CineRik

This children’s classic was beautifully recreated by LWT back in 1986. Needs supervised viewing, but a refreshing change from pop-idols and It girls.  I give it the royal treatment here.

This documentary doesn’t really document anything, except the fashion industry’s drive to squeeze profit out of Hollywood.  Read how I stitch them up here.

Run of the mill thriller with one good performance, but suffers from increasingly predictable twists and really bad digitial video noise.  I lay out my hand here.

Along with many fans of Top Gear, I’ve been eagerly awaiting a full season release from the BBC.  Unfortunately they have seen fit to cut sections out of the episodes, as they do for the US airing of the show.  One day they’ll get it right.  Read my demands for MORE here.

A facinating look at the way that H2 migrant workers were abused by the US sugar industry in the period from the end of WWII to the early 1990s.  Perfect timing for this release.  More sweet talk here.

OK – this is me taking one for the team.  Save yourselves!  Do not watch this debacle!  Run away!  Don’t let my sacrifice be in vain!  Witness the full horror here.

Wonderful work from Albert Finney and Tom Courteney as two different men thrown together by similar loss.    Find out why I think it is in a class of its own here.

Reality TV worth watching?  Say it isn’t so!  Watching these rookies discover the realities of police work was far more interesting than I had imagined.  Funny and tragic.  I pass sentence on this box-set here.

This early classic of 1970s American cinema finally gets a region 1 DVD release.  Surreal yet beautiful, horrifying but also moving, this is a war film done right.  My straight-shooting review is here.

Benny Hill meets Homer’s Odyssey (well, glances off, rather than meets), with a slew of topless women in the mix. Vaguely amusing, but hardly pushing any boundaries.  My review finds its home here.