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 ReviewsThe Thief of Bagdad
Raoul Walsh is now best remembered for the gruelling location shoots that lent High Sierra and The Big Trail their sense of epic, distinctly American po... Read more »| 24 Nov 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Homesman
Brilliantly gruff and grizzled character actor though he was, it would’ve taken a hell of a crystal ball to predict Tommy Lee Jones becoming, in this l... Read more »| 20 Nov 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsAnimal Farm
A classroom favourite, Halas and Batchelor’s animated adaptation of Orwell’s classic political fable arrives on Blu-ray with a crisp high-definit... Read more »| 23 Oct 2014 -
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Blacula – The Complete Collection
Today, a torturous pun in the title usually indicates a horror with tongue lodged tightly in cheek (see this month’s undead rodent feature Zombeavers).... Read more »| 23 Oct 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsZombeavers
The concept of ferocious undead beavers gorged on college kids' flesh is chucklesome enough to hide a multitude of sins, and Jordan Rubin’s picture cer... Read more »| 15 Oct 2014 -
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Moebius
Kim Ki-duk's recent films have been as ugly in form as they have been in content. Moebius, his latest psychosexual drama, is no different. Shot hand-hel... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014
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Dvd Reviews
WolfCop
Yet another doolally 80s horror pastiche, WolfCop remembers the rule that some of its predecessors (notably Hobo with a Shotgun) forgot: never let the nastin... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsGhost in the Shell
It’s no exaggeration to say that Ghost in the Shell is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last two decades. Set in a futuristic cyberpunk ... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
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300: Rise of an Empire
Part prequel, part sidequel (parallelquel?) and part sequel, this belated follow-up to 300 takes place before, during and after the events of Zack Snyder&rsq... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
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Shivers
Shivers, which introduced erstwhile ‘king of venereal horror’ David Cronenberg to the world stage, was at one point renamed They Came from Within... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
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Madame DuBarry
“I think it's outrageous that the king is carrying out his affairs of state here in his mistress's pleasure palace.” With this gem from 1919, Ern... Read more »| 19 Sep 2014 -
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Night of the Comet
Fans of ’80s cheese will likely eat up Night of the Comet with a gag-worthy spoon. With its B-movie horror aesthetic, campy Valley Girl dialogue, and s... Read more »| 18 Sep 2014 -
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Benny & Jolene
Nowhere near as irritating as the following description suggests, this ultra-low-budget indie teen movie is a cautionary tale of sacrifice and compromise. Th... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
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Frau im Mond
Soberly billed as ‘the first scientific science fiction film,’ Fritz Lang’s final silent feature, 1929’s Frau im Mond, is really almo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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The ’Burbs
With its white picket fences, perfectly tended lawns, and boring, unending conformity, suburban America can be a pretty strange place, and never more so... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014