Review: Babe: Pig in the City
Blu-ray: Babe: Pig in the City (1998) A triumphant homecoming after being declared the best ‘sheep pig’ at the conclusion of the highly successful Babe, is swiftly followed by a crazy adventure in the city of Metropolis to try and save the future of the farm in this charming sequel co-written, produced and directed by George Miller. […]
Review: The Lady from Shanghai
Blu-ray and DVD: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Irish seaman Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles) bumps into the beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and saves her from some muggers. They share a sexually charged carriage ride, and Elsa offers O’Hara a job on her yacht. He refuses when he finds out she’s married to a criminal […]
Review: The Amityville Horror
Blu-ray: The Amityville Horror (1979) When the Lutz’s knowingly move into a murder house with their children, they believe everything will be alright. No prizes to guess the outcome. How odd that despite having watched this a few times over the years, I had absolutely NO recollection of it, so my reviewing was more or […]
Review: Guerrilla
Blu-ray: Guerrilla (2017) Jas (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay) are lovers who half-arsedly support black power and immigrant causes but haven’t actually DONE anything. This attitude changes when a black friend of theirs is killed by the police and they finally commit to becoming ‘real’ revolutionary activists by busting a noted radical, Dhari (Nathaniel […]
Review: The Doors – The Soft Parade & Dance on Fire
DVD: The Doors – The Soft Parade (1991) & Dance on Fire (1985) Waiting for my new boss to pick me up from LAX in 1988 out of someones car blasted ‘L.A. Woman’, and I laughed, smirking with joy and wondered if I’d ever fit that song. I kinda think I did for a while. […]
Review: Evil Ed
Blu-ray & DVD: Evil Ed (1995) If you enjoyed the early works of Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, then Evil Ed is surely a movie that you have also seen. If not, then feel confident in ordering this immediately in the knowledge that you’ll soon be watching some low budget splatter, […]
Review: Star Maidens
DVD: Star Maidens (1976) Far away in a distant solar system, the citizens of the planet Medusa have no idea that a comet is on a deadly trajectory that will knock it out of its current orbit and send it spinning through space. The inhabitants are human in appearance (saves on expensive prosthetics) and it […]
Review: Lego City Undercover
Four years after its original release on the WiiU, Lego City Undercover finally makes its way to PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. The WiiU gamepad was maligned by many, and even Nintendo barely used its features towards the end of the consoles life cycle. However, there are some examples where the gamepad was […]
Review: Property is No Longer a Theft
Blu-ray and DVD: Property is No Longer a Theft (1973) Total (Flávio Bucci) is a lowly bank teller, living in borderline poverty with his father who was a bank teller before him. Total is frustrated by the way that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is exemplified by The Butcher (Ugo […]
Retro Review: Operation Wolf
Operation Wolf Released: 1991 Platform: Sega Master System Publisher: Sega Developer: Taito Looking back, I had a strange fascination with guns when I was a child. Watching movies like Commando and Rambo: First Blood Part 2 at the age of 10 probably didn’t help with my obsession with all things that go bang. I know […]