Blu-ray: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Imagine a time – say 1988, where girls were girls and boys were boys, and there was no such thing as calling your friend a non-binary ‘they’. Imagine a time when it was okay to make risqué jokes about boobs, or even…oral sex. Imagine a time, post Benny […]
DVD: Ouija House (2018) When using a ouija board there are certain words that you probably wouldn’t want it to spell out. Examples being D.E.A.T.H. or K.I.L.L. Unfortunately, the board used in Ouija House should really have spelt D.U.L.L. at the very beginning of the movie and spared everyone watching 95 minutes of a ‘by […]
DVD: The Kenny Everett Video Show (1978 – ) I was 13 years old when The Kenny Everett Show made its debut on British TV and it immediately became a firm favourite of mine because it was funny, rude and naughty…so much so that a segment of the show was called ‘The Naughty Bit’. This […]
Blu-ray: The Quiet Earth (1985) What would you do if you thought that you were the only person left alive on earth? This is the situation that Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) finds himself in when he wakes and slowly begins to discover that all is not as it was when he fell asleep. After driving […]
Blu-ray: Long Weekend (1978) Long Weekend is a sort of ‘lost’ film of Australian cinema, largely unknown by most film fans, it was written by Everett De Roche, who also created Road Games and Razorback (both previously reviewed here at 60MW, click on the links) and like these two films examines horror from a psychological standpoint. […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Cotton Club (1984) The original screenplay by Mario Puzo was passed over for a rewrite by Francis Ford Coppola who also directed. With the Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish under his belt, The Cotton Club was deigned to be a sure fire hit. It tells the tale (based […]
DVD: Team Khan (2018) Becoming Britain’s youngest boxing Olympic medalist at the age of 17, when he won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, Amir Khan was put immediately under the public spotlight from a very young age. Turning professional at the tender age of 19, it took him only 4 […]
DVD: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) Much like the previously reviewed Australian comedy Pacific Banana from Umbrella Entertainment, the laughs in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie are elicited through humour at its most basic, so be prepared for farts, chundering (don’t worry, an explanation of the origins of that word is in the movie), […]
DVD: Travel Man: 48 Hours in… (Series 1 and 2) (2015 – ) First shown on Channel 4 in 2015, Travel Man: 48 Hours in… has currently run for eight series, was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Features in 2017 and won the Best Factual Programme RTS Midlands awards from 2015 -2017. Hosted by Richard Ayoade, he […]
Blu-ray: Columbo (Season 1) (1971 – ) Following my review of the season 1 release of The Rockford Files from Fabulous Films, it was great to once again dip into a 1970’s detective series from my youth with Columbo; the classic show starring Peter Falk…usually holding his trademark cigar and wearing a battered trench coat. […]