Blu-ray: Remember the Night (1940)It’s the week before Christmas and Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) gets arrested for blatantly stealing a bracelet from a New York store, she’s assigned to be prosecuted by Jack Sargeant (Fred MacMurray), just as he was about to drive home to his mother for Christmas. He interferes with the trial so […]
Digital: Beautiful Beings (2022) Beautiful Beings (original Icelandic title Berdreymi) begins with 14-year-old Baldur (Balli). He’s odd, smells, has a wonky eye and is mercilessly bullied, beaten and peed on in school. After being beaten senseless in an underpass he appears on TV in a news report about the wild youth of Iceland. Returning to […]
Blu-ray: Ghost Stories For Christmas – Volume 1 (1968-73) We at 60MW Towers are already, being of oldish age and a penchant for the ghostly, fans of the BBC’s Christmas Ghost stories. Every year I place the old DVD box set in front of Mr 60MW, and wearing a long Victorian gown I found in […]
You’re singing to yourself right now, aren’t you?No matter if you loved or hated that song, its firmly ensconced in anyone over 40’s mind.It’s a long time since I’ve seen this film and was surprised at just how much I’d forgotten. Arrow’s new 4K UHD release includes an ‘extended’ 155-minute version of the film which […]
4K UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: King Kong (1976)I can remember my dad taking me to see King Kong in 1976, and on popping this new 4K UHD disc into the player, I suddenly had another memory, and that was even at the tender age of 11, I was very annoyed by the blonde woman in […]
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Reservoir Dogs (1992)How do you write about Reservoir Dogs? HOW can you add any more to what’s already out there?In 1992 there was a huge hoo-ha in the UK over the violence in this film, particularly the infamous scene where Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen) cuts off a policeman’s ear. He bends […]
Digital: Dear Elizabeth (2020)Based on The Locklear Letters by Michael Kun, ‘Dear Elizabeth’ tells the story of Sid Straw (Tony Hale), a middle aged loser who gets on everyone’s nerves. When he’s asked to be co-chair of his Penn State University reunion, that’s when his life takes a turn.Sid isn’t on social media, but when […]
TINA: I love gin. In fact I love it so much I once wrote an essay on it. Ah I know what you’re thinking, and you are wrong. It was the history of gin in Britain, or as it was known in the 18th Century – Madam Geneva’. Let me introduce you to a splendid book […]
Blu-ray: A Boy and His Dog (1975)Based on the novella of the same name, A Boy and His Dog is very much a film of its time, directed by actor L.Q. Jones, it follows the adventures of Vic (a very young Don Johnson), a 15 yr old lad who with his dog Blood travel the post-apocalyptic wasteland of […]
4K UHD Blu-ray: Videodrome (1983)One of those classic films that films fans love; unusual, brutal, a one of a kind. All from the mind of genius film maker David Cronenberg. Now I don’t like to give spoilers away in my reviews, just in case the viewer hasn’t seen the film and doesn’t want it ‘ruined’ […]
