Film and TV

Blu-ray & DVD: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) lives with his two sisters, his mentally disabled brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is about to turn 18 and his obese mother Bonnie (Darlene Cates) in a small town where nothing really happens and everyone knows their neighbours business. Gilbert is the ‘man’ of […]

DVD: Blame it on Rio (1984)Until this upcoming Fabulous Films release dropped through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers, I’d not even heard of Blame it on Rio, never mind watched any of it. And after sitting through it all I’m still not sure if that was a good thing or not!Equal parts disturbing, unintentionally […]

Directed by David Greene from JP Miller’s 1968 made for TV play, The People Next Door is an interesting watch, mainly for its portrayal of a contemporary American family who deny their daughter is an addict.Brought to us by Powerhouse Films from a new 4k transfer of the original print, it tells the story of the ‘The […]

DVD & Digital: Wired Shut (2021) Reed Rodney (Blake Stadel) is a famous author whose latest novel is not getting good reviews. His life is in a mess thanks to alcohol abuse and an accident which has currently left him with his jaw wired shut and drinking liquids to sustain himself. Recovering alone at home, […]

Premiered at Frightfest last weekend and due for a digital release in 2022, Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It is my favourite thing to come out of Kazakhstan since Borat left there to visit America.Director/co-writer Yernar Nurgaliyev keeps events happening with a kinetic visual flair that is always entertaining and didn’t once make me glance at the […]

Blu-ray: Dune (1984)Where do you begin with an iconic marmitian (as in marmite – as in you hate it or love it) film such as Dune?Those who love it know the story, the haters don’t care (much like Mr 60MW thinking Lord of the Rings is a bunch of men walking across fields for 9 […]

Blu-ray: Corruption (1968) A Peter Cushing film that I’ve never watched before! A Peter Cushing with him snogging!! A Peter Cushing film where he murders a prostitute by slashing her throat with a knife…and then rubs his hands over her bloody bare breasts!!! The gentleman of horror as I’ve never seen him before! Also known as […]

Blu-ray: The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)Beginning with a scene in which a group of children watch a toy tank destroy a car and all inside it…really! We are then shown recently widowed Ben (Charles Bateman), his daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl) and his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri) on a road trip across South West America, who then […]

Blu-ray: Jagged Edge (1985)Back in the late 80s – early 90s Joe Eszterhas was king of the ‘sex-thriller’, anything he wrote turned to gold, mainly because you were guaranteed some schmaltzy American tits and slashing. Jagged Edge is one of his earlier works, so is more or less Eszterhas ‘lite’, a sort of 80s Noir without […]

Cinema & Digital: The Toll (2021)Set on the Pembrokeshire border, an unnamed toll booth operator (Michael Smiley) quietly passes his time reading books while taking the occasional 40p toll charge from the few cars that pass through.His peace is interrupted one day when a shotgun is pushed through the toll booth window and 3 girls […]