Review: Gwen
Cinema: Gwen (2018)Writer/director William McGregor (in his first full length film) gives us an eerie foray into the dark industrial revolutionary Hills of North Wales in Gwen.Set in 1855, Elen (Maxine Peake) and her daughters Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) and Mari (Jodi Innes) work the small holding up in the Snowdonia Hills while dad is off […]
Review: Nintendo Switch
I’ve had my Nintendo Switch since day one (only the 2nd day one console purchase I’ve done, with the Playstation Vita being the other) and I love it, being able to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the go is awesome. I was the first (and probably the oldest) to pre-order […]
Review: Year of the Rabbit
DVD & Digital: Year of the Rabbit (2019) Detective Inspector Rabbit (Matt Berry) is a foul mouthed ‘copper’ in Victorian London. His penchant for ladies and alcohol often gets in the way of his police work, so thankfully his is joined by his new partner, Strauss (Freddie Fox); a young hapless detective whose reserved demeanour […]
Review: The Legacy
Blu-ray: The Legacy (1978) Margaret Walsh (Katherine Ross) is mysteriously called across to the UK from her home in America on an undisclosed architect project. Accompanied by her partner Pete Danner (Sam Elliott), things begin to go awry from the moment they set foot in the UK. A motorcycle accident finds them both ‘rescued’ by […]
Review: Call Me By Your Name
Yes, I will admit that I did watch the film before reading the book. Heck, I had never even heard of the book until I had seen the film, but I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with that. The film makes you feel like you’re sunbathing on a warm summer day on the shores […]
Review: Double Face
Blu-ray: Double Face (1969) I can forgive Klaus Kinski anything, no one does deranged quite like him. On seeing Werner Herzog’s ‘Aguirre, Wrath of God’, then Fitzcarraldo, and then Crawlspace, I knew here was a man who, not unlike Dennis Hopper and Oliver Reed, was rather bonkers, but had the saving grace of being able […]
Review: New Star Manager
You may well have heard on our interview show with Kevin Toms that I was addicted to Football Manager on the Spectrum 48k back in 1982. This obsession with football management games reached its peak with ‘Premier Manager 98’, a series I always preferred over the ‘Championship Manager’ games (before it then went on to […]
Review: Day of the Panther / Strike of the Panther
Blu-ray: Day of the Panther / Strike of the Panther (1988) Director Brian Trenchard-Smith (see my review of his awesome movie ‘The Man From Hong Kong‘) once again delivers onscreen action mayhem with this ‘Panther’ double bill. Day of the Panther and its sequel Strike of the Panther, tell the story of martial arts expert, […]
Review: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas
DVD: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas (1996) “The Munsters or The Addams Family?“ A question often asked in my school playground back in the 1970’s, and one that is still asked by people today. For the record, my answer was always The Munsters, though I enjoyed them both. Herein lies my problem when watching The […]
First Impressions: PSVR
I’ve been banging on about PSVR on my blog for ages and it’s another one of my latest obsessions. If you know me well enough you know that I go through a lot of gadgets. “Monkey see, monkey wants“, that’s me. I’ve owned so many versions of consoles over the years that I’m afraid to […]