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 Reviews
Never Let Me Go
Clad in grey clothes and with golden complexions, Hailsham students are special creatures. Raised to fulfil a very specific biological purpose, they are empt... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Floodtide
David (Gordon Jackson) is the son of a farmer who dreams of building ships on the Clyde. Against his father's wishes he takes a job in the shipyards and begi... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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Robinson In Ruins
Psychogeography, the form of intellectual rambling practised by writers like Iain Sinclair and Will Self, has had some prominence in recent years. At its bes... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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The Great White Silence
When an earlier cut of Herbert G. Ponting’s remarkable record of the British Antarctic Expedition was screened for George VI in 1914, the king declared... Read more »| 17 Jun 2011 -
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Howl
Allen Ginsberg was the fiery voice of a whole generation of disaffected American intellectuals and never more so than in his first published work, the poem H... Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
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Armadillo
Armadillo’s approach to the war in Afghanistan is nominally non-political, but the film was nonetheless the subject of much debate in Denmark d... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011
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Men On The Bridge
Men on the Bridge follows three men whose lives are connected by the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. Shot with a handheld camera and featuring real-lif... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
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127 Hours
It is unlikely that anyone watching 127 Hours will be unfamiliar with the story of Aron Ralston, a hiker who became trapped in a canyon in Utah when ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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L'Age D'Or
“Surreal” is a much over used adjective but L'Age D'Or is the real deal. Made in 1930 by the Surrealist dream team of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunu... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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The Dilemma
Ah, the bromance. Where friendship means having matching jowls. Ronny (Vince Vaughan) and Nick (Kevin James) have been best friends since they were in colleg... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
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Red Hill
Fresh-faced cop Shane Cooper (Kwanten) has transfered to the Outback town of Red Hill (pop. 120) to find peace and quiet for his pregnant wife. And in this b... Read more »| 16 May 2011 -
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Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the John)
It's been 30 years since Frank Ripploh shocked the world with this semi-autobiographical depiction of the reality of being gay in 1980s West Berlin. It remai... Read more »| 10 May 2011 -
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Biutiful
It's not as if we expected a frothy comedy from director Iñárritu, but Biutiful raises the bar for just how grim things can get in a film. Uxba... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
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I Saw the Devil
When his pregnant fiancée is brutally murdered by a batshit crazy serial killer (Oldboy's Min-sik Choi), a hard as nails secret agent (By... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011 -
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Balibo
From the outset, Balibo impresses both the truth and the seriousness of the events featured. Three timelines are established: present day East Timor, where a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011