Blu-ray: The Merger (2018) Based on Damian Callinan’s one man play, The Merger tells the tale of Troy Carrington; erstwhile new age hippy (in thought, not in dress), the only Australian rules football player to make it out of the town of Bodgy Creek. A town filled with stereotypical ‘men’. Dubbed the ‘Town Killer’ because […]
Blu-ray: The Last Movie (1971) Dennis Hopper, straight off the back of Easy Rider in 1969, was Hollywood’s new wonder kid. So the studio (run by old, studio system remnants) gave him a million dollars and free reign to make whatever the hell he wanted, with NO interference. Two years, and a long sojourn in […]
Blu-ray: The Fifth Cord (1971) Alcoholic, ‘troubled’, journalist lush Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) is at a swish Italian nightclub spying on his ex-wife and casting his somewhat voyeuristic glance over the assembled Bohemian middle class as they snog and sway to what is possibly one of the oddest film scores I’ve ever heard (by Ennio […]
Blu-ray: Sweeney! (1977) Sweeney 2 (1978) During January 1974, Britain would grind to a standstill on Wednesday nights because a new cop show had begun on ITV. Way before the fluffy cardigan of Starsky, without the wry charm of Jim Rockford and none of the wetness of Macmillan and Wife, ITV had taken a sprinkling […]
Blu-ray: Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro is a wonder: male yet able to spin a feminist fairytale as good as any Angela Carter novel. Set in what may be the early 1900’s, a ruined mansion surrounded by blood red clay is the visual centrepiece of Crimson Peak along with real ghosts (amazingly CGI lite, […]
Blu-ray: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Imagine a time – say 1988, where girls were girls and boys were boys, and there was no such thing as calling your friend a non-binary ‘they’. Imagine a time when it was okay to make risqué jokes about boobs, or even…oral sex. Imagine a time, post Benny […]
Blu-ray: Long Weekend (1978) Long Weekend is a sort of ‘lost’ film of Australian cinema, largely unknown by most film fans, it was written by Everett De Roche, who also created Road Games and Razorback (both previously reviewed here at 60MW, click on the links) and like these two films examines horror from a psychological standpoint. […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Cotton Club (1984) The original screenplay by Mario Puzo was passed over for a rewrite by Francis Ford Coppola who also directed. With the Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish under his belt, The Cotton Club was deigned to be a sure fire hit. It tells the tale (based […]
The Imitation Game The year is 1940. Having previously worked at a wireless listening station dealing with coded Enigma transmissions, it’s the beginning of World War 2 and Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter) is 19 and dissatisfied with her life. She’s a nice girl from a nice family, but instead of marrying her nice but condescending boyfriend, […]
Blu-ray: Heathers (1988) It’s no surprise that Daniel Waters was just 23 when he wrote the script for Heathers. It’s unlikely that anyone over the age of 25 would be able to produce such a time-relative, spikey, darkest black, tour de force of teen angst. Film tends to reflect the time in which it’s made, […]
