Cert 15 | 109 mins | 1981
5 Star
4K Sci-fi True Grit.
Arrow Film bring us another classic Sci-fi film, this time from 1981, a film written and directed by Peter Hyams (Time Cop, 2010: The Year We Make Contact), it’s commonly agreed that it is a reworking of High Noon, but in space. Where a man takes his job far too seriously, and he won’t back down…more
Cert 15 | 300 mins | 2023
4 Star
Second Play Through Time.
This anime is based on the Japanese light novel series written by Tenichi. MVM brings us the full twelve episodes in this collection. Where we see a young woman reborn in a world based on the otome game Our Ray of Light, she had been playing the game for a really long time, and she knows…more
Cert 12 | 660 mins | 1975
5 Star
The Sweeney, Harder Hitting than Earnie Shavers.
1 September 1975 and series two of the Sweeney hits Thames television. With Regan (John Thaw, A Year In Provence, Inspector Morse) and Carter (Dennis Waterman, New Tricks, Minder) and the rest of the Flying Squad keeping the streets of London safe. This time there are more shooters, more tyre-screeches and it gets…more
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
