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 ReviewsJohn Dies at the End
Don't worry, the title isn't quite as spoilerific as it may first appear in writer-director Don Coscarelli's latest film (his first since 2002's Bubba Ho-Tep... Read more »| 13 Feb 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Banshee Chapter
H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond gets a 21st century revamp in Blair Erickson's solid first feature. When a journalist investigates the disappearance of a ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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Wings
Wings, one of the final big Hollywood productions of the silent era, is most famous for being the Best Picture winner at the inaugural Academy Awards, or rat... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Stuart Hall Project
Having redefined what documentaries can do in his groundbreaking Nine Muses, Ghana-born British director and rogue historian John Akomfrah once again revisit... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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The Selfish Giant
In this Oscar Wilde-inspired addition to British cinema’s social realist canon, all of its Bradford milieu is in the gutter, but two boys are look... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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Riddick
After the ambitious first sequel to Pitch Black failed, you can see why producers would want to return to familiar territory, but something still isn’t... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014
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The Great Beauty
In The Great Beauty’s sublimely grand overture, a smiling tourist snaps the Roman skyline then suddenly falls, as if overwhelmed by the splendour of th... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2 takes the elements introduced in its predecessor and runs with them, to mostly good effect. Thanks to Insidious' shock twist finale (spo... Read more »| 06 Jan 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsStaff Do, or Staff Don't? Why Not Stay at Home with a Comedy DVD...
The Christmas period is jam-packed with comedy nights, which are in turn jam-packed with office parties; which is precisely why you should avoid them like the plague, argues our Comedy ed Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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The Conjuring
A mirrored music box out of which trickles stilted, lilting lullabies. Blindfold games of hide-and-seek. An unknown hand, an exposed ankle, the dead of night... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
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Betty Blue
Béatrice Dalle’s pouty visage became one of the 80s’ most recognisable images after sizzling and shrieking her way through Jean-Jacques Be... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
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Heaven's Gate
Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
“Dentists are the first to go,” jokes Donald Sutherland’s health inspector, unaware of how horribly right he is, in Philip Kaufman’s ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
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Streets of Fire
Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire is 90 minutes of glorious pulp fiction. It opens with two title cards: the first reads ‘a rock‘n’roll f... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
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The Heat
Bridesmaids definitively proved for the umpteenth time to a sexist Hollywood that, yes, women can be funny, and yes, they can be funny without the film desce... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013