Cert 12 | 92 mins | 1953-1958
4 Star
Discipline is Everything
or You have
Nothing!
Josef von Sterberg (The Last Command, Shanghai Express) was a man who threw himself at his passions of writing, directing and capturing on cine-film his script and the visuals he saw in his minds-eye. A film based on real WWII events that took place in the vast area of the Pacific Ocean. This was filmed…more
Cert PG | 96 mins | 1957
5 Star
A Life In Their Hands.
When you talk about Classic Films you have to add Sidney Lumet‘s (Dog Day Afternoon, Murder on the Orient Express, The Hill, The Iceman Cometh) 12 Angry Men to that list and it has to be arguably near the top of that list. The Criterion Collection has taken this Classic and given it their star…more
Cert 15 | 97 mins | 1968
4 Star
Love, Loss and Nuclear Destruction.
This film is number fifty-four in Derek Malcolm‘s 100 greatest movies, and now it has been fully restored and comes in Blu-ray crispness. It tells the tale of post Bay of Pigs Cuba and the events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960’s. Part film, part documentary it makes you feel…more
Cert E 18 | 115 mins | 1981
4 Star
Death on the Streets.
Sheldon Renan (Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse) brings us a brutal documentary about the decline of America in the 1960’s-70’s and the meteoric rise of gun crime.
This documentary has never been released in the United States and graphically shows the bloodyness of real life gun crime. The only censorship in this film is…more
Cert PG | 433 mins | 1921-1925
4 Star
Drama, Intrigue and Inter-titles.
Eureka bring us #140-144 in their Masters of Cinema’s collection taking us all the way back to the roaring 20’s (1920’s that is), they bring us 5 of the early surviving films of Murnau (Nosferatu). All painstakingly restored with the inter-titles translated from the original German. The films are Schloβ Vogelöd, Phantom, Die Finanzen des groβherzogs,…more
Cert PG | 88 mins | 1957/8
5 Star
Early Stanley Kubrick Genius!
Paths of Glory is hitting the small screen, as we hit the 100th Anniversary of the start of the First World War.
Beautifully restored this 1957 Black and White War film shows the struggles of the French army against the Hun, fought across the no-man’s land where a hundred yards gain may take 100,000 men, but…more
Cert PG | 720 mins | 1917-1923
5 Star
Classic Slapstick at its Very Best.
Eureka brings a slice of pure genius in the form of the complete library of Buster Keaton from 1917-1923. Those of a certain age will remember these being shown on TV years ago, but these slapstick shorts are for everyone, young or older.
What can one say about a man with so mush talent, timing…more
