Review: The Bay of Silence
DVD & Digital HD: The Bay of Silence (2020)Beginning and ending in the Bay of Silence in Italy, this film (based on Lisa St. Aubin de Terán’s book) is an arthouse chiller/thriller where a husband tries to untangle his schizophrenic wife’s past life.Starring former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as Rosalind and Claes Bang (sexiest Dracula ever) as […]
Review: Smoove & Turrell – Stratos Bleu Remixes (mixes from Fouk and Rayka)
More tracks taken and remixed from the album Stratos Bleu but if the cake is as tasty as this one is, then we can always handle another few slices. Electronic duo Fouk give us a couple of Dutch/Detroit/Dancefloor mixes of Fade Away that is worthy of the source material. Rayka is a new (to me) […]
Review: Out of Africa
Blu-ray: Out of Africa (1985)Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically.Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where she accepts […]
Review: Jenny LeClue – Detectivú
Jenny LeClue Detectivú is an adventure game developed and published by Mografi. The basic plot of the game is: less-than-celebrated author, Arthur K. Finklestein has written over thirty books in the Jenny LeClue series; however, sales are plummeting and his publishers are demanding something different, they want Jenny to solve a murder. Arthur eventually caves […]
Review: NBA 2K21
Football (soccer for our American readers), cricket, tennis, rugby…all popular sports here in the UK, and all of them have zero appeal to me. For almost 40 years now I’ve much preferred American sports. Give me American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, et al, both as a spectator sport and as a sports based video […]
Review: Lair of the Clockwork God
Blending genres in video games is a really tricky thing to pull off. Add too many different types of gameplay and you end up being a jack of all trades and master of none. But do it just right, and you can create a really compelling game like Lair of the Clockwork God, which mixes […]
Review: Pigalle Connection – Casino & Church / Vendetta James
This was love at first listen. As the shuffling drums gave way to the tightest of funk guitar riffs, the Hammond organ (B3 of course) kicked in and all we needed was some brass to complete the groove. No need for superfluous vocals that’s just gonna stink the room up, just close your eyes and […]
Review: Hotshot Racing
2020 has been an incredible year for gamers of a certain vintage. Firstly, we had the amazing Streets of Rage 4 which was the ultimate tribute fans of the series (including me) had been waiting for. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any better, along comes a love letter to Sega arcade racing games […]
Review: BPM:Bullets Per Minute
Every now and then you play a game and realise you’ve just experienced something totally unique. As a gamer of nearly 40 years, this doesn’t happen very often so when it does, you have to savour the moment. I had one of those moments playing BPM: Bullets Per Minutes, so let me tell you why. […]
Review: The Tunnel
Digital HD: The Tunnel (2019)The Tunnel (or in its native language – Tunnelen) is another Norwegian disaster movie. “Oh” I hear you say “Another one”? Yes it seems a to be a ‘thing’ on Amazon Prime in the UK, hidden in the depths of its terrible GUI are some gems, a few of which Dave […]