DVD: ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ (1989)
❉ Despite its languid pacing (even for 1989), many elements of this BBC fantasy drama stand up beautifully.
Month: November 2018
‘Doctor Who’ 11.08: ‘The Witchfinders’
❉ For once the suspected Evil Alien Bastards were Evil Alien Bastards!
‘Robin Hood’ (2018) reviewed
❉ Does Taron Egerton’s effort hit the bullseye? Find out in Ben Peyton’s spoiler-free review.
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’
❉ Something’s definitely brewing in the Fantastic Beast’s cauldron, but it doesn’t bubble over in this film.
Going Viral: ‘Survivors’ 10 Years On
❉ We revisit the ‘reimaging’ of Terry Nation’s post-apocalypse drama, which first aired 10 years today.
Blu-Ray: ‘Escape From New York’ (1981)
❉ Carpenter’s vision, presented in a beautiful 4K remaster, still impresses with its sense of time, place and attitude.
Blu-Ray: ‘William Castle at Columbia Vol. 1’
❉ Nobody did it better or had more fun than William Castle, the PT Barnum of celluloid shock.
BFI Flipside presents Red White and Zero
❉ A film in three parts directed by Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, never before released in the UK
First events for Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Announced
❉ GFF 19 will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Matrix and 40 years since Alien sprang onto the big screen.
Viva La Revolution! ‘The Adicts: The Albums 1982 – 87’
❉ Anyone that appreciates pop-punk will find plenty to enjoy in this retrospective of a band who always did their own thing.