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 ReviewsHer Private Hell
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
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The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsUrbanized
With smutty infographs and high-rise money shots, Urbanized slips the panties down on modern city living. This documentary has no sexy Grand Designs narrator... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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Restless
Gus Van Sant presents an unusual romance in Restless. Annabel Cotton (Wasikowska) sparkles with a curiosity for life in the face of terminal cancer. Enoch Br... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
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Rolling Thunder
With a script written by Paul Schrader, Rolling Thunder is an unlikely cut-and-paste job between a classic 70s meditation on damaged masculinity and a brutal... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsAlbatross
Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012
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Dvd ReviewsThe Burma Conspiracy
The Burma Conspiracy is the second film based on Belgian comic series Largo Winch. It features a Bosnian hero who lives in Switzerland, has more European co-... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
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Punishment Park
Through a combination of radical politics and formal experimentation British director Peter Watkins has pushed the limits of the docudrama since the 1960s. A... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
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An Island
French filmmaker Vincent Moon specialises in unorthodox music flicks, but An Island is more unorthodox than most. The titular location is Als, the small Dani... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Hearts of Darkness
Deriving its name from the book that gave Apocalypse Now its story, Hearts of Darkness is perhaps the world's best-known "The Making of..." documentary. Narr... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Whisper of the Heart
Making a welcome debut on Blu-ray, Whisper of the Heart is a minor classic from Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli, home of the award winning Spirited Away and ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
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The Guard
John Michael McDonagh – forever cursed to be billed as brother to In Bruges' writer-director Michael – tries his hand at directing in this scaldi... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
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Videodrome
In the paranoid Cold War coke comedown of the early 1980s David Cronenberg unleashed this unsettling masterwork, now on Blu-ray. James Wood is Max, a sleazy ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
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The Interrupters
The western was America's great film genre, but the world has moved on. Over recent decades the country has inverted itself and the frontier lives in the inn... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Billed as 'Werner Herzog presents...', Happy People is the German director's 90 minute cut, with his own commentary and new music, of a four hour Russian doc... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011