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 ReviewsSullivan’s Travels
Opening with a film within a film’s ending, director and million dollar talent John L. Sullivan (John McCrea) is looking to abandon the mainstream cine... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Wolf of Wall Street
Like any Quaalude high, The Wolf of Wall Street depends on a certain degree of willing consumption, cerebral detachment and tenacity to be considered success... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
This was the last of Hammer’s Frankenstein films, a return to the original franchise and star Peter Cushing following 1970’s ill-advised re-boot ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
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Theatre of Blood
Driven to suicide by bad notices, legendarily hammy stage actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) has returned for a special comeback tour re-enacting Shakesp... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsAce in the Hole
Perhaps the most cynical director of Hollywood’s golden age, Billy Wilder relied on a revolving cast of writing partners to sugar-coat his unsentimenta... Read more »| 25 Apr 2014 -
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Wrinkles
From recent efforts like The Illusionist and Up to 1986’s When the Wind Blows, animation as a medium has served elderly protagonists particularly well;... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014
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Nymphomaniac
Lars is back to his provocative, trolling self with sex confessional Nymphomaniac. Erudite yet impotent Seligman (Skarsgård) happens upon a battered Jo... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
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Transport from Paradise
Transport from Paradise is set in the Theresienstadt ghetto – a Nazi holding camp for tens of thousands of European Jews, from which the only transport... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Hands Over the City
When a residential building collapses at the start of Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City, it exposes a web of corruption that the director investigates wit... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsWhite of the Eye
Brutal violence, Native American mysticism and infidelity collide in Donald Cammell's visually impressive and often dizzying thriller, which gets a long-awai... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
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Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz
By this third film in the Outpost saga, you know what you’re getting into. If zombie Nazis in secret bunkers aren’t your thing, you might want to... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
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We Are What We Are
Jim Mickle's loose remake of the 2010 Mexican original is wonderfully atmospheric with some nice performances, but suffers from terminally slow pacing and a ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2014 -
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Jeune & Jolie
The latest from François Ozon (following 2012's excellent In the House), is a carefully non-judgemental coming-of-age drama divided into four sea... Read more »| 17 Mar 2014 -
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Short Term 12
Director Destin Cretton based Short Term 12 on his own experiences working in a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers, and it shows. His drama docu... Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
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Serpico
As seemingly the only straight-arrow cop in a corrupt-to-the-core NYPD, an increasingly hirsute Al Pacino gives one of his most iconic performances in Serpic... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014