David Bowie specials coming to BBC Two and BBC Four
❉ A new landmark film, David Bowie: The First Five Years, is coming to BBC Two in 2019 and BBC Four will broadcast David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 in October 2018.
Month: October 2018
‘The Rockford Files’ Season One (Blu-Ray)
❉ With the first of its six seasons arriving on Blu-Ray, this wry and charming series can now be enjoyed fully restored and in high definition.
Torch Theatre: ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’
❉ Pro bono! West Wales’ Torch Theatre has done the smash hit proud with fast-paced farcical goings on, ribald seaside humour, and toe-tapping musical numbers.
Peccadillo’s European encounters set for Iris Prize Festival
❉ Peccadillo Pictures brings European encounters to Iris Prize Festival 2018 and offers opportunity to watch shorts online.
Ten of the Best: Paul McCartney
❉ SMERSH Pod host and Macca buff John Rain shares with We Are Cult his personal pantheon of Sir Paul’s best post-Fab Four numbers.
‘The Boys in The Band’ makes its UK Blu-ray debut
❉ The Special Edition Blu-ray comes complete with a raft of extras, including features looking at the film, the play it was based on and its cultural impact.
Class War: ‘Us And Them’ reviewed
❉ ‘A mashup of Tarantino and Alan Clark’: British director Joe Martin’s angry, cynical, witty and fast moving debut feature.
‘Venom’ (15) reviewed
❉ Tom Hardy’s got the poison, but is #Venom the remedy? Find out in Ben Peyton’s spoiler-free review.
‘Scouse Pop’: Soundtrack of a Generation
❉ ‘Scouse Pop’ is an a rare, documented insight into the economic and political backdrop which forged the music that came out of Liverpool during the ’80s and ’90s.
‘D.O.A.: A Right of Passage’ on Blu-Ray
❉ DOA has existed in a pirate-video limbo for several decades now, and to finally see it cleaned up on Blu-Ray is a wonderful thing, writes Daniel Marner.