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Friday Aug 03, 2018
Friday Aug 03, 2018
Please excuse my voice this week folks - I lost my voice a few days before and was still pretty rough during the recording! I've managed to edit out most of the coughing but there's still some in there so please bear with me!
Anyhoo, this week we take a good hard look at Nicolas Cage, as he has had three movies out recently and we've rounded them up to take a gander. First up is THE HUMANITY BUREAU, a curious sci-fi action film with some nice anti-Trump nuggets here and there. Second we have the "based on a true story" movie 211, in with about-to-retire cop Nic Cage finds himself stumbling onto a quartet of very violent bank robbers. Finally we have MOM AND DAD, in which Cage co-stars with Selma Blair as a parents who find themselves overcome with the need to murder their children. Can this film help me overcome my aversion to anything directed by Brian Taylor (Crank/Gamer)? Tune in to find out.
In addition we also have the usual sections - the DTV CHART, COMING SOON and WASHING UP.
THE FOOTNOTES:
DTV CHART
COMING SOON - TRAILERS
OVERLORDOUTLAWEDVENGEANCE (aka I AM VENGEANCE)MARIATHE DIVISIONFULL LOVEMANHUNTMAKING A KILLING
THE MAIN REVIEWS:
THE HUMANITY BUREAU
211
MOM AND DAD
THE WASHING UP: OTHER RECENT RELEASES
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
With World Cup Fever raging on and about to come to a peak on Sunday night - our usual recording slot, Mike and Rich take advantage of the turmoil and take another look at the world of short films. This week we have a total of 12 shorts, coming to a total running time of approx 3hrs 51min between them. In this selection you will find PARTITIONED HEART and TO BE ALONE - two films which deal with a person going through the grieving process, 18, a film which harks back to the harrowinig Public Information adverts from the 70's and 80's, ROSE TIGER, in which a young girl wants to be like Bruce Lee, SWEET WATER and FTL, two fx-heavy sci-fi movies, HELLMEN OF AGENCY 9, a strange mix of sci-fi and political thriller, the thrilling animated TANK, and the first instalment of CASH: THE SERIES. Our final two films are the fan-film THE BROKEN GEAR (based on the FINAL FIGHT video game) and the wonderful BLINDSIDED: THE GAME. On top of all of this there is the usual DTV Chart, Coming Soon and Washing Up sections!
FOOTNOTES:
THE DTV CHART:
COMING SOON:
THE IMMORTALON THE ROPESTHE BRAVEBLACKMARKRESCUE UNDER FIRETHE DOMESTICSARTIKSNAKE OUTTA COMPTONBLACK SITE
THE SHORT FILM REVIEWS:
PARTITIONED HEARTTO BE ALONE18ROSE TIGERSWEET WATERFTLTANKBALLISTICCASH - THE SERIES (CHAPTER 1 - STRICTLY BUSINESS)THE BROKEN GEARBLINDSIDED: THE GAME
THE WASHING UP - OTHER RECENT DTV RELEASES