Cinema & Digital: The Toll (2021)Set on the Pembrokeshire border, an unnamed toll booth operator (Michael Smiley) quietly passes his time reading books while taking the occasional 40p toll charge from the few cars that pass through.His peace is interrupted one day when a shotgun is pushed through the toll booth window and 3 girls […]
Blu-ray: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)Once again a Powerhouse Films release arrives here at 60MW Towers with an amazing cast starring in a film that I’ve never heard of. Have YOU watched, or even heard of The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings before?Well if you have, you’ll be very […]
Developed by Swedish indie game studio Neon Giant and published by Curve Digital, The Ascent is a third person isometric view twin stick shooter set in a multi-layered futuristic cyberpunk environment…phew!The first thing that struck me about the game was the incredibly detailed graphics and ‘living world’ that was before me. Bringing to mind an […]
Franco Arnò (Karl Malden) is a retired blind journalist who lives with his niece and makes a living from writing crossword puzzles. While taking a walk one evening, he overhears a suspicious conversation between 2 men who are sat in a car parked outside a scientific medical institution where genetic experiments are taking place. When […]
Blu-ray: Blind Beast (1969) Adapted from a short story by Rampo Edogawa, Blind Beast is a Japanese erotic horror story that delves ever deeper into the human psyche, culminating in a finale that will linger long in your memory. Aki (Mako Midori) is an artists model who is kidnapped by blind sculptor Michio (Eiji Funakoshi) […]
Blu-ray: A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) Written and directed by Jee-woon Kim, this Korean drama/mystery/horror tale follows Su-mi (Lim Soo-jung), a young girl recently released from a mental institution, who returns home with her father and younger sister Su-yeon (Moon Geun-young) and has to face her stepmother who is acting very strangely towards her…not to […]
Blu-ray: The Pawnbroker (1964)My dad loved old ‘action’ films and has been a lingering influence on me. Being a girl, the only time I could get close to him was to watch a movie, normally on a Sunday afternoon. As an adult I find some of his choices quite revealing, as a 15 year old […]
Wings by Cinemaware is one of my favourite games on the Commodore Amiga. It captured the Tally-Ho spirit of World War 1, as it put you behind the controls of a plane engaging in deadly dog fights. With that in mind, I was really looking forward to checking out Red Wings: Aces of the Sky […]
Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Eternal Darkness and Alone in the Dark are all games which have offered something to the videogame horror genre. They all take elements from each other, and some have continued to succeed and evolve, whereas others have failed. Alone in the Dark started it all, with fixed camera angles, puzzle-based exploration, […]
Blu-ray: Dinner in America (2020)Written and directed by Adam Rehmeier and starring Kyle Gallner as Simon and Emily Skeggs as Patty, this seems to be tagged with the unfortunate ‘coming of age’ tag.Nope. Couldn’t be further from John Hughes or any ‘angst tweenies find love’ film you’ve seen.No, this is far better.We first see Simon […]