Review: Requiescant
Blu-ray: Requiescant (1967) In Fort Hernandez, a group of Mexican villagers hoping for peace are betrayed by Commander Ferguson and his compliant Confederate Soldiers (one of them has a Union Uniform on, must have been army-confused) who machinegun the whole village, leaving only one small boy alive. Taken in by a wandering preacher and his […]
Review: Charlie Chan And The Curse Of The Dragon Queen
DVD: Charlie Chan And The Curse Of The Dragon Queen (1981) If there’s one word that I doubt you’ll ever see in a review of ‘Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen’ it’s the word ‘subtle’. From the lavish interiors of the Lupowitz household, to the over-the-top performances and comedy so ‘in your face’ […]
Review: Stop Making Sense
Blu-ray: Stop Making Sense (1984) I suppose the bottom line with any music video is – do you like the band? I saw David Byrne 20 years ago and wasn’t really familiar with Talking Heads, but after seeing him live, he (and Taking Heads) became a firm favorite of mine. Filmed at the great Pantages Theatre […]
Review: Spectre
Cinema: Spectre (2015) Daniel Craig returns for possibly the final time as suave super spy James Bond, but does Spectre leave you shaken and stirred or is 007 losing his licence to thrill? I promise those will be the last Bond related puns in this review! The movie follows on from Skyfall where MI6 and […]
Review: Maneater
DVD: Maneater (2015) A world at the peril of climate change, a remote scientific corporation base, genetic modification gone wrong, a big bad polar bear on the loose with a crazy cocktail of DNA and scared scientists being clawed to death. All of this is set up within the first 5 minutes of Maneater (AKA […]
Review: Eaten Alive
Blu-ray: Eaten Alive (1976) How do you follow up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? A movie that is widely regarded as one of the best horror films ever made. A movie that still terrifies to this day with its depiction of cruelty, despair and shocking violence. In a era of found footage horror films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre still […]
Review: ITV 60
DVD: ITV 60 (2015) Network may not be a name that you are are au fait with, but I have to admit that they are in my top five companies for releasing real gems, not only in film but in television too. I think I have every box set they’ve ever produced starring Oliver Tobias, and when […]
Review: Sabotage
Blu-ray: Sabotage (1996) Sabotage opens with a tense assault in war torn Bosnia. Mark Dacascos is Mark Bishop, a tough special forces operative who is attempting to rescue a group of hostages before they are brutally executed. Things don’t go according to plan and we cut to three years later where Dacascos has been dishonourably […]
Review: Hard To Be A God
Blu-ray: Hard To Be A God (2013) This film follows the story of Anton and his fellow ‘scientists’, who are undercover operatives from the future planet Earth, on a mission to an alien planet that is populated by human beings whose society has not advanced beyond the Dark Ages. Based on the novel by legendary […]
Review: Crimson Peak
Cinema: Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro is a name that movie fans and more so, horror fans, will know very well as the goblin king of gothic horror. I’ve been a huge fan of his work since Cronos changed the vampire mythos back in 1993 and ever since then he has made some stunning fantasy […]