Review: Line of Duty (Series 3)
DVD: Line of Duty (Series 3) (2016) In an age of Netflix and serial binge watching of TV shows, waiting week on week for the next episode of BBC 2’s ‘Line of Duty’ has been tortuous. With character arcs as wide as Breaking Bad and a story that goes as deep as Vicky McClure’s DC […]
Review: 1900 (Novecento)
Blu-ray: 1900 (Novecento) (1976) Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (Novecento) is a sprawling 317 minute movie that covers seventy years of Italian social and political history, from 1901, the year Verdi died and peasants were still in bondage to the landowners, to the 1970’s. Novecento follows the lives of two Italian men born on the same day […]
Live Event: U.D.O – The Tivoli, April 16th, 2016.
Once again I headed back to my longest serving and favourite music venue; The Tivoli in Buckley. This time I was accompanied by Tina who hadn’t been there in 25 years! We’ve often discussed about the amount of times we were both at the same gig there in the 1980’s but didn’t cross paths, so […]
Review: Tour of Duty
DVD: Tour of Duty (2015) Major John Cafferty (Tahmoh Penikett) wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how he got there or what happened to him and his team in their last mission in Afghanistan. The other members of his squad are just as confused and it’s not long before they begin to […]
Review: Bride of Re-Animator
Blu-ray: Bride of Re-Animator (1989) Eight months after the massacre at Miskatonic, we find Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain working as medics in the middle of a civil war in Peru. It’s obvious from the start that West is up to his old ‘Re-animating the dead’ tricks again, and it’s not long until they’re […]
Review: The Ninth Configuration
Blu-ray: The Ninth Configuration (1980) As a fan of film, on occasion a review copy Blu-ray will plop on my mat, and on opening it I will sigh and think ‘Oh fuck, here we go’. It’s not a resigned sigh or even a horrified exhale, but rather a ‘how can I possibly write a critical piece about […]
Retro Review: Beach Head
Beach Head Released: 1984 Platform: ZX Spectrum Publisher: U.S. Gold Developer: Access Software Beach Head was one of the first ever computer games I played! Let’s just think about that for a moment. I’m 40 years old in July and I’ve been playing video games for most of my life. It amazes me how much of […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt3)
Chris joins me for the 3rd and final part of our Hard Rock Hell United 2016 shows as we chat with 9 bands on the Saturday. As with the previous 2 shows, we play 2 songs from each band to give you a flavour of what they are like. Yes this is a LONG episode, […]
Retro Review: Shinobi
Shinobi Released: 1987 Platform: Arcade Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega I think by now people know about my love for all things Ninja related when I was growing up. However, if you’re still a little bit unsure how I felt about these acrobatic assassins then please check out my review for the movie Pray For Death here. […]
Review: The Hunted
Streaming: The Hunted (2015) Created by Robert Chapin, The Hunted began life in 2001 as an online web series and continues to this day, making it one of, if not THE, longest running online series. It has built an international audience and is fuelled by user generated content which gives each episode its own identity, while […]