DVD: The Protector (1985) As the camera sweeps across the desolate streets of New York City, Mad Max styled street punks attempt to rob a truck driver that has ended up on the wrong side of the tracks, but we are not in some futuristic nightmare; we are, strangely, in a Jackie Chan film. The Protector […]
Blu-ray: Society (1989) Billy (Billy Warlock) doesn’t really fit in with his rich family, his Mom and Dad prefer his sister, so he resorts to seeing a psychiatrist to try and make sense of his feelings of not fitting in. Hearing a tape recording of his sister’s coming out party, he believes that something very strange is going […]
I reviewed The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 1 a little while ago. You can read what I thought about that book here. Volume 2 continues with the same amount of love for the subject matter, attention to detail and massively high standards set in the first book. Volume 2 is […]
Multi-Format: Outlast. Survival horror games are often considered by video game publishers as a risk. Maybe it’s because they are a niche market or because generally speaking they are aimed at adults rather than a mainstream audience. However the recent clamour for P.T. and the success of The Evil Within should mean that horror games […]
Dynamite Dux Released: 1989 Platform: Sega Master System Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Sometimes video games are just plain weird. Take for example Dynamite Dux; you play as a blue duck (obviously) who wears bright red boots and punches enemies such as limbless dogs, a cat on roller skates, a bazooka toting fox and a pig […]
Blu-ray: Double Dragon (1994) Ahhh….the 90’s. Almost feels like yesterday when movies based on video games were the hottest property in movieland. Superhero films were still a rarity, aside from the odd blockbuster, so the big screen hero’s were found in arcade machines or 8 & 16 bit consoles. From 101 Films comes 1994’s Double Dragon on Blu-ray […]
VOD: The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015) Writer/Director Tom Six came to prominence with the movie watching public when The Human Centipede (First Sequence) came crawling and gagging onto our screens in 2009. He followed this up in 2011 with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) which took a darker (in both visuals and narrative) look […]
Cinema: Tomorrowland (2015) Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) ‘knows how stuff works’ and her obsession with space travel invariably gets her into trouble. Coming across a mysterious badge which enables her to travel to another dimension, leads to an epic adventure where the future of the earth is at stake. Oh and it has George Clooney […]
Blu-ray: A.W.O.L. (1990) A.W.O.L. (AKA Lionheart ) from 101 Films is the Blu-ray debut for this action ‘classic’ which many consider to be Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best film. Made in 1990, Van Damme was already a name well known to fans of fight cinema, with such incredible action templates already under his black belt like Bloodsport, […]
Blu-ray: Black Eagle (1988) I’m going on record now and saying that I really love Van Damme movies. Van Damme was part of the new wave of action heroes in the 80’s and 90’s. Of course you had Arnie and Stallone who were also massive action heroes of mine however; this new breed of action […]