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 ReviewsThis Is Spinal Tap: Up To 11 Edition
Newcomers to Rob Reiner’s classic shouldn’t have the difficulties its first audience had in understanding its humour. That’s because this c... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsButterfly Kiss
Scarred loner Eunice (Plummer) stalks angrily between the motorway garages of northern England, murdering and stealing while she searches for a mythical lost... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Dim Sum
Set in 80’s San Fran, Dim Sum centres on the daily goings-on of a small and ordinary Chinese family, dealing with small and ordinary everyday issues. T... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Damned United
Cloughie might have been a more appropriate title for this “adaptation” of David Peace’s baleful take on the arrogant but charismatic Brian... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsSlacker Uprising
Slacker Uprising documents Michael Moore’s tour of key battleground states during 2004’s US elections, his intention to get America’s young... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
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High Heels
High Heels is a film about women: conventional, criminal, matriarchal, murderous, loved, loathed, and impersonated. More specifically, it’s about the p... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009
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Oasis
Just released from prison for manslaughter, socially inept outcast Jong-du (Kyung-gu Sol) finds himself falling in love with the seriously disabled daughter ... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
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Cradle Will Fall
From Medea to tabloid headlines, stories of mothers who murder their children have always fascinated and revolted us. Cradle Will Fall, supposedly based on r... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
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Boys on Film 2: In Too Deep
Peccadillo Pictures' latest compilation of the best short films about gay men from around the world has a lot to live up to after the first instalment, and i... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
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Hush
It’s ironic that a film with this title doesn’t have much to say, but Radio 1 DJ Tonderai’s directorial debut fair cracks along and is an e... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
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High Art
Photography's one of those things which looks simple, but there’s something about a great picture that can’t be denied. Lisa Cholodenko's High Ar... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
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Lola Montes
How many classics flopped on release? Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Raging Bull...the list goes on. What is also true is that great art is us... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsGlass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts
The general rule is that style or form should always match subject matter, but by that logic, a documentary about composer Philip Glass would amount to an on... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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A Child Is Waiting
This is a very odd film: because of its subject matter; because of the way it’s handled; and because we perceive mental disability so differently today... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Viva
The ‘ironic’ bad acting gets old approximately three minutes into Viva, and there are still 117 minutes to go. Director, editor, writer, produce... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009