Live Event: Liverpool Comic Con, Exhibition Centre, March 8th – 10th, 2019
After visiting (and absolutely loving) the Monopoly Events ‘For The Love of Sci-Fi’ convention last year (see review), I was looking forward to attending their Liverpool Comic Con, especially as Burt Young was attending and I could add to my ‘Rocky’ photo collection with him after meeting Brigitte Nielsen and Carl Weathers at the aforementioned […]
Review: Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet: Frankenstein / The Wolfman
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman (2000) Alvin is obsessed with monsters! Despite his fascination for horror, he is having terrible nightmares. This forces his long-suffering adopted father, Dave, to get rid of all of his scary memorabilia. This should solve the problem, but is there a real werewolf living next door to the […]
Review: The Merger
Blu-ray: The Merger (2018) Based on Damian Callinan’s one man play, The Merger tells the tale of Troy Carrington; erstwhile new age hippy (in thought, not in dress), the only Australian rules football player to make it out of the town of Bodgy Creek. A town filled with stereotypical ‘men’. Dubbed the ‘Town Killer’ because […]
Irma la Douce
Blu-ray: Irma la Douce (1963) Presented from a brand new 4k restoration on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, Irma la Douce looks as good as it’s ever done as Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLane light up the screen in this Billy Willy directed adaptation of the 1956 musical for the French theatre. […]
Review: Take Me High
Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: Take Me High (1973) Cliff Richard sings his way through the streets of Birmingham, including ‘Brumburger’: an earworm of a song about a Birmingham burger joint. Reflect on that for a moment: Cliff Richard sings a song about a Birmingham burger joint. That alone would hook me into watching Take Me […]
Review: The Smallest Show on Earth
Blu-ray, DVD & VOD: The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) Thrilled to hear that they have inherited a cinema in the north of England after a distant relative passes away, Matt and Jean Spenser (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) see this as an end to all of their money worries and instantly plan to sell […]
Review: Class of 1984
Blu-ray & DVD: Class of 1984 (1982) When idealistic music teacher Andrew Norris (Perry King) moves to a rough inner city high school with thoughts of educating and inspiring a new classroom full of dedicated students, his initial enthusiasm is tempered when faced with the schools violent, drug dealing gang who insist on following their […]
Review: Phantom Lady
Blu-ray: Phantom Lady (1944) Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) heads to a bar to drown his sorrows after an altercation with his wife, and it is here that he starts a conversation with a mysterious woman who gives him neither her name, nor her address. Having unused tickets to a show that he was going to […]
Review: An Audience With The Goodies
DVD: An Audience With The Goodies (2019) I remember watching The Goodies through the 1970’s and they were a huge part of my love of ‘silly’ comedy during my formative years. So when I was given the opportunity of reviewing An Audience With The Goodies, where Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Garden reunite for […]
Review: Videoman
DVD & Digital HD: Videoman (2018) I remember the 1980’s well, and especially the golden age of VHS, where collecting ex-rental videos and the thrill of the chase in searching for that elusive missing movie was a pastime that the ‘digital generation’ with everything at their fingertips can barely conceive. Videoman ticked all the nostalgia […]
