Review: The Running Man
Blu-ray: The Running Man (1963) Rex (Laurence Harvey) is a pilot and owns his own aircraft carrying a variety of goods for businesses across the world. When he is involved in a plane crash, he is lucky to escape with his life. However, he is not so lucky when he finds out that his insurance […]
Review: Scum
Blu-ray: Scum (1979) Scum was a play before it was a film, and gained infamy because the late ‘great’ Mary Whitehouse thought it so abhorrent, she took the BBC to court over it, and won. Made by the (truly) great Alan Clarke (Made in Britain, The Firm, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) Scum was made […]
Review: Vanishing Point
Blu-ray & DVD: Vanishing Point (1971) Kowalski (Barry Newman) works as a car delivery man, and when he is given a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, he ups the ante by making a bet that he can do the run in 15 hours. His speed limit breaking efforts to do […]
Review: Watership Down
Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Watership Down (1978) Lovely fluffy animated bunnies frolicking in a field. Oh look, they talk as well! AND it has that nice song by Art Garfunkel in it too. Let’s gather the kids around the television and watch this together. The above is just some of the things that people who never read the […]
Review: Nightfall
Blu-ray: Nightfall (1956) Based on a book written by David Goodis, and Directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Night of the Demon), Nightfall is a quirky little ‘Noir’ starring Aldo Ray as Jim, Brian Keith as bad guy John, Anne Bancroft as love interest Marie and James Gregory as Ben; an insurance investigator whose case […]
Review: Demonlover
Blu-ray: Demonlover (2002) Demonlover (2002) is a French film hailing from director Olivier Assayas about the dark side of the commerce of internet porn. Young up-and-comer Diane (Connie Nielsen) has just staged a takeover of her superior’s position. During the transaction to acquire cutting edge hentai (that’s anime porn to anyone over the age of […]
Live Event: Yola, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, May 28th, 2019
Funny how life sometimes works out. You catch a song on the radio but can’t place the singer or the material, it’s a country soul number from the sixties/seventies maybe? So you check the playlist and find that its neither old or American, in fact it’s new and she’s straight outa Bristol. An hour later you […]
Review: Death Warmed Up
Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Death Warmed Up (1984) Michael Tucker (Michael Hurst) is put into a psychiatric hospital after murdering his parents. However, he claims that he was programmed by a genetic surgeon to do so, and when he is finally released from the hospital he wants revenge. Death Warmed Up was a cult hit on VHS and […]
Review: Beautiful Stranger
Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Beautiful Stranger (AKA ‘Twist of Fate’) (1954) Making her British film debut, Ginger Rogers stars as ‘Johnny’ Victor; an ex-actress living the life of luxury on the French Riviera, thanks to the money and adoration of Louis Galt (Stanley Baker), a wealthy businessman whose dealings are not always on the right side of the […]
Review: Black Joy
Blu-ray: Black Joy (1977) Directed by Anthony Summers and released in ‘flares-tastic’ 1977, Black Joy is based on Jamal Ali’s acclaimed stage play ‘Dark Days and Light Nights’ and tells the story of Ben (Trevor Thomas), a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard way about life on the streets of Brixton. As soon as […]
