Good things CAN come out of bad situations. The Iguana was recorded remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic by the all-star BT ALC Big Band. Trumpet maestro Alex Lee-Clark and trombonist Brian Thomas lead the gang of hep-cats through a classic piece of funked up Mod Jazz. Be careful if you play this in the car, the […]
A few years ago, I was complaining to someone about how bad the controls were when I was playing a videogame. I can’t remember the exact game, but that doesn’t really matter. The person I was chatting to said, “go and play QWOP and then complain about controls.” Seeing this as a personal challenge, I […]
The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) filmed in black and white, made in 2017 and directed by Robert Schwentke, is a film that you think is going to go one way, and hits you over the heads and goes the other. It tells the true story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed the stolen identity of a German […]
Long gone are the days where I used to play golf, but thankfully my even longer history with playing golf in video games continues, and the latest game to have me putting (no pun intended) on my virtual plus fours and hitting the greens (or missing them entirely!) is PGA Tour 2K21, built upon the […]
Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]
Blu-ray: Walkabout (1971)In 1970’s urban Australia a father (a worryingly unhinged John Meillon) takes his children on an adventure to the outback with the intention of murder/suicide. The children, a girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Luc Roeg the director’s son) are literally left in the sheering heat of the Australian outback. Thankfully they come across […]
DVD & Digital HD: Paydirt (2020)Damien Brooks (Luke Goss) is released from prison after being incarcerated for 5 years and immediately finds that the world has changed a hell of a lot during that time.However, one thing that hasn’t changed is his determination to find a buried bag of cash that went missing five years ago […]
Making games is hard! I’ve been playing videogames for nearly 40 years, and I often get the feeling of déjà vu. Ideas get recycled, things get chewed up and spit back out which will hopefully resonate with a new audience. My point being, it must be tough for developers to come up with truly innovative […]
DVD & Digital HD: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) Emma Collins (Tania Raymonde) is a marine biologist and has set up a mid-ocean laboratory called “Little Happy”, where her and her team are observing Great White sharks and the effect that climate change is having on them. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in […]
Blu-ray: Black Test Car + The Black Report (1962 + 1963) Black Test Car is an espionage thriller and tells the story of a corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company. “So far, so what” you may well be thinking, and so was I when I read the films synopsis […]