Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Things were looking up for Andrew Jones, Wales’ very own writer-producer-director extraordinaire.  That is if, like many folk, you consider IMDb to be the sole barometer of a films worth, then his celluloid CV was on an upward trajectory… Read More DTV Junkyard 12

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Written and directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, STARRY EYES entered the public consciousness with a Kickstarter campaign back in the spring of 2013. It’s never a case of opening the crowdfunding window, lying back and waiting for… Read More DTV Junkyard 11

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I had one of those tiresome encounters the other week. One of those moments that’s exclusively confined to social media. It was a status that someone posted, a baiting status; one which is the real life equivalent of standing… Read More DTV Junkyard 10

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Horror-comedy, that awkward genre that either pisses off the gore brigade for being too vanilla, or it royally freaks out the mainstream folk who go in expecting Beetlejuice. It’s a tough balance to strike, but recent years have been… Read More DTV Junkyard 9

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Genre film distribution is a largely faceless operation in the UK, save for Fran Simeoni at Arrow, and also perhaps Rich and James of 88 Films who seem to tentatively be edging their heads above the parapet of social… Read More DTV Junkyard 8

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… SURVIVAL CODE arrives with a sleeve that’s more suited to SyFy Channel cheese, and features an elongated box credit to the Alberta government for financial assistance. It doesn’t scream WATCH ME, but as Lemony Snicket once said “first impressions… Read More DTV Junkyard 7

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Bigfoot is searching for a photo for his Facebook profile – “Ah crap, every one of them is blurry…” If you thought your groan at that woeful attempt at humour was loud, then mine when two Sasquatch flicks dropped… Read More DTV Junkyard 6

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… This week February starts its slow ascent into the heights of DTV plenitude, and as with last month it’s a beginning that limps along with all the suppleness of Verbal Kint before it finally hits its stride in a… Read More DTV Junkyard 5

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Gone are the days when the month’s home video release schedule would be neatly carved up like your Mum doing your sandwiches as a kid. These days the juicy bits are heavily weighted towards the back end of each… Read More DTV Junkyard 4