Cert 15 | 82 mins | 2020
3 Star
Guns, Drugs and a Payday.
Writer/director Christian Sesma (Vigilante Diaries (TV Series) (7 episodes), Vigilante Diaries) brings us another of his gangland payback films, in the guise of Paydirt. With more Hollywood A Lister’s as the pulling power for this film.
Paydirt starts five years ago, in the middle of the night people with large machinery are in the middle of…more
Cert U | 222 mins | 1923, 1925, 1927
5 Star
More Slips, More Stunts, More Keaton.
Once again we have to thank The Keaton Project 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection to restore all Buster Keaton films between 1920 – 1928 and also Eureka The Masters of Cinema for putting together this amazing comedy classic package. This volume sees our zero go too hero as a man…more
Cert PG | 110 mins | 1928
4 Star
The Afflicted, The Cursed and Love.
Dicrector Paul Leni (Sleeping Beauty, Waxworks, The Cat and the Canary) takes Victor Hugo‘s (Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) 1869 novel of the same name and creates a film that is not a horror, but you can’t get closer to one than this macabre love story. The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) has…more
Cert 15 | 1174 mins | 1965 - 2006
5 Star
The Kaiju of all Box Sets.
Arrow Video have outdone themselves with this monster box set. Who would have thought back in November 1965 when director Noriaki Yuasa (Attack of the Monsters, Ultraman 80 (TV Series), Kosupure senshi Cutie Knight) and produced and distributed by the groundbreaking Daiei Film (Rashomon, Gate of Hell, Ugetsu) released Gamera, the Giant Monster that…more
Cert PG | 96 mins | 1943
5 Star
Melodrama at its Best.
#237 in the Masters of Cinema range brings us another Billy Wilder (Witness For The Prosecution, The Apartment, A Foreign Affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) classic wartime thriller, this time a film from his early career, and you can see the makings of a great director from all the varied scenes in this film.…more
Cert PG | 90 mins | 1989
5 Star
Time not to Fail
The iconic farewell to the 1980’s comes to Blu-ray and 4K UHD with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Stephen Herek started his directorship with the comedy/horror/sci-fi hit Critters, then he followed it up with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and he made a name for himself during the 1990’s with The Mighty Ducks, The Three Musketeers,…more
Cert 15 | 100 mins | 1989
4 star genuinely scary British horror/mystery.
The Woman In Black is a made for T.V. film first shown in the UK on Christmas Eve 1989. It is based on the 1983 novel of the same name written by Susan Hill (The Mist In the Mirror, I’m the King of the Castle) and directed by the great Herbert Wise (I Claudius, The…more
