Cert 12 | 111 mins | 1978
4 Star
Sticking It to the Man
The film is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song “Convoy” by C. W. McCall ( “Wolf Creek Pass”, “There Won’t Be No Country Music (There Won’t Be No Rock ‘n’ Roll)”). The film was made when the CB radio/trucking craze was at its peak in the United States, which lead to the…more
480-900 mins | 2022-24
4 Star
No Honour Amongst the Undead
A new series of Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire. The series is set in Rice’s (Mayfair Witches, The Vampire Chronicles) Immortal Universe (AMC), a shared setting with her other novels. This second series sees the introduction of Delainey Hayles (Holby City) as Claudia. We jump from the early 1900s to the ending of World…more
Cert 12 | 92 mins | 1977
4 Star
Deadly Regretful Actions.
Following the success of the Jaws, executive producer Dino De Laurentiis (Flash Gordon, La Strada) green-lit the project and handed the directing reigns to Michael Anderson (Logan’s Run, Around the World in 80 Days (1956)), who takes us out to Newfoundland where Orcas roam the open seas, living their lives in the family pods.
The cold waters of…more
Cert 12 | 107 mins | 2024
4 Star
Football, Music, Drive By’s and I and I.
From director/writer Reinaldo Marcus Green (We Own This City (TV Mini Series), King Richard) comes the story of the man who came from nothing to change the face of music and the world. Bob Marley, the Rastafarian who promoted the struggles of his fellow Jamaicans and the path to peace in times…more
Cert PG | 77 mins | 1954
3 Star
Emancipated Mars Comes to Earth.
From the pens of John C. Mather and James Eastwood (Beyond Mombasa, The Scales of Justice), and the direction by David MacDonald (Law and Disorder, The Brothers) comes a British Sci-Fi cult classic in this black and white shocker. As it tries to break into the classics such as ‘The day the Earth Stood Still’,…more
Cert 15 | 112 mins | 1973
5 Star
Big Trouble in Little Italy.
What a treat for the Filmophiles out there, as Second Sight Films brings us the 1973 instant classic, from the sixty-year career of Martin Scorsese who brought us such classics as Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, and still doing it today with Killers of the Flower Moon. Mean Streets is set where…more
Cert 18 | 262 mins | 1974
5 Star
Stunning Martial Arts Violence.
1974 was a very busy year for Shigehiro Ozawa (Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist, House of Gamblers) as he brings us three of the most violent (at the time) Martial Arts films, all staring the great Shin’ichi Chiba (Sonny Chiba) (The Executioner, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2). One man versus’s the Yakuza and the…more
