DVD Review: Bloody Homecoming (2012)

Review by Ben Bussey Oh, the temptation to write a spiteful one sentence review. It would be so easy to do with a little perfunctory wordplay on the title. Bloody Hell. Bloody Waste of Time. What Was The Bloody Point of That, Then? When a film is promoted to you as “an unusually effective homage […]

DVD Review: Dracula the Dark Prince (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey About twenty minutes into this film, I found myself wishing I’d taken a leaf out of Annie’s book and attempted this one as an as-it-happens review, much as she did with Adam Chaplin recently. As this slightly oddball, clearly cut-price attempt to capture the Dracula prequel market on DVD prior to […]

DVD Review: Muirhouse (2012)

By Keri O’Shea As a fan and as a reviewer, I can usually find plenty to say about the pre-release movies I get sent. It’s what we do here, after all. Whether I love a film or I hate it, I can – I hope – explain my response to it in a fairly detailed […]

Review: The Devil’s Bargain (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey What would you do if you knew it was your last day on Earth – indeed, the last day on Earth full stop? We tend to love our post-apocalyptic fantasies – in which, invariably, it is not life itself but the social order that has been eradicated – but movies which actually face the end […]

Review: Wakey Wakey (2012)

Review by Ben Bussey My mama always said that life is like a microbudget indie movie from a first time writer-director: you never know what you’re gonna get. Oftentimes the results are a little messy, with inexperience and uncertainty very much in evidence. However, there’s often a spark of real excitement and a charge of […]

DVD Review: Bounty Killer (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey It all could have gone so well. A dystopian futuristic fantasy for the Occupy generation, Bounty Killer shows a devastated world in which – hooray! – the white collar criminals have actually been held accountable for their crimes, every tax-dodging corporate fat cat having been forced into hiding with a price […]

Review: Wake in Fright (1971)

Review by Tristan Bishop In our digital, cloud storage age, it’s almost impossible to imagine films becoming ‘lost’ – as soon as they’ve been converted to a software format then they can be duplicated, shared and stored many times over at negligible cost. This wasn’t always the case of course – when your movie came […]