Film | DVD Review
Chris Buckle: The name Petey Greene won’t ring many bells this side of the Atlantic, but the outspoken DJ was big enough in his hey-day to garner an invitatio...
Film | Review | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: In pursuit of ratings, Channel 4’s flagship soap Brookside went to desperate measures, from helicopter crashes, religious cult suicide p...
Michael Gillespie: Number six in Romero’s flesh-eater franchise, this latest opus of the undead is a pretty moribund effort. Things kick off nicely with a group of...
Michael Gillespie: Produced for the stage by its two out-of-work stars, actor David Morrissey (Red Riding, Blackpool, The Deal) adapts a slight but affecting drama into ...
Michael Gillespie: “When truth becomes legend, print the legend,” said John Ford, and while he couldn’t have been further as a filmmaker from t...
Gail Tolley: Ondi Timoner is perhaps best known for her 2004 documentary DiG!, which followed the tumultuous relationship between The Dandy Warhols and The Brian J...
Scotty McKellar: It can be quite refreshing to watch a film that is exactly what you might imagine and more besides. In this respect, Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat can...
Jenny Munro: Jules Bass’ 1967 stop-motion cult classic Mad Monster Party is a ghoulish treat, and an inspiration for Tim Burton’s own darkly co...
Michael Gillespie: From 1991, Satyajit Ray directed this, his final film, from inside an oxygen tent. It doesn’t show. Based on one of his own short stories, it ma...
Gareth K Vile: Featuring Dita Von Teese's routines and the cabaret set-pieces from the famous French night-club the Crazy Horse, this DVD presents burlesque as a mix...
Gareth K Vile: Edited at a frenetic pace, trawling through Japanese sub-cultures and using lurid, intense cinematography, Kamikaze Girls is a female buddy movie re-i...
Michael Gillespie: The Army of Crime joins a roster of recent European films exploring the continent’s wartime past from a fresh perspective. French reali...
Michael Gillespie: Invaluable for students of sixties counter-culture, this intimate and controversial collection of documentaries by David Bailey has his titular pop ar...
Michael Gillespie: Based on a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin and championed by Martin Scorsese (who provides an enthusiastic introduction to this DVD), this obscure 19...
Michael Gillespie: Most of what you need to know about Dickinson’s spy story can be found in the title: despite the pulpy connotations, it’s actually...
