3 Women, 1977.Directed by Robert Altman Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell and Craig Richard Nelson.SYNOPSIS:An awkward adolescent begins work at a spa in the Californian desert. The shy and reserved young woman becomes overly attached to her more confident co-worker and eventual room-mate.3 Women is a memorably disturbing […]
Movie Review – 7 Minutes (2014)
7 Minutes, 2014.Written and Directed by Jay Martin. Starring Jason Ritter, Luke Mitchell, Zane Holtz, Levin Rambin, Kevin Gage, Joel Murray, Brandon Hardesty and Kris Kristofferson.SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends are forced to commit a brazen robbery which quickly goes horribly wrong.Ok, get in the bank, take the money and be out of there in […]
Movie Review – Deliver Us (Liberami) (2016)
Deliver Us (Liberami), 2017Directed by Federica Di Giacomo.SYNOPSIS:A documentary film exploring exorcism and the role the practise has in a contemporary society searching for a cure for various ills, be they physical, mental or spiritual.Exorcism. To most of us that spells out unlucky priests gripping onto their crosses, noisy demonic activity and sweary puking possessed […]
Movie Review – School Life (2016)
School Life, 2016.Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane.SYNOPSIS:Feature documentary based at a stately home turned boarding school where long careers in teaching are drawing to a close for Amanda and John Leyden.Closely examining a year in the life of the Headfort School in Ireland, School Life is a charming and inspiring look at […]
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 criminal networks and […]
Blu-ray Review – Nightmare City (1980)
Nightmare City (Incubo Sulla Citta Contaminata), 1980.Directed by Umberto Lenzi. Starring Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Mel Ferrer, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo and Ugo Bologna. SYNOPSIS :A mysterious radiation exposed airplane lands, unleashing a deadly crew of blood sucking zombies. A reporter and his doctor wife track their progress on their deadly mission across an […]
DVD Review – Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Soldiers of the Damned, 2015.Directed by Mark Nuttall. Starring Gil Darnell, Miriam Cooke, Lucas Hansen, Tom Sawyer, Mark Fountain and Nicky Bell.SYNOPSIS:The Eastern Front, 1944. A German Army Major is ordered to escort a female scientist into a mysterious Romanian forest on fear of death for him and his men… World War 2 horrors on […]
Blu-ray Review – La Grande Bouffe (1973)
La Grande Bouffe, 1973.Directed by Marco Ferreri. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Phillipe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Andrea Ferreol.SYNOPSIS:Four professional men retreat to a villa with the express aim of eating themselves to death… The elegiac chaos of La Grande Bouffe – literally the big eat – created something of a storm at the 1973 […]
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 most exceptional filmmakers […]
Movie Review – Manglehorn (2014)
Manglehorn, 2014.Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina, Harmony Korine and Natalie Wilemon. SYNOPSIS:Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, Manglehorn, an eccentric small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend. With a story bristling with an […]
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