The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, 1981. Directed by Walerian Borowczyk. Starring Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg, Howard Vernon and Clément Harari SYNOPSIS: An engagement party for the brilliant young Dr. Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne descends into terror when dinner guests start turning up brutally murdered inside and outside the house… […]
DVD Review – Fog and Crimes – Season 2
Fog and Crimes (Nebbie e Delitti) Season 2 Directed by Riccardo Donna. Starring Luca Barbareschi, Natasha Stefanenko, Giuseppe Antignati, Gianluca Gobbi and Paulo de Vita. SYNOPSIS: A tough and resourceful homicide investigator struggles to keep work and personal life together in the Northern Italian city of Ferrara. Focusing on fundamentally shady melodramatic goings-on in Northern […]
Movie Review – Wild Tales (2014)
Wild Tales, 2014. Written and Directed by Damián Szifron. Starring Dario Grandinetti, Ricardo Darín, Erica Rivas, Diego Gentile, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Rita Cortese. SYNOPSIS: A six standalone story anthology film that draws together troubled lives focused by violence, obsession and revenge… Multi-story features can hold many a delight for all kinds of audiences. One draw […]
DVD Review – Amour Fou (2014)
Amour Fou, 2014. Written and Directed by Jessica Hausner. Starring Christian Friedel, Birte Schnoeink, Stephan Grossmann and Katharina Schuttler. SYNOPSIS: Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love. After initially being refused to form a suicide pact with his cousin, he meets the young and impressionable romantic […]
DVD Review – Dying of the Light (2014)
Dying of the Light, 2014. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Irene Jacob, Victor Webster and Alexander Karim. SYNOPSIS: Burned out CIA operative Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) is forced into early retirement due to a degenerative medical diagnosis. Aided by an up and coming field agent Milton Schultz (Anton Yelchin) […]
DVD Review – Tommy (2014)
Tommy, 2014. Directed by Tarik Saleh. Starring Moa Gammel, Ola Rapace, Lykke Li, Johan Rabaeus, Alexej Manvelov, Alexander Stocks and Inez Buckner. SYNOPSIS: A week before Christmas, Estelle lands at Arlanda Airport. A year earlier, she had left Stockholm on the run with her husband Tommy and their daughter… Focusing on the grim underbelly of Stockholm’s […]
Blu-ray Review – The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silver and James Gregory. SYNOPSIS: A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. Exploring the extremes of cold war paranoia in a […]
Movie Review – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy, 2014. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Fatma Mohamed, Eugenia Caruso and Monica Swinn. SYNOPSIS: Two lovers engage in a ritualistic passage of behaviour that brings one close to obsession and one looking for a way out… Peter Strickland is without a shadow of a doubt one of the […]
Movie Review – Snow in Paradise (2014)
Snow in Paradise, 2014. Directed by Andrew Hulme. Starring Frederick Schmidt, Martin Askew, David Spinx, Aymen Hamdouchi, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Ashley Chin, Joel Beckett and Clive Brunt. SYNOPSIS: Dave’s a petty criminal living on drugs and violence in East London. When his actions kill his best friend, he’s propelled into feelings of shame and remorse. Discovering […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killing (1956)
The Killing, 1956. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C.Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia and Timothy Carey. SYNOPSIS: Seven men are intent on executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million dollars. But nothing goes quite as planned… Kubrick’s third feature was […]
