Review: Beasts Clawing at Straws
Cinema & Digital Download: Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)Joong-man (Sung-Woo Bae) is underpaid and overworked at a sauna where he has to put up with a cocky young boss who is high on the power he holds over his staff, before going home to care for his sick mother.At the end of a busy day […]
Review: Evercade Data East Collection 1
Data East is a company I’m familiar with mainly due to their logo being visible on a lot of arcade games I used to play. There are some games I’ve played in this collection and some I haven’t, so I was excited to see how it compared to the other Evercade collections I’ve reviewed. Speaking […]
Review: ‘The Bird With the Crystal Plumage’ Limited Edition UHD
4K UHD Blu-ray: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) Dario Argento hit the screen with a bang (well, multiple stabs to be more precise) with his directorial debut The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Setting the scene for his many giallo movies to follow, TBWTCP contains twists, turns, clues and red herrings aplenty as you […]
Review: Hell Night
Blu-ray: Hell Night (1981) The 20th of 101 Films ‘Black Label’ series of releases, Hell Night is yet another superbly packaged and special features heavy addition to this great selection of titles (see here for them all). A 4K scan of the best surviving archival 35mm film print with minor SD inserts to replace missing […]
Review: Those Who Remain
Those Who Remain is a first person horror/thriller/puzzle game where you play the part of Edward; a man who begins the game with the intention of breaking up with his mistress at a motel in the hope of saving his marriage. However, when arriving at the motel and finding her room abandoned, he hears a […]
Review: Night Book
Night Book is an interactive FMV horror/thriller game by Wales Interactive which puts you in control of making decisions for Loralyn; an online interpreter who is tasked with either brokering a book sale between 2 guys, or building a hitherto broken emotional bond between a mother and her son.You also have to deal with a […]
Review: Life in Colour
Blu-ray, DVD & Download-to-own: Life in Colour (2021) Anything with David Attenborough in is going to be informative, emotional, and visually stunning. At least that’s the opinion I’ve held for a long time now, and it certainly didn’t change after watching Life in Colour. David once again travels to an eclectic mix of places around […]
Review: Invincible
Blu-ray: Invincible (2001)Written and directed by the inestimable Werner Herzog, Invincible is based on a true story and follows Jewish blacksmith Zishe Breitbart (Jouko Ahola) as he journeys to pre-WWII Berlin and becomes a strongman performing in a club owned by the mystical Herschel Steinschneider (Tim Roth).It is here that Zishe is forced to take on the […]
Review: True Romance 4K UHD
4K UHD Blu-ray: True Romance (1993)Written by Quentin Tarantino, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Rapaport, and a host of other actors at the top of their game (including Val Kilmer as Elvis Presley…if you haven’t watched this before, I shall […]
Review: The Big Fix
Blu-ray: The Big Fix (1978)The Big Fix is one of those late 1970s political/detective stories that are… you know… ‘quirky’ and… 1970s. Hmmm.Directed by Jeremy Kagan and based on the novel by Roger Simon (who also did the screen writing), it stars Richard Dreyfuss as ‘Quirky’ (oh there’s that word again) private detective Moses Wine (there’s a lot of Jewish […]