Review: Drive-In Delerium, The New Batch
Blu-ray: Drive-In Delerium, The New Batch (2017) Clocking in at a mighty 373 minutes of mind-blowing gun-fights, motorcycle madness, car chases, heaving cleavages, marauding monsters, violent vigilantes, and FAR more besides, Drive-In Delirium, The New Batch presents 175 crazy theatrical trailers remastered in high definition, AND a bonus ‘VHS Delirium’ with 95 minutes of standard […]
Review: Buried
DVD: Buried (2003) Lee Kingsley (Lennie James) begins a 10 year sentence for a firearms offence and grievous bodily harm. What the fellow prisoners and staff don’t know, is that he was protecting a member of his family from a violent criminal. Feeling depressed when his appeal is turned down, he gets himself ejected from […]
Retro Review: Enduro Racer
Enduro Racer Platform: Arcade & Sega Master System Released: 1986 & 1987 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega I’m sorry to say that this is a slightly shorter review than normal due to my time constraints, but please check out my gameplay video below of both the arcade and Sega Master System versions of Enduro Racer. In […]
Review: Bayonetta
Creating a likeable protagonist is a complex undertaking. They’re front and centre, always present and if done poorly can ruin an entire experience. I think for that reason alone, ignoring the cost and time element, the “silent protagonist” trope in video games has become such a popular design choice, an easy method of safeguarding the […]
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: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Blu-ray: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Director Roger Corman is probably best known for producing (414 at the moment!) and directing low budget horror and sci-fi movies, and when his work is discussed it is usually about his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price, or his ‘monster’ movies such as It Conquered the World […]
Review: Singularity
DVD: Singularity (2017) Elias van Dorne (John Cusack) is the CEO of the world’s biggest robotics company and the creator of ‘Kronos’; a super-computer designed to end all wars. Kronos however, decides that humans are the biggest threat to world peace and launches an attack to rid the planet of this warmongering ‘infestation’. Years later, […]
Review: Marty
Blu-ray and DVD: Marty (1955) Hard working and good natured butcher Marty Piletti (the wonderful Ernest Borgnine) is 34 and unmarried. This seems to cause great concern to his family, and especially his quintessentially Italian immigrant mother (Esther Minciotti). Marty’s life trundles on; he meets his also single friends after work, and at weekends they […]
Review: Rawhead Rex
Blu-ray: Rawhead Rex (1986) Famously written by the great Clive Barker, Rawhead Rex is a humdinger of a marmite (love it or hate it) film. Set in 1980’s rural Ireland, it tells the tale of a monster (Rawhead Rex) who is unsuspectedly unleashed on the people and countryside. There’s no real explanation of what it is, […]
Review: Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Blu-ray: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) What is it with clowns? Does anyone actually find them funny and not absolutely terrifying? The makers of Poltergeist and IT haven’t really helped to champion the cause for family friendly clowns and neither does Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Although these clowns are a darn sight more […]