Joe Dante is a director who has over the years got a deserved cult following with films such as Gremlins, Explorers and The Howling and here tackles paranoia in suburbia in the classic The Burbs. Family man Ray Peterson (Tom Read more…
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One of the latter-day Hammer horrors gets a nice Blu Ray release from Network in the UK, Hands Of The Ripper. When a fake psychic is murdered, Dr John Pritchard cannot bring himself to believe that the only suspect – Read more…
Over the years there have been many conspiracy theories about the moon landings and how they were faked and filmed somewhere in the desert etc and it was only a matter of time when someone took that theory and made Read more…
Starring Christopher Lee and Patrick Allen, Night of the Big Heat is set on the remote island of Fara where soaring temperatures are putting everyone on edge. Godfrey Hanson (Christopher Lee) and writer Geoff (Patrick Allen) try to uncover the Read more…
Network in the UK has released the film that put Micheal Caine firmly on the map as one of Britain’s finest acting talents, The Ipcress File. Release in 1965 Caine stars as Harry Palmer, a stubbornly insolent sergeant working for Read more…
Unbelievable but A Hard Days Night is now 50 years old. The film which is a comic look at a day in the life of The Beatles has just been given a HD Blu ray release in the UK by Read more…
The Driver is director Walter Hill’s second feature in which Ryan O’Neal plays a loner but also an excellent getaway driver for hire. Bruce Dern is the detective who becomes obsessed with catching him. The more O’Neal leaves tantalising clues at Read more…
Network in the UK are releasing some interesting classic British films onto Blu Ray, no more so than this sometimes odd drama featuring music legend Ray Charles Making his only major film appearance, Ballad In Blue. During a performance for Read more…
John Cusack is one of those actors with whom you can always rely on a good performance and one of his best was in this 1997 action/comedy Grosse Pointe Blank. Martin Blank is a hit man stuck in a career Read more…
“Who is going to believe a talking head, get a job in a sideshow!” Fans of Horror in the 1980’s had a lot of great movies coming at them especially on VHS and it was at times hard to separate Read more…