DVD: The Almost Complete Q (1969 – 1982) Back in December 2016 I reviewed Q Volume 1: Series 1-3. Fast forward 12 months and The Almost Complete Q, 5 disc boxset drops through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers. If you’ve read my previous review (and if you haven’t, why not!? Click the link and […]
Blu-ray: The Devil’s Rejects (2005) If you want to watch a ‘feel good’ movie, then The Devil’s Rejects is definitely one to avoid. However, if you want to squirm in your seat for 100+ minutes and then feel like you need to take a long shower afterwards, then this great Blu-ray release by Umbrella Entertainment […]
DVD: Medici – Masters of Florence. Season 1 (2016) Set in 15th Century Florence, Cosimo Medici (Richard Madden) has inherited the Bank of Medici from his father Giovanni (Dustin Hoffman), who has been mysteriously poisoned. Through various flashbacks we are taken back to see the lives of young Cosimo and his brother Lorenzo and their […]
DVD: Happy Hunting (2017) Warren Novak (Martin Dingle Wall) is an ex-military alcoholic whose life is on a downward spiral. His addiction has got to the point that he can not function without regular intakes of alcohol, which even includes knocking back half a bottle of mouthwash when there is nothing else around. If he […]
Cinema: Lu Over The Wall (2017) Having opened in its native Japan back in May under the title Yoake tsugeru Rû no uta, this second feature from animation house Science Saru and the fantastical imagination of blossoming Ping Pong auteur Masaaki Yuasa won Cristal for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Aminated Film Festival. […]
DVD: The Work (2017) ‘3 men spend 4 days sat in a single room chatting with a group of other men’. On that 1 sentence synopsis, The Work doesn’t sound like the most compelling of documentaries. However, much like the human condition which is at the very core of this incredible documentary, the whole is […]
Blu-ray: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a famous fashion photographer who (unexplainably) develops the ability to ‘see’ through the eyes of someone who is killing people that are close to her. She contacts the police who are at first, understandably, sceptical of her story. She is befriended by detective John […]
Blu-ray: Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning After releasing volume 1 of the Ray Harryhausen boxset, Powerhouse Films have unleashed yet another amazing boxset, which this time contains 4 Hammer movies from the early 1960’s, all accompanied by a wealth of special features. Maniac (1963) Jeff Farrell (Kerwin Mathews) is a down on his luck painter […]
Blu-ray: Air America (1990) Young pilot Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) is reckless and doesn’t take orders too well, so when he loses his job and is recruited into a shady organisation running secret missions for the CIA in Laos during the Vietnam war, he is not too keen to be taking orders from Air […]
DVD: Dark Night (2016) “On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed […]