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
Heavenly Creatures
When did it all start to go so right? Well, for Kate Winslet and director Peter Jackson it was in 1994 with this film based on a crime that shocked 1... Read more »| 05 Sep 2011 -
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Julia's Eyes
The rich visual influence of producer Guillermo del Toro is unmistakable in – and unfortunately the best thing about – this witless farce that de... Read more »| 04 Sep 2011 -
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Long considered one of the best of the Ealing Comedies, Kind Hearts & Coronets is in many ways atypical of the studio's output. Instead of the us... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
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13 Assassins
There is an extraordinary scene near the beginning of 13 Assassins. Samurai Shinzaemon has been asked to kill Lord Naritsugu whose extreme cruelty is threate... Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
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La Jetée/Sans Soleil
Chris Marker has had a life that makes the rest of us look like unimaginative and underachieving drudges. A member of the French Resistance during the war an... Read more »| 22 Aug 2011 -
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec on DVD
Sold as a Romancing the Stone-style action-adventure pastiche on its cinematic release, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is closer in t... Read more »| 09 Aug 2011
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Source Code
Groundhog Day meets the legendary Quantum Leap in Jake Gyllenhaal's exciting new sci-fi thriller. Gyllenhaal is a time-lost amnesiac on a mission to uncover ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
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Confessions of a Dog
Filmed back in 2005, director Gen Takahashi struggled to get Confessions of a Dog screened domestically, its depiction of police corruption apparently cuttin... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
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The Lost Bladesman
They don't make films like they used to. Except in China. The Lost Bladesman is a historical epic of the old school with a cast of thousands filling out mass... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
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Limitless
Limitless takes the headlines about American students who have been enhancing their exam performance with drugs and turns them into a slickly enjoyable thril... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Here's a Health to the Barley Mow
The reputation of folk culture has waxed and waned in Britain, from being seen as quaint and faintly ludicrous (Morris dancing, anyone?), to being championed... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour opens with the voices and almost abstract shots of two naked lovers in bed, before cutting to scenes of postwar Hiroshima. Over these the... Read more »| 25 Jul 2011 -
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Country Strong
You know you're getting older when the starlets of your youth start to appear as alcoholic country music stars in terminal decline. But the mung bean munchin... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
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The Kingdom
Long before his bout of foot-in-mouth disease at Cannes, Danish auteur Lars Von Trier spooked everyone with a shamelessly weird miniseries set in a modern da... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
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Fair Game
Fair Game brings the real-life story of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the big screen. Naomi Watts stars as the spy with Sean Penn as her retired diplomat hu... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011