Review: Murphy’s War
Blu-ray: Murphy’s War (1971)A very different story from the Max Chatto novel, Murphy’s War starring real life married couple Peter O’Toole and Siân Phillips and directed by Peter Yates, is a showcase for O’Toole’s acting.Set in South America, filmed in Malta and Venuzula, it tells the story of the last survivor of a UK WW2 Nazi torpedoed ship, who […]
Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies
The Sundance London surprise film this year was Halina Reijns Bodies Bodies Bodies. Picked up by A24, and bound to be one of the biggest indie hits of the Summer, the film revolves around a group of rich 20-somethings celebrating a hurricane party in a big house in the middle of nowhere. In between the festivities […]
Live Event: Sundance Film Festival London, June 2022
The Sundance Film Festival London is currently taking place June 9th – 12th.Thom attended the press screenings on June 7th & 8th (and will be at the press screening of this years “surprise film” on June 13th…review to follow).Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.Directed by Sophie Hyde (last seen with the excellent Animals), Good Luck […]
Review: High Crime
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: High Crime (1973)High Crime is one of Italy’s more famous Poliziotteschi films, made during a period of socio-political turmoil in Italy and high crime rates.They were infamous for their graphic violence, rape, organised crime, car chases, and corruption, with cops and criminals normally tough working class loners, who act outside a corrupt bureaucratic system.This one stars my […]
Live Event: Hardline, The Tivoli, May 27th, 2022
Prior to this evening, my previous live music gig was on 24th January 2020…and we all know what happened not long after that! So it was with a great sense of excitement that I returned to my beloved Tivoli venue (where I hadn’t been for a gig since 24th October 2019) and FINALLY got to […]
Review: The Last Metro
Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: The Last Metro (1980)The Last Metro, made in 1980, written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu and winning nearly every award going, is a classic of cinema that passed me by.It follows the actors and workers of a theatre in Montmartre during the Nazi occupation of Paris in […]
Review: Cop Secret
Digital: Cop Secret (2021) Tango and Cash, Murtaugh and Riggs, Starsky and Hutch; all names you’re more than likely familiar with thanks to their exploits in cinemas and on television screens worldwide. You can now add to that list Bússi and Hörður: a couple of Icelandic cops whose relationship goes deeper (very deep in fact, going […]
Review: Wild Things
Blu-ray: Wild Things (1998) Alas, they don’t make film like this anymore. What’s that? NO sigh of relief from Tina? No feminist outburst? Nope, just a genuine lament at the loss of ‘sex-thrillers’ such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and director Jon Macnaughton’s Wild Things. Apparently star and producer Kevin Bacon said this script was […]
Review: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021) Having not watched 2014’s Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, I went into this sequel hesitant as to how much of the narrative would be reliant on a knowledge of the events so far. I needn’t have worried though, as despite some of the lore of this particular undead […]
Review: Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
The first time I was properly made aware of the concept of verticality in a video game was around 2016, in a review for that year’s triumphant return to the DOOM franchise. In that instance, TotalBiscuit (RIP) described how Doom 2016 built upon the scrappy, rapid yet meticulous combat of its progenitors by adding platforming […]