Review: The Last Matinee
Blu-ray: The Last Matinee (2020)Set in 1993 (so no get outs of using a mobile phone to call for help), this homage to slasher/giallo movies of the past has a handful of characters trapped in a large movie theatre as a killer moves around unnoticed (at least for a little while), picking them off one […]
Review: The Last Broadcast
Blu-ray: The Last Broadcast (1998)Before The Blair Witch Project took the “found footage” genre into the mainstream, there was The Last Broadcast; shot on consumer level video equipment, with a budget that wouldn’t cover the cost of 1 days catering on a mainstream movie.Looking like a low budget television documentary (bordering on ‘mockumentary’) about the […]
Review: Formula Retro Racing
Earlier this year I had a chance to play Formula Retro Racing at EGX. As you can read from the preview, my eyes were instantly drawn to the graphical style which closely resembled Sega’s Virtua Racing. As the game has just been released on PlayStation, I now have a chance to take a longer look […]
Review: Super Arcade Football
I wrote a preview to Super Arcade Football all the way back in 2016, when I managed to play it at EGX. I said, “the beauty of the game is that it is simple to pick up and play!” Now I have the chance to play the game on Nintendo Switch, which leads me to […]
Review: Naked
Blu-ray: Naked (1993)Naked begins with Johnny (David Thewlis) having sex with an older woman in a dark back alley in Manchester, and when he begins to get too rough with her she runs away screaming at him.Escaping his home city in a stolen car to avoid retribution for his sexual misgivings, he arrives at the […]
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Blu-ray: Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) After thoroughly enjoying The Wraith, next up for review in the Vestron Collector’s Series blu-ray’s by Lionsgate UK is Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. Another title that I owned on ex-rental VHS, it was a pleasure to see it restored and remastered on blu-ray, complete with some very […]
Review: The Wraith
Blu-ray: The Wraith (1986)Cheers were emitted when the Vestron Collector’s Series blu-ray of The Wraith (released by Lionsgate UK) dropped through the letterbox here at 60MW Towers the other week. A favourite of mine since owning the ex-rental VHS back in the 80’s, it was an absolute pleasure to see that another cult classic originally […]
Review: The Hills Have Eyes Ltd Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)It still amazes me that I’m now in a world where I get to rewatch films of my youth with such fantastic visual quality, with the added bonus of interesting special features too…and I thought I had it good back in the days when I had to do a […]
Review: Just a Gigolo
DVD & Blu-ray: Just a Gigolo (1978)David Bowie plays Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski; a Prussian officer returning home to Berlin after the first world war. He’s rather stuck up and staid and on returning to his Mutti (Maria Schell) he finds the only thing he can do is be a soldier, so ends up working in menial […]
Live Event: EGX 2021
EGX 2021 was always going to be a bit strange. Unless you’ve been living under a particularly huge rock, most people will know the 2020 event was cancelled due to the ongoing global pandemic. Instead of being filled with thousands of enthusiastic gamers, 2020 saw the Excel arena transformed into the temporary NHS Nightingale hospital […]