Film and TV

Blu-ray & DVD: Big Bad Wolves (2013) Big Bad Wolves is a nerve jangling, buttock tightening, Israeli thriller that throws pitch black humour and bloody torture at you, all wrapped in a narrative that centres around pedophilia and murder. Sounds like fun, yeah? While not actually being a ‘fun’ watch, Big Bad Wolves does have […]

Blu-ray: Crack in the World (1965) Despite warnings from his fellow scientists, Dr. Stephen Sorenson (Dana Andrews) plans to use the geothermal energy from the Earth’s interior by detonating a thermonuclear device deep within the Earth’s core. Think of it as ‘extreme fracking’. Of course things don’t go exactly as planned and a huge crack […]

Blu-ray: The Colossus of New York (1958) Jeremy Spensser (John Baragrey) is an esteemed humanitarian who has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Happy and content with his work and his family life with his wife and son, everything is shattered into pieces when he is killed in a freak accident while trying to retrieve […]

Blu-ray: Being John Malkovich (1999) Now 20 years old (can you believe it?) Being John Malkovich was, and still is, a ‘one off’ kind of film. Very surreal, yet understandable. This was the first script made into a film by Charlie Kaufman, who is now seen as one of THE American writers of modern times. […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a hard hitting story set at the end of the 19th century, about a young indigenous man pushed to his breaking point and beyond. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is an Aboriginal half-caste and […]

Cinema: Charming (2018) Prince Philippe Charming has a problem. Every woman he meets falls head over heels in love at the very sight of him. ‘Why is this a problem?’ I hear you say. Surely every man would love women to fawn over them? The issue is that all the men in the kingdom don’t appreciate […]

Cinema: Birds of a Feather (AKA Man the Swift) (2019) Manou the Swift (Josh Keaton) is attacked by rats when he is a baby chick and left alone to fend for himself. He stumbles across Yves (Willem Defoe) and Blanche (Kate Winslet), a pair of seagulls waiting for a chick of their own. They take […]

DVD, Blu-ray, Digital HD: Escape Plan 3 (2019) After the God-awful Escape Plan 2: Hades (known here at 60MW Towers as ‘Escape Plan 2: Bag of Shite’), the expectations for a 3rd instalment in this franchise were so low that a snakes belly looked down on them. However, the latest adventures of Ray Breslin (Sylvester […]

Blu-ray: Sixteen Candles (1984) Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) comes downstairs on her 16th birthday and not one of her family has remembered, because her older sister Ginny is getting married the next day. The scowl on Sam’s face remains throughout the entire film. Sam is infatuated with school heart throb Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Jake opens […]

Blu-ray: Get Him To The Greek (2010) The most frustrating reviews to write are for the films that I expect to absolutely hate but end up shocking me with how ‘alright’ they are. ‘I wasn’t bored throughout its runtime’ or ‘not as tedious as it looks’ hardly shine as examples of glowing criticism to put […]