Spooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
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Spooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
Continue readingSatyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
Continue readingThe Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
Continue readingBirdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
Continue readingMidnight Run is a fantastic buddy-buddy action comedy and one of many films at the time which bore the extreme brunt of TV censorship in the ’90s when they couldn’t handle the f-word – even …
Continue readingAvengers: Age Of Ultron begins with know-it-all philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) putting into place a peacekeeping program. Why? Because he has far too much time on his hands, and with his ‘Iron Legion’, …
Continue readingStill Life stars Eddie Marsan as John May, a council worker who looks for relatives of the deceased and arranges paupers funerals in the absence of anyone else, as well as the scattering of ashes …
Continue readingOrgazmo, from the creators of the infamous South Park, was one of the first First Independent titles to be released via Columbia TriStar on DVD, in 2000, but had a paucity of extras compared to …
Continue readingHouse On Haunted Hill starts with a TV documentary clip about the Vannacutt lunatic asylum, and how it was run by a murderous ‘doctor’ who was to the patients of the 20th Century, what Harold …
Continue readingInterstellar has arrived on Blu-ray and DVD this week, and the first question you’ll ask is – does it work on the smaller screen? Pretty much, is the short answer, but I’ll go into more …
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