Review: Score – A Film Music Documentary
DVD & VOD: Score – A Film Music Documentary (2016) Music is well known for affecting your emotions, and none more so than in film scores where it accompanies and enhances the visual action playing out before you. The themes from Rocky, Superman, and the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly are all ingrained […]
Retro Review: Die Hard Arcade
Die Hard Arcade Platform: Sega Saturn Released: 1997 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Some films are seemingly ripe to be made into videogames, in particular action movies as they have the perfect ingredients to give fans the chance to relive moments from their favourite blockbuster. Making a good game is easier said than done and a […]
Review: The Passenger
Blu-ray: The Passenger (1975) While containing more dialogue than many of director Michelangelo Antonioni’s previous movies, The Passenger still focuses the majority of its narrative on the visual rather than the auditory. The camera follows the character of Locke (Jack Nicholson) like a ghostly apparition, committing his every move onto celluloid in what at times seem […]
Review: Aces High
DVD: Aces High (1976) Being a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI was a job for life…a life that would likely end within a day or two due to the high fatality rate of the brave men who stepped into the cockpit of those early flying machines. Based on the book Journeys End […]
Review: The Evil Within 2
It occurred to me the other day after I completed The Evil Within 2 that my victory felt a little bit empty. It wasn’t anything to do with the overall quality of the game, so I was initially baffled about why I felt this way. After a few minutes of pondering I figured out the […]
Review: Town on Trial
Blu-ray: Town on Trial (1957) When a flirty Marylin Monroe-esque member of the local tennis club is murdered, Superintendent Mike Halloran (John Mills) is assigned the task of finding out who the murderer is. His investigations uncover a web of deceit, whereby numerous people are linked to the deceased due to romantic flirtations. The case […]
Retro Review: Athlete Kings
Athlete Kings Platform: Sega Saturn Released: 1996 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Back in the day there were loads of sports games based on athletics, including the likes of Daley Thompsons Decathlon, Hyper Sports and Track & Field. All of these would test the strongest of joysticks as waggling like a lunatic was generally the way […]
Review: Breathless
Blu-ray: Breathless (1983) In this remake of Jean Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), Richard Gere plays Jesse, a thief who seems to have a preternatural knack for stealing classic 1950s convertibles. He’s also annoying. Full of jerky energy, always talking to himself, or gazing at himself in the mirror. But then, despite the beautifully full mouthed […]
Review: Jailbreak
DVD: Jailbreak (2017) It’s been a great time lately here at 60MW Towers for fisticuffs action. No we’re not fighting amongst ourselves…we all know that Chris could beat us all up simultaneously with one hand tied behind his back. I am of course referring to the great martial arts movies that have dropped through our […]
Retro Review: Road Rash
Road Rash Platform: Sega Saturn Released: 1996 Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Electronic Arts For my next series of retro reviews, I’m going to show some love to a console that was much maligned and ultimately beaten into submission by the Sony PlayStation. So, strap yourself in and get ready for some Sega Saturn goodness and […]