Reviews

Blu-ray & DVD: Broadchurch Series 1-3 (2013-2017) Please be aware that this review gives away major spoilers, so if you’ve yet to watch this series, view before reading! Amazingly the popularity of the crime series didn’t begin with Nordic noir, and past series such as Minder, The Professionals, Cracker and Prime Suspect have been as […]

Blu-ray & DVD: House – The Complete Collection (1985 – 1992) House: Roger Cobb (William Katt in a role which he describes as one of his all time favourites) is a horror novelist who is struggling to write a follow-up to his previous best seller. He inherits his Great Aunt’s old house (where she killed herself) and attempts […]

DVD: Elsa Fraulein SS (1977) Having previously seen Malisa Longo in the Screenbound release of Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg, there was a sense of déjà vu while watching her in Elsa Fraulein SS which was released into cinemas a year before Helga. Essentially playing a very similar character, her acting chops are not particularly stretched…unlike the […]

DVD: Crimson (AKA The Man with the Severed Head) (1976) When the greed of a gang member trips an alarm in the middle of a robbery, the resulting chaos sees Jack (the gang leader, played by Paul Naschy) shot in the head. Desperate to save his life, the gang force a surgeon and his wife […]

Blu-ray: The Entity (1982) Single mother of three Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey) is violently raped in her home by an invisible assailant. After seeking help from a Psychiatrist, who believes these attacks to be a symptom of mental illness, Carla resorts to getting help from a team of parapsychologists. Based on the book by Frank […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) When beautiful Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) turns up at Private Investigator Rigby Reardon’s (Steve Martin) office asking for his help to find out who killed her father, Reardon remembers the advice his partner Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gave him ‘Never fall in love with a client’. Sometimes […]

Blu-Ray & DVD: Fat City (1972) Billy Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to pick up his boxing gloves again, plus give up the booze and one night stands after sparring with new kid on the block Eddie Munger (Jeff Bridges). Tully is a boxer way past his prime, who for probably not facing up to […]