UHD 4K Blu-ray: King of New York (1990)King of New York, often described as a noir (mmm I don’t think so…) is a film very much of its time. The 90’s.It tells the tale of Frank White (Christopher Walken) a drug lord, recently released from what appears to be a long stretch in prison into the […]
DVD: Silent Running (1972)A favourite from watching on TV as a kid, Silent Running follows botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) as he lovingly tends to the only botanical specimens left from Earth, all based under the huge geodesic domes on the spaceship ‘Valley Forge’.When orders are received to destroy the project and return home, his fellow […]
Digital Download: You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020)My son was, as are most kids, obsessed with wrestling as a small child. It’s one of those things he ‘grew out’ of, and by the age of 11 The Undertaker, Triple H and The Hardy boys were replaced with Manchester Utd.I missed it though, missed the soap […]
Blu-ray: Late Phases (2014)Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is a cantankerous blind military veteran who, after the death of his wife, reluctantly moves into a retirement community at the insistence of his son.All is not peaceful though in this community, as people go missing at a far too regular occurrence, and so, after a shocking incident […]
Originally titled ‘Formula Fusion’ upon it’s early access release on Steam in 2015, it was rebranded to ‘Pacer’ in early 2019, when it also caught my eye at PLAY Expo in May 2019. A futuristic racer in the same style as Wipeout (some of the R8 Games development team worked on Wipeout 3), Pacer tests […]
DVD: Ted 1&2 (2012/15)Now I could go through the plot of Ted’s 1 and 2, but hell, if you missed out on these two films on release then you must be living in a cave in Outer Mongolia.Seth MacFarlane IS Ted; a fluffy teddy bear that is magically brought to life by John (Mark Wahlberg […]
Digital Download & DVD: Rogue (2020)Samantha O’Hara (Megan Fox) leads a squad of soldiers on a mission to rescue a hostage from a group of violent terrorists in the plains of Africa. The mission however does not go as planned, and a frantic retreat from the terrorists leads to vehicular chases, bloody gun battles, and […]
When I was a lad (queue whimsical sentimental music) playing couch co-op/competitive videogames was part of daily life. I spent many hours laughing with or cursing at my friends playing classic games such as Speedball 2, Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter 2 or Kick Off 2. I’ve just noticed there are a lot of […]
Blu-ray: The Sheltering Sky (1990)Many years ago I was on holiday in Lido De Jesolo, and as found in most hotels, someone had left behind a book, this time it was a copy of Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky. I read it that week and fell in love with the story. I guess a story […]
Blu-ray & 4K UHD: Dawn of the Dead (1978)Allow me to begin with a bit of my history with Dawn of the Dead.In the early 1980’s my friends dad got a VHS player from Radio Rentals (hello to all our UK readers that remember renting TV’s and video players) and part of the special offer […]