Cinema: Dreambuilders (2020) Minna is a young dreamer who lives with her father. They share a special bond which developed after Minna’s mother left them when she was younger. Minna’s life is about to be changed drastically when her new stepsister Jenny and her mother come to live with them. Minna and Jenny are like […]
Blu-ray: Bicycle Thieves (1948)Bicycle Thieves is along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, one of the most famous works of Italian neorealism, a movement that aimed to give Italian cinema a new degree of post war realism. Director De Sica wanted to show the dire poverty and huge unemployment of post war Italy and was unable to get financial […]
It’s not a case of lockdown that the reggae tune of Summer 2020 should come from Nottingham’s Liam Bailey. However, White Light has enough energy and bounce that crosses into reggae-disco territory.Leon Michel’s production highlights Liam’s voice and snarky lyrics aimed fully at his latest target ‘You love yourself, you’re so exciting, like no one […]
I was interested to see how these set of remixes worked out. For the uninitiated (and the rock you have been living under must have been huge!) It Ain’t Working is the second track on the superb Stratos Bleu; Smoove & Turrell’s sixth studio album and in this writer’s opinion their best so far. The […]
Having completed Destroy All Humans on its original release back in 2005, I was looking forward to revisiting 1950’s America and once again taking control of the alien antagonist Crypto as he quite literally tries to “Destroy All Humans” with a varied array of handheld weapons, psychokinetic abilities and his “flying saucer”. The first thing […]
Long awaited here at 60MW Towers has been the album drop from the German Nu-Jazz masters Bahama Soul Club and I’m happy to report it’s been worth it. Bohemia After Dawn is the cool after-dark stroll through a multicultural landscape stopping at regular intervals, just to soak it all in.We raved earlier about “Never Roam No […]
Digital HD: Sputnik (2020)With this theatrical directorial debut, Egor Abramenko’s Sputnik was due to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic, leading to it being released on video-on-demand in Russia in April this year.It tells the story of two Russian cosmonauts in 1983 who are returning to earth in […]
UHD 4K Blu-ray: Pitch Black (2000) When a spaceship crash lands onto a desolate desert planet, it usually isn’t the best of days for all those that survive. However, when you factor in that one of the survivors of the “Hunter-Gratzner” transport ship is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel); a violent escapee convict who has […]
Blu-ray: Gamera – The Complete Collection (1965-2006) It has been my privilege and pleasure to review many movie box sets here at 60MW Towers since we began in 2014, and I have to begin this review by saying that “Gamera – The Complete Collection” from Arrow Films is the one that has most impressed me […]
DVD & Digital HD: Mortal (2020)Mortal (in Norwegian: Torden) is the latest offering from Norwegian director André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark…interview show online with him on Thursday 13th August in our usual audio podcast show AND in video form on our YouTube channel – Dave) and stars Nat Wolff […]