Monthly Archives: February 2012

Win the haunting drama American Evil with Bradley Cooper on DVD

This competition is now closed. If you’re a fan of Bradley Cooper (The A-Team, The Hangover, Limitless) then you’re in for a real treat with his suspenseful and haunting drama which gets its first-ever UK release on 5 March. A … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

The Woman In Black Spooked… Things go bump in the night for Daniel Radcliffe in this horror-thriller about an Edwardian solicitor who travels to a remote village where the locals are terrorised by an unknown entity. The Best Exotic Marigold … Continue reading

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DVD review | X: Night of Vengeance – Fainthearts beware as two hookers go on the run in Aussie thriller

Australian erotic thriller X: Night of Vengeance more than lives up to its sleazy, grindhouse title. The credits haven’t even finished and there’s full-frontal sex; no less in-your-face violence follows shortly later. Director and co-writer Jon Hewitt wraps the sex … Continue reading

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Who won Real Steel with Hugh Jackman on DVD?

Real Steel is a gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Hugh Jackman is Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when steel robots took over the … Continue reading

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Pete’s Peek | Sex, sun and betrayal star in Carol Reed’s exotic 1950′s drama Outcast of the Islands

Fans of classic British cinema will of heard of Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out and The Third Man, but few will recall the film that he followed those big hits – Outcast of the Islands, a searing melodrama – based … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Johnny English Reborn Secret service… Rowan Atkinson’s hapless spy gets a second big screen outing in this action comedy, which sees the titular secret agent tasked with preventing the assassination of the Chinese premier. If you can see this, then … Continue reading

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Who won Fright Night on DVD?

To celebrate the release of Fright Night, which is out to own on DVD and Blu-ray, we had 5 copies of the DVD to give away. Thanks for all your comments about which horror film you’d like to see given … Continue reading

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Oscars! Schmoscars! Triumph, travesty and throwbacks galore

Silence was golden again at the Oscars this year, with The Artist, already hotly tipped, tap-dancing off with the three big awards of the night: Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. Dujardin made … Continue reading

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Win supernatural chiller The Shrine on DVD

From award-winning filmmaker Jon Knautz, writer-director of the cult hit horror-comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, comes The Shrine, an eerie horror, starring Aaron Ashmore (Smallville), Cindy Sampson (Supernatural) and Meghan Heffern (The Fog), that sets itself up as a traditional … Continue reading

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DVD review | We Need To Talk About Kevin

Unaccountably overlooked by the Oscars this year, Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We … Continue reading

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