Items Matching Tag 'SprocketHole'
Sound of Music, The (Blu-ray Details)
A timeless cinematic treasure soars to new heights in this 45th Anniversary Edition. Digitally remastered for spectacular sound and pristine picture quality, you've never seen or heard The Sound of Music like this before!
Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and...
Caligula - The Imperial Edition (DVD Details)
The notorious and ludicrously opulent multi-million dollar ‘porn epic' that sees esteemed British acting stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren being outrageously upstaged by graphic sequences involving anal fisting, explicit lesbian trysts, orgies and blow jobs (among other things), the uncut CALIGULA finally comes to DVD in September.
CALIGULA: THE IMPERIAL...
Mongol (DVD Details)
The story of Temujin, son of a Mongol warlord, who on the assassination of his father was sold into slavery but rose up to become one of the greatest warlords the world has ever known.
Armchair Thriller: Fear Of God (DVD Details)
After seeing a girl fall past his window to her death, London journalist Paul Marriott finds her diary in the deserted attic above. But someone is intent on destroying the diary: it is the only evidence linking her to a mysterious sect, the Regiment of God, and a disturbing experimental project…
Robert Tronson (Man in a Suitcase, Randall and Hopkirk – Deceased) directs this dark tale of...
Armchair Thriller: The Girl Who Walked Quickly (DVD Details)
When young student David Cooper disappears, his girlfriend and his tutor both suspect he is in danger. David has a paralysing fear of lifts and confined spaces and, while they are searching for him, his phobia is proving invaluable to a menacing group with a sinister and ruthlessly violent agenda.
Acclaimed actor Denis Lawson (Local Hero) stars in this chilling drama, written by Ray Jenkins (Ca...
Monte Carlo Or Bust (DVD Details)
Screen Legend Tony Curtis leads an all star international cast in this hilarious romantic and action-packed romp! Set in glorious Monte Carlo, this hugely entertaining follow-up to Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines follows dashing Chester Schofield (Curtis) as he sets out to better his rival Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) on the arduous Monte Carlo Rally.
Dracula's Daughter (DVD Details)
The Countess Marya Zaleska seeks advice from a noted psychiatrist about her "obsession", but drinking the blood of the living is hardly unusual behaviour for Dracula's Daughter.
Son Of Dracula (DVD Details)
Dracula is back, bringing terror to the deep south of America.
Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season (DVD Details)
Pushing Daisies follows the charming and whimsical story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who during his childhood discovers he has the ability of bringing the dead back to life with a single touch. First, he resurrects his golden retriever Digby after he is hit by a truck, and later brings his own mother back to life after she suffers an aneurism. But there is a caveat to Ned's unusual talent....
Ghost Of Frankenstein (DVD Details)
Ygor cunningly tricks Frankenstein’s second son into replacing the monster’s brain with his own, with disastrous and murderous results.
Son Of Frankenstein (DVD Details)
Arriving at his father’s estate to collect his large inheritance, Wolf Frankenstein attempts to revive his father’s monstrous creation. Not long after his arrival, a string of vicious murders are committed in the small town.
Suburban Girl (DVD Details)
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin star in this charming May to December romance. Upcoming book editor Brett (Gellar) meets publishing playboy Archie (Baldwin) and there is immediate attraction between them both. But Archie is old enough to be her father and her own dad is ailing. Archie is battling diabetes and recovering from alcoholism, so the romance is more complicated than it needs to...
Adventures of... Boxset, The (DVD Details)
Adventures Of A Taxi Driver
The first of the Adventures Of… series follows the exploits of taxi driver Joe North (Barry Evans) who tires of life with his nagging mother and moves in with best friend Tom and his stripper girlfriend. With a new lust for life he finds that his job is a good way to meet the ladies – cue all the fun and frolics of your typical 70s sex comedy, with breasts aplenty and...
Penelope (DVD Details)
Penelope is afflicted by a secret family curse that can only be broken when she is loved by one of her own kind. Hidden away in the family's majestic home, she is subjected to meeting a string of blue-bloods through her parent's futile attempt to marry her off and break the curse. Each suitor is instantly enamored with Penelope (and her sizable dowry)... until the curse is revealed.
When a...
King Kong (Ultimate Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
In depression hit 30`s New York Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is a beautiful young actress struggling to find a job after losing her role in a vaudeville theatre which has been shut down. Her luck changes when she meets an over ambitious filmmaker, Carl Denham (Jack Black), who coaxes her to join his film shoot on a remote island. Falling for stranded playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) on the...
King Kong (Special Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
In depression hit 30`s New York Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is a beautiful young actress struggling to find a job after losing her role in a vaudeville theatre which has been shut down. Her luck changes when she meets an over ambitious filmmaker, Carl Denham (Jack Black), who coaxes her to join his film shoot on a remote island. Falling for stranded playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) on the...
Barbarella, Queen Of The Galaxy (UK) (DVD Details)
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space.
She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also...
3D Or Not 3D, That Is The Question
After two years and five months, it was time to retire our trusty 32” LG LCD. The picture was starting to show signs of deterioration, with the very edges of the screen looking a little darker than the centre. It had given us sterling service, our...
Posted by Mark Oates
Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
I can't believe it's nearly a year since I last poked my head in the Sprocket Hole.
Let me rephrase that. I'm amazed I haven't written any blog entries for the Sprocket Hole since last September. I'd like to say "Doesn't Time Fly When You're...
Posted by Mark Oates
Forums - Social Networking Godsend Or Work Of The Devil?
I really have to clean up my act. I spend way, way too much time on the internet interacting in a bunch of forums with - what I hope are - like minded souls. On the one hand, in the main my fellow forumites are friendly, empathetic souls I can...
Posted by Mark Oates
Home Sweet Home
Come on in! Sit yourself down and cut yourself a slice of cake!*
After nine years and three months stinking out DVDReviewer, I've decided it's time for a change of scenery and a change of web presence.
Over that past nine years, I've probably...
Posted by Mark Oates
Who Said Print Was Dead??
Say hello to my leedle friend.
This is currently my favourite toy. The Sony E-Reader PRS-505. About the same size and weight as an A5 Diary, it is for an old sci-fi whore like me, the implementation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The...
Posted by Mark Oates
Many Happy Returns
If my maternal grandfather was still around, today (4th May) would have been his Eleventy-First Birthday. I couldn't let the day pass without making the observation.
Posted by Mark Oates
I'm Pretty Sure I Haven't Got Writer's Block
But I've got something that's stopping me putting thoughts into cyberspace. That's a more hi-tech way of saying "pen to paper" as I don't write much except shopping lists in longhand these days because my handwriting is so bad I could be a Doctor....
Posted by Mark Oates
So - What Have We Got To Look Forward To?
Blimey O'Riley - 2009. That's Two Thousand And Nine. Twenty-Oh-Nine. Two-Kay-Nine.
Nope, no matter how you say it, it doesn't sound any better. Come May, I'll have been on this planet for forty-six years, and it feels like four hundred and six....
Posted by Mark Oates
It's That Time Of Year
I say Christmas, he says Hannukah. She says Eid, he says Diwali. At this time of year, we're all in serious need of cheering up. The weather's at its worst, the days are at their shortest. You can understand why early mankind spent most of the winter...
Posted by Mark Oates
What Does Remembrance Sunday Mean To You?
What does Remembrance Sunday mean to you? This year being the 90th Anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the First World War, much has been made of the enormous, needless waste that was that utterly pointless war.
I consider myself...
Posted by Mark Oates
What The Hell Happened To September?
It's kind of scary when a month of your life flits by almost in the blink of an eye. I just noticed that the last blog I posted was 30th August, and it's already the 4th October. Where did September go?
Posted by Mark Oates
Some Days I Don't Know Why I Bother
I've just spent a good half-hour I'll never get back registering with the IMDb to add a comment to a movie. Gave them my details, waited for the registration email to come back, went through the login and profiling section and typed in my three line...
Posted by Mark Oates
Gouged Or Supply-And-Demand?
Further to my last blog entry about the Warner-Best Buy release of the Hammer rarities When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth and Moon Zero Two - on Wednesday (20th) I bit the bullet and ordered the disc from an Amazon Marketplace seller.
The disc arrived...
Posted by Mark Oates
My Collection Is Complete
Do you think you'll ever reach a day when you can say "my collection is complete?"
Without, of course, owning every movie ever made since 1898? And of course not counting new movies you can't buy yet.
Can you see the day you've got every movie...
Posted by Mark Oates
Sick Of The Dark Knight
Am I the only person on the planet who's sick of the Dark Knight? Not Batman himself, but the current vogue for portraying the caped crusader as a dangerous vigilante psychopath.
I think Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan have a lot to answer for....
Posted by Mark Oates
Why Don’t You Go To The Cinema Anymore?
Something odd happened to me recently, I found myself in a cinema for the first time in around three years. It was the Indiana Jones movie that finally tempted me back, but I got to thinking about how I had come to this pass. After all, once upon a...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
The Sprocket Hole - Bizzaro World Casting
I’m always fascinated hearing alternative casting to famous movie roles. How weird a world could it be if Sir Sean Connery had accepted the role as Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, or Christopher Walken had taken the role as Han...
Posted by Mark Oates
Welcome To The Sprocket Hole
Wipe yer feet. I'm hoping this will be the start of something that will develop into a pleasant place to hang out at MyReviewer.com and chat about DVDs, movies and old telly programmes - in fact pretty much anything you like to discuss. Except...
Posted by Mark Oates
Your Top Five/Ten Sci-Fi Plot Cliches
In the same spirit as Sue's discussion about humour:
I've been thinking about sci-fi tv shows like Star Trek (all versions), Battlestar Galactica (1...
Posted by Mark Oates
Is Connery's Bond Overrated
Okay, maybe I'm inviting a flame war, but the question is worth asking. Is Sir Sean Connery's version of James Bond 007 really the best? Or is it...
Posted by Mark Oates
Surrounded by (unfinished ) Box Sets !!
I love being able to collect whole series in one gulp. My own collection includes every episode sets of The Prisoner, The Avengers, Danger Man, Lost...
Posted by Stuart McLean
British Comedy - Great or Grate?
Having just watched the Adventures Of... movies, and for my own amusement working my way through the Rank Carry Ons, I've been giving a bit of thought...
Posted by Mark Oates
Fortune Magazine Says DVD and Blu-ray Days Are Numbered
According to Bill Hunt over at the Digital Bits, Fortune Magazine is sounding the death knell of physical media in an article that claims:
Time...
Posted by Mark Oates
Great British comedies rarely transfer to the silver screen...
Certainly this was the case in the seventies. I've recently been wading through a whole set of British TV shows on film (including 'On the Buses', 'Por...
Posted by Stuart McLean
Mongol (958x576, 83351 bytes) (JPEG)
Happy 35th Birthday Star Wars
last post by Jimbo :oÞ
Router issues
last post by Jimbo :oÞ
The official Liverpool 11/12 Season Thread
last post by 1mills
Should Prisoners have the vote?
last post by MADTheOgster
Jessica Ennis `labelled "fat" by UK Athletics
last post by pat-w
Car "wrapping" (vinyl covering) anyone done it?
last post by Jimbo :oÞ
Carter USM
last post by Miles
ARGOS VALUE RANGE DS-306A MULTI REGION HACK WANTED
last post by LadySmart
Mongol (Review) (DVD)Genghis Khan, like other historical conquerors, such as Attila the Hun and Alexander the Great are famous, but not widely taught in schools....
Posted by David Beckett
Mongol (Review) (DVD)I'm of the vintage that my familiarity with the legend of Genghis Khan comes from the illustrated story as told in Jackanory-style on Blue...
Posted by Mark Oates
Armchair Thriller 6: Fear Of God (Review) (DVD)I know I’m nearly a month late posting this review, but its birth has been a long and painful one. It’s not often I’m stuck for words...
Posted by Mark Oates
Armchair Thriller 5: The Girl Who Walked Quickly (Review) (DVD)I know I’m nearly a month late posting this review, but its birth has been a long and painful one. It’s not often I’m stuck for words...
Posted by Mark Oates
Monte Carlo Or Bust (Review) (DVD)I reckon everybody must have one movie they consider their own personal, special movie. A movie you've seldom heard others mention fondly,...
Posted by Mark Oates
Comment on 3D Or Not 3D, That Is The Question
I gave that TV a try in Tesco's too, just before Christmas. It was running a promo for Sky 3D, and I have to say that I was...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Comment on Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
Oh god yes, far too much of that goes on. :/ Twitter is perhaps almost as bad.
Posted by Robert John Shepherd
Comment on Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
Can you actually rant on Facebook? I was under the impression you could only post stuff like "Having boiled egg for tea" or "Decla...
Posted by Mark Oates
Comment on Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
I post about one thing to Facebook a month (well apart from it automatically posting my Flickr upload updates), and I...
Posted by Robert John Shepherd
Comment on Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
I have never booked my face nor tweeted, and I'm not sure where I'd start if I wanted to. I'd much rather come back to squat in...
Posted by Mark Oates
Comment on Look At The Muck In 'Ere!
Yours would be a most welcome return. You'll always find readers here. Maybe blogging and reviewing is the new writing in any...
Posted by Stuart McLean
-
nosferatu
David Beckett -
todbc
David Shepherd -
ihunger
Matthew Smart -
amed
AMED -
benfranklin
Ben Franklin -
sprockethole
Mark Oates -
anime
Jitendar Canth -
synth
Si Wooldridge -
robertj
Robert John Shepherd
