The Resident
March 29, 2011
Hammer Films was a force to be reckoned with in the 1960’s and the 1970’s as the British studio was the go-to place for edgy and outrageous horror films many of which featured Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Then came the 1980’s and their style...
Shock Corridor: Criterion Collection
January 13, 2011
Samuel Fuller was one of the quintessential genre directors working in Hollywood during the 1950s as he brought his trademark two-fisted gusto to genres like the film noir (Pickup on South Street), the war film (The Steel Helmet), and the western (Forty...
Sherlock (Blu-Ray)
December 6, 2010
Sherlock Holmes? Transposed to modern day London, with computers, mobile phones and the Internet? Surely this will never work? The idea that London’s most famous Victorian detective, as penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, could work in a modern setting...
The Expendables
November 30, 2010
For fans of action films from the 1980s and early 1990s, it has always been a pipe dream to see their favourite action stars team up or, better yet, battle each other. Think of it as the cinematic equivalent of fantasy football. With The Matrix (1999),...
The Last Seven
October 21, 2010
It seems that failed agony uncle Danny Dyer has been in an awful lot of direct-to-video films lately. In fact, every time that I go to my local Asda, he’s there, mocking me from the DVD aisle. Cheapo copies of Pimp, Jack Said, City Rats and Dead...
Largo Winch
September 1, 2010
Largo Winch? Who hell he? Largo is an improbably named Belgian comic book hero, and is a cross between James Bond, Bruce Wayne and Bill Gates. Adopted from a Bosnian orphanage as a baby by rich-as-Croesus Nerio Winch (Miki Manojlovic), the founder and...
Legion (Blu-Ray)
August 12, 2010
Before I watched this film for the first time I broke my own golden rule and actually read a review first. I try not to do that because I find many reviewers often disagree with me, and even if they do agree with me it’s usually for different reasons....
Night Train to Munich: Criterion Collection
June 21, 2010
When Night Train to Munich (1940) was first proposed as a film, it was originally intended to be more serious in tone and had the working title of Gestapo. Despite being based on Report on a Fugitive, a serialized novel by Australian writer Gordon Wellesley,...
Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
June 1, 2010
Biting, Gnawing TERROR Claws At Your Brain! Well, so says the tagline from Lucio Fulci’s 1971 horror mystery pervfest A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin. Italian director and screenwriter Fulci had a diverse career, and was responsible for films in...
The Marine 2
April 27, 2010
The Marine 2 (2009) is a sequel, of sorts, to the 2006 movie starring John Cena. This time however, Cena has been replaced by the new generation of WWE Superstars, in the shape of Ted DiBiase Jr – son of the original Ted DiBiase, the Million Dollar...
