Review: Kana Quest
Kana Quest on the Nintendo SwitchA review by Megan Robinson.Kana Quest is a colourful game where you match similar sounding kana symbols (Japanese phonetic letters) together to complete levels. The aim of this game is to help you learn how to read Hiragana and Katakana by the end of it in a fun, and interactive […]
Live Event: Liverpool Comic Con, Exhibition Centre, April 1st – 2nd
We’ve been covering Monopoly Events conventions for a good few years now, and after missing live events for a couple of years due to the pandemic, immediately followed by over 12 months of hospital visits and operations that meant even longer for me not being able to attend anything, to say it was a fantastic […]
Review: Bob Clark Horror Collection
Blu-ray: Bob Clark Horror CollectionChildren Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)Deathdream (1974)Black Christmas (1974)The latest (number 29) in 101 Films “Black Label” releases, the Bob Clark Horror Collection showcases the directors early horror output before he went on to more widespread acclaim with Porky’s (1981) and A Christmas Story (1983).I’d only ever watched Children Shouldn’t […]
Review: EO
Blu-ray & DVD: EO (2022)Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, EO follows the life of donkey Eo and all the places he trots to, and the people he meets. An almost picaresque tale (without Eo being a rogue) or incidence and, yes, heartbreak and of course horror. Eo is a circus donkey […]
Review: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Blu-ray: The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)Adapted from the 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor and directed by James Whale, you can tell right from the start that The Kiss Before the Mirror is pre-Hayes code, as we see Lucy Bernsdorf skip through the garden of her lover (a very young Walter Pidgeon) before being led into the bedroom […]
Review: State of the Union
Blu-ray: State of the Union (1948)I’ve never been a huge Spencer Tracy fan. To me he always seems to play himself; a somewhat grumpy American middle aged male, and more or less overshadowed here by the talent of his ‘girlfriend’ Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately I feel the same about his performance in Frank Capra’s State of […]
Review: Broken Lullaby
Blu-ray: Broken Lullaby (1932)Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) can’t overcome his grief of killing German soldier Walter during the First World War, so he travels to Walter’s home town to ask Walter’s family for forgiveness.Caught off guard when the grieving family assumes that he is a friend of Walter, they embrace him into their social sphere, […]
Review: The Invisible Man (The Complete Series)
Blu-ray & DVD: The Invisible Man (The Complete Series) (1975-6) I was 10 years old when this was originally shown and I absolutely loved it, and while it may not have the same appeal now I’m considerably older, it was still an absolute treat to revisit this series that sadly only ran for just the […]
Review: Frankenstein – The True Story
Blu-ray & DVD: Frankenstein – The True Story (1973)There have been many versions made of Mary Shelley’s literary classic over the years, but this 2 part mini-series has always been one of my favourites, with its 3 hour running time giving breathing space to expand upon the characters and their motivations…and what a great cast […]
Review: Martin Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD & Blu-ray: Martin (1976)Martin (John Amplas) is a young man who believes that he is a vampire (whether he is or not is left to you to decide when the end credits roll), not your usual “shy away from crucifixes, hide from the sunlight” vampire, rather one who hungers for blood and takes […]