GANGSTER STORY (1959) – REVIEW

1/10 Wow. Walter Matthau's first and ONLY directorial effort is not only forgettable, it is painful. Apparently shot on a shoestring budget, with a crew of just five and using locations primarily consisting of their own homes, this still doesn't need to be this bad. Matthau is fine. A true actor, doing his job in…

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE (1939) – REVIEW

6/10 Aka "Enemy Agent" here in the UK, this Warner Bros. spy thriller was surprisingly good. Boris Karloff stars as Valdor, a German Agent operating in London during in 1917, or is he...? He is the handler of a fellow Agent, Frances (Margaret Lindsey), who is sent to live with a member of Britsh Intelligence,…

TITANIC (1953) – REVIEW

7/10 Finally, after years on my watch list, I've finally tackled this film. The reason I waited so long, was because I knew that this was going to be more of a melodrama, than a Titanic disaster movie; and I was right. But, that is not nesserily a bad thing. This film was made in…

TURBINE.DE 3D

German company Turbine, have begun to fill the 3D Blu-ray gap left by the top distributors who have abandoned the format. So far, I've only picked up the first 3, but quality is perfect, and they play in 2D if needed. https://turbine-shop.de/en/ Check these out... Jurassic World: Dominion Minions: The Rise of Gru The Bad…

IN HARM’S WAY (1965) – REVIEW

5/10 This was a film that I had never heard of until a couple of months ago. Thanks to Facebook, I was scrolling through the shorts one night and started to see clips from this John Wayne/Kirk Douglas movie. A US naval epic, following the attack of Pearl Harbour in December 1941. An epic I'd…

STAR WARS: A MUSICAL JOURNEY (2005) – REVIEW

8/10 DVD MUSIC VIDEO How would you watch this disc, you may ask? What is it? WHERE is it? Well hidden within the Star Wars Episode III CD Soundtrack is this bonus DVD, containing a compilation of music from the entire Saga (up to that point) in 5.1 surround and taking us on journey through…

AQUAMAN: THE LOST KINGDOM (2023) – REVIEW

4/10 It was long wait. But was it worth it? Avatar 3 was not what I was expecting. For a start, they have recast the entire film! Pandora was the only remaniing location, though for some reason, they kept on calling it Atlantis. And where did Aquaman come from! Well, after a time, realised that…

NIXON (1995) – REVIEW

9/10 When I first watched this film on VHS back in early 1996, I was disappointed. Already being a huge fan of Stones work with JFK (1991), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) and Platoon (1986), I was really looking forward to this Oscar nominated biopic of Richard Milhouose Nixon by a man who…

NIGHT SWIM (2014) – REVIEW

6/10 2014's Night Swim is a 3 and half minute shirt film that would serve as the inspiration for the 2024 movie of the same name. The remake would be directed by this film's co-director, Bruce McGuire, as well as co-written by his directing partner, Ron Blackhurst. As a short, one shot horror piece, it…

ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950) – REVIEW

5/10 None Came Back... Released just weeks before George Pal's "Destination Moon" (1950), Rocketship X-M (Expedition Moon) had claimed to be the first "Realistic" portrayal of space travel. It sometimes asserted this, predating the actual space-race by 7 years with the USSR's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Whilst some of this is true, with…