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Blu-ray Review: James Caan Plays The Most Dangerous Game In Norman Jewison’s ROLLERBALL

Sci-fi movies are everywhere now and it’s hard to believe that things were very different in the pre-Star Wars 1970s. The science fiction movies that were made were often dark tales filled with subtexts filled with social commentary. Norman [...]

April 6, 2015

Blu-ray Review: James Caan In Michael Mann’s Classic Crime Drama THIEF

Michael Mann films have always been about restraint and precision and this was never more evident than in Thief. Mann made his big screen directing debut with this 1981 film which sees James Caan as a career criminal whose well planned existence [...]

February 1, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Vincent Price In Six Gothic Edgar Allan Poe Tales From Roger Corman

This exquisite box set gathers together six of Vincent Price’s iconic collaborations with Roger Corman. These films saw the pair adapt a series of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories for the screen and you won’t find a better example of ‘60s horror [...]

December 7, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Find Out Why WITHNAIL AND I Is A Cult Classic With This Wonderful Release

Bruce Robinson’s Withnail And I has become a cult classic, the perennial film that students can watch as they imbibe large quantities of alcohol during daylight hours. Richard E.Grant and Paul McGann play the titular characters Withnail And I, two [...]

November 9, 2014

Blu-ray Review: THE VISITOR Features Aliens, Evil Telekinetic Children And Jesus Christ

The movie world has (and always will) been filled with filmmakers who want to cash-in on successful films. For every huge hit there are a slew of lesser imitators produced in order to score even a fraction of the financial success. The blockbusting [...]

October 25, 2014

Blu-ray Review: You’ve Never Seen Anything Till You’ve Seen THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN

The Incredible Melting Man riffs on the science fiction nuclear-age horror movies and comics of the 1950s. It’s about, Steve West (Alex Rebar) an astronaut who returns from a trip to Saturn – he’s a man, he begins to melt – [...]

October 25, 2014

Blu-ray Review: NIGHT OF THE COMET Plays Like Back To The Future’s Mutated Cousin

Night Of The Comet hits all the right notes as a post-apocalyptic-horror-comedy. It’s not the best cult film to come out of the ‘80s low-budget horror scene, but it gets marks for trying. Tom Eberhardt writes and directs with enough enthusiasm [...]

September 28, 2014

Blu-ray Review: REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS Is One Of Hollywood’s WTF? Moments

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… is a film that should have spawned a franchise. Why this never happend is anyone’s guess. This slick and stylish ‘80s actioner from James Bond director Guy Hamilton features some wonderful action sequences, [...]

July 13, 2014

Blu-ray Review: THE COMPLETE DOCTOR PHIBES Is A Phibeulous Set

Deliciously Camp, The Doctor Phibes movies have everything you need for a great Vincent Price experience. 1971’s The Abominable Doctor Phibes sees Price play a horrendously disfigured musical genius seeking revenge of the doctors who failed to [...]

June 8, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Vincent Price Gets Revenge In THEATRE OF BLOOD

As a horror icon, Vincent Price was beloved by many, however he never felt that he got the respect that he deserved as an actor (he was right – he didn’t). Critics often lambasted Price for his ‘hammy performances’ and this irked Price. [...]

June 1, 2014

Blu-ray Review: THE BEAST WITHIN Is A Bizarro ‘80s Monster Movie

The Beast Within is a bizarro 1982 horror film that shows that sometimes Hollywood studios have the cajones to release crazy horror films. To be fair the studio was United Artists and they were probably too preoccupied with watching the budget well [...]

May 17, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Vincent Price In Edgar Allan Poe’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

One of Vincent Price’s legendary collaborations with Roger Corman, The Pit And The Pendulum is a masterclass is how to adapt a short story that isn’t really adaptable. Using Edgar Allan Poe’s story as a launching point, Corman creates a tale [...]

May 17, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Chuck Norris And Lee Marvin Kick Ass In THE DELTA FORCE

In 1986 few would have guessed that The Delta Force would become an interesting historical document thirty years on – after all it is a Chuck Norris / Lee Marvin actioner from Cannon Films. However, it’s not just a piece of cinema history [...]

May 5, 2014

Blu-ray Review: SISTERS Synthesises Brian De Palma’s Career

Brian De Palma has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock throughout his career. However, he has never been more Hitchcockian than he was with Sisters. It plays like a greatest hits package of the Master of Suspense’s finest moments as De Palma [...]

April 27, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Kirk Douglas In Billy Wilder’s ACE IN THE HOLE

A critical and commercial flop at the time of its release, Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole has gone on to become a classic film with an important critique of the press and how it presents ‘news’ to the masses. There’s a reason for this [...]

April 21, 2014

Blu-ray Review: WHITE OF THE EYE Is A Great Thriller And An Amazing Disc

White Of The Eye is one of the craziest films that I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. This serial killer thriller from maverick director Donald Cammell is a total mind-bender. It’s great. David Keith and Cathy Moriarty play a couple living an [...]

April 5, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

Brian De Palma has always been a director that defies convention. He’s an outsider that managed to get into the Hollywood system and subvert it. In the early days his love of the thriller led to him being accused of ‘borrowing liberally’ from [...]

February 8, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Roddy Piper’s HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Is An Enjoyable Slice Of ‘80s Cheese

Hell Comes To Frogtown is a cult 1988 straight-to-video actioner starring wrestler (Rowdy) Roddy Piper. Is it high art? No, far from it – but it is an enjoyable slice of ‘80s cheese. Piper plays Sam Hell, a bad-ass wandering the wastelands of a [...]

February 2, 2014

Blu-ray Review: HELLGATE Is A Veritable Smorgasbord Of Horror Tropes

Hellgate is a pretty atrocious 1989 B-movie that makes very little sense. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of horror tropes that have been thrown into one movie along with a nod and a wink. You know it’s bad, but you won’t be able to take your [...]

February 1, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Paranoid Sci-Fi With INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Movie remakes have a bad name, but Philip Kaufman’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers doesn’t try to replicate Don Siegel’s 1950s classic – this film is its own thing. Kaufman uses Jack Finney’s novel in the same way that John Carpenter [...]

December 8, 2013

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