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 Tourist
Hollywood and European glamour collide, leaving the scattered fall-out that is Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark's The Tourist. Jolie st... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
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The Tunnel
Made in 2001, The Tunnel's long-delayed release in Britain – and its origins as a television movie – is no indication of its quality. Inspired by... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
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Blood Simple
In this re-make of the Coen brothers' tourniquet-tight thriller about what happens to best laid plans, sweaty Texas is swapped for the scorched deserts of an... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
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The Be All and End All
As if adolescence isn’t difficult enough, The Be All and End All does a commendable job in giving perspective to teenage trials within the much broader... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
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Somewhere
With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie br... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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Wake Wood
It's fitting that the revitalised Hammer Films should return to what they do best: a creepy supernatural tale about a middle class couple who get more than t... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011
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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
When the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould made his New York debut in 1955 at the age of 22 he seemed to have come from nowhere. A mercurial musician who cut a ha... Read more »| 21 Mar 2011 -
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Children of God
"Rosie O'Donnell vs. the Bahamas" may seem like the ultimate B-movie but such was the level of hysteria caused by her gay family cruise ship in the Caribbean... Read more »| 14 Mar 2011 -
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The Arbor
Clio Barnard's incredible documentary The Arbor explores the life and legacy of playwright Andrea Dunbar. Concentrating its gaze on the run down estate in Br... Read more »| 07 Mar 2011 -
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Pelican Blood
Adapted from Cris Freddi's cult novel of the same name, Pelican Blood follows avid birdwatcher Nikko (Harry Treadaway), his rekindled, toxic relationship wit... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
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Easy A
When Olive (Emma Stone) tells her best friend a white lie about losing her virginity (her “V-card”) she finds that her “terminological inex... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Black
Beginning worryingly like a Guy Ritchie rip-off with freeze frame introductions of loveable rogues, French heist movie Black quickly confounds your expectati... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
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The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)
Like trying to follow the ramblings of an old hippy whose brain has been fried by too much acid, watching the counter-cultural films of the 60s and 70s can b... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
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The Town
In his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck returned to the working class milieu of his breakthrough role in Good Will Hunting (which he co-wrote w... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Man Hunt
Tired of four-legged prey, legendary hunter Captain Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) sets his sights on bigger game, sneaking behind German lines to acquire Hitler... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011