Review: Moviehouse
The 1980’s, movies and video games: 3 of my passions for many years now, so when we were offered a video game for review that begins in the 80’s where you assume the role of the head of your own movie studio, I was of course immediately intrigued.The premise of it all is a simple […]
Review: The Sword and the Claw
Blu-ray: The Sword and the Claw (1975)I watched The Sword and the Claw just the other day, and yet I’m still processing what played out before my eyes. Just when I thought I’d seen about everything that the 101 Films AGFA releases could throw at me with these low budget indie movies, along comes this […]
Review: Naked Lunch Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD Blu-ray: Naked Lunch (1991) William S. Burroughs’ novel ‘Naked Lunch’ was for many years deemed “unfilmable”, so stepping up to the challenge came director David Cronenberg who intertwined elements of Burroughs’ own remarkable biography with the content of the book, the end result being a cinematic experience that, while occasionally leaving the viewer confused, […]
Review: The AGFA Horror Trailer Show
Blu-ray: The AGFA Horror Trailer ShowIf you’ve read any of my reviews on here and/or listened to me chat about movies on our podcasts, then you’ll probably have a good idea about my taste in movies and if yours is similar to mine or not. If your cinematic loves align with me, then this is […]
Review: The City of Lost Children 4K UHD
4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital: The City of Lost Children (1995)The City of Lost Children directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is one of those ‘foreign’ films. Oh dear Lord how so many of us hate to read the subtitles (actually I don’t mind at all), but wait dear reader! There isn’t so much talking in […]
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 […]