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
The Naked Prey
Sixties survival thriller The Naked Prey sets off on a bad footing, with an uncomfortable voiceover that’s liable to trigger alarm bells in modern audi... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
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Brand: A Second Coming
“I’d rather you shoot my pets than release this film.” So Russell Brand is reported to have told director Ondi Timoner prior to a premiere ... Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
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Dragon Inn
It’s 15th-century China. A noble minister has been executed and his children exiled by ferocious eunuch Cao (Ying). Despatched to murder the exiles bef... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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The Skull
Produced by Amicus Productions – Hammer Films's big rival – and featuring Hammer’s two most recognisable stars, Peter Cushing and Christoph... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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Deep Red
Heavily influential on John Carpenter's Halloween, Italian slasher classic Deep Red comes to DVD. Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
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Seconds
There’s a good reason this paranoid thriller bombed at the 1966 box office – it’s possibly the bleakest film ever made. John Frankenheimer&... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015
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Turbo Kid
An affectionately schlocky homage to bottom-shelf 80s genre flicks, Turbo Kid goes all out on the nostalgia front, packing View-Masters, Rubik’s Cubes ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
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Night and the City
Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
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Results
If Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess was his most defiantly uncommercial film to date, Results initially seems like the first time this filmmaker has co... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
There's a scene in Terence Fisher's Hammer Horror classic in which Dr Bonner (Diffring) shows someone a photo of himself from decades ago and they gasp at th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2015 -
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La Grande Bouffe
Reviled upon its release in 1973, La Grande Bouffe now stands as one of sidelined auteur Marco Ferrari's most palatable works. Of course, the tale of French ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller’s punchy New York noir Pickup on South Street is lean and mean, yet also contains a curiously jovial quality to its portrait of post-war sca... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Cruel Story of Youth
'Cruel' is the operative word in the title of Nagisa Oshima’s second feature – one of three he turned out in quick succession in 1960. This rapid... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Eat Drink Man Woman
The final chapter in Ang Lee’s 'Father Knows Best' trilogy completes the director’s tenderly ironic chronicle of the compromise between tradition... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Pressure
It’s just as well for director Ron Scalpello that last year’s Black Sea flopped. Had Kevin MacDonald’s submarine thriller found the audienc... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015