Category: Blu Ray
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Room At The Top Four Star Blu Ray Review
Room At The Top (1959) directed by Jack Clayton adapted from John Braine’s 1957 novel by Neil Paterson is the movie that kicked off the Kitchen Sink drama cinema movement of the late 1950s where British filmmakers inspired by European auteur took a realistic and frank approach in the stories it told, usually in working…
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The Comedy Man Four Star Blu Ray Review
The Comedy Man directed by Canadian Alvin Rakoff filmed in 1962 and shelved until 1964 only to be dumped on a double feature with Lord Of The Flies the film stars Kenneth More as Chick Byrd a travelling actor who’s age is catching up with him as he tries to make a living as an…
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Fear City Three Star Blu Ray Review
The first foray into studio filmmaking for exploitation movie director Abel Ferrara and his screenwriter Nicolas St John Fear City stars Tom Berenger (Matt) & Jack Scalia (Nicky) as booking agents for strippers who perform across New York’s Exotic Dancing clubs; both men deal with certain “connected” people who run the city’s seedy night time…
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V/H/S 1985 Three Star Blu Ray Review
The sixth instalment of the V/H/S 1985 opens with its wraparound story an Unsolved Mysteries style TV series called Total Copy on a man called Roy who is a test subject at a university that flits in and out of the movie which is a sci-fi horror tale around theme of sending recordings out into…
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VHS 1994 Three Star Blu Ray Review
The fourth instalment of the V/H/S franchise the film opens with its wraparound Holy Hell directed by Jennifer Reed a SWAT team working their way through a building that has several TVs which people have been made to watch and serves as the lead into each of the segments. Storm Drain In the first segment…
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Nightmares In Damaged Brain Four Star 4K/Blu Ray Review
The Romano Scavolini directed Nightmare was released at a time in the early 80s when slasher movies were the flavour of the day with horror fans and infamous in terms of UK home video censorship. Nightmare is the story of George Tatum(Baird Stafford) an inmate at a hospital for the criminally insane is placed into…
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Circle Of Danger Four Star Blu Ray Review
Circle Of Danger (1951) directed by Jaques Tourneur is a British/American Co-Production starring the Welsh-born Oscar winner Ray Milland with Scottish roots as Clay Douglas who travels from America to find out information on the death of his brother who was killed during WW2 from the men he served under as part of a commando…
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Dark Winds Season 1 Four Star Blu Ray Review
Dark Winds is a 2022 6 part TV drama from AMC based on the Leaphorn & Chee Novel series by Tony Hillerman arrives on DVD and Blu Ray from Acorn. The series set in 1971 New Mexico opens with two inciting incidents, one being a Robbery involving a helicopter and the second incident being the…
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Santa Claus The Movie Four Star 4K/Blu Ray Review
Santa Claus The Movie was produced by Illya and Alexander Salkind who had less than orthodox business methods such as making one long movie and then splitting them in two while only paying cast & crew for one when it came to making Two Musketeer film adaptations in the 70s starring Oliver Reed. But their…
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Interview With The Vampire Three Star TV Series Blu-Ray Review
In the world of multiverses, the work of the late Anne Rice is the next to mine and AMC which had massive success with The Walking Dead & Breaking Bad has decided to bring her work to long-form TV rather than the confines of a film’s narrative structure. In the seven-episode series, we follow the…