Film and TV

DVD and Digital HD: Backtrace (2018) When a $20M bank heist doesn’t go to plan and ends in a violent shootout, it leaves Macdonald (Matthew Modine) with amnesia after a head injury. His loss of memory is the crux of the narrative of Backtrace, as he is the only surviving person who knows where the […]

Blu-ray: When a Stranger Calls (1979)  “Have you checked the children?” Those chilling 5 words resonate throughout When a Stranger Calls, and indeed also through When A Stranger Calls Back and the short film The Sitter (both of which are included on this fantastic limited edition release from Second Sight Films). Jill Johnson (Carol Cane) […]

Blu-ray: Day of the Dead (Ultimate Edition) (1985) Day of the Dead: the final part of George Romero’s original ‘Dead Trilogy’, that while not becoming the immediate hit that the previous ‘dead’ movie ‘Dawn of the Dead’ was, has aged like a fine wine and is now appreciated a lot more than it was upon […]

Blu-ray: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Imagine a time – say 1988, where girls were girls and boys were boys, and there was no such thing as calling your friend a non-binary ‘they’. Imagine a time when it was okay to make risqué jokes about boobs, or even…oral sex. Imagine a time, post Benny […]

DVD: Ouija House (2018) When using a ouija board there are certain words that you probably wouldn’t want it to spell out. Examples being D.E.A.T.H. or K.I.L.L. Unfortunately, the board used in Ouija House should really have spelt D.U.L.L. at the very beginning of the movie and spared everyone watching 95 minutes of a ‘by […]

DVD: The Kenny Everett Video Show (1978 – ) I was 13 years old when The Kenny Everett Show made its debut on British TV and it immediately became a firm favourite of mine because it was funny, rude and naughty…so much so that a segment of the show was called ‘The Naughty Bit’. This […]

Blu-ray: The Quiet Earth (1985) What would you do if you thought that you were the only person left alive on earth? This is the situation that Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) finds himself in when he wakes and slowly begins to discover that all is not as it was when he fell asleep. After driving […]

Blu-ray: Long Weekend (1978) Long Weekend is a sort of ‘lost’ film of Australian cinema, largely unknown by most film fans, it was written by Everett De Roche, who also created Road Games and Razorback (both previously reviewed here at 60MW, click on the links) and like these two films examines horror from a psychological standpoint. […]

Blu-ray & DVD: The Cotton Club (1984) The original screenplay by Mario Puzo was passed over for a rewrite by Francis Ford Coppola who also directed. With the Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish under his belt, The Cotton Club was deigned to be a sure fire hit. It tells the tale (based […]

DVD: Team Khan (2018) Becoming Britain’s youngest boxing Olympic medalist at the age of 17, when he won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, Amir Khan was put immediately under the public spotlight from a very young age. Turning professional at the tender age of 19, it took him only 4 […]