Film and TV

Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]

Blu-ray: Walkabout (1971)In 1970’s urban Australia a father (a worryingly unhinged John Meillon) takes his children on an adventure to the outback with the intention of murder/suicide. The children, a girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Luc Roeg the director’s son) are literally left in the sheering heat of the Australian outback. Thankfully they come across […]

DVD & Digital HD: Paydirt (2020)Damien Brooks (Luke Goss) is released from prison after being incarcerated for 5 years and immediately finds that the world has changed a hell of a lot during that time.However, one thing that hasn’t changed is his determination to find a buried bag of cash that went missing five years ago […]

DVD & Digital HD: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) Emma Collins (Tania Raymonde) is a marine biologist and has set up a mid-ocean laboratory called “Little Happy”, where her and her team are observing Great White sharks and the effect that climate change is having on them. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in […]

Blu-ray: Black Test Car + The Black Report (1962 + 1963) Black Test Car is an espionage thriller and tells the story of a corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company. “So far, so what” you may well be thinking, and so was I when I read the films synopsis […]

Cinema: Dreambuilders (2020) Minna is a young dreamer who lives with her father. They share a special bond which developed after Minna’s mother left them when she was younger. Minna’s life is about to be changed drastically when her new stepsister Jenny and her mother come to live with them.  Minna and Jenny are like […]

Blu-ray: Bicycle Thieves (1948)Bicycle Thieves is along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, one of the most famous works of Italian neorealism, a movement that aimed to give Italian cinema a new degree of post war realism. Director De Sica wanted to show the dire poverty and huge unemployment of post war Italy and was unable to get financial […]

Digital HD: Sputnik (2020)With this theatrical directorial debut, Egor Abramenko’s Sputnik was due to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic, leading to it being released on video-on-demand in Russia in April this year.It tells the story of two Russian cosmonauts in 1983 who are returning to earth in […]

UHD 4K Blu-ray: Pitch Black (2000) When a spaceship crash lands onto a desolate desert planet, it usually isn’t the best of days for all those that survive.  However, when you factor in that one of the survivors of the “Hunter-Gratzner” transport ship is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel); a violent escapee convict who has […]

Blu-ray: Gamera – The Complete Collection (1965-2006) It has been my privilege and pleasure to review many movie box sets here at 60MW Towers since we began in 2014, and I have to begin this review by saying that “Gamera – The Complete Collection” from Arrow Films is the one that has most impressed me […]