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Uncovering Curiosities: Julie Delpy’s 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK

French filmmaker Julie Delpy’s follow-up to 2 Days In Paris, titled 2 Days In New York is a pleasant enough screwball comedy – think of it as a Woody Allen film made by a neurotic French woman, rather than a neurotic New Yorker. The 2012 [...]

August 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Roger Moore In THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF

The Man Who Haunted Himself stars a post-Saint, pre-James Bond Roger Moore as Harold Pelham, a London businessman who almost dies in a severe car accident. He makes a recovery, but on his return to work he realises that someone claiming to be him is [...]

August 27, 2020

Closed Competition: Win The Brilliant Horror Film THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW On DVD

Andy Mitton’s brilliant The Witch In The Window will be released on DVD in the UK by Network on 8 July. To celebrate this horror masterpiece hitting the streets, Movies In Focus is giving away two copies of the film on DVD. Read the Movies In [...]

June 29, 2019

DVD Review: THE GOODIES – THE COMPLETE BBC COLLECTION

Monty Python meets The Monkees – that’s the easy pitch for classic ’70s comedy show, The Goodies. Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie are the trio of do gooders (or should that be goodies) in this huge collection which [...]

October 1, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Gritty ’70s British Horror-Thriller ASSAULT

Suzy Kendall and Frank Finlay take the lead in Assault, a gritty British horror-thriller from 1971. A vicious sex attacker is prowling the woods near and all-girls school and the only person who can identify him is Kendall’s feisty art [...]

September 2, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Lewis Collins And Martin Shaw Are Bodie And Doyle THE PROFESSIONALS MkIV

Get ready to roll over the bonnet of your Ford Capri – the fourth season of The Professionals MkIV has hit blu-ray! The Brian Clemons created show is a must for nostalgists – and this digitally spruced up disc set from Network is an [...]

April 30, 2016

Blu-ray Review: QUATERMASS Is A Prime Piece Of 1970s British Sci-Fi

John Mills takes on the role of the alien hunting Professor Bernard Quatermass in this four part TV mini-series. The £1 million Euston Films production might be dated now – but it’s surprisingly entertaining. This take on Nigel [...]

July 28, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s Terrorist Thriller SABOTAGE – As Relevant As It Was In 1936

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1936 film is one of the master of suspense’s earlier efforts, but it once again shows why he’s one of cinema’s greatest directors. Based on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent Sabotage follows a cinema owner turned bomber [...]

June 6, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Michael Winner Directs Marlon Brando And Stephanie Beacham In THE NIGHTCOMERS

A prequel of sorts to Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, The Nightcomers is a sexually charged gothic thriller with Marlon Brando and Stephanie Beacham.This is the type of film which could only have come from director Michael Winner as it oozes [...]

February 1, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Get More Roger Moore In THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF

July 2, 2013

DVD Review: Sean Connery Carries Out Operation Snafu In ON THE FIDDLE

On The Fiddle is a 1961 British comedy which is mainly notable for giving Sean Connery an early (co)starring role. The film sees Alfred Lynch star as a Horace Pope, a conman who unwittingly ends up in the RAF during WWII. Pope joins forces with [...]

March 13, 2013

DVD Review: Go Ape With KONGA

Your interest in Konga will depend on your interest in old B-movies. If you think that bad acting and terrible effects mean that a movie is simply appalling then I suggest that you give it a miss. However, if you revel in camp performances, [...]

March 12, 2013

DVD Review: OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB – THE COMPLETE SERIES

Overseas Press Club is an odd anthology series, which details 13 ‘extraordinary, real life’ news stories from the post-World War II era. Each story clocks in at just less than 30 minutes and they rattle through quite a lot of plot in that [...]

November 27, 2012

DVD Review: Julie Delpy And Chris Rock In The Screwball Rom-Com 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK

Julie Delpy’s follow-up to 2 Days In Paris, titled 2 Days In New York is a pleasant enough screwball comedy – think of it as a Woody Allen film made by a neurotic French woman, rather than a neurotic New Yorker. It’s entertaining, but it [...]

October 3, 2012

Blu-ray Review: THE SWEENEY Series One

Much has been written about The Sweeney over the last forty years – and all of it is true – it’s a rip-roaring detective drama, with fantastic characters, great scripts and spot-on acting. Creator Ian Kennedy Martin based The Sweeney on the [...]

September 10, 2012

DVD Review: WWII Drama Series ENEMY AT THE DOOR

Enemy At The Door is a drama series that was originally screened in the UK on ITV from 1978 to 1980. The show deals with the lives of the inhabitants of Guernsey, an island in the Channel Islands when the German forces occupied the region during the [...]

June 4, 2012