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 ReviewsBlack Pond
Watching dream sequences is often like listening to someone telling you about their dream: nonsensical, dull and pointless. Black Pond, a low budget feature ... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsGhost in the Shell: Solid State Society
A cyber-enhanced anti-terrorist group tracking down a network of lunatics in futuristic Japan sounds appealing, but this second animated sequel to the TV ser... Read more »| 04 May 2012 -
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Lucky Luke
Though he’s been gun-slinging since the forties, comic-strip cowboy Lucky Luke’s golden age came under the auspices of Asterix creator René... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsTwice Around the Daffodils
Produced, written and directed by the team behind the Carry On series and set in a tuberculosis ward, Twice Around the Daffodils (1962) presents an awkward m... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
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Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
It seems ironic that a filmmaker famed for his zero pretence, zero budget exploitation flicks should have such starry disciples, with Jack Nicholson and Ron ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2012 -
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La Grande Illusion
Perhaps the most striking thing about Jean Renoir's Le Grande Illusion - released in a restored version to mark its 75th anniversary - is its faith in a comm... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012
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A Midnight Clear
Although perhaps not the cult classic that the accompanying publicity would like us to believe it is, A Midnight Clear is a worthwhile watch, not least for t... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
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Encounters
This new collection from the BFI presents four classic short films of gay cinema, rescued from obscurity, cleaned up and given some love. The 1960s and 70s w... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
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Mother and Child
Mother and Child steps into the lives of middle-aged Karen (Annette Bening), once a teen mother, her estranged, solitary, and fiercely independent daughter E... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
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Crows Zero
Suzuran Senior High School for Boys is notorious as 'the toughest in the nation', an educational establishment where the droog-like pupils indulge in perpetu... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
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Chung Kuo China
In 1972, before impending Sino hegemony and fear of the day the tanks roll down Princes Street, China was a secretive state hidden behind a bamboo curtain. Y... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Saragossa Manuscript
In the midst of a battle in the Napoleonic Wars two opposing soldiers find and begin to read a manuscript together. It purports to be an account by a Walloon... Read more »| 08 Mar 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsWeekend
There are moments in life when you suddenly connect with someone and it changes your whole world. But even today it's rare to see that in a film about two me... Read more »| 06 Mar 2012 -
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Special Forces
To watch Special Forces is to go to war with your own incredulity. Individual tolerances for cliché are rigorously tested as an elite team of French s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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The Sniper
"Experts can coexist." The final, summarising line of dialogue in the The Sniper suggests the dead hand of China's Communist Party at work in this story of r... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012