Film :: Review :: DVD Review 29 Sep 2008
Alastair Roy: Fresh faced Elijah Wood and craggy chops John Hurt come head-to-head in this murder mystery set against Oxford's academic world. Wood plays Martin, a keen-eyed American student who crosses the Atlantic for the tutorage of philosophy lecturer Arthur Sel...
Film :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008
Kevin McHugh: After 84 minutes, chances are you won’t be awake watching this debut but instead drooling on the person next to you. Millionaire Clayton (Christensen) suffers from a rare heart condition meaning he’ll die if he doesn’t receive a trans...
Film :: Review :: DVD Review 23 Jul 2008
Alastair Roy: In today's film universe of blue screens and CGI, Eden Log is a kick in the hard drive, matching money with painstaking set design on a shoe-string budget. Our hero awakens in a dark, muddy pit, a flickering light guiding the way to a distant exit, jus...
Film :: Review 20 Jun 2008
Paul Greenwood: A Spanish couple, recently moved in to a secluded new home, go about their business until visions of a topless girl in the trees leads husband Hector to go exploring whereupon, as you do, he enters a time machine and goes back a couple of hours. In cla...
Film :: DVD Review 16 Jun 2008
Paul Greenwood: Clint Eastwood returned to America after his Italian westerns and went from star to superstar in 1971 with his first outing as the borderline psychotic San Francisco detective, ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan. With a crazed gunman (Robinson) terrori...
Film :: Review 05 Jun 2008
Paul Greenwood: With a release postponed from last year because of a need for sensitivity due to its similarities with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, this exceptional thriller marking the directorial debut of Ben Affleck finally arrives as something approachin...
Film :: Review 15 Jun 2006
Paul Gallagher: The true story of 'the Wolf', a mole who infiltrated Spanish terrorist group ETA in the mid-70s, is an enticing prospect, and the movie gets off to a great start, with a confusing but thrilling opening chase. The film then flashes back to explain what'...