Film and TV

There aren’t many ‘new’ films amongst the array of wonderful cinematic beauties we get to review at 60MW Towers. They are mainly made up of re-releases, and luckily for us, these reissues are more often than not, stone cold classics of cinema. So picking a top 10 when you’ve watched everything from the films of […]

You have now already seen my Top 10 of the big screen…haven’t you!? So here is my Top 10 of the smaller screen: 10: Glow (Netflix) TanTASTIC 80’s throwback on ladies wrestling TV show Glow. It even had Dave watching wrestling! Nothing to do with nubile females in lycra…at least that’s what he said. 9: […]

A quick list of my favourite cinema experiences of 2017. If you missed any of them on the big screen, then make sure to watch them when they become available for home viewing. One other thing: when you visit the cinema, PLEASE adhere to the Wittertainment ‘code of conduct’. I will not be responsible for […]

DVD: Love, Lies and Records (2017) Kate (Ashley Jensen) is a registrar who works full time while coping with grumpy teenagers at home, office politics and also does some amateur sleuthing on the side. Living with (not married to) a policeman, she is popular, warm and kind, and everyone loves her. Well, everyone apart from […]

DVD: Eagle of the Ninth (1977) Eagle of the Ninth, originally a novel written for kids by Rosemary Sutcliff in 1954 is a story set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, and tells the tale of our hero, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila (perfect casting of Anthony Higgins, who stars […]

Blu-ray: The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, Volume 2: 1961-64 After singing the praises of Volume 1 of this collection in my review last month, it was with great pleasure that I got to sit through yet another superb box set release from Powerhouse Films. It now almost goes without saying that the picture quality and […]

Blu-ray & DVD: I Am Heath Ledger (2017) Heath Ledger died at only 28 years old, leaving behind a filmography and a passion for creativity that had him on a trajectory to accomplish so much more. I Am Heath Ledger tells the story of his life, incorporating video and photographs from cameras that were always […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Clash (2016) Clash is the story about events which took place in Cairo – 2013, two years after the Egyptian revolution. The country is tearing itself apart with different factions taking to the streets to vent their anger. Nobody is safe, and people from different backgrounds are all thrown into an extremely […]

Blu-ray: The Apartment (1960) C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a man on the make, and the only way he can get ahead in his company is by loaning out his apartment to various bosses who take their mistresses there (instead of a hotel) for sex. He waits outside, in all weathers, patiently waiting for his […]

Blu-ray: Carrie (1976)  Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy 16 year old girl who lives with her ‘eccentric’ religiously obsessed mother in a small American town. Carrie is bullied by her contemporaries, mainly because of her annoyingly odd mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), wild haired with a mad-but-sexy-vibe, who turns up at her ‘friends’ houses […]