Review: Martha is Dead
Martha is Dead finds you in a remote 1944 Tuscany location while World War II is still raging, and the beautiful art design and immersive soundscape do a great job of convincingly placing you into that time period.Playing in a first person view as Giulia, you find your twin sister Martha dead and floating in […]
Review: La Civil
Digital: La Civil (2021)Cielo’s (Arcelia Ramírez) teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico, and despite paying multiple ransoms the kidnappers refuse to let her go.With no help from the local authorities to find her missing daughter, Cielo takes it upon herself to try and track down where she is being kept, all despite being put […]
Review: Margrete – Queen of the North
Digital: Margrete – Queen of the North (2021)I’ve long been a fan of ‘historical drama. Not the Downtown Abbey sort, more The Lion In Winter and La Reine Margot type. Magrete Queen of the North is a wonderful addition to the historical cannon of GOOD historical films. Of course no film about past events tells […]
Review: ‘The Great White Silence’ + ‘South & The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film’
Blu-ray & DVD: The Great White Silence (1922) South & the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film (1919) Both ‘The Great White Silence’ and ‘South & the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film’ are absolutely fascinating, inspiring and moving viewing experiences which affected me emotionally and sent me down an online rabbit hole to […]
Review: She Freak
Blu-ray: She Freak (1967)Another in 101 Films AGFA line of releases (make sure to read my reviews of Effects, Lady Street Fighter and Jungle Trap), She Freak once again gave me another dollop of low budget indie filmmaking that thoroughly entertained me.The story (what little there is) revolves around Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen); a woman jaded with her […]
Review: Caveat
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Caveat (2020) Isaac (Jonathan French) is suffering from amnesia and has problems recalling his recent past. So when his friend Moe Barret (Ben Caplan) appears and offers him a well paid job to look after his adult niece Olga (Leila Sykes) for a few days at a remote house, Isaac agrees and […]
Review: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Blu-ray: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)In this adaptation of the P. D. James novel of the same name, Pippa Guard plays Cordelia Gray; a somewhat wistful young woman training to be a Private investigator.On finding her boss has committed suicide she decides to take on his next case by herself. Approached by Ms Leaming […]
Review: Deadly Games
Blu-ray: Deadly Games (1982)A masked killer with more than a passing interest in a horror-themed board game is playing his own real life version of it and killing people in a small American town.Returning to the town after the murder of her sister, “Keegan” (Jo Ann Harris) meets up with local cop Roger (Sam Groom) […]
Review: Voices
Blu-ray: Voices (1973) This was a rather strange viewing experience, as going into it I knew nothing at all about the narrative, and especially nothing about how it was shot on a mixture of video and film…of which I have to admit that whenever it went to the scenes shot on video it lost my […]
Review: The Devil’s Men
Blu-ray: The Devil’s Men (1976) Though starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence (2 actors who I will watch in anything just because they are in it), The Devil’s Men struggled to keep my attention throughout its 88 minute running time. Cushing plays Baron Corofax; a suave man who also just happens to be the leader of a satanic cult […]