Film and TV

Hong Kong’s film industry in the 1960s was dominated by Shaw Brothers (the studio founded by real-life brothers Run Run and Runme Shaw), but as the 60s turned into the 70s, other studios began to attract a slice of their audience.Undeterred by this new competition, Shaw Brothers upped their game even more and released hundreds […]

Blu-ray: My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)Widowed astronomer Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd) pushes the limits of a work experiment too far (way too far), with the unexpected result being a race of highly advanced aliens sending one of their own down to Earth to investigate what has caused the sudden cosmic disruption.Watching television transmissions to […]

Blu-ray: Mae West in Hollywood (1932-43)I’m betting that the words “Come up and see me sometime” was the first thing that went through your mind when you saw the title of this review, and to be honest with you, that would have been the same for me too before sitting down with this limited edition blu-ray […]

Blu-ray: The Last Matinee (2020)Set in 1993 (so no get outs of using a mobile phone to call for help), this homage to slasher/giallo movies of the past has a handful of characters trapped in a large movie theatre as a killer moves around unnoticed (at least for a little while), picking them off one […]

Blu-ray: The Last Broadcast (1998)Before The Blair Witch Project took the “found footage” genre into the mainstream, there was The Last Broadcast; shot on consumer level video equipment, with a budget that wouldn’t cover the cost of 1 days catering on a mainstream movie.Looking like a low budget television documentary (bordering on ‘mockumentary’) about the […]

Blu-ray: Naked (1993)Naked begins with Johnny (David Thewlis) having sex with an older woman in a dark back alley in Manchester, and when he begins to get too rough with her she runs away screaming at him.Escaping his home city in a stolen car to avoid retribution for his sexual misgivings, he arrives at the […]

Blu-ray: Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) After thoroughly enjoying The Wraith, next up for review in the Vestron Collector’s Series blu-ray’s by Lionsgate UK is Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. Another title that I owned on ex-rental VHS, it was a pleasure to see it restored and remastered on blu-ray, complete with some very […]

Blu-ray: The Wraith (1986)Cheers were emitted when the Vestron Collector’s Series blu-ray of The Wraith (released by Lionsgate UK) dropped through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers the other week. A favourite of mine since owning the ex-rental VHS back in the 80’s, it was an absolute pleasure to see that another cult classic originally […]

4K UHD: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)It still amazes me that I’m now in a world where I get to rewatch films of my youth with such fantastic visual quality, with the added bonus of interesting special features too…and I thought I had it good back in the days when I had to do a […]

DVD & Blu-ray: Just a Gigolo (1978)David Bowie plays Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski; a Prussian officer returning home to Berlin after the first world war. He’s rather stuck up and staid and on returning to his Mutti (Maria Schell) he finds the only thing he can do is be a soldier, so ends up working in menial […]