This DVD consists of one disc but two movies about Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band from the good old south of the USA who were on the music scene for around four years in the middle 70s. The boys were very proud of their Southern heritage, playing songs about the issues facing the South and at […]

Directed by Alexander Payne
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is 66 and retires from his position as Assistant Vice President and Actuary with Woodmen of the World Insurance Company. Sound impressive but in reality a pretty humdrum position. The film opens with him sitting at his cleared and bare desk watching the clock count down the final seconds […]

Directed by Garrett Smith and Darren Powell. This DVD is really three different ways to SHOW how a man and a horse can form a bond together and enter a working partnership. The first part is all about Snowy, the Wild Horse of the Tinderry Ranges. Snowy is a mare running with three other brumbies […]

This film is an intense and visually powerful trip into the heart of a nomadic inuit community, and its stuggle to survive the evil presence that has dominated their lives. The film’s focus is two brothers, Amaqjuaq and Atanarjuat. They find themselves in the firing line from Oki, the arrogant and greedy son of their […]

This is another Carry On film I was keen to see  I dont recall seeing this one ever before, amazingly  but this one let me down! Even the usually wonderful Sid James and Hattie Jacques couldnt save it for me. I now think that the earlier films in this otherwise great comedy series […]

Here I go again highlighting my love of the politically incorrect. I jumped at the chance to review some of these recently released titles even though I believe theyre not the best examples of this truly cheeky British comedy series. Theres one thing I have to get off my chest immediately  when are all […]

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow with James Cameron as the Executive ProducerThis is a cops’n’robbers film set in Los Angeles. Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), a footballing jock with brains enough to become a lawyer, has just graduated from the main FBI academy and asks to be posted to LA. He joins the Robbery Squad and gets […]

This is not one of the easiest reviews I have had to do (for the reasons you will soon discover), so it is in two parts
Part I  the expectation
If you are expecting a gritty, action WWII saga  forget it! This is merely an excuse for a wartime romantic drama set around the time […]

Written and directed by James CameronThis is an absolute classic action movie and one that has spawned many imitators but, in your humble correspondent’s view, none better. For those of you who don’t know, Arnie stars in the sequel to the original Terminator movie, made after a 7 year break by essentially the same cast […]

Based on a true story, and at almost two and a half hours in length, this is quite an immersive film experience. If you havent got into the film by the first hour, youre unlikely to, so you may as well turn it off and do something else with your time. I think I would […]