I've always struggled with the sleaziest Wes Craven films such The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes. I much prefer Craven when he injects surrealism in his films especially A Nightmare on Elm Street. Craven after that success was given pretty carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. Before Shocker Craven made The … Continue reading Shocker – Blu-Ray Review
Stanley Kramer ever since he started making films back in the late '40s he bridged Hollywood entertainment with a social conscience. Kramer unlike a lot of filmmakers who make politically minded films he had enormous financial success with his films. He dealt with racism in The Defiant Ones back in 1958 and nuclear holocaust in his … Continue reading Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Blu-Ray Review
Rillington Place is currently being shown on the BBC with Tim Roth and Samantha Morton, I haven't seen it yet so can't vouch for its quality. Completely unrelated to that airing Powerhouse Films has released the classic 1971 version of the same story 10 Rillington Place in a UK Blu-Ray debut. It stars two of the finest … Continue reading 10 Rillington Place – Blu-Ray Review
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo recently did one of their Movie Doctors shows in Leeds. The show was their typical irreverent form of banter between the two which is on Friday afternoons on Radio Live 5. They did it before on Radio 1 on the '90s but it didn't become as big as it did till … Continue reading Interview With Mark Kermode
Dark Star may have been Carpenter's debut feature film as a director but it was equally Dan O'Bannon's film. Assault on Precinct 13 however is the film which made people at least in Europe take notice of John Carpenter who remains the arguably the key genre filmmaker of the late '70s and '80s. Carpenter merged his love of … Continue reading Assault on Precinct 13 – Blu-Ray Review
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