Film and TV

Blu-ray: The Beast Must Die (1974)The Beast Must Die is a big screen adaptation of the popular British parlour game “Guess the Werewolf”, played in country estates across the land every full moon.Okay, so while the above may well be a frivolous way to begin a review, and also not entirely accurate, it does reflect […]

Blu-ray: Dream Demon (1988) Many a man has lost his head while at the alter and about to marry the love of his life. None in such a dramatic fashion though as witnessed at the beginning of Dream Demon, a 1988 head-trip movie which mashes together A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser and Auf Wiedersehen […]

DVD & Digital: Bulletproof (Series 2) (2018 – ) Almost 2 years since I reviewed (and thoroughly enjoyed) Series 1 of Bulletproof, it was a pleasure when review discs of series 2 dropped through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers. As stated in my review of series 1, my viewing habits consist mostly of movies, […]

Digital Download & DVD: Payback (2020)French (Scott Adkins) and Sue (Louis Mandylor) are debt collectors under the employ of Tommy (Vladimir Kulich), and are tasked with going on a road trip to shake up (read that as “kick the arse of”) some shady characters who owe considerable amounts of money.While doing their travels they are […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Who Dares Wins (1982) When SAS Captain Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins) assaults 2 soldiers while out on training manoeuvres, he is forced to resign his position and return to “civvy street”. However, this is all just part of a masterplan so that he can infiltrate an anti-nuclear war group led by an […]

Digital HD: The Final Wish (2018)Aaron (Michael Welch) is a young man, who after the death of his father, returns home to help his grieving mother (Lin Shaye). It is here that he discovers a strange item that seems to have mystical powers.After inadvertently “wishing something would happen”, it does. The question is though; was […]

Blu-ray: Moscow on the Hudson (1984)Vladimir (Robin Williams) is a musician with a Russian circus, who, when the circus does a special performance in New York, decides to defect while in the middle of a last minute shopping trip in Bloomingdales.It is here that he befriends 2 people that try and help him adjust to […]

Blu-ray: Watermelon Man (1970) Good lord where do I start with this film? HOW do you review a film about a black man ‘whiteing up’ to rub it off and be a black man? Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, stars Godfrey Cambridge (who in 1965 was described by Time magazine as “one of […]

Blu-ray: Cisco Pike (1971) Cisco Pike is a 1971 drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). It’s […]

Blu-ray: The Woman/Offspring (2011/2009) This double release from Arrow features two films both centred on Pollyanna McIntosh as ‘The Woman’. When a young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in the town of Dead River, the local police immediately suspect a nomadic family of cannibals, which in itself is surprising. The cops KNOW about a family […]