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 […]
Retro Review: Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars Released: 1993 Platform: Super Nintendo Publisher: JVC/Nintendo Developer: Sculptured Software/Lucas Arts Star Wars is an incredibly important movie series for me. I must have seen A New Hope over a hundred times in my life and that film shall always remain in my top ten movies of all time. I recall my […]
Review: Wolf Hall
Blu-ray: Wolf Hall (2015) Reading that Hilary Mantel’s novels ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring up the Bodies’ were being turned into a TV programme would fill some fans of the books with trepidation. The fact that it was to be a BBC production was great, but the problem would lie, for me, in who would star […]
Review: Digging Up The Marrow
DVD: Digging Up The Marrow (2014) Isn’t ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ probably the strangest title for a film? It conjures up images of dead things, bones, shovels, graveyards, necrophilia…. just me? ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ is actually the title of the new horror film from Adam Green. Adam Green is a name well known as […]
Live Event: Tivoli Hauntings (Podcast)
Myself and Ramrod were kindly invited by the Tivoli to their inaugural ‘in house’ ghost hunt. We took recording equipment with the intention of doing the full show there, but we got so engrossed in the proceedings that we’ve sat down the following day to tell you all about it…even though we mess up a […]
Review: Road to Paloma
Blu-ray: Road to Paloma (2014) Wolf (Jason Momoa) is on the run from the police and the FBI for murder. On his travels he picks up musician ‘Cash’ (Robert Homer Mollohan) and together they evade the law. That was probably the hardest Blurb I’ve had to write for a film, because in all truth, not […]