Movies For Juniors – The Secret Life of Pets
Cinema: The Secret Life of Pets (2016) Stay at home dog, Max, is very happy with his life. He loves his owner and is surrounded by an assortment of animal friends including an obese cat, a squirrel hating dog and an adrenaline junkie budgie. Max’s comfortable life is threatened when his owner brings home a boisterous […]
Review: A Special Day
DVD: A Special Day (1977) Set in Rome on the historic day in 1938 when Benito Mussolini and the city rolled out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, A Special Day takes place entirely in a working class apartment building, where an unexpected friendship begins between Antoineietta and Gabriele. They are an unlikely pair of people […]
Review: Night Gallery
DVD: Night Gallery (1969 – 73) Night Gallery, hosted by The Twilight Zone’s Rob Serling was an American anthology series that aired on American television from 1969 to 1973, and not unlike The Twilight Zone it told of stories of horror and of the macabre. Serling served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major […]
Retro Review: Splatterhouse
Splatterhouse Released: 1988 Platform: Arcade Publisher: Namco Developer: Namco Seeing as the Halloween season is nearly upon us, I wanted to write some reviews based on horror games. First up is Splatterhouse which is a lovely gore fest that takes inspiration from The Evil Dead and Friday the 13th. Not much is explained in the intro […]
Review: National Treasure
DVD: National Treasure (2016) If ever there was the perfect time for a programme like National Treasure it’s right now. As I write (Oct 2016) Donald Trump has been vilified for his misogynistic treatment of women (Pussygate) and Welsh footballer Ched Evans, convicted of rape and released after 2 year in prison, only last week […]
Review: Body Double
Blu-ray: Body Double (1984) Jake Scully, an actor who suffers from claustrophobia, house-sits for a friend in his amazingly huge and expensive house. Part of the ‘deal’ is he can spy on his neighbour who likes to ‘get off’ by doing naked sexy dancing with all the lights on across the road. Now I want […]
Review: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
I grew up reading Fighting Fantasy books and they are an incredibly important part of my childhood. I can still remember the first time I saw the cover of Freeway Fighter and I instantly fell in love with it. I was sold on the cover of the book alone, but when I discovered that you […]
Review: The Angry Red Planet
DVD: The Angry Red Planet (1959) As I once again step into the wonderful world of low budget sci-fi thanks to the appropriately named kind people at Fabulous Films, I’m greeted by 2 familiar names as the title sequence begins on 1959’s The Angry Red Planet; Director Ib Melchior and writer Sidney Pink (read my reviews on The Time Travelers […]
The Keeping Room
DVD: The Keeping Room (2014) Two adult sisters (Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfield) and their (ex) slave (Muna Otaru) try to survive in an almost post-apocalyptic barren landscape during the American Civil war. I suppose one could call this a ‘revisionist western’, one that would hold hands with Meek’s Cutoff, The Beguiled and Cold Mountain. However, […]
Review: The Burning
Blu-ray: The Burning (1981) Released a year after Friday the 13th and continuing the ongoing trend of ‘slasher’ movies that would become part of the zeitgeist of the 1980’s, The Burning tells the story of ‘Cropsy’ (played by Lou David) who stabs, slices and chops his way through a succession of teenage campers…after first honing his skills on […]