DVD Reviews
We believe the at-home movie experience should be nothing less than sensational. Here we review DVD releases of both new and old films, and let you know just what's available in the ever ambiguous 'DVD extras.'
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Dvd Reviews
My Darling Clementine
John Ford’s take on the Gunfight at the OK Corral was one of the first of his string of Westerns in the sound era and has a legendary cast including He... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
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State of Grace
Phil Joanou's Sean Penn-starring mob movie State of Grace was originally released around the same time as Goodfellas, so first time round it might as well ha... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
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Killing Zoe
It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
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3 Women
Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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Stalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015
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Dvd Reviews
Cemetery Without Crosses
Revenge plots have an appealing simplicity – they clarify everyone's motivation and streamline the story towards its inevitable conclusion. Their spars... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
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Chappie
Neil Blomkamp's career has, so far, been a lot like Tim Burton's, except played out over just three films rather than three decades. Both begin life as block... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
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A Letter to Three Wives
Like the following year's All About Eve, this 1949 mega-hit was adapted from fiction published in the pages of Cosmopolitan. It too is a whip-smart melodrama... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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The Man with the Golden Arm
The Nelson Algren novel on which this is based asks readers to relate to a philandering junkie card dealer whose ultimate ambition is to be a jazz drummer. T... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Chimes at Midnight
A widespread and misguided perception of Orson Welles’ career – that it was all downhill from Citizen Kane – is turned on its head by Chime... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Jupiter Ascending
In the Wachowskis' latest film, Channing Tatum plays a flying wolfman from space. The film to fit that description is going to be outlandish, unusual, action... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
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Difret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s film is unusual for a work of Ethiopian cinema. Shot in 35mm, it eschews the more export-friendly English language for Amhar... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Black Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015