Review: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Blu-ray: Buck Roger in the 25th Century (1979-81) The success of Star Wars at the cinema in 1977, not only began a series of similar ‘space themed’ movies being released onto the big screens worldwide, but also rejuvenated the genre on television too. Battlestar Gallactica ran from 1978-79 and was created by the great Glen […]
Retro Review: Rampage
Rampage Platform: Sega Master System Released: 1988 Developer: Bally Midway Publisher: Sega With the forthcoming theatrical release of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s latest blockbuster, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the game of which the movie is based. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s get ready to Rampage! You wouldn’t initially think that […]
Live Event: Jaws in Concert – Liverpool Philharmonic, April 7th, 2018
Iconic film scores (not including musicals). There are so many. The Godfather (Nino Rota), the ‘Dollars triliogy‘ (Ennio Morricone), Star Wars (John Williams). My own favourites; Blade Runner (Vangelis) and Paris, Texas (Ry Cooder), they are the soul of the film, indelible anthems that must have a perfect fit to the narrative. They swoop, soar and […]
Review: Save Me
DVD: Save Me (2018) Save Me is a six-part British television drama serial, written by and starring Line of Duty & The Walking Dead’s Lennie James. The series stars James as Nelson ‘Nelly’ Rowe, an alcoholic scumbag, who wriggles out of sticky situations with his charm and whose life is turned upside down when Jody, […]
Review: Threads
DVD: Threads (1984) I remember when Threads was originally broadcast here in the UK in 1984. For weeks afterwards it was the main topic of conversation at work: would you prefer to be incinerated in the initial blast or survive? Would making a survival shelter out of your doors actually do anything practical? Would humanity […]
Review: The Parkinsons – A Long Way To Nowhere
DVD: The Parkinsons – A Long Way To Nowhere (2016) A documentary about a band I’d never heard of, who play a genre of music that I dislike. From that opening sentence alone, you may already have an idea of what my opinion will be of The Parkinsons: A Long Way To Nowhere. However, much […]
Retro Review: Chuckie Egg
Chuckie Egg Platform: ZX Spectrum Released: 1983 Developer: A & F Software Publisher: A & F Software Seeing as it is Easter I was looking for a game to review that would tie in nicely with this time of the year. The only game I could think of involving eggs (Dizzy doesn’t count as I […]
Review: Jungle
Blu-ray & DVD: Jungle (2017) In the early 1980s, an Israeli adventurer named Yossi Ghinsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to Paz in Bolivia as a sort of rebellion against his strict dad (told in flashback). There, he meets Marcus Stamm (Joel Jackson), a Swiss school teacher, and Marcus’s friend Kevin Gale (Alex Russell), another traveler and […]
Review: Lucky
DVD: Lucky (2017) Knowing that Lucky was released just after Harry Dean Stanton’s death makes it all the more poignant. Seeing his hang-dawg face and big puppy eyes, this couldn’t be a more fitting farewell. Unsympathetic, yet mystical, Lucky does a jerky old man walk through life, repeat and fade, scared of death, and coming […]
Review: Superhot
Modern gaming is amazing and I genuinely believe there is something for everyone to enjoy, but I sometimes feel a little jaded especially with the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. These games have been around for years but they have become more and more popular in the HD era of videogames, particularly with the introduction of […]