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 […]
4K UHD: Carrie (1976)Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy 16 year old girl who lives with her ‘eccentric’ religiously obsessed mother in a small American town. Carrie is bullied by her contemporaries, mainly because of her annoyingly odd mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), wild haired with a mad-but-sexy-vibe, who turns up at her ‘friends’ houses […]
4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set: High Tension (2003) High Tension (also known as Switchblade Romance) directed by Alexandre Aja was one of the first films of ‘French extremity’ (most films by Aja and Gasper Noe). It tells the gory story of Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex (Maiwenn, the big blue opera singer in the Fifth Element), who on […]
After watching all the films in the newest Arrow western genre box set, I’m not going to go through each film and talk about the plot etc, but I have to admit that churning out basically what Arrow have concisely written on their website seems…daft. So: In Paolo Bianchini’s I Want Him Dead (1968), American […]
Well, this is a stonker from Arrow! A box set to end all boxsets for Chucky fans. Now we (as in horror film fans) all know the Don Mancini 1988 film ‘Child’s Play’ telling the story of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who after being fatally shot in a toy store transfers his soul into […]
(Tina) There are 2 films that I’ve always dreaded having to write about; Blade Runner and Hellraiser. The reason I’m adverse to discussing these particular films is because they have such a deep emotional meaning to me that I am incapable of being objective about either of them, as I regard them both equally as films elevated above […]
