In Escape Plan two of the 80’s action icons, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger finally star in a film together, not counting the small cameo’s Arnold did in The Expendables and the end result is a mixed bag but a Read more…
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White Dog made in 1982 is a film which was dismissed and not shown for many years because of its controversial racial subject matter, but it is now being released in the UK on Blu Ray by Eureka as part Read more…
Jason Statham has become one of the main guys in the action genre, co-starring with others in films like The Expendables and lone projects such as the excellent Crank. In Homefront he stars in a story written originally by Sylvester Read more…
Hows this for a pitch for a film, Killer ice cream from under the ground which takes over all humans who eat it. Sound crazy? Well, that’s the premise of this 1985 horror/comedy from writer-director Larry Cohen called The Stuff. Read more…
The first interesting thing about The Killers is that it was promoted as the first ever TV Movie, but because of the violence and similarities to the Kennedy assassination at the time, it was instead shown theatrically. It was also Read more…
James Cameron seems to be obsessed with filming both sequels to Avatar at the moment so we take a look back at the film which shot him and Arnold Schwarzenegger to the big time, The Terminator. An indestructible cyborg is Read more…
“Its all in the reflexes” John Carpenter has a big cult following around the world and this film, Big Trouble In Little China is one of his personal favourites. Starring Kurt Russell as Jack Burton who arrives in San Francisco Read more…
Director Nicolas Winding Refn again combines with actor Ryan Gosling after the superb Drive to give you an altogether different outing Only God Forgives. Set in the shady criminal underworld of Thailand Julian Thompson (Gosling) runs a Bangkok boxing club Read more…
Heaven’s Gate is the film a lot of people know as the movie that contributed to the collapse of a major studio but also shows what happens when a director is given too much freedom and money to make a Read more…
Walter Hill has had a few of his classics released to Blu Ray in the UK recently including Southern Comfort and The Long Riders but the one I was most looking forward too was his classic rock and roll fable, Read more…
