Review: The Colossus of New York
Blu-ray: The Colossus of New York (1958)Jeremy Spensser (John Baragrey) is an esteemed humanitarian who has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Happy and content with his work and his family life with his wife and son, everything is shattered into pieces when he is killed in a freak accident while trying to retrieve his […]
Review: Being John Malkovich
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. […]
Review: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
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 […]
Review: Charming
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 […]
Live Event: MCM Manchester Comic Con, July 27th – 28th, 2019
Last weekend, Sunday in particular, I had the absolute pleasure of attending MCM Manchester Comic Con 2019 with my sister. Oh boy, what an event, what to talk about first is the question?! Let’s start from the very beginning shall we? After a very, VERY rough nights sleep, I woke up at 7AM with 2 […]
Review: Birds of a Feather
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 […]
Review: Escape Plan 3
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 […]
Review: Sixteen Candles
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 […]
Review: Get Him To The Greek
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 […]
Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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 […]