Review: Coherence
DVD: Coherence (2013) A group of early-thirties, middle class, American friends (Nicolas Brendon, Emily Baldoni) gather for a dinner party as a comet passes overhead. Things quickly begin to go…‘weird’. One of my favourite films for the last few years is the Indie Sci-fi Another Earth, it has a really original feel to it, and […]
Review: Your Cheatin’ Heart
DVD: Your Cheatin’ Heart (1990) Dorwood Crouch is doing time for armed Robbery. His wife Cissie (Tilda Swinton) asks local food writer Frank McClusky (John Gordon Sinclair) to help her clear his name. Cissie believes Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott) a ‘musical’ fish seller has framed him. All this happens with a backdrop of some great […]
Review: The Haunting of Radcliffe House
DVD: The Haunting of Radcliffe House (2014) The Haunting of Radcliffe House (AKA: Altar) is a new ghost story starring Hollywood old boy Matthew Modine and Brit Olivia Williams. Written and directed by British filmmaker Nick Willing who made the excellent Photographing Fairies in 1997. Set in the Yorkshire moors, Modine and Williams play Alec & Meg; a […]
Review: Out Of The Park 16
Out of the Park Baseball 16 (OOTP16) has been available for a while now, but I’ve held off posting a review until I could spend some decent time with it. A game as deep and rewarding as this can not be fully be appreciated with just a few hours of gameplay…in fact, you could play […]
Review: Coffy
Blu-ray: Coffy (1973) Pam Grier; if you can’t picture her then go now and Google her images. Google ‘Foxy Brown’. Now Google ‘Coffy’. I know she’s incredibly gorgeous but make no mistake guys and gals she’s one tough cookie, and in Jack Hill’s 1973 ‘blaxploitation’ classic she paints the screen red in this tale of […]
Live Event: Play Blackpool 2015
Video games have progressed a hell of a long way since my dad first brought home a ‘Grandstand‘ console back in the mid 1970’s, and over the ensuing 40 years I’ve owned and played the majority of all consoles and computers that have been released here in the UK. The Play Blackpool event at Norbreck […]
Retro Review: Aladdin
Aladdin Released: 1993 Platform: Megadrive Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Virgin Interactive / Disney Interactive Studios Robin Williams was a genius! There is simply no other way to describe a man of such immense talent. I think it’s only through his tragic untimely death that we fully appreciate what an amazing actor, comedian and performer he […]
Review: Day of Anger
Blu-ray: Day of Anger (1967) By 1967 the ‘spaghetti western‘ (a subgenre of the traditional ‘Western’) was enjoying particular success with audiences worldwide. There seemed to be a pool of actors who kept appearing in sweaty close-up after sweaty close-up in every one of them; sometimes sat astride a horse before being shot, and other times […]
Review: Blood and Black Lace
Blu-ray: Blood and Black Lace (1964) ‘Giallo’ means Yellow in Italian. This became the label for Italian detective thrillers as the early paperback thriller novels were adorned with yellow covers…so now you know. Mario Bava is the undoubted Godfather of Giallo. Giving fresh life to the horror genre in a way that was to be […]
Review: Midnight Run
Blu-ray: Midnight Run (1988) Many film fans say that Robert De Niro’s career crashed when he started doing comedy; The ‘Meet the Parents’ films, although financially successful, were to many an abuse of the great actors talents and maybe he shouldn’t DO comedy….well…. many years earlier was a film by Martin Scorsese about a mentally […]