Review: Female Fight Club
DVD: Female Fight Club (2016) With the witty first line of “1st rule of Female Fight Club…don’t watch Female Fight Club” already in my mind as I navigated the sparse DVD menu screen, I was mentally prepared for a low budget, low action, DTV bore fest that used a suggestive title and 80’s action star […]
Review: Charley Varrick
Blu-ray: Charley Varrick (1973) Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau) is a former stunt pilot who now uses a crop dusting firm as a front while he, his wife Nadine (Jacqueline Scott), and young protégé Harman (Andrew Robinson) rob banks. When trying to abscond from a small town with their ill gotten gains from the local bank, […]
Review: Fair Game
Blu-ray: Fair Game (1986) Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) is all alone in the Australian outback where she runs a wildlife sanctuary. When 3 belligerent kangaroo hunters (Peter Ford, Garry Who and David Sanford) appear in the area, she inadvertently crosses paths with them, and so begins a game of ‘cat and mouse’ that escalates with each […]
Review: The Border
Blu-ray: The Border (1982) Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is a hard working U.S. border patrol agent who is finding it financially difficult to make ends meet. This is compounded by his wife Marcy (Valerie Perrine), whose insistence to move from Los Angeles into a new house in Texas and constantly spend money on furnishings and […]
Review: Brimstone
Blu-ray & DVD: Brimstone (2016) Brimstone is a dark western tale which tells the story of Liz (Dakota Fanning); a mute woman who’s constant battle with all life throws at her is documented here from her early years as a scared and abused child, through to her adult life where the shadows of her past still […]
Review: Once Were Warriors
Blu-ray: Once Were Warriors (1994) Jake Heke (Temuera Morrison) is a violent, abusive, and borderline alcoholic husband to Beth (Rena Owen) and father of their 5 children. His life revolves around ‘being a man’, which in his mind consists of drinking with his mates, having big parties at home, and the occasional fight…sometimes with Beth […]
Review: Sunday Too Far Away
DVD: Sunday Too Far Away (1975) Sunday Too Far Away made in 1975 is one of the first ‘Australian New Wave’ films (along with Wake in Fright, Mad Max and Picnic at Hanging Rock). The film is set on a sheep station deep in the Australian outback in 1955 and the story looks at the […]
Live Event: Alien Ant Farm – Norwich Waterfront, February 10th, 2018
Over the past two decades, Californian punk-rockers Alien Ant Farm have had a career which parallels surprisingly closely with the trajectory of another band I like: Eastbourne alt-rock outfit Toploader. I realise that geographically and musically they are hard to compare, but hear me out: both formed in the mid-to-late 90s, both enjoyed their greatest […]
Retro Review: Spider-Man
Spider-Man Platform: Sega Megadrive Released: 1991 Publisher: Sega Developer: Technopop After spending some time with the ‘Heroes in a Half Shell’ in my previous review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, my Spidey sense started to tingle (I really should go to the doctors and get some cream for that), so I decided […]
Review: Quantum Leap – The Complete Collection
Blu-ray: Quantum Leap – The Complete Collection (1989 – 1993) Quantum Leap first aired in the UK in 1990 on BBC 2. I missed it. I was in Los Angeles and had already become quite obsessed with this sci-fi tale of Dr. Sam Beckett (the gorgeous Scott Bakula); a physicist who figuratively ‘leaps’ through his […]