Blu-ray: The Secret of My Success (1987) Thanks to our good friends at Fabulous Films (hello Isabel), I was sent some Blu-ray releases from their back catalogue that I hadn’t watched since the days of VHS! So to begin, here’s what I thought about revisiting The Secret of My Success. This movie is so 1980s! […]
Blu-ray: The New Kids (1985)Directed by Wes Craven’s mate and horror producer/director/writer Sean S. Cunningham, The New Kids is a quintessentially 80’s film. When Abby (Lori Loughlin) and Loren McWilliams (Shannon Presby) parents (a very brief appearance fromTom Atkins) are killed in an accident, they are forced to move in with their uncle who runs a petrol […]
Blu-ray: Force 10 From Navarone (1978)After a gap of 17 years Force 10 from Navarone is the sequel to The Guns of Navarone, both based on a fictional Greek island in Alistair MacLean novels. The original stars of Mallory (Gregory Peck) and Miller (David Niven) are now played by (Mallory) Robert Shaw, who died before the […]
Digital HD: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)Trying to clearly articulate what Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is all about is akin to trying to herd cats…blindfolded…while drunk.It is a mis-mash of genres and visual styles, with a narrative that happily makes abrupt tangents and asks you to hold […]
Blu-ray: Britannia Hospital (1982)Britannia Hospital is the final part of Lindsay Andersons’ trilogy about how weird and shit Britain was/is. It features Anderson’s ‘everyman’ character Mick Travis, and to really get a grip on Britannia Hospital it helps to know about Mick and the films that came before.Mick is played by Malcolm McDowell and features in […]
Blu-ray: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is based on Laurens van der Post’s trilogy of books that detail his experiences as a Japanese prisoner war in World War II and was the first English language film by Japanese Auteur Nagisa Oshima. Based in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in 1942, it tells the […]
Blu-ray: The Beast Must Die (1974)The Beast Must Die is a big screen adaptation of the popular British parlour game “Guess the Werewolf”, played in country estates across the land every full moon.Okay, so while the above may well be a frivolous way to begin a review, and also not entirely accurate, it does reflect […]
Blu-ray: Dream Demon (1988) Many a man has lost his head while at the alter and about to marry the love of his life. None in such a dramatic fashion though as witnessed at the beginning of Dream Demon, a 1988 head-trip movie which mashes together A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser and Auf Wiedersehen […]
DVD & Digital: Bulletproof (Series 2) (2018 – ) Almost 2 years since I reviewed (and thoroughly enjoyed) Series 1 of Bulletproof, it was a pleasure when review discs of series 2 dropped through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers. As stated in my review of series 1, my viewing habits consist mostly of movies, […]
Digital Download & DVD: Payback (2020)French (Scott Adkins) and Sue (Louis Mandylor) are debt collectors under the employ of Tommy (Vladimir Kulich), and are tasked with going on a road trip to shake up (read that as “kick the arse of”) some shady characters who owe considerable amounts of money.While doing their travels they are […]