Live Event: Sundance Film Festival London, June 2022
The Sundance Film Festival London is currently taking place June 9th – 12th.Thom attended the press screenings on June 7th & 8th (and will be at the press screening of this years “surprise film” on June 13th…review to follow).Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.Directed by Sophie Hyde (last seen with the excellent Animals), Good Luck […]
Review: High Crime
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: High Crime (1973)High Crime is one of Italy’s more famous Poliziotteschi films, made during a period of socio-political turmoil in Italy and high crime rates.They were infamous for their graphic violence, rape, organised crime, car chases, and corruption, with cops and criminals normally tough working class loners, who act outside a corrupt bureaucratic system.This one stars my […]
Live Event: Hardline, The Tivoli, May 27th, 2022
Prior to this evening, my previous live music gig was on 24th January 2020…and we all know what happened not long after that! So it was with a great sense of excitement that I returned to my beloved Tivoli venue (where I hadn’t been for a gig since 24th October 2019) and FINALLY got to […]
Review: The Last Metro
Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: The Last Metro (1980)The Last Metro, made in 1980, written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu and winning nearly every award going, is a classic of cinema that passed me by.It follows the actors and workers of a theatre in Montmartre during the Nazi occupation of Paris in […]
Review: Cop Secret
Digital: Cop Secret (2021) Tango and Cash, Murtaugh and Riggs, Starsky and Hutch; all names you’re more than likely familiar with thanks to their exploits in cinemas and on television screens worldwide. You can now add to that list Bússi and Hörður: a couple of Icelandic cops whose relationship goes deeper (very deep in fact, going […]
Review: Wild Things
Blu-ray: Wild Things (1998) Alas, they don’t make film like this anymore. What’s that? NO sigh of relief from Tina? No feminist outburst? Nope, just a genuine lament at the loss of ‘sex-thrillers’ such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and director Jon Macnaughton’s Wild Things. Apparently star and producer Kevin Bacon said this script was […]
Review: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021) Having not watched 2014’s Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, I went into this sequel hesitant as to how much of the narrative would be reliant on a knowledge of the events so far. I needn’t have worried though, as despite some of the lore of this particular undead […]
Review: Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
The first time I was properly made aware of the concept of verticality in a video game was around 2016, in a review for that year’s triumphant return to the DOOM franchise. In that instance, TotalBiscuit (RIP) described how Doom 2016 built upon the scrappy, rapid yet meticulous combat of its progenitors by adding platforming […]
Review: Pirates
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: Pirates (2021)As an ageing white male living in the hills of Wales and a penchant for 80’s hair metal, I guess I’m not in the right demographic for a movie about 3 teenage lads in London spending New Years Eve 1999 desperately trying to get into a club to see in […]
Review: Dobermann
Cinema & Digital Download: Dobermann (1997)Accidentally handed a gun while lying in his pram in the church during his own christening (I kid you not!), Yann Lepentrec dit Le Dob…AKA Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) grows up to lead, along with Nathalie dit Nat la Gitane (Monica Bellucci), a violent gang who find themselves in the middle of […]
