Review: Paydirt
DVD & Digital HD: Paydirt (2020)Damien Brooks (Luke Goss) is released from prison after being incarcerated for 5 years and immediately finds that the world has changed a hell of a lot during that time.However, one thing that hasn’t changed is his determination to find a buried bag of cash that went missing five years ago […]
Review: Deep Blue Sea 3
DVD & Digital HD: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) Emma Collins (Tania Raymonde) is a marine biologist and has set up a mid-ocean laboratory called “Little Happy”, where her and her team are observing Great White sharks and the effect that climate change is having on them. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in […]
Review: Black Test Car + The Black Report
Blu-ray: Black Test Car + The Black Report (1962 + 1963) Black Test Car is an espionage thriller and tells the story of a corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company. “So far, so what” you may well be thinking, and so was I when I read the films synopsis […]
Review: Dreambuilders
Cinema: Dreambuilders (2020) Minna is a young dreamer who lives with her father. They share a special bond which developed after Minna’s mother left them when she was younger. Minna’s life is about to be changed drastically when her new stepsister Jenny and her mother come to live with them. Minna and Jenny are like […]
Review: Bicycle Thieves
Blu-ray: Bicycle Thieves (1948)Bicycle Thieves is along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, one of the most famous works of Italian neorealism, a movement that aimed to give Italian cinema a new degree of post war realism. Director De Sica wanted to show the dire poverty and huge unemployment of post war Italy and was unable to get financial […]
Review: Sputnik
Digital HD: Sputnik (2020)With this theatrical directorial debut, Egor Abramenko’s Sputnik was due to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic, leading to it being released on video-on-demand in Russia in April this year.It tells the story of two Russian cosmonauts in 1983 who are returning to earth in […]
Review: Pitch Black UHD Special Edition Blu-ray
UHD 4K Blu-ray: Pitch Black (2000) When a spaceship crash lands onto a desolate desert planet, it usually isn’t the best of days for all those that survive. However, when you factor in that one of the survivors of the “Hunter-Gratzner” transport ship is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel); a violent escapee convict who has […]
Review: Gamera – The Complete Collection
Blu-ray: Gamera – The Complete Collection (1965-2006) It has been my privilege and pleasure to review many movie box sets here at 60MW Towers since we began in 2014, and I have to begin this review by saying that “Gamera – The Complete Collection” from Arrow Films is the one that has most impressed me […]
Review: Mortal
DVD & Digital HD: Mortal (2020)Mortal (in Norwegian: Torden) is the latest offering from Norwegian director André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark…interview show online with him on Thursday 13th August in our usual audio podcast show AND in video form on our YouTube channel – Dave) and stars Nat Wolff […]
Review: Ivor the Engine – The Complete Collection
DVD: Ivor the Engine – The Complete Collection There is one voice from my childhood that still resonates with me to this day and always makes me smile. That voice belonged to the late great Oliver Postgate; a man who voiced so many of my favourite childhood programmes, and whose welcoming narration also kept my […]