Interviews
Interview with Nathan Ambrosioni on Therapy
There’s no getting round it: if you were at school with Nathan Ambrosioni you’d hate him. Not because he’s a bad guy at all – on the contrary, he’s a very affable chap, and good […]
Month: November 2016
HCF Reviews
ARRIVAL [2016]: in cinemas now
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 116 min DIRECTED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Twelve mysterious extraterrestrial spacecraft touch down across Earth, nicknamed “Shells” by the U.S. military. Their purpose in arriving, as […]
HCF Reviews
I Am Not A Serial Killer (2016)
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER Directed by Billy O’Brien About a decade ago I was channel surfing at night, when I caught a cool rural Irish movie called Isolation. It was an atmospheric Alien-like […]
Ghost
DARK WATER [2002]: on Dual Format Now
AKA HONOGURAI MIZU NO SOKO KARA Japan AVAILABLE ON DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD: NOW, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 97 min REVIEWED BY:Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Yoshimi Matsubara, in the midst of […]
Comedy
HOWLING 2 [1985]: on Dual Format 14th November
AKA HOWLING 2 – YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF, THE HOWLING 2 – STIRBA WEREWOLF BITCH USA AVAILABLE ON DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD: 14th NOVEMBER, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 89 min REVIEWED BY: […]
Action
SOLARWARRIORS (1986)
SOLARWARRIORS (1986) Directed by Alan Johnson Available on DVD and Blu-Ray from Amazon Set in the distant future, the Earth has become a dry, barren landscape with all the oceans have dried up and one […]
Crime
MEAT (2010)
AKA Vlees (Original title) Available on Amazon DVD (Content warning) Disconnected scenes, little sense of a narrative, and even less dialogue – these are often signs that a foreign language thriller is not going to […]
Comedy
ROXANNE [1987]: on Dual Format 21st November
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD: 21ST NOVEMBER, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 107 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic C.D. “Charlie” Bales, the fire chief of the small American ski town […]
Columns
DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #74: HYSTERIA [1965]
UK AVAILABLE ON REGION 1 DVD RUNNING TIME: 85 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic An American, who has been given the name of Chris Smith, wakes up in an English […]
Action
DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #73: THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR [1965]
UK AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 81 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic 1850 on the North West Frontier of India. Mixed race Lieutenant Case has been having an affair with […]
News
Eureka Entertainment To Release LA BAMBA on Dual Format on 9th January 2016
Eureka Entertainment are set to release LA BAMBA, the All-American rock to riches story of rock and roll legend Ritchie Valens starring Lou Diamond Phillips, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in […]
News
Eureka Entertainment To Release VARIETÉ on Dual Format on 23rd January 2017
Eureka Entertainment are to release the German silent masterpiece VARIETÉ, E.A. Dupont’s crime of passion set in the circus milieu starring Emil Jannings, in a digitally restored 2K Dual Format edition as part of the […]
Games
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition Now Available on PS4 Pro
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) and Monolith Productions announced that the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition is available now on the PlayStation 4 Pro. Players can relive Mordor at 4K […]
Games
Aftermath DLC Released For HOMEFRONT: THE REVOLUTION
Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios today released the second piece of additional single player content for Homefront®: The Revolution. Aftermath is set in the days after the Battle for Philadelphia, when the fledgling rebellion hangs […]
Genres
THE INITIATION (1984)
THE INITIATION (1984) Directed by Larry Stewart College student Kelly Fairchild decides to join the Delta Ro Kai sorority and she and all the other pledges must perform a task as part of their initiation […]
Interviews
Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn on THE NEON DEMON
To celebrate the release of Nicolas Winding Refn’s THE NEON DEMON, Nicolas spoke to SPECTRE writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis on stage at the Prince Charles Cinema in London about the film. Nicolas, you […]
Cult TV
THE CODE (2016) – Series Two Review
THE CODE (2016) Series Two THE CODE SEASON TWO is released on DVD on Monday 7th November by Arrow Films Australian autistic hacker Jesse Banks and his journalist brother Ned are facing extradition to the […]
HCF Reviews
THE EXORCIST 3 [1990] – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
USA AVAILABLE ON REGION ‘A’ BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 105 min/ theatrical version 110 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic MAJOR SPOILERS! A young boy is found nailed to a cross and soon […]