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It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as U.S. Army Captain Colter Stevens, who is sent into an eight-minute virtual re-creation of a real-life train explosion, tasked with determining the identity of the terrorist who bombed it.

This is a story of the heart, with so many laugh out loud moments, it’s the perfect Christmas film, not in the schmaltzy sickening sugary way, but rather a tale of what it is to be human, with all our hopes and dreams and frailties.

Backbeat is a snapshot of Hamburg and John Lennon’s (Ian Hart) (and the Beatles) relationship with Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff).

The film is about a small group of Vatican investigators researching an old church which once may have been the site of a religious miracle.

4K UHD: Possessor (2020)The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is the best way to describe Brandon Cronenberg’s work, a modern take of life today, body horror, cerebral, thought provoking and based in the human condition. In Possessor we follow the story of Tasya Vos (the amazing Andrea Riseborough) who’s an assassin in an […]

Blu-ray: Fear City (1984)I’m always filled with wonder at the amount of films that were made in the 80s. I mean by now you’d think we at 60MW Towers would have seen them all. Twice. But no.How on earth I have never seen Abel Ferarra’s 1984 Fear City is beyond me, but thankfully 101 Films […]

I can’t get my head around that fact that a film like Bad Biology has got a pristine 4K release, yet Near Dark is left in the abyss.Does a film such as Bad Biology actually need a UHD release? Well that can only be answered by the film fan who wants to see a huge […]

Blu-ray: The Eternal Daughter (2022)Director Joanna Hogg claims that The Eternal Daughter isn’t a ‘follow on’ from The Souvenir despite having the same characters and cast. I should add that I haven’t seen that film.Tilda Swinton plays Julie, a film maker and also plays her elderly mother in full scraggy neck make-up who return to […]

Blu-ray: Sound of Freedom (2023)When Sound of Freedom plopped onto 60MW towers floor, we argued, yes, argued because we were happy to watch, but terrified of reviewing this very talked about film.I’d heard all sorts of stuff about it, from its troubled production, Fox news’ advocacy, Mel Gibson and Kim Caviezel’s goggle eyed rantings about […]

What a shame this has been called ‘Freaks Vs The Reich’ here in the UK (it’s called “Freaks Out” elsewhere, which I think is a much better title), because you immediately think of some dire sci-fi channel film that has terrible special effects and a stupid story, when in fact you’d be missing out on […]