Blu-ray: Uncle Buck (1989)The Middle class, affluent Bob & Cindy Russell (Garret Brown & Elaine Bromka) along with their three kids: 15 year old and angry with her parents for uprooting her from her friends Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly), 8 year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), and 6 year old Maisy, have recently moved to Chicago because of […]
2020 saw the Allergies unleashing their summer-saving album Say The Word, their best album to date. Its two previous single releases have been monsters; Felony which blasted from every UK radio station of note and the full throttle Latin mash up with Cuban Brothers Let them Know. It seemed only a matter of time before […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Meaning of Life (1983)Monty Python’s final feature film is essentially a series of extended comedy sketches based around the theme of “The Meaning of Life”, covering everything from birth, sex, war, food, and ultimately our final demise as the Grim Reaper comes for us…at a dinner party…never use canned fish!Much like […]
Blu-ray: A Trip to the Moon (1902)One of the few surviving short films by innovative French film maker Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon is a magical tale of a group of astronomers who board a rocket ship and are fired like a bullet out of a gun towards the moon.Arriving at their destination […]
Digital HD: Becky (2020) Directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, from a screenplay by Nick Morris, Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye. Starring Lulu Wilson as Becky, Joel Mchale as her dad and ‘comedian’ Kevin James as the main bad guy, Becky is a little bit different to most thrillers. I do try to review films on […]
DVD & Digital HD: The Bay of Silence (2020)Beginning and ending in the Bay of Silence in Italy, this film (based on Lisa St. Aubin de Terán’s book) is an arthouse chiller/thriller where a husband tries to untangle his schizophrenic wife’s past life.Starring former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as Rosalind and Claes Bang (sexiest Dracula ever) as […]
More tracks taken and remixed from the album Stratos Bleu but if the cake is as tasty as this one is, then we can always handle another few slices. Electronic duo Fouk give us a couple of Dutch/Detroit/Dancefloor mixes of Fade Away that is worthy of the source material. Rayka is a new (to me) […]
Blu-ray: 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 she accepts […]
Jenny LeClue Detectivú is an adventure game developed and published by Mografi. The basic plot of the game is: less-than-celebrated author, Arthur K. Finklestein has written over thirty books in the Jenny LeClue series; however, sales are plummeting and his publishers are demanding something different, they want Jenny to solve a murder. Arthur eventually caves […]
Football (soccer for our American readers), cricket, tennis, rugby…all popular sports here in the UK, and all of them have zero appeal to me. For almost 40 years now I’ve much preferred American sports. Give me American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, et al, both as a spectator sport and as a sports based video […]