Review: Unturned
Full disclosure: despite Unturned having been around for many years on PC, I’d never heard of it until a PS4 review code landed here at 60MW Towers. So it was with no preconceptions whatsoever that I sat back to play.I love zombie movies/books/games, so Unturned instantly appealed due to its premise of dropping you into […]
Review: Skyfire
Digital, Blu-ray & DVD: Skyfire (2019)Meng Li (Hannah Quinlivan) and her father (Xueqi Wang) survive a volcanic eruption that takes the life of her mother and many others while working as volconologists.Despite that horrific experience as a child, Meng Li also becomes a volcanologist and is working at the beautiful Tianhuo Island paradise resort which is […]
Review: King of New York UHD Special Edition Blu-ray
UHD 4K Blu-ray: King of New York (1990)King of New York, often described as a noir (mmm I don’t think so…) is a film very much of its time. The 90’s.It tells the tale of Frank White (Christopher Walken) a drug lord, recently released from what appears to be a long stretch in prison into the […]
Review: Silent Running
DVD: 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, his fellow […]
Review: You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Digital Download: You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020)My son was, as are most kids, obsessed with wrestling as a small child. It’s one of those things he ‘grew out’ of, and by the age of 11 The Undertaker, Triple H and The Hardy boys were replaced with Manchester Utd.I missed it though, missed the soap […]
Review: Late Phases
Blu-ray: Late Phases (2014)Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is a cantankerous blind military veteran who, after the death of his wife, reluctantly moves into a retirement community at the insistence of his son.All is not peaceful though in this community, as people go missing at a far too regular occurrence, and so, after a shocking incident […]
Review: Pacer
Originally titled ‘Formula Fusion’ upon it’s early access release on Steam in 2015, it was rebranded to ‘Pacer’ in early 2019, when it also caught my eye at PLAY Expo in May 2019. A futuristic racer in the same style as Wipeout (some of the R8 Games development team worked on Wipeout 3), Pacer tests […]
Review: Ted 1&2
DVD: Ted 1&2 (2012/15)Now I could go through the plot of Ted’s 1 and 2, but hell, if you missed out on these two films on release then you must be living in a cave in Outer Mongolia.Seth MacFarlane IS Ted; a fluffy teddy bear that is magically brought to life by John (Mark Wahlberg […]
Review: Rogue
Digital Download & DVD: Rogue (2020)Samantha O’Hara (Megan Fox) leads a squad of soldiers on a mission to rescue a hostage from a group of violent terrorists in the plains of Africa. The mission however does not go as planned, and a frantic retreat from the terrorists leads to vehicular chases, bloody gun battles, and […]
Review: Unrailed
When I was a lad (queue whimsical sentimental music) playing couch co-op/competitive videogames was part of daily life. I spent many hours laughing with or cursing at my friends playing classic games such as Speedball 2, Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter 2 or Kick Off 2. I’ve just noticed there are a lot of […]
