Review: Z-Exemplar
Z-Exemplar I’ve said many times before (but I’ll say it again) that the ZX Spectrum is an incredibly important part of my life. It was my first home computer and many an hour was spent playing some wonderful games that I still remember some 35 years after my dad brought home my shiny ZX Spectrum […]
Review: Bird on a Wire
DVD & Blu-ray: Bird on a Wire (1990) Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) has spent the last 15 years in witness protection, moving from job to job, never staying long in one place for fear of being seen by the former agents whom he helped put in jail. A chance encounter with the woman he loved […]
Review: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything
DVD: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything (2017) This release from Screenbound is a 90 minute documentary about the singer Mario Lanza, and includes ‘insights’ and commentary from UK Opera singers Leslie Garrett and Russell Watson, along with Joseh Valleja, Steve Hackett and Lanza’s daughter Ellisa. And what a sad story it is. Born […]
Review: The City of the Dead
Blu-ray & DVD: The City of the Dead (1960) Student Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson) is researching a paper on witchcraft, when her studies lead her to spend some time in Whitewood, a small village in New England and the location where the witch Elizabeth Selwyn was burnt at the stake centuries earlier while proclaiming a […]
Review: Caltiki and the Immortal Monster
Blu-ray & DVD: Caltiki and the Immortal Monster (1959) Archeologists are investigating an ancient Mayan city to try and ascertain the reason for the mysterious disappearance of its inhabitants. Led by Dr John Fielding (John Merivale) their greed for lost treasure invokes the wrath of the ancient god Caltiki. Their circumstances get even worse when […]
Review: The Big Heat
Blu-ray & DVD: The Big Heat (1953) Police detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates the suicide of a fellow officer, but when he’s contacted by the dead man’s mistress he suspects foul play. Finding out that the dead policeman has ties to local gang boss Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his right-hand man Vince Stone […]
Review: Ludwig
Blu-ray & DVD: Ludwig (1973) Ludwig II inherited the throne of Bavaria as a young man of 19 in the middle 1800’s. Idealistic and naïve he is more interested in the arts and particularly the music of Wagner, than affairs of state. The tagline of Ludwig; ‘He loved women. He loved men. He lived as […]
Review: Pieces
Blu-ray & DVD: Pieces (1982) Beginning in 1942, a young boy is alone in his bedroom putting the final pieces of his jigsaw together. His Mother comes into the room and is aghast at seeing that the jigsaw depicts a naked woman and in a fit of rage she swipes the jigsaw away, sending it […]
Review: The Blue Lagoon
Blu-ray & DVD: The Blue Lagoon (1980) Cousins Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) Lestrange (cool name) are on a voyage to some unknown destination with Richard’s father. After a fire onboard, the two children are shipwrecked with the ships cook Paddy Button (Leo McKern) on a beautiful desert Island. Poor old Randal Kleiser, hot […]
Review: The Beaster Bunny
DVD, on demand & digital download: The Beaster Bunny (2014) The Beaster Bunny (AKA Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell) is trash…glorious, low budget, badly acted trash that I loved every minute of. A 50 foot Easter bunny is on the loose and on a killing spree that is seemingly unstoppable. The town Mayor is […]