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Culloden/The War Game (1964/1965) (Blu-ray films review).
War dominates this disc containing the films ‘Culloden’ and ‘The War Game’ from the BFI. Both movies are documentary/drama presentation of conflicts that…
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RodMacDonald
April 2016
ReviewCulture
Black Mama White Mama (1973) (film blu-ray review).
In 1958, Tony Curtis and Sydney Poitier made a movie called ‘The Defiant Ones’ where two escapees from prison were shackled together on…
March 2016
ReviewHorror
The Pack (2015) (DVD film review),
A movie from Australia, ‘The Pack’ is, as the name suggests, a tale about canine terrorists. Fierce dogs roaming the countryside with a…
ReviewHorror
The Mutilator (1986) (dvd/Blu-ray film review).
Shares in tomato ketchup suppliers must have gone up dramatically during the production of this movie, ‘The Mutilator’, because gallons of it will…
February 2016
ReviewHorror
American Horror Project Vol 1 (horror film DVD/Blu-ray review).
There seems to be a formula here and that is to take three obscure movies from the 70s, movies that haven’t been seen…
ReviewHorror
Lost Girl DVD: The Complete Final Season (DVD TV review).
It’s bad news for the many fans of the Canadian supernatural series, ‘Lost Girl’, in that it is coming to an end after…
January 2016
ReviewScifi
The Farthest City by Daniel P Swenson (book review).
An enjoyable enough book to read, here we have ‘The Furthest City’, a space opera by the Californian author, Daniel P Swenson. This…
ReviewHorror
What Have You Done To Solange (1972) (Blu-ray/DVD film review).
We have all heard of spaghetti westerns but spaghetti horror is not so well-known and here we have an example from 1971, ‘What…
ReviewScifi
Uncanny Magazine Issue number 8 January/February 2016 (magazine review)
When ‘Uncanny Magazine’ came out, the covers were a bit wishy-washy but now they have improved remarkably. The latest issue has a cover…
December 2015
ReviewScifi
The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster (CD review)
Here we have a collection of six short Science Fiction novels of 2014 from established and emerging writers. It’s a bumper pack of…
ReviewScifi
Eden’s Ore – Judgement Volume 3 by BV Bayly (book review)
‘Judgement’ is the third in BV Bayly’s series of books entitled ‘Eden’s Ore’, which is set in the not so remote future where…
ReviewHorror
Blood Rage/Nightmare At Shadow Wood (1987) (Blu-ray/DVD film review)
Talk about going in for the kill, this is overkill in more ways than one. First of all, it’s all bit confusing because…