DVD: Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Even during the early ‘silent’ era of cinema, filmmakers were aware that sound still played an important part in bonding the audience to the screen, often accompanying their movies with ‘in house’ musicians or separate musical playbacks. With the advent of synchronised sound, a new […]
Blu-ray: Secret Ceremony (1968)Secret Ceremony is one of those films I’d heard about but never seen. Directed by Joseph Losey of ‘The Servant’ fame, this could have equally starred Dirk Bogarde and James Fox and the female roles replaced by males.It’s an odd film, disjointed and on reading up on it I think there is […]
DVD: Out of Africa (1985) Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically. Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where […]
1979 was a wonderful year for me. It was the year I discovered rock music, and I spent my pocket money on albums from KISS and Scorpions. But it was Judas Priest who took my rock virginity when they appeared on Top of the Pops and sang ‘Take on the World’ (video below). From that […]
DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) It’s 1962 America and Faber college, under the leadership of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), has its usual mix of fraternity (frat) houses. One of these (Delta house) is full of party loving, beer swilling, foul mouthed, sex addicted students who don’t give a damn about their studies and just […]
DVD: The Eiger Sanction (1975) Retired assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now works as an art professor, while also indulging his love of art by always wanting to add to his extensive collection of paintings. When an old friend of Jonathans is murdered, he comes out of retirement and must join a group of mountain […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Dead Center (2018) When Michael (Jeremy Childs) is brought into a morgue after committing suicide, everything seems normal. This soon changes when he gets up and leaves the morgue with no memory of who he is. When Michael is brought into the emergency psych ward of a hospital, troubled psychiatrist Daniel […]
Formed in 2014 and changing line-up a few times, Inglorious now consists of Dan Stevens (Guitar), Danny Dela Cruz (guitar) Phil Beaver (Drums), Nathan James (vocals) Vinnie Colla (bass). Not being a fan of reality TV and talent shows, I was surprisingly unaware that Nathan James had another life before the rock band. Stalwart of […]
Welcome to my annual EGX round up! Over the next few thousand words you’ll get to read about this year’s event, and more importantly, what games I played. So, grab yourself a cuppa and take a few minutes out of your day to see what I thought. There were a couple of big changes to […]
DVD & Blu-ray: 7 – 63 UP (1964 – )How on earth do you write a review of one of the most comprehensive, relevant, important and astonishing documentaries ever made? How do you do justice in a few paragraphs to a literal life’s work? How can you encapsulate the joy, fear, emotion contained within?Quite simply, […]
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