Blu-ray: The Stylist (2020)Based on the short film of the same name by writer/director Jill Gevargizian, The Stylist tells the story of Claire (Najarra Townsend) who is a solitary hairdresser working in a small salon somewhere in America.As she cuts her clients hair she drifts off imagining what their lives must be like, and if she […]
King of Seas is an action role playing game putting you in the shoes of either Luky or his sister Marylou, either of which will be framed for their Fathers death…who just happens to be the King of the procedurally generated world of that particular play through. It is up to you to regain what has […]
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)Max Jenkins (Tom Plumley) is a young man obsessed with video games, so much so that he even works at a gaming store, as well as spending the rest of his time playing online games with his 2 best friends Liz (Hassie Harrison) and Reggie (Joey Morgan).Not known for being […]
Following on from the great Columbia Noir #1 and Columbia Noir #2 box sets, Powerhouse Films once again delves into the Columbia film archives for 6 more noir movies, all of which are making their worldwide Blu-ray premieres.JOHNNY O’CLOCK (Robert Rossen, 1947)THE DARK PAST (Rudolph Maté, 1948)CONVICTED (Henry Levin, 1950)BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN (Gordon Douglas, 1950)THE SNIPER […]
Digital: The Philosophers (AKA: After the Dark) (2013)On the eve of their graduation, 20 philosophy students are put through a final thought experiment by their teacher Mr Zimit (James D’Arcy) which takes them mentally through multiple alternate universes where a variety of devastating events mean that only 10 of the 20 can take shelter in […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Who Dares Wins (1982)When SAS Captain Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins) assaults 2 soldiers while out on training manoeuvres, he is forced to resign his position and return to “civvy street”.However, this is all just part of a masterplan so that he can infiltrate an anti-nuclear war group led by an ambitious and […]
DVD & Digital: The Blitz 80th Anniversary (2021)This new documentary from Reel 2 Reel Films commemorates 80 years since “The Blitz”: Between 1940 and 1941, the German Luftwaffe regularly bombed different areas of Britain, including the relentless bombing of London, over 56 nights. Sadly the devastating campaign saw more than 40,000 civilians killed in what was […]
‘LOVE –A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories’: on Nintendo Switch.a review Megan Robinson.LOVE is a puzzle game about finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves and the people who help us find them. Through interactions in both the past and the present, we get to know the people that live in our apartment building and […]
‘Small Pleasures’ by Clare Chambers. a review by Megan Robinson. Small Pleasures is set in 1957 in the southeast suburbs of London. We follow Jean Swinney a nearly forty-year-old journalist who is contacted by a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, claiming that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. The more that Jean investigates […]
Blu-ray: Jungle Fever (1991)Jungle Fever directed and written by Spike Lee and released in 1991 is a tale of interracial romance and racism. Following several characters interconnecting threads, and set in early 90s New York, Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), is black, successful, happily married and lives in the ‘nice’ part of Harlem with his wife Drew […]