Silver Dove — No Such Thing As Love For…

No Such Thing As Love For… is a new around two hour release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove. It offers up a blend/ mix of hazy guitar drone/ ambience, walled/ textured noise, and dreamy/ abstract sound making.

Damien De Coene — Non-Stop Negative Enforcement

Non-Stop Negative Enforcement presents with two slabs of churning, grinding & weighty wall noise. If your familiar with the euro wall scene of say the 5 or so years, I’m sure you know Damien De Coene name- the Spanish based noise maker who has been behind such projects as, Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski, and more recently Dod Cathedral.

The Ugly — The Ugly( Blu Ray)

The Ugly is a late 90’s serail killer drama/ thriller from New Zealand. It regards a female psychologist going to assess a charming, but dangerous killer- who claims he’s been haunted by the sprints of those he’s murdered. The film has a decidedly jarring/ darting structure with some effective moments of building tension, shock, and a general unbalanced vibe. Here from Unearthed Films- those purveyors of extreme & troubling cinema- is a blu ray release of the picture. It takes in a new 4k scan, new commentary track, and a few other extras.

Innerspace — Innerspace (UHD/ Blu Ray)

From the late 80’s Innerspace is entertaining/ largely undated blend of sci-fi, physical comedy, romance and action. It regards a washed-up test pilot (Dennis Quiad), getting involved in a secret miniaturization experiment- but instead of been injected into the planned rabbit, he gets shot inside bumbling hypochondriac (Martin Short). Here from Arrow Video, both in the UK and Stateside, is a new either UHD or Blu Ray release of the film. It features a 4k scan, new commentary track, and blend of new/ archive.

Mancunian low-budget Movie Mogul

Cliff Twemlow On Severin

One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.

Repetitious History - A Quick Trip Into The World Of The Fall

The Fall

MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.