The Beast With A Million Eyes
DVD: The Beast With A Million Eyes (1955) A huge carnivorous beast with one million eyes, a city in terror with the population fighting for their lives, an intergalactic spaceship that rivals anything in Independence Day, those are just a few of the things you WON’T see in Roger Corman’s 1955 zero budget sci-fi movie The Beast […]
Live Event: EuroGamer Expo – NEC Birmingham, September 22-25th, 2016
Eurogamer Expo 2016 (or EGX for short) returned to the NEC in Birmingham following a hugely successful show in 2015. As people will know I love EGX as it’s a chance to play the latest upcoming video game releases and more importantly, meet up with friends and have a laugh. My impression of the show […]
Review: The Man From Planet X
DVD: The Man From Planet X (1951) I love 1950’s sci-fi movies (along with 1930’s horror movies, 1970’s cop movies and 1980’s action movies) and it was with some surprise to discover that I had never watched The Man From Planet X before now. What better way though to watch it for the first time than with Fabulous […]
Review: Slugs
Blu-ray: Slugs (1988) I devoured books during my teens and twenties, the majority of which fell into the horror genre. I’d scan the shelves of my local bookshop looking for the latest titles by James Herbert, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and many more. Then one fateful day in 1982 I spied the cover of a […]
Review: Bowfinger
Blu-ray: Bowfinger (1999) Has-been actor and now film producer Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) has $2,184 and a script; Chubby Rain. All he needs is a star, one particular star; Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) to be in his movie. With the aid of several friends; Kit’s look-alike brother Jiff (Eddie Murphy again) and an unsuspecting alien-fearing Kit, he begins […]
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
Blu-ray: The Importance of Being Ernest (1952) The film opens and closes with a brief ‘reminder’ that we are in a theatre watching a production of the play – and not a film. Based on Oscar Wilde’s final play (the initial production in the late 1800’s of which was infamously sabotaged by allegations of Wilde’s […]
Review: Sweet Bean
Blu-Ray: Sweet Bean (2015) Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is a middle aged man trying to make ends meet by working in a struggling pancake shop. He is beholden to work there by the spiteful owner due to owing a debt for a mistake he made when he was younger. Everyday he goes through the motions, making […]
Live Event: Joan Collins Unscripted – Theatre Severn, September 13th, 2016
Dame Joan Collins, magnificent woman, star, sassy and sexy, beloved of all women over the age of ….ahem. One could say she is an ‘old style’ movie star, but her change to television in the 80s with Dynasty lead her to become an actress of two parts, elevating her above her contemporaries to become a true […]
Live Event: Starburst Film Festival – MMU Student Union, August 27th, 2016
Let me begin by apologising for the delay in getting this review online; my original draft of it was lost in what I’ve now called “the great hard drive crash of 2016“, something which I’m sure everyone reading this would have suffered at some point and can relate to. However, with new external HDD now sat […]
Review: Dead End Drive-In
Blu-ray: Dead End Drive-In (1986) Imagine this; you’re at a drive-in that plays a variety of exploitation movies on loop. While the movies aren’t playing you have access to a diner serving burgers/fries, etc which you don’t have to pay for, and should you wish to partake there are also drugs available to you. How’s it sounding so […]