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Target is a mid-80s globetrotting thriller/adventure, featuring Gene Hackman & Matt Dillon as estranged father and son, who have to team up when Dona, the pair's wife/ mother, is kidnapped while on holiday in Paris. The twist is that the Hackman character isn’t who he seems, a typical middle-aged guy working in Texas; instead, he’s a Ex CIA who knows how to handle himself. Here from Australia’s Imprint is a recent Blu-ray release of the film- it takes in a new scan of the film, a new commentary track, and a few archive extras.
8 Apr 2026
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
7 Apr 2026
Day Of The Wicked is a remake of the early 90’s SOV splatter fest Slaughter Day. The film amps up the production somewhat( it looks like it’s shot on film), and adds in some OTT/ if somewhat cheap-looking, big demonic monsters CGI. Here, from Wild Eyed Releasing, is a region-free/bare-bones DVD of the film.
Italian metal whirlwind, Andrea Bruzzone, is back with his ambitious, chaotic, and delightfully progressive solo project, Bekor Qilish. Consecrated Abysses of Dread is the third outing, pushing the project into the further reaches of creativity, mixing avant-garde ideas with brutal riffing and percussion. Helping Andrea out on this epic quest, a few guest artists (Mick Barr, Gabriele Gramaglia, Lisa Voisard, Saprovore, and Mauro Scarfia) lend their talents to thicken the mix and help bring Consecrated Abysses of Dread to dizzying heights. Fans of Cynic and Athiest take heed, as this album is a fastball right down your alley.
Wood Matress — Foul Synapse
7 Apr 2026We Bury the Dead — We Bury the Dead (Blu Ray)
6 Apr 2026Chimehours — Underneath the Earth
6 Apr 2026Dead Kids — Dead Kids( UHD/ Blu Ray)
3 Apr 2026The Survivor — The Survivor( UHD/ Blu Ray)
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.
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.
4326 is a forty-five-minute slab of walled noise from this Wisconsin-based project. It brings together bassy brood, circling hiss, and uneasy scrap for a moody and deeply oppressive noise ride.
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