Film and TV

Blu-ray: Being John Malkovich (1999)Now 20 years old (can you believe it?) Being John Malkovich was, and still is, a ‘one off’ kind of film. Very surreal, yet understandable. This was the first script made into a film by Charlie Kaufman, who is now seen as one of THE American writers of modern times. Directed […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a hard hitting story set at the end of the 19th century, about a young indigenous man pushed to his breaking point and beyond. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is an Aboriginal half-caste and […]

Cinema: Charming (2018) Prince Philippe Charming has a problem. Every woman he meets falls head over heels in love at the very sight of him. ‘Why is this a problem?’ I hear you say. Surely every man would love women to fawn over them? The issue is that all the men in the kingdom don’t appreciate […]

Cinema: Birds of a Feather (AKA Man the Swift) (2019) Manou the Swift (Josh Keaton) is attacked by rats when he is a baby chick and left alone to fend for himself. He stumbles across Yves (Willem Defoe) and Blanche (Kate Winslet), a pair of seagulls waiting for a chick of their own. They take […]

DVD, Blu-ray, Digital HD: Escape Plan 3 (2019) After the God-awful Escape Plan 2: Hades (known here at 60MW Towers as ‘Escape Plan 2: Bag of Shite’), the expectations for a 3rd instalment in this franchise were so low that a snakes belly looked down on them. However, the latest adventures of Ray Breslin (Sylvester […]

Blu-ray: Sixteen Candles (1984) Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) comes downstairs on her 16th birthday and not one of her family has remembered, because her older sister Ginny is getting married the next day. The scowl on Sam’s face remains throughout the entire film. Sam is infatuated with school heart throb Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Jake opens […]

Blu-ray: Get Him To The Greek (2010) The most frustrating reviews to write are for the films that I expect to absolutely hate but end up shocking me with how ‘alright’ they are. ‘I wasn’t bored throughout its runtime’ or ‘not as tedious as it looks’ hardly shine as examples of glowing criticism to put […]

Blu-ray: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Pete (Jason Segel) and Sarah are seemingly Hollywood’s cutest B-list couple. During a messy break-up, Sarah reveals that she is involved with another man. In the throws of an intense post-break-up depression, Pete decides to get away to the Hawaiian resort that he and Sarah always talked about getting away […]

Blu-ray: Crime and Punishment (1935) Directed by the infamous Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and adapted by Joseph Anthony and S.K. Lauren from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same title, Crime and Punishment was more or less a vanity project for Peter Lorre who starred in the  lead role of Raskolnikov (here named Roderick […]

Blu-ray & DVD: Funny People (2009) Out of the recent Judd Apatow load Dave provided for me to review, Funny People was the one I was both most dreading yet most excited to revisit. Back when I was 14 Tarantino’s hyper violent, Nazi killing epic, Inglorious Basterds was released. Like any other spotty teenager with bad hygiene […]