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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
DVD & Streaming: It All Begins with a Song (2020)Just as I was about to write a review of this music documentary, I saw its full title online. It All Begins with a Song – the story of the NASHVILLE Songwriter, and I thought OH…. Well…. that’s my review out of the window!I watched this […]
DVD & Digital Download: The Assent (2019)Here at 60MW Towers we tend to, when offered a film for review via streaming services, look at the trailer before confirming. Streaming is problematic living where we do, so on seeing the trailer for The Assent, we both agreed that it looked pretty promising.Single father Joel (Robert ‘Sean […]
In Charing Cross one day, Nick Faber came across busker Rufus Stone, and on hearing his ‘wailing harmonica’ he invited him into the studio to collaborate on The Lost Highway Tapes.Faber recounts: “On ‘Sensational’ the guitar is me and the blues harp is Rufus”.This is one of those instantly likeable songs, with a groovy beat […]
Blu-ray: The Game (1997)Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker, he is somewhat scrooge-like, lives alone in a huge mansion, is divorced and hasn’t seen his ne’er do well brother Conrad (Sean Penn) for years.Nicolas is haunted from having seen his father commit suicide on his 48th birthday, now for his own 48th […]
Blu-ray: The New Kids (1985)Directed by Wes Craven’s mate and horror producer/director/writer Sean S. Cunningham, The New Kids is a quintessentially 80’s film. When Abby (Lori Loughlin) and Loren McWilliams (Shannon Presby) parents (a very brief appearance fromTom Atkins) are killed in an accident, they are forced to move in with their uncle who runs a petrol […]
Blu-ray: Force 10 From Navarone (1978)After a gap of 17 years Force 10 from Navarone is the sequel to The Guns of Navarone, both based on a fictional Greek island in Alistair MacLean novels. The original stars of Mallory (Gregory Peck) and Miller (David Niven) are now played by (Mallory) Robert Shaw, who died before the […]
Blu-ray: Britannia Hospital (1982)Britannia Hospital is the final part of Lindsay Andersons’ trilogy about how weird and shit Britain was/is. It features Anderson’s ‘everyman’ character Mick Travis, and to really get a grip on Britannia Hospital it helps to know about Mick and the films that came before.Mick is played by Malcolm McDowell and features in […]
