Review: La Cha Cha
La Cha Cha (2021)While on a road trip to scatter his Grandfather’s ashes, Solti Buttering (Liam Hourican) inadvertently finds ‘La Cha Cha’; a weird and wonderful holiday park with a community of retired people living “off the grid” and enjoying life to the full.La Cha Cha owner Libby Rees (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) and her brother […]
Review: Dark Water Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD: Dark Water (2002)If you think you’ve got problems just because you have a dripping tap in the bathroom or kitchen, then watching Dark Water will certainly make you re-evaluate that thought process.While in the middle of a messy divorce from her husband, Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) finally gets custody of their young daughter […]
Review: Green Room Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD: Green Room (2015)Struggling punk band Ain’t Rights are in the Pacific Northwest for a gig, but when it’s cancelled, Pat, Sam, Reece and Tiger must find another way of making the money that they desperately need. When an opportunity for a show in the sticks arises, they can’t say no…but they really should […]
Review: V/H/S 85
Blu-ray: V/H/S 85 (2023)After recently reviewing (and enjoying) 2021’s V/H/S 94, I was very much looking forward to watching the latest instalment in the series; V/H/S 85.Much like its predecessor, this is another horror anthology that throws all sorts of weird and wonderful stories at you in fairly quick succession. This time it’s presented in […]
Review: Top Racer Collection
I have a soft spot for 8-bit and 16-bit racing games having grown up with the likes of Chase HQ, the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge series, Jaguar XJ220, and of course, this list wouldn’t be complete without the classic Outrun from Sega. I wasn’t necessarily familiar with the Top Racer series until I started to […]
Review: Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons Remake
It’s hard to believe that Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons was originally released in August 2013 as part of the Xbox Summer of Arcade promotion. Just to take you back in time for a moment, the other games that were also available included: Charlie Murder, Flashback, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of […]
Review: BFI Flare – Chasing Chasing Amy
We’ve all had that movie discovery at a young age that changed everything and influenced who we would become in later life. For 12 year old Sav Rodgers it was stumbling upon the VHS of 1997 rom-com Chasing Amy. At a time when he was contending with his queer identity, the film was a life […]
Review: Possessor Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD: Possessor (2020)The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is the best way to describe Brandon Cronenberg’s work, a modern take of life today, body horror, cerebral, thought provoking and based in the human condition. In Possessor we follow the story of Tasya Vos (the amazing Andrea Riseborough) who’s an assassin in an […]
Review: Fear City
Blu-ray: Fear City (1984)I’m always filled with wonder at the amount of films that were made in the 80s. I mean by now you’d think we at 60MW Towers would have seen them all. Twice. But no.How on earth I have never seen Abel Ferarra’s 1984 Fear City is beyond me, but thankfully 101 Films […]
Review: V/H/S 94
Blu-ray & Digital: V/H/S 94 (2021)The 4th instalment of the V/H/S horror anthology movies takes us back to the 1990’s, showcasing 4 new stories all wrapped around a narrative (“Holy Hell’) of a police S.W.A.T. team who investigate a mysterious VHS tape and discover a sinister cult that has pre-recorded material which uncovers a nightmarish […]