Film and TV

4K UHD: Waterworld (1995)A box office bust on its release in 1995, Waterworld has thankfully come to be re-evaluated since then and is loved a lot more by cinephiles worldwide, though I’ve always enjoyed it since going to the cinema to watch it all those years ago.In a future where the polar ice caps have […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Champions (2023)Marcus (Woody Harrelson) is a minor-league basketball coach whose volatile temper gets the better of him in the middle of a game when he pushes over a fellow coach.The incident is widely reported across all forms of media, before Marcus gets even deeper into trouble when he rear ends a cop […]

4K UHD & Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980)After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside.  He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen.‘Serious’ actors tend […]

Blu-ray: Review: From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond FamilyI’ll admit that before this box set arrived here at 60MW Towers I had no idea who the Ormond Family were, but after dipping into the shoestring budget delights of this American indie filmmaking family, their output is now forever seered […]

4K Ultra HD, Blu-ra, DVD & Digital Download: Cocaine Bear (2023)Inspired by an actual event from 1985 when a black bear ingested some cocaine that had been dumped by a drug dealer, Cocaine Bear ramps up the silliness (and the bloodletting) and unleashes a coked up bear into a procession of people that are little […]

DVD: Beethoven (1992)I’d have loved to have been in the room when Beethoven was pitched as a movie…”Let’s make a movie about a cute little St Bernard puppy who ingratiates itself into the life of a suburban family and causes lots of hilarious chaos as it inevitably grows into 185 pounds of slobbering, hairy playfulness””That sounds great, […]

4K UHD Blu-ray: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Based on a folk tale of the beast of Gévaudan about the mysterious killings that took place in France in the 1700s, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a one-of-a-kind film that really defies genre.Part Sherlock Holmes mystery, part historical fantasy, it tells the story of the hunt for a beast […]

DVD: It’s Complicated (2009)It’s Complicated boasts a stellar cast, and although I hate to begin a review like this, I feel the overwhelming urge to beg God to save me from films like this…the ‘romantic comedy’.Jane (Meryl Streep) is fabulously wealthy and owns a successful bakery in sunny California, and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin), an […]

4K UHD & Blu-ray: Full Circle: The Haunting of Julia (1977) After the shocking and sudden death of her daughter at the breakfast table due to chocking on a piece of apple, bereaved mother Julia (Mia Farrow) leaves her controlling husband Magnus (Keir Dullea) and moves into an old house in West London. The house has […]

4K UHD & Blu-ray: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Appleyard College is a Victorian young ladies’ college somewhere in Australia, the students are about to have a Valentines Day treat; a picnic at Hanging Rock. In their cream and white cotton dresses, these beautiful, spoilt girls stuff their faces under the watchful eyes of Miss […]