Accurately described as a bittersweet comedy, this excellent DVD brings together all of the episodes from the first season of Sensitive Skin. And if you missed it first time round, you're in for a treat. With Joanna Lumley in the lead role, Sensitive Skin follows her character Davina and Denis Lawson's Al as a 60-year old couple with a 30-year old son. Their life though is far ...
Hammer's remake of the horror classic has been accused of falling between the simple integrity of the Karloff original and the swashbuckling, SFX romanticism of the 1998 version, but it has real strengths of its own. Principal among these is Christopher Lee, haughty and brutal as the High Priest and sorrowful, pathetic and menacing as the living mummy he has become for his crimes; his eyes convey ...
Long before The Full Monty there was this lovely fish-out-of-water comedy by deft Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl). Set in the 1980s during a period of controversy over North Sea oil drilling, Local Hero follows a likeable, woolly American junior executive (Peter Riegert) dispatched from Texas by his blustering boss (a high-spirited Burt Lancaster) to a ...