Review: Silent Running 4K UHD
4K UHD Blu-ray: Silent Running (1972)A favourite from watching on TV as a kid, Silent Running follows botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) as he lovingly tends to the only botanical specimens left from Earth, all based under the huge geodesic domes on the spaceship ‘Valley Forge’.When orders are received to destroy the project and return home, […]
Review: Nil by Mouth
BFI Limited Edition 2-disc Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime: Nil by Mouth (1997)How do you review a film like Nil By Mouth? The actual story, well, there’s not much too it, a few things happen, but this isn’t a ‘story’ as such, it’s more a slice of life, it’s not a peek into, it’s a […]
Review: Nightmare at Noon
Blu-ray: Nightmare at Noon (1988)Written and directed by Nico Mastorakis, starring Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy, Kimberly Beck, and Brion James…that’s all I needed to know before thinking “I’m in!”…and Nightmare at Noon certainly didn’t let me down.’The Albino’ (the always watchable Brion James, seen here with face “almost” all covered in white make-up […]
Review: Fall (Blu-ray)
Blu-ray: Fall (2022)Tina reviewed the cinema release of Fall earlier this year when Signature Entertainment kindly sent us a streaming link for it, so rather than repeat what she said (as we both love the movie), please take a few minutes to go and read her review.This new blu-ray release (also from Signature Entertainment) looks […]
Review: Remember the Night
Blu-ray: Remember the Night (1940)It’s the week before Christmas and Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) gets arrested for blatantly stealing a bracelet from a New York store, she’s assigned to be prosecuted by Jack Sargeant (Fred MacMurray), just as he was about to drive home to his mother for Christmas. He interferes with the trial so […]
Review: Beautiful Beings
Digital: Beautiful Beings (2022) Beautiful Beings (original Icelandic title Berdreymi) begins with 14-year-old Baldur (Balli). He’s odd, smells, has a wonky eye and is mercilessly bullied, beaten and peed on in school. After being beaten senseless in an underpass he appears on TV in a news report about the wild youth of Iceland. Returning to […]
Ghost Stories for Christmas: Volume 1
Blu-ray: Ghost Stories For Christmas – Volume 1 (1968-73) We at 60MW Towers are already, being of oldish age and a penchant for the ghostly, fans of the BBC’s Christmas Ghost stories. Every year I place the old DVD box set in front of Mr 60MW, and wearing a long Victorian gown I found in […]
Review: Scalextric – Back to the Future Vs Knight Rider
I’ve been podcasting for over 10 years now, and throughout all of that I’ve always chatted about things from the 1980’s, beginning with the podcast “80’s Picturehouse”, and now in the “Decade of Decadence” shows here at 60MW (both of those shows recorded with my good friend Thom).So you can imagine my excitement when I […]
Review: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 4K UHD Limited Edition
You’re singing to yourself right now, aren’t you?No matter if you loved or hated that song, its firmly ensconced in anyone over 40’s mind.It’s a long time since I’ve seen this film and was surprised at just how much I’d forgotten. Arrow’s new 4K UHD release includes an ‘extended’ 155-minute version of the film which […]
Live Event: Fozzy, O2 Academy, London, November 14th 2022
A last minute venue change meant intrepid photographer pal Dale and I journeyed to the Islington Academy for a triple bill of rock recently headlined by Fozzy.The evening started with Scarlet Rebels but unfortunately due to the venue opening the doors incredibly late, we only saw the last couple of their songs which really wasn’t […]