Category: Blu Ray
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The Bells Go Down Three Star Blu Ray Review
The Bells Go Down stars Tommy Trinder as Tommy, a greyhound racer who joins the fire brigade alongside out of work newlywed Bob (Philip Friend) and are being taught by Ted played by a very young & stern James Mason before being called into service during the blitz that began in September 1940. The film…
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Army Of Shadows Four Star Blu Ray Review
The most personal film that Jean Pierre Melville directed due to his involvement with the French Resistance this 1969 adaptation of the Joseph Kessel novel is an account of the struggle & sacrifice of those who fought for their country during World War 2. The film follows Phillippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), who is hauled off…
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Lisa Frankenstein Two Star Blu Ray Review
After the murder of her mother Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) at the hands of a serial killer and sends the girl’s world into chaos making her an outcast within her blended family that includes a new cheerleader sister Taffy (Lisa Sobernano) & at her high school. The young girl spends her time at a local cemetery…
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A Shock To The System Two Star Blu Ray Review
This period in the film career of Micheal Caine is an interesting snapshot of where the actor was in the late 80s into the 90s long before his collaboration with Christopher Nolan on his Batman trilogy. Caine had won an Oscar for his role in Woody Allen’s Hannah & Her Sisters,appearing in junk like Jaws…
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Enter The Clones Of Bruce Four Star Blu Ray Review
After successful screenings around the world Enter The Clones Of Bruce directed by David Gregory arrives on Blu Ray from Severin Films and is a feature-length documentary on the impact in the wake of the sudden passing of Martial Arts legend Bruce Lee at just 32 from a Cerebral Edema. The sudden passing of the…
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The Last Kumite Three Star Digital Review
As someone who began his film education watching 80s action movies in the early 90s and continues his training by watching the lower rung martial arts flick also from this era I was keen to watch this throwback to that time from director Ross.W Clarkson and co-screenwriter Sean David Lowe. When recent champion/widower/Father Michael Rivers…
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Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker Five Star 4K/Blu Ray Review
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker as it’s been released by Severin Films but’s also known as Night Warning and The Evil Protege is an exploitation B horror movie that more people should see thankfully they can with this Special Edition 4K/Blu Ray. The movie opens with a mother and father leaving their son Billy with his…
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Mansion Of The Doomed Three Star Blu Ray Review
Arriving on Blu-Ray for the first time in the UK from 101 Films Mansion Of The Doomed or its original theatrical/home video releases here The Terror of Dr Chaney & Massacre Mansion it’s a 1976 American B picture producing debut of Charles Band who would later create Full Moon Pictures & the work of the…
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Basket Case Four-Star Blu Ray Review
As someone who began his love of horror movies through the VHS and DVD era plus late-night UK treastial TV screenings the work of Frank Henenlotter has fascinated me & fellow genre fans for decades with his directing debut the horror comedy Basket Case from 1982. When the Leif Garrett lookalike Duane Bradley (Kevin Van…
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The Borderlands Four-Star Blu-Ray Review
I started writing for a film website way back in 2013 and at this time Found Footage was the flavour of the month among indie horror filmmakers. I wrote reviews on Banshee Chapter which starred Ted “Buffalo Bill ” Levine playing a Hunter S. Thompson-type character, an obscure Australian Bigfoot scare flick where the director…
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