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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 19th Aug 2021		VHS Yellow Submarine - MGM / UA	Unconfirmed, but this probably shows the original USA film, which does not have the 'Hey Bulldog' scenes, but does include some scenes that were excluded from the UK version.
albert 17th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements	Cover image borrowed/adapted from Hi-Fi Sound's Stereo Test Record.
albert 15th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Pandemonium Shadow Show	There have been a couple of rough bootleg LPs but this is official and is probably the best of the material that was recorded but never released. What a great LP (also released on CD and download via bandcamp), its as good as what you could ever have wished for and well worth tracking down. [YouTube Video] Bandcamp link for purchasing the LP Bandcamp link for more Mandrake Paddle Steamer.
albert 12th Jul 2021		Multi-Format Thundercrack! - Synapse Films	Hyped and much delayed Blu-ray release of this cult 'arty porn film'. The original 150 minute camera negative was not found so they had to embark on an extensive restoration project. Only five prints were ever made, one was seized by Canadian officials and most others were trimmed or lost, the version we get on this Blu-ray is 120 minutes in length and includes a 10 minute intermission with music. There have been bootleg DVDs of a very battered 90 minute print, which also cuts out most of the talky bits, so this Blu-ray renders all bootleg copies obsolete. The film is low budget and suffers from technical problems, the most obvious being with inaudible or missing dialogue, so you may want to switch on subtitles, or then again you may find the dialogue tiresome, which it can be. When searching for additional content they did find good copies of outtakes, auditions and other elements and these have been included on the bonus DVD, which also contains interviews and a number of short films by Curt McDowell. The special features on the Blu-ray include subtitles, an interview with Curt McDowell (which plays as a film commentary), and the documentary 'It Came From Kuchar' about the famous underground film makers.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Radiohead: The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time - Radiohead Television	This was released by Radiohead for a limited time, I no longer own my copy so I cannot give full details. As far as I remember it came in one of those DVD jewel cases and included a booklet with info, the image I have uploaded came from the booklet, it is not the actual cover of the DVD case. Apparently Radiohead were approached to create a television show and so they made some promo videos and requested fans to submit their own work - which resulted in a deluge of clips. They put together a few completed episodes but ultimately they got rejected and the show got shelved. This DVD was instead created so as to at least have some record of the work done. I did own a copy of this DVD but I have to say that the content was very much hit and miss and really not that entertaining - really miserable might be a better description but lets not try to upset anyone.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Child [1977] - Something Weird Video	1 feature film and 2 short films are included in the special features, hopefully I have linked the correct ones: I Eat Your Skin The Outsider The ABC Of Babysitting (alas I could not find the last one)
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Australia After Dark / The ABC Of Love And Sex: Australia Style - Umbrella Entertainment	The picture quality of Australia After Dark is fairly rough, and is letterboxed into a 4:3 frame. The ABC Of Love And Sex has better picture quality and is in a proper widescreen format.
albert 12th Jul 2021		Cinema Atolladero (1995)	This is a somewhat comic book action adventure. It looks like a typical American low budget small town setting where the law and criminal types get mean and violent. Except it is meant to be set in the future and includes some futuristic or slightly Mad Max inspired elements. I would say this mash-up of genres is actually typical of Spanish films of the time, anything and everything seems to get thrown into the plot with careless abandon, which can be a bit of a drag. The violence is not particularly violent, but there are some attempts at black comedy which do not play well and actually cross over into sicko territory.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Blue Sunshine - Synapse Films	This special edition included a separate soundtrack CD and came housed in a shiny outer slipcase. As far as I can remember, inside the slipcase was the regular edition of the DVD packaging, except that it had a double DVD case. I don't own this DVD anymore so cannot supply additional info.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Carry On Cabby - Optimum	Four individual DVD discs, but I think there are no special features, and yet Studio Canal demand relatively high prices (as usual).
albert 12th Jul 2021		Cinema Carry On Up The Khyber (1968)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. Trailer: [YouTube Video]
albert 12th Jul 2021		Cinema Invasion Of The Bee Girls (1973)	This title crops up on many budget DVDs but it is so often the cut version, (mainly in the honey-pouring 'initiation' process).
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Longshot • They Went That-A-Way And That-A-Way - MGM	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Haunted Palace [1963] - MGM	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 11th Jul 2021		DVD MGM Midnight Movies Double Feature - MGM	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 11th Jul 2021		DVD Box Set Still Game The Complete Series 1-6 - 2 Entertain	I think that the publisher is 2 Entertain, licenced from BBC Scotland.
albert 11th Jul 2021		TV Still Game (2002 - 2019)	Scottish rude & crude hit comedy. It had an initial run of six seasons, before the stars/writers decided to take a break. They returned after about six years absence for seasons seven-nine.
albert 4th Jun 2021		Blu-ray The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment	Review The film itself is a classic as everyone should already know. This review is for the technicalities of the Blu-ray presentation. Unfortunately it seems that someone made the decision to saturate the colour palate so now the action seems to take place on Mars, with orange-skinned men and Clint 'Blondie' now having much darker hair than before. I think possibly there may have been some tweaking on the soundtrack, much to the story's detriment eg no clinking of the spurs at the hotel shootout ....(maybe it was pushed over to some satellite speaker behind the viewer on a surround sound system which is useless when watching in mono). 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 24th May 2021		Live Music The Somerstown Festival 2019 @ Chalton Street	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
albert 7th May 2021		Vinyl Album Marc Bolan And John's Children - Beyond The Rising Sun	My copy also includes the undubbed track 'Rings Of Fortune' coming straight after 'Beyond The Rising Sun', though without groove separation. The labels on my copy (as with the track listing above) are mismatched with the track listing on the sleeve. 12 of the 25 tracks are over-dubbed to make them sound more like glam T.Rex
albert 7th May 2021		Vinyl Album Egg - Egg	Listening to this right now and presume that the b-side No.2 symphony was written whilst sitting on the toilet, all those movements.
albert 6th May 2021		Cinema Blue Ruin (2013)	Review Dwight, a homeless and mentally scarred vagrant, is informed that the man who killed both his parents is about to be released from prison. Springing into action he sets off on a quest for revenge without fully appreciating the consequences of his actions. This is a very enjoyable thriller quite unlike other vengeance films in that the protagonist really doesn’t have a plan other than to kill the man he believes killed his parents. Guaranteed that things will turn out horribly wrong, Dwight then he has to deal with the wrath of the vicious clan who in turn decide not to involve the police in this family matter. As a morality tale it works fine being that you can believe this kind of situation could occur, and thankfully the story doesn’t fall into the usual preachy territory of vengeance films and instead sustains an edgy and tense atmosphere right through to the end. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 21st Apr 2021		Cinema Escalofrío (Satan's Blood) (1978)	The top review on the linked IMDB page really sells the film to me.
albert 21st Apr 2021		Cinema Salvatore Giuliano (1962)	A docu-drama with a narrator, and actors playing out the scenes. The story may not be entirely accurate as it is complicated and involves high ranking figures.
albert 21st Apr 2021		Blu-ray Street Mobster - Arrow	Some include a 24 page booklet.
albert 21st Apr 2021		Multi-Format An Actor's Revenge - BFI	The bonus shorts are fragments of footage taken from early newsreels: Oriental Splendour, 1927 Japan Pays Homage, 1928 Japan. To Rid Their Souls Of Evil, 1929 In Old Japan, 1930 In the days before budget travel, these were the only glimpses of Japanese life that most of the Western world would likely have ever seen.
albert 20th Apr 2021		Cinema Debbie Does Dallas (1978)	This title was available under the counter from a certain video rental store in my home town, and it was pocket money well spent at a school friend's video club (while his parents were out). Years later it had become a by-word for naughty videos, but nobody believed me that the film really did exist, such was its elevation to mythical status by then. If you are interested, the 'story' in the film is a bunch of cheerleaders need cash to pay for a coach trip so that they can cheer on their American Football boyfriends who have an away match in Dallas. They do find a way to raise the funds...and other things.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Wizard Of Oz - Warner Bros.	In 2014 there was this 2 Blu-ray set and a special edition 2 Blu-ray & bonus 3D Blu-ray set to choose from. The 3D disc was the only difference between the two sets, they both included a download code. This 2 Blu-ray set was repackaged in 2019 using a new card slipcase, the 2 discs and case slip are from 2014, but note that the download code expired 3/11/2017. ------- There are so many special features on this set that they spread over onto a second disc, they are not fully listed on the original cover nor the repackage cover slip. The bundle includes several early versions of The Wizard of Oz including short silent versions, many featurettes and documentaries, cast and crew profiles, interviews, appreciations, special effects, history, background info... the list goes on and on.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Wake Up And Die - Arrow	UK title is "Wake Up And Kill", which is what it says in the cover, but typical of the 1960s there are several alternative titles.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Wolf Of Wall Street - Universal	Repackaged 2018 with same disc, same cat number and barcode, but does not include the download.

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