Released just as the lockdown took a grip, Izo’s second album “How the Mighty Fall” is a blend of soul, funk blues, with a gospel layering. Once listened to, you want to hear it live, but sadly at time of writing it ain’t gonna happen anytime soon.To keep the fire burning, Jalapeno Records have recruited […]
Accumulate doesn’t hang around. The opener “Moving On” comes on sounding like a beefed up Spencer Davis track that drags the listener to their feet where they will stay for the best part of 42minutes 21 seconds.Vocal duties are shared out with Laura Vane handling the funky stuff on tracks like “Hold Your Hands Up” […]
Digital Download & DVD: Payback (2020)French (Scott Adkins) and Sue (Louis Mandylor) are debt collectors under the employ of Tommy (Vladimir Kulich), and are tasked with going on a road trip to shake up (read that as “kick the arse of”) some shady characters who owe considerable amounts of money.While doing their travels they are […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Who Dares Wins (1982) When SAS Captain Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins) assaults 2 soldiers while out on training manoeuvres, he is forced to resign his position and return to “civvy street”. However, this is all just part of a masterplan so that he can infiltrate an anti-nuclear war group led by an […]
When people talk about or mention Breakfast at Tiffany’s they most likely think of the movie starring the legend that is Audrey Hepburn. I mean, who could forget the iconic opening scene in the black dress at pearls, eating a croissant outside of Tiffany’s. (Honestly, who could forget all of the iconic fashion in that […]
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short StoriesEdited by Jay Rubin.Penguin Random House UK | 2019 | £10.99The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a collection of multiple short stories written by various Japanese authors, such as Haruki Murakami, Mishima Yukio, Genji Keita etc.The cover I came across in my local Waterstones (which I hope […]
Digital HD: The Final Wish (2018)Aaron (Michael Welch) is a young man, who after the death of his father, returns home to help his grieving mother (Lin Shaye). It is here that he discovers a strange item that seems to have mystical powers.After inadvertently “wishing something would happen”, it does. The question is though; was […]
Blu-ray: Moscow on the Hudson (1984)Vladimir (Robin Williams) is a musician with a Russian circus, who, when the circus does a special performance in New York, decides to defect while in the middle of a last minute shopping trip in Bloomingdales.It is here that he befriends 2 people that try and help him adjust to […]
Blu-ray: Watermelon Man (1970) Good lord where do I start with this film? HOW do you review a film about a black man ‘whiteing up’ to rub it off and be a black man? Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, stars Godfrey Cambridge (who in 1965 was described by Time magazine as “one of […]
Blu-ray: Cisco Pike (1971) Cisco Pike is a 1971 drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). It’s […]