Given the recent unseasonably warm spell and the continuing discourse on global Warming, Val Guest’s 1961 sci-fi drama The Day the Earth caught fire takes on an eerily prescient quality. First Guest and Wolf Mankowitz’s London suffers an unseasonably warm spell, then cripplingly thick heat fog which segued its way […]
Year: 2014
Blacula (1972) Dracula as the complete article of Black Horror (Review)
Blaxploitation habitually made itself a wide-open target for parody and mockery, take the newly released Blacula directed by William Crain, it sounds like a joke rather than something conceived from a creative mind with a status quo to challenge. Even the trailer made at the time of release called Blacula, […]
Youth of the Beast (1963): Seijun Suzuki for the masses (Review)
S09E14 – Horror
S09E13 – Equality
This week we’re investigating some of the ongoing prejudices that exist within entertainment media, so join us as we find out more about equality. Reviews – Disney Infinity 2.0 (PS4), Ar noSurge (PS3), The Star Wars (Graphic Novel), Shadows of Mordor (PS4). This week’s news likes them apples. Listen, subscribe […]
Sofia’s Last Ambulance (2012): the perfect antidote to evening TV (Review)
S09E12 – Batman 75th Anniversary Special
Lesson of Evil (2011) Takashi Miike returns to his controversial roots (Review)
S09E11 – DC
Continuing our run of comic-book themed shows, this week we take a look at the old behemoth of the industry. Join us as we take a dive into the worlds of DC Comics. Reviews: Hyrule Warriors, Wasteland 2, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Bluray). This […]