother David (Alan McRae) and his wife, Brooke (Carol Kottenbrook). Once […]

DVD: Tower of London (1939) I reviewed the 1962 version of Tower of London here, and it was interesting to compare and contrast between that Roger Corman version and this 1939 movie directed by Rowland V. Lee. The story is still essentially the same; Prince Richard (Duke of Gloucester) is determined to be crowned King of […]

DVD: Dr. Cyclops (1940) Based on the short story of the same name by Henry Kuttner, Dr. Cyclops tells the story of Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker, whose untimely death in 1968 is a story itself!) who has been using radium to shrink animals. With his eyesight failing, he invites 3 fellow scientists to help with […]

Digital HD & DVD: Final Recall (2017) Five friends go on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods for some sun, swimming and sex. With impeccable timing, while all the carefree frolicking in the wilderness is happening, an alien invasion begins. The friends early fears though come from a mysterious ‘Hunter’ who is […]

Cinema & on demand: David Lynch – The Art Life (2016) “You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint…“ David Lynch – The Art Life is not a film retrospective, but a rather surprising documentary about David Lynch, the artist. Describing a time when he was sat in a water filled mud puddle as […]

Blu-ray: The Big Knife (1955) Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) is a big Hollywood star and it seems he has it all, but his wife has left him and he has a terrible secret he needs to keep covered up, no matter what the cost. Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Varieté (1925) Widely regarded as a classic of German cinema, Varieté (1925) gets a 2k restoration and a soundtrack, but is Varieté the spice of life? 60 Minutes With sent Steve Woolley for a night at the circus. So we get a black and white German film with English subtitles set in a circus? […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Castle Keep (1969) Towards the latter stages of WWII, Major Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster) is leading a small group of American soldiers when the Count of Maldorais (Jean-Pierre Aumont) gives them shelter in his castle, in the hope that they will defend it against the advancing Germans. What follows is not your […]

Blu-ray: Terror In A Texas Town (1958) When wealthy businessman McNeil (Sebastian Cabot) wants to take over Prairie City and the land and farms around it, he hires ‘man in black’ gunfighter Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young) to get rid of them, and if that fails, kill them. Terror In A Texas Town is a western […]