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 ReviewsGaslight
Upon acquiring the rights to Patrick Hamilton’s play Gas Light, MGM set about wiping the slate in preparation for their George Cukor-directed, Ingrid B... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
Dvd Reviews8½
Eight and a half films into his career, Fellini decided it was time to turn the camera inward. 8½ is a portrait of a creatively blocked filmmaker... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
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Red River
Howard Hawks made so many great films that it’s inevitable a few are unjustly overlooked. One such film is 1948 western Red River, which offers a prime... Read more »| 28 Oct 2013 -
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The White Dove / Josef Kilián
Before Kes, Czech master František Vláčil's 1960 feature debut The White Dove told of another young boy caring for a prized bird, her... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsHummingbird
If you're expecting another manic actioner, you could be disappointed by Jason Statham’s latest, which swaps OTT gunplay for religious symbolism and a ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsHalloween
John Carpenter's iconic horror defined the slasher genre and for many it’s never been bettered. Looking at it today, it’s startling just how sim... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013
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Dvd ReviewsThe Fury
A sort of blown-up companion to 1976’s Carrie, The Fury follows Peter Sandza (Douglas) as he searches for his psychic son, Robin (Stevens), who’s... Read more »| 16 Oct 2013 -
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Pieta
A divisive winner at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Pieta features an unpleasant protagonist who has unpleasantness revisited upon him, with onscree... Read more »| 09 Oct 2013 -
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Bachelorette
This simple recipe will produce exactly one dimly generic comedy wedding film. You will need: three hateful female stereotypes, some cocaine, a plush hotel,... Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Douglas Sirk's penultimate film is something of an anomaly in his body of work, but it's also perhaps the most personal and interesting film he ever made. A ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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La Notte
Has any director ever been as adept at exploring the spaces that exist between people as Michelangelo Antonioni? His 1961 film, La Notte, is the story of a m... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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The Last American Virgin
A near shot-for-shot remake of his cult Israeli coming-of-ager, Boaz Davidson’s The Last American Virgin is less a movie, more a succession of skits se... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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Twixt
Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a “bargain-basement Stephen King”, is visiting a small, studiedly eerie town to sign copies of his latest book. Five... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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Hawking
“Imagine coming to the end of questions,” expresses Mary Hawking – younger sister of cosmologist Stephen – towards the end of this ep... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
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Ikarie XB-1
Blandly retitled as Voyage to the End of the Universe in some English-speaking markets, the snappily-monikered Ikarie XB-1 (the title alludes to Icarus,... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013