Review: Night Train Murders
Blu-ray: Night Train Murders (1975) Two young girls, Margaret (Irene Miracle) and Lisa (Laura D’Angelo) are travelling by train from Germany to Italy to stay with Lisa’s family for Christmas. Also on the train are Blackie (Flavio Bucci) and Curly (Gianfranco De Grassi), who attempt to hide from the ticket collector. At first the girls […]
Review: Network
Blu-ray: Network (1976) “I’m going to kill myself on live TV” says Peter Finch’s strung out news anchor as he slumps on the bar. “We can call it suicide of the week! The Death Hour” is the nonchalant comeback from William Holden’s news commissioner. The tone is set for Sidney Lumet’s classic satire on a […]
Review: Never Alone
Video-games are often accused of a lot of things. They are too violent, sexist, misogynistic and in some cases just plain stupid. Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy shooting people in the face as much as the next guy, and there’s something entertainingly wrong about picking up a prostitute in Grand Theft Auto, having […]
Review: Futureworld
Blu-ray: Futureworld (1976) “Would I have sex with a robot”? That’s probably not a question that you ask yourself too often, but if you were to visit Delos then it would surely be high on your list of queries, 2nd only perhaps to; “Have they REALLY fixed those robots since the crazy bald gunslinger short […]
Retro Review: U.N. Squadron
UN Squadron Released: 1991 Platform: Super Nintendo Publisher: Capcom Developer: Capcom The fighting in this area is ferocious. Only fate will determine if we live or die. Only a madman would take on this mission… Lucky they found me! So begins ‘U.N. Squadron‘ with another brilliant SNES intro showing a pilot taking off in a […]
Review: Hostages (Bnei Aruba)
DVD: Hostages (AKA:Bnei Aruba) (2013) Doctor Yael Danon (the beautiful Ayelet Zurer) is a surgeon in a Tel Aviv hospital, when armed masked men break into her house and hold her husband (Jonah Lotan) and children hostage, she has moral choice to make; lose her family or kill the Israeli Prime Minister during an operation she […]
Review: Rollerball
Blu-ray: Rollerball (1975) Set in the future, James Caan plays ‘man’s man’ Jonathan E; Captain of the Houston Rollerball team whose ruthless prowess in the game has made him famous worldwide. This idolation has attracted the discontent of the games’ corporate sponsors who want to suppress any displays of individualism fearing this could encourage some […]
Retro Review: Alien 3
I love retro gaming! The only problem with retro gaming is that sometimes my memory plays tricks on me and I remember a game being better than it actually is. So the point of these retro reviews is to go back and play games from the past and have a fresh look at them. Do […]
Review: A Haunting at Silver Falls
DVD: A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013) Following the death of her father, Jordan (Alix Elizabeth Gitter) goes to Silver Falls to live with her aunt and uncle. As you can imagine, Jordan struggles with her new way of life, making friends, going to a new school, walking in on her guardians getting it on […]
Review: Play Dirty
Blu-ray: Play Dirty (1969) Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is working port duty in North Africa overseeing incoming fuel supplies (mainly consisting of sipping booze and playing chess) and is reluctantly recruited into a mission behind enemy lines to blow up their fuel dump. Little does he know that the mission is just a decoy for the real […]