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Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell in Tequila Sunrise

Review: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer & Kurt Russell Are The Perfect Ingredients For TEQUILA SUNRISE

Films can often be captured in the decade that they’re made. They’re simply frozen in amber, forever held in a specific era. Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise is such a film – it’s a quintessentially 1980s Hollywood film that’s bursting [...]

September 29, 2026

Review: MICHAEL Is An Energetic Prince Of Pop Biopic

A Michael Jackson biopic was always going to be a tricky proposition. The late pop icon went stratospheric in the 1980s and he still has hordes of dedicated fans, however his personal life was problematic to say the least, as his later years were [...]

August 18, 2026

Review: Sean Connery In Medieval Mystery THE NAME OF THE ROSE

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name Of The Rose is a richly textured medieval mystery where Sean Connery’s Franciscan friar attempts to solve a series of murders in an Italian monastery. Released in 1986, this adaptation of Umberto Eco’s best [...]

August 6, 2026

William Petersen and John Pankow in To Live And Die In L.A.

Review: Willam Friedkin’s ’80s Noir TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. Gets A Great 4K UHD Release From Arrow Films

In an era of slick and commercial Hollywood thrillers, few films came as subversive as William Friedkin’s To Live And Die In L.A.. Friedkin’s modern noir is a cinematic shot to the face, a bold and brash thriller that grabs your expectations, [...]

July 24, 2026

Review: Arrow Films’ 4K UHD Release Of SOYLENT GREEN Starring Charlton Heston

Science Fictions films don’t get any more prescient than Richard Fleischer‘s Soylent Green. Released in 1973, the film sees Charlton Heston play a detective trying to solve a crime that leads to a humanity-shaking conspiracy. Set against the [...]

July 21, 2026

Review: James Garner Is Raymond Chandler’s MARLOWE

Raymond Chandler’s iconic – and laconic – private detective Philip Marlowe has been fodder for Hollywood all the way back to Murder, My Sweet in 1944 starring Dick Powell. That film ripped Marlowe from the pages of Chandler’s [...]

June 25, 2026

Joan Collins in Empire of The Ants artwork

Review: It’s Joan Collins Vs Giant Insects In EMPIRE OF THE ANTS

Look, I don’t know if you can call Empire Of The Ants a good film in the traditional sense. Well, actually – scratch that – I’m positively certain that you wouldn’t call it a good film in the traditional sense. However, I’m also [...]

June 19, 2026

Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins in Ginger Snaps

Blu-ray Review: THE GINGER SNAPS TRILOGY Is A Finely Honed Horror Franchise

I remember Ginger Snaps coming out 25 years ago and getting good reviews. For whatever reason, I never engaged with the film, I might have lumped it in with the many post-Scream, ironic horror films of the time, or maybe I found the title a little [...]

June 5, 2026

Review: Stellan Skarsgård Unravels In Nordic Noir INSOMNIA

A sun dappled neo-noir, Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Insomnia is an off-beat thriller with an exceptionally strong central performance by Stellan Skarsgård. Released in 1997, this Norwegian thriller takes place in the arctic circle, the land of the [...]

May 14, 2026

Review: The New 4K Arrow Films Release Of SOLDIER Really Hits The Mark

Some films just aren’t appreciated in their time. For whatever reason – be that marketing, a poor release date or a million other factors – some films just don’t connect with an audience when they first come out. However, [...]

April 19, 2026

Blu-ray Review: Love Is A Monster For Sam Neill & Isabelle Adjani In POSSESSION

Horror cinema can come in many shapes and sizes, tackling a variety of themes and topics, using the genre to explore different aspects of the human condition. Superficially, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession is a horror film (a creature feature, [...]

December 22, 2025

Blu-ray Review: TALK TO ME Is A Gripping Horror Film – In More Ways Than One!

Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk To Me is an astute film debut from the directing brothers. It’s a mean, lean piece of Aussie genre filmmaking that knows precisely when to shock and when to sucker punch the emotions. It’s a grisly [...]

August 8, 2025

Drawing of a young girl and a pit-bull dog.

Blu-ray Review: WHEN EVIL LURKS – A Bleak Look At Demonic Possession

Look, I don’t know how many demonic possession movies have been made since William Friedkin unleashed The Exorcist into the world way back in 1973 – but I’m guessing that the number is probably in the thousands by now. You know the drill: [...]

July 26, 2025

1970s style artwork for The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

Blu-ray Review: Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling Impress In Shane Black’s THE NICE GUYS

Shane Black’s The Nice Guys is a witty slice of throwback 1970s-set noir that packs a hugely entertaining punch. Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling play Jackson Healey and Holland March, two down on their luck Los Angeles detectives tracking down a [...]

July 8, 2025

Blu-ray Review: HITCHCOCK: THE BEGINNING

Some of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films get the release they deserve with StudioCanal’s Blu-ray box-set, Hitchcock: The Beginning. This epic collection features ten of Hitchcock’s early works, covering the period from 1927 to 1932. It’s the [...]

December 28, 2024

Blu-ray Review: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT – Still Great 25 Years On

Horror cinema was taken to a whole new level 25 years ago when The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere, broke box office records – and for better or for worse – single-handedly ushered in the ‘found footage’ sub-genre. The set-up [...]

November 2, 2024

Blu-ray Review: Rutger Hauer Is On The Road To Hell In THE HITCHER

A staple of video shops when it hit VHS in the 1980s (the artwork is forever seared into my brain), The Hitcher didn’t exactly set the box office alight on its cinematic release – but its reputation grew over time and it eventually became a [...]

October 27, 2024

Blu-ray Review: LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL Is 1970s TV Hell

Get ready for some late-night horror as Australian filmmakers Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes deliver the 1970s set fright pic, Late Night With The Devil. This is a pseudo-found footage film framed around a live television broadcast in which David [...]

October 26, 2024

Review: Adam Wingard’s YOU’RE NEXT Is A Darkly Comedic Home Invasion Horror

There’s quite a lot to recommend in director Adam Wingard’s You’re Next, a darkly comedic home invasion film which takes the horror sub-genre and flips it on its head. It’s all very entertaining and as it builds, it becomes even funnier and [...]

July 28, 2024

Blu-ray Review: Horror Gets Animated In STOPMOTION

Stopmotion, the feature debut from animation director Robert Morgan, is a haunting and visceral exploration of artistic obsession and psychological horror. This is one of those fugue state nightmare pieces where the mood seeps under your skin and it [...]

July 2, 2024

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