Cert PG | 100 mins | 1976
5 Star
The Man, The Swagger, The Leg Iron.
The Man, the legend that was John Wayne (Rio Grande, Red River, My Darling Clementine) delivers his last film role as a man that has been through a lot in his life as a one time sheriff, who turned gunslinger, with over thirty bodies fallen to his pearl handled guns. Based on Glendon…more
Cert 15 | 104 mins | 1974
5 Star
The Audacious Heist Movie!
From the pen of Morton Freedgood (pen name John Godey. Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today) comes the film of the same name, that was so good there have been two remakes. (But never surpassed in my view). Directed by Joseph Sargent (Jaws: The Revenge, Colossus: The Forbin Project) who takes a…more
Cert 15 | 90 mins | 2023
4 Star
A Neo-noir Spaghetti Western
Francis Galluppi is a writer, director, producer, editor, and music composer, but this is his first feature film, and he has got off with a bang, in this death in bright sunlight neo-noir slow burner. As you watch, you will feel the tension building to the point you know it is going to pop, then he…more
Cert 18 | 116–101 mins | 1985
5 Star
UK Does Cult Sci-fi
Arrow Video do us cult Sci-fi fans a huge favour in their latest 4K release, with Lifeforce the 1985 box-office flop. But it has stood the test of time with this amazing conversion, with great special effects for the time and stand out practical effects. With Sci-fi/ horror royalty co-writing in Dan O’Bannon (Alien, The Return…more
Cert 18 | 70, 106, 93 mins | 1968, 1975, 1979
5 Star
He Came, He Filmed, He Became a Legend.
From being an independent writer, director, producer and editor, Russ Meyer (Faster Pussycat… Kill! Kill!, Motorpsycho!, Up!) changed the film industry forever, with sexploitation, social commentary, racism, drama and the downright weird, all lead by his bevy of top-heavy leading ladies. All three films are over-the-top in their main theme of lust…more
Cert 15 | 99 mins | 2007
4 Star
No Sleep Till D.C.
After fifty-five years, it was deemed time to do a remake of the 1956 film ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’, so in 2007 first time writer David Kajganich (True Story, A Bigger Splash) brings the story into a new century and shows its sensibilities. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, Five Minutes of Heaven) who has two…more
Cert PG | 104 mins | 1949
5 Star
What’s That in the Shadows.
This Graham Greene (The Fallen Idol, This Gun For Hire), Orson Welles (A Man for all Seasons, Citizen Kane) written masterpiece has been dubbed the greatest British film of all time, and who am I to argue against the sublime monochrome marvellous feat of cinematography by
Robert Krasker (El Cid, Brief Encounter) and direction by Carol…more
