UHD 4K Blu-ray: Pitch Black (2000) When a spaceship crash lands onto a desolate desert planet, it usually isn’t the best of days for all those that survive. However, when you factor in that one of the survivors of the “Hunter-Gratzner” transport ship is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel); a violent escapee convict who has […]
Blu-ray: Gamera – The Complete Collection (1965-2006) It has been my privilege and pleasure to review many movie box sets here at 60MW Towers since we began in 2014, and I have to begin this review by saying that “Gamera – The Complete Collection” from Arrow Films is the one that has most impressed me […]
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: Ivor the Engine – The Complete Collection There is one voice from my childhood that still resonates with me to this day and always makes me smile. That voice belonged to the late great Oliver Postgate; a man who voiced so many of my favourite childhood programmes, and whose welcoming narration also kept my […]
Blu-ray: Toto the Hero (1991) Sharing thematic similarities to the previously reviewed Life is a Long Quiet River, Toto the Hero once again has 2 newborns growing up with families who are not their biological parents. Where Toto the Hero differs is that the narrative begins towards the end of their lives and keeps jump […]
Cinema: The Vigil (2019)Yakov (Dave Davis) is a Jewish man who has lost his faith after an incident while walking the streets of New York with his younger brother, and now shuns the support of his family and the Jewish community.However, when rabbi Reb Shulem (Menashe Lustig) offers the financially struggling Yakov a large sum […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Airwolf (1984)Dr. Charles Henry Moffet (David Hemmings) is a crazed scientist who has created the titular “Airwolf”: a futuristic helicopter with an advanced weapons system, and after killing other members of his team (a secret government agency called “The Firm”) during a test flight, defects to Libya to live the high-life of […]
Digital HD: Open 24 Hours (2018) After finally managing to leave the clutches of her controlling and abusive serial killer boyfriend (by setting him on fire!), Mary (Vanessa Grasse) tries to rebuild her life, despite being plagued by paranoia and disturbing visions since being released from psychiatric incarceration for her felony. When she is told […]
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 […]