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| 17 Jul 2019 |
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| Finnish metal music comedy Heavy Trip on digital platforms in August |
| After 12 years of practicing in their parents' basement, Finnish metal band Impaled Rektum land the opportunity to play the biggest music festival in Norway in Juuso Laatio and Aleksi Puranen's feature directorial debut, on digital platforms in August from Sparky Pictures. |
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| 13 Jul 2019 |
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| 12 Jul 2019 |
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| 11 Jul 2019 |
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| 9 Jul 2019 |
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| FM |
| A successful Los Angeles radio station comes into conflict with its corporate owners over advertising plans in cinematographer John A. Alonzo's light-hearted, music-driven drama. Slarek likes how it all begins but is less enthralled by where it subsequently takes him. Great soundtrack, though! |
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| 8 Jul 2019 |
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| Apollo 11 |
| History is a vast presentation of subjective interpretation written in books. By the winners. In 1969, when mankind realised a potential it has now tragically discarded, words were joined by TV, 16mm, 35mm and 70mm film. Camus is stunned anew at Apollo 11... |
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| 7 Jul 2019 |
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| Cujo and the problem of how to end a movie |
| In a hugely belated blog, Slarek belatedly follows up his review of Eureka's Blu-ray release of Lewis Teague's excellent Cujo with a spoiler-littered look at some issues he has with with the film's final scene and how ending a movie well can sometimes prove a challenge. |
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| 4 Jul 2019 |
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| Yesterday |
| "Scrambled eggs... oh my baby, how I love your legs..." was the placeholder lyric for the most covered and arguably the most famous song in the world. Its eventual title is also that of Richard Curtis’ and Danny Boyle’s movie love-letter to the Beatles. Camus wonders why she had to go... (she wouldn’t say). |
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| 4 Jul 2019 |
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| 4 Jul 2019 |
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| 2 Jul 2019 |
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| 29 Jun 2019 |
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| 28 Jun 2019 |
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| 24 Jun 2019 |
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| Scum |
| Ray Winstone is electrifying as the put-upon borstal inmate who grabs power fom the incumbent 'daddy' in Alan Clarke and Roy Minton's brilliant feature remake of their equally brilliant but banned TV play. Slarek revisits a key film of his teenage years on Indicator's superb new Blu-ray. |
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| 24 Jun 2019 |
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| Toy Story 4 |
| This writer has a twenty-year history with Woody and Buzz. His son was three when the first one came out and is now pushing twenty-three. He grew up with the toys and the films. Camus had some reservations but does emotionally engage with Toy Story 4… |
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| 23 Jun 2019 |
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| A Case for a Rookie Hangman |
| One of the Czech New Wave's strangest (and yet still modestly accessible) films, A Case for a Rookie Hangman is Pavel Juráček's take on Jonathan Swift brewed with healthy bits of Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The bold and compelling result is released by Second Run in a new restoration, reviewed here by clydefro. |
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| 19 Jun 2019 |
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| Under Fire |
| Nick Nolte is superb as a photojournalist covering the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979 in Roger Spottiswoode's electrifying 1983 political thriller, Under Fire. Slarek takes a detailed look at one of his very favourite films on Eureka's excellent new Blu-ray release. |
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| 17 Jun 2019 |
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| The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne |
| Maggie Smith excels in this character portrait of a lonely woman in the 1950s whose impoverished and religious life has thwarted her modest emotional ambitions. Camus breaks out the hidden whiskey reviewing Indicator’s new Blu-ray of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne… |
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| 12 Jun 2019 |
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| No Orchids for Miss Blandish |
| In his first review for the site for many months, Gort returns to grapple with a film that's still getting scathing reviews 70 years after it was first shocked critics and outraged moralists. Now you can see what the fuss was about thanks to Indicator's typically excellent Blu-ray release. |
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| 4 Jun 2019 |
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| The Andromeda Strain |
| A small town New Mexico is almost completely wiped out by an alien organism and four scientists are recruited to locate the virus and find a way to combat it in Robert Wise's superb film adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1969 novel. Slarek revisits a favourite sf movie on Arrow's excellent new Blu-ray. |
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| 2 Jun 2019 |
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| John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum |
| I took the first John Wick extremely seriously. Someone killed his dog so people had to die (I can live with that). In Chapter 2, things got a little highfalutin but in Parabellum, the absurd became wildly comic. Camus revels in the delirium of cinematic violence. |
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| 27 May 2019 |
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| Bellman and True |
| Bernard Hill plays a computer expert who is strongarmed into aiding a bank robbery in the Bellman and True, Richard Loncraine's strangely overlooked crime drama from 1987. Slarek finds much to admire in the film, and even more on Indicator's new Blu-ray release. |
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| 27 May 2019 |
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| Who? |
| Director Jack Gold made a few big screen additions to his CV as well as all the exceptional TV work he was most famous for. Who? was a 70s film this reviewer caught early and it made quite the impression. Camus returns to Cold War paranoia… |
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| 23 May 2019 |
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| The Woman in the Window |
| A desperate act of self-defence sees a mild-mannered college professor fighting for his freedom as a murder investigation closes in around him in Fritz Lang's 1944 film noir classic. Slarek slides into the shadows to discuss the film, Eureka's new Blu-ray and that one, slightly controversial twist... |
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