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 ReviewsCoffy
Coffy sees director Jack Hill (The Big Doll House) at the top of his game, and the legendary Pam Grier justifying her fearless reputation as a vigilante out ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsWhat We Do in the Shadows
A documentary crew follows the lives of four vampires living in a Wellington suburb. The key word here is ‘vampires’. Exchange it for ‘midw... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Wooden Crosses (Les croix de bois)
Countless films declare ‘war is hell’, but few do so with as much bitter veracity as Wooden Crosses. Adapted from Roland Dorgelès’ a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Rollerball
Forty years on from its release, there's no doubt that Rollerball feels like a prescient film. It's set in a world run by corporations and its use of a viole... Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsMan of the West
This late-career Western from Anthony Mann doesn't quite stand shoulder to shoulder with his classics of the genre (The Naked Spur, Winchester... Read more »| 19 Mar 2015 -
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Maidan
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is a film that achieves a visceral sense of immediacy by keeping its distance. Shooting from judiciously chosen vantage points... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015
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Pride
Doing for the LGBT community what The Help did for African Americans, Pride conspires toward a feel-good conclusion by affirming the human spirit's tenacity ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
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From Bedrooms to Billions
Though the cinematic landscape is hardly inundated with documentaries on videogames, there have been enough of late to feel like the subject has really start... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Mr Turner
The name is renowned, but the eponymous film is one of those which invite that fundamental filmgoing question: what's it about? Plot-wise – even w... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Pictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák’s award-winning documentary, available with English subtitles for the first time, examines the lives of elderly villagers in ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsWild River
Elia Kazan didn’t want Montgomery Clift for Wild River – even delaying in the hope of luring Brando – but the troubled star gives a mo... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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The Other
A frenetic, angry energy announces itself almost immediately in Robert Mulligan’s 1972 gothic thriller The Other. That’s not surprising given the... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Spring in a Small Town
First released in 1948, Fei Mu’s masterful Spring in a Small Town was dismissed by the Communist government and only resurfaced in the 1980s. In the af... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsFury
There's a scene in David Ayer's latest film where an ambush sends a vehicle up in flames along with everyone inside it. One soldier leaps out, burning, writh... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015