Live Event: Mean Man, The Tivoli, June 17th 2023
A month ago I was on stage at our beloved Tivoli, but this time I was once again back there to watch another great rock gig. Gracing the stage was Chris Holmes and his band Mean Man, and being a big fan of Chris since I bought the debut W.A.S.P. album back in 1984 and […]
Review: Champions
DVD & Blu-ray: Champions (2023)Marcus (Woody Harrelson) is a minor-league basketball coach whose volatile temper gets the better of him in the middle of a game when he pushes over a fellow coach.The incident is widely reported across all forms of media, before Marcus gets even deeper into trouble when he rear ends a cop […]
Review: BFI Film on Film Festival
If you’re really into cinema, and you’ve had the pleasure, I’m sure you’d agree that watching film ON film is the most enjoyable way to do so.The whir of the projector if you’re in earshot of it, the popping and crackling on the screen and just knowing you’re watching it in the same manner as […]
Review: The Changeling Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD & Blu-ray: The Changeling (1980)After losing his wife and child in a tragic accident, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) leaves the city to escape to a rambling rented house in the countryside. He soon finds out that this house ‘should not be lived in’ as strange things start to happen.‘Serious’ actors tend […]
Review: From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond Family
Blu-ray: Review: From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond FamilyI’ll admit that before this box set arrived here at 60MW Towers I had no idea who the Ormond Family were, but after dipping into the shoestring budget delights of this American indie filmmaking family, their output is now forever seered […]
Review: Cocaine Bear 4K UHD
4K Ultra HD, Blu-ra, DVD & Digital Download: Cocaine Bear (2023)Inspired by an actual event from 1985 when a black bear ingested some cocaine that had been dumped by a drug dealer, Cocaine Bear ramps up the silliness (and the bloodletting) and unleashes a coked up bear into a procession of people that are little […]
Live Event: In Conversation With Bez, The Tivoli, May 19th 2023
Bez -The Man, The myth.Bez (Mark Berry) what do I, a middle-aged woman in North Wales know about this person? NOT a lot. During the heyday years of The Happy Mondays at the Hacienda, I was in a one bed flat, flat broke, changing nappies. So, music wasn’t really that big on my list. Neither […]
Review: Beethoven
DVD: Beethoven (1992)I’d have loved to have been in the room when Beethoven was pitched as a movie…”Let’s make a movie about a cute little St Bernard puppy who ingratiates itself into the life of a suburban family and causes lots of hilarious chaos as it inevitably grows into 185 pounds of slobbering, hairy playfulness””That sounds great, […]
Live Event: Joe Satriani, London Palladium, May 17th 2023
Joe Satriani was technically touring not one but two albums at the Palladium, 2020’s Shapeshifting and last year’s The Elephants of Mars. We all know why this was the case, let’s not go into that – but suffice it to say the crowd were thrilled to see him back. The show included two sets, just over […]
Review: Brotherhood of the Wolf (4K UHD)
4K UHD Blu-ray: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Based on a folk tale of the beast of Gévaudan about the mysterious killings that took place in France in the 1700s, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a one-of-a-kind film that really defies genre.Part Sherlock Holmes mystery, part historical fantasy, it tells the story of the hunt for a beast […]