Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1
Blu-ray: Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 (1969 – 70)Released in both Standard and Deluxe Editions, Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 is the result of nearly 10 years work by Network’s award-winning in-house restoration team, working from the best available materials – from first generation 2-inch videotape masters to surviving […]
Review: Upgrade
Blu-ray: Upgrade (2018)Technophobe Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) lives in a near-future world where technology controls virtually everything. However, Grey shuns societies fascination and reliance on all of the high-tech gadgets, and spends his time restoring vintage cars.One of Grey\’s clients is a reclusive billionaire who has made his fortune through artificial intelligence, and when a […]
Review: Night Hunter
DVD: Night Hunter (2018) Cynical police Lieutenant ‘Marshall’ (Henry Cavill) is tracking a serial rapist and murderer, when during his investigations he crosses paths with the vigilante duo of Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Lara (Eliana Jones), who have their own agenda for trying to capture the mysterious killer. When the suspect is captured, the tip […]
Review: Hammer Volume 4 – Faces of Fear
Blu-ray: Hammer Volume 4 – Faces of Fear Following on from Volume 1: Fear Warning, Volume 2: Criminal Intent, and Volume 3: Blood & Terror, it was once again an absolute pleasure to sit down with the latest Hammer Films boxset release from Powerhouse Films in their ‘Indicator’ series. Volume 4 once again features 4 […]
Review: Rude Racers
Rude Racers is a combat racing game which proudly wears its love of Road Rash vividly on its pixelated sleeve. Released into Early Access on Steam (for the bargain price of £1.69 here in the UK) the developers Famous Dogg Studios are already proactive in supporting the game and tweaking it based on player feedback. […]
Review: Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound
DVD: Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Even during the early ‘silent’ era of cinema, filmmakers were aware that sound still played an important part in bonding the audience to the screen, often accompanying their movies with ‘in house’ musicians or separate musical playbacks. With the advent of synchronised sound, a new […]
Review: Secret Ceremony
Blu-ray: Secret Ceremony (1968)Secret Ceremony is one of those films I’d heard about but never seen. Directed by Joseph Losey of \’The Servant\’ fame, this could have equally starred Dirk Bogarde and James Fox and the female roles replaced by males.It’s an odd film, disjointed and on reading up on it I think there is […]
Review: Out of Africa
DVD: 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 […]
Live Event: More Live With Deth, KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, November 3rd, 2019
1979 was a wonderful year for me. It was the year I discovered rock music, and I spent my pocket money on albums from KISS and Scorpions. But it was Judas Priest who took my rock virginity when they appeared on Top of the Pops and sang ‘Take on the World’ (video below). From that […]
Review: National Lampoon’s Animal House
DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) It’s 1962 America and Faber college, under the leadership of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), has its usual mix of fraternity (frat) houses. One of these (Delta house) is full of party loving, beer swilling, foul mouthed, sex addicted students who don’t give a damn about their studies and just […]