Blu-ray: Orphans (1998) What a massive balls-up Film Four made by refusing to release Peter Mullan’s film Orphans in 1998. To add to that insult they took all of Mullan’s outtakes and…burned them. Wow! What a shame, and what a loss to the UK film industry because Orphans is a true work of genius, a […]
Blu-ray: Night Tide (1961) Dennis Hopper falls in love with a mermaid. The above sentence tells all you need to know if you’ll have any interest in watching Night Tide, but quite honestly, who wouldn’t want to watch it after that brief synopsis!? Johnny Drake (a young Dennis Hopper) is a sailor on shore leave […]
Blu-ray: Resurrected (1989) Kevin Deakin (David Thewlis) is a young soldier in the Falklands War who, while trying to help a fellow army member, is caught in the blast of a nearby explosion. Regaining a modicum of consciousness, he roams the desolate Isle until finally hunkering down for an extended period of time, confused and […]
DVD & Digital: 8 Days (2019 – ) It\’s present day and a huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth on a collision course with Europe. American rockets have failed to stop its now inevitable impact, and the residents from inside the \’kill zone\’ of the asteroids projected impact area are all desperately trying to get […]
Cinema: StarDog and TurboCat (2019) The year is 1969, and faithful dog Buddy (Nick Frost) is sent on a mission to explore the far reaches of space. During his mission an accident happens, and he is frozen in time for fifty years! Buddy wakes up in the town of Glenfield with no knowledge of what […]
Blu-ray: QT8: The First Eight (2019) Quentin Tarantino first came into the public eye in 1992 with his debut feature film Reservoir Dogs. 27 years later his 9th film, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, was released in cinemas worldwide, with critical acclaim from both critics and the general public. QT8: The First Eight is a […]
Blu-ray: The Exorcist III (1990) The Exorcist III is based on William Peter Blatty\’s 1983 novel \’Legion\’, and stars George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson and Brad Dourif. Set 17 years after the original film, it follows a character from the first film: Lieutenant Kinderman. Kinderman is investigating a series of murders in […]
Blu-ray: Birdy (1984) The book \’Birdy\’ is based in WWII but director Alan Parker took William Wharton\’s story and set in 1960s Philadelphia. The story follows two unlikely friends; Al Columbato (Nic Cage) a gawky, good looking, over confident shagger, and Birdy (Matthew Modine) a quiet odd lad who’s obsessed with Birds. It’s one […]
DVD: Plebs Series 5 (2019) Last year Tina reviewed the series 1-4 boxset of Plebs, so it was great to sit down again and follow the continuing adventures of Marcus, Grumio and Jason as they invariably cause havoc in ancient Rome. Series 5 sees some new characters once again being introduced, among them is Amanda […]
Has it really been a year since I first attended For The Love Of Sci-Fi !? Not only was it my first FTLOS event, it was also the first time I\’d attended something run by Monopoly Events, and in the subsequent 12 months it has been an absolute joy to not only attend many more […]