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 ReviewsElectra Glide In Blue
Electra has that Lynchian effect of making you wonder exactly what drugs the director was on. Nothing about it makes much sense, but it looks good, in a CHi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
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Belle Toujours
Hollywood philistine William Goldman once said that all directors lose their touch at 60, but clearly he’d forgotten that Luis Buñuel was 67 whe... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
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Before Stonewall
The Stonewall riots in 1969 were a turning point for the gay movement in Western society, and lead to the beginning of pride marches and increasing visibilit... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsAria
Aria producer Don Boyd could never have anticipated that twenty-two years after his film’s release, multiplex cinemas would be screening pristinely fil... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsDrifting Flowers
Women in love with women is a subject not often touched on in the west, but Asian cinema has been far more successful. The award winning Taiwanese director Z... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Were The World Mine
Life’s tough for Timothy. He’s the victim of homophobic bullying at his all-boy high school, he’s isolated by narrow-minded townsfolk and i... Read more »| 28 May 2009
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Martyrs
In the middle of a family meal, an ordinary looking father answers the front door and is shot dead by a traumatized young woman. The apparent survivor of a c... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Boccaccio '70
Buttoned down Catholicism and the resulting itch to unbutton everything: 60s Italy is the setting for Boccaccio ’70, with four of the country’s m... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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Trouble the Water
“New Orleans looks dead like a motherfucker”. Speaking in her easy New Orleans drawl, narrator Kim Roberts (along with her husband Scott) films t... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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The Small Back Room
Set in England, 1943, The Small Black Room features Powell favourite David Farrar as WW2 explosives expert Sammy Rice. As the Germans continue to drop deadly... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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North Face
Never has there been such a beautiful ogre as the North Face. The villain is of course the Eiger mountain, but such is its malevolent absorption of life tha... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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Life's A Trip
Road trip movies work. Pretty much all of them, from the sublime (Little Miss Sunshine, Sideways, Transamerica) to the ridiculous (Dumb and Dumber, National... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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A Four Letter Word
Luke has it all, or so he thinks. Living in the heart of New York’s gay ghetto, he’s handsome, charming, has his pick of one night stands and ooz... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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2 Minutes Later
Michael Dalmar is the proverbial wet blanket. He has a boring insurance job, he’s dull, totally unassertive and the complete opposite of his sleazy ide... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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Common Threads
When the AIDS epidemic first hit America, the conservative Reagan administration hid their heads in the sand and did their very best to ignore it. Inspired ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009