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
How To Be
Currently turning teenage girls to jelly in the Twilight franchise, Robert Pattinson gives a decent stab (or should that be stake?) at another kind of existe... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Sonatine
‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano is a nihilist at heart, but he still knows how to play the clown. While Sonatine begins with an archetypal introduction o... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Getting Any?
Getting Any? follows the antics of sex crazed and woman deprived Asao (Dankan), as he throws himself into increasingly madcap ways to try and get some action... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Stuck
Out of work and turfed onto the street by his landlord, Tom (Stephen Rea)’s day goes from bad to worse when he’s hit by the car of nurse Brandi (... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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The Celluloid Closet
With films like Milk and Brokeback Mountain achieving Oscar wins and mainstream success, it’s easy to forget that in the dark days of Hollywood gone by... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Laurence Olivier presents Harold Pinter's The Collection
Pinter’s 1961 play (here made for TV by The World Is Not Enough and Enigma director Apted in 1976) focuses on two dysfunctional couples linked by suspi... Read more »| 20 Apr 2009
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Ultrà
As if there isn’t enough reason to take heed of Ultrà’s machismo driven violence, a host of English football clubs have recently been left... Read more »| 06 Apr 2009 -
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A Love To Hide
In the Holocaust, the Nazi regime killed six million Jews, but less well known is that they also targeted other ethnic and societal groups thought of as &lsq... Read more »| 06 Apr 2009 -
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Transporter 3
After reaping the rewards as the founding father of Cinema du look, Luc Besson established himself as the 21st century Roger Corman, and has produced some of... Read more »| 06 Apr 2009 -
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Sometimes A Great Notion
Last year saw the passing of one of the great film actors, Paul Newman. But while attention focused on his on work perfecting performances—and masterin... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
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Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris
‘Tis Autumn documents the singing career of 50s jazz legend Jackie Paris, and questions why he never reached the dizzying heights of fame accomplished ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
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Dean Spanley
Every Thursday, Young Fisk grudgingly goes to see his father, Old Fisk (O’Toole, looking increasingly like that melting Nazi from Raiders of the Lost A... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Shot over eleven years, this utterly disarming documentary begins impressionistically, broadly sketching the subject’s turbulent but triumphant life in... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
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Dorian Blues
Dorian is a smart teenager in high school, doing well in class and with a bright future ahead of him. There's just one complication: he's gay. Dorian Blues ... Read more »| 22 Mar 2009 -
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Splinter
Chewing the horror movie nail down to the quick has been the remit of most directors in the genre recently, with very few transcending the clichés and... Read more »| 16 Mar 2009