Live Event: More Live With Deth, KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, November 3rd, 2019
1979 was a wonderful year for me. It was the year I discovered rock music, and I spent my pocket money on albums from KISS and Scorpions. But it was Judas Priest who took my rock virginity when they appeared on Top of the Pops and sang ‘Take on the World’ (video below). From that […]
Review: National Lampoon’s Animal House
DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) It’s 1962 America and Faber college, under the leadership of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), has its usual mix of fraternity (frat) houses. One of these (Delta house) is full of party loving, beer swilling, foul mouthed, sex addicted students who don’t give a damn about their studies and just […]
Review: The Eiger Sanction
DVD: The Eiger Sanction (1975) Retired assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now works as an art professor, while also indulging his love of art by always wanting to add to his extensive collection of paintings. When an old friend of Jonathans is murdered, he comes out of retirement and must join a group of mountain […]
Review: The Dead Center
Blu-ray & DVD: The Dead Center (2018) When Michael (Jeremy Childs) is brought into a morgue after committing suicide, everything seems normal. This soon changes when he gets up and leaves the morgue with no memory of who he is. When Michael is brought into the emergency psych ward of a hospital, troubled psychiatrist Daniel […]
Live Event: We Are Inglorious, The Tivoli, October 24th, 2019
Formed in 2014 and changing line-up a few times, Inglorious now consists of Dan Stevens (Guitar), Danny Dela Cruz (guitar) Phil Beaver (Drums), Nathan James (vocals) Vinnie Colla (bass). Not being a fan of reality TV and talent shows, I was surprisingly unaware that Nathan James had another life before the rock band. Stalwart of […]
Live Event: Eurogamer Expo, ExCel London, October 17th – 20th, 2019
Welcome to my annual EGX round up! Over the next few thousand words you’ll get to read about this year’s event, and more importantly, what games I played. So, grab yourself a cuppa and take a few minutes out of your day to see what I thought. There were a couple of big changes to […]
Review: 7 – 63 UP
DVD & Blu-ray: 7 – 63 UP (1964 – )How on earth do you write a review of one of the most comprehensive, relevant, important and astonishing documentaries ever made? How do you do justice in a few paragraphs to a literal life’s work? How can you encapsulate the joy, fear, emotion contained within?Quite simply, […]
Review: Aniara
Blu-ray: Aniara (2018)Aniara is a science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. The title comes from ancient Greek and means ‘sad/despairing’. The poem tells the tragedy of a spacecraft bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from a dying Earth. After an accident, the ship is ejected from the Solar System […]
Live Event: For The Love Of Horror, BEC Manchester, October 19th – 20th, 2019
It’s hard to believe that it is now coming up to 1 year since I first attended an event run by Monopoly Events, which was their ‘For The Love Of Sci-Fi‘ in November 2018. Since then it has been my pleasure to cover their Liverpool Comic Con, and Comic Con Manchester. This however was my […]
Review: The Take
Blu-ray & DVD: The Take (1974) Billy Dee Williams stars as ‘Sneed’…a hot shot crooked cop (and fashion icon…just wait until you see some of his clothes) who moves from San Francisco to Paloma, New Mexico to help fight crime. The move to Paloma does nothing for his morals though, and he gets on the […]
