Digital &DVD: The Fanatic (2019)Moose (John Travolta) is a movie fanatic who is obsessed with the actor Hunter Dunbar (Devon Sawa). So when Moose hears that Hunter is doing a signing session at a local shop, he is ecstatic at the thought of finally meeting him in person and getting an autograph.Unfortunately for Moose things […]
Blu-ray: Split Second (1992)Set in the far-flung future of 2008 (I love rewatching movies where their future is now my past) global warming has raised sea levels and heavy rainfall has meant that wellington boots are the fashion item while out and about in London.Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer playing his character like a more paranoid […]
Blu-ray: Hiroshima (1953)Watching Hiroshima for the first time on this excellent release from Arrow Academy brought back the same goosebumps as when I originally watched Threads on its television debut back in 1984, and while the thought of watching 104 minutes of primarily post-atomic bomb human suffering might not initially appeal to you, it is […]
Much like I mention in my review of Hunting Simulator 2, I am once again immersed in a world doing something I wouldn’t normally do, but absolutely loving doing it in this wonderful virtual playground called video games. I’ve been fishing once in real life (over 40 years ago) and soon discovered that it wasn’t […]
Blu-ray: Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) The bourgeois Le Quesnoys live a perfect life with their well behaved and immaculately dressed children, while the Groseilles who live in a less reputable part of town, have zero control over their rambunctious and impertinent kids. However, both families have lived for 12 years not knowing […]
In Charing Cross one day, Nick Faber came across busker Rufus Stone, and on hearing his ‘wailing harmonica’ he invited him into the studio to collaborate on The Lost Highway Tapes.Faber recounts: “On ‘Sensational’ the guitar is me and the blues harp is Rufus”.This is one of those instantly likeable songs, with a groovy beat […]
Accumulate has been bouncing almost full time on the 60 Minutes With sound system since its release (till the Heavy Metal kids turn it down) only being replaced recently by Smoove & Turrell. (Check out our review).The album tracks are now pretty much taking a life on of their own with two more massive mixes; […]
The North-East’s finest chemistry students have fired up the alchemy on this one. Do It – the first single from the album and the lead track, immediately stops the rain from pissing down and turns on the Balearic sunshine. Thankfully the album never loses its class till the blue vinyl stops spinning.I laughed at the […]
I have a soft spot for Isometric games! My childhood was spent playing games such as Batman, The Last Ninja, Desert Strike and Rock n’ Roll Racing to name a few. Of course, there are more modern examples of games using this viewpoint, but seeing isometric games always takes me back to a simpler time […]
Blu-ray: Creepshow 2 (1987) George A. Romero and Stephen King are back together in the sequel to 1982’s Creepshow, and once again deliver a chilling trilogy of tales. “Old Chief Wood’nhead” has obnoxious youths being stalked by a wooden adversary,“The Raft” places 4 teens in the middle of a lake on the titular raft, only to […]