Category Archives: DVD Releases

Film review | Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino’s Bloody (& wordy!) Blaxploitation Western

Posted on 20 May 2013 by Jason Best

Quentin Tarantino’s audacious blaxploitation Western Django Unchained is a brazen, bloodily violent revenge fantasy and it creates an instant cinematic icon out of Jamie Foxx’s whip-scarred slave turned strikingly cool avenger. His name borrowed from the iconic Spaghetti Western character, … Continue reading →

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Film review | Kill for Me – Getting steamed-up over a Strangers on a Train for girls

Posted on 19 May 2013 by Jason Best

Hitchcock’s classic suspense thriller Strangers on a Train has inspired a host of lesser movies and Canadian thriller Kill for Me clearly owes it a debt too. Katie Cassidy’s Amanda is the story’s innocent dupe, a college student who quickly … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray review | Black Sabbath | Boris Karloff’s 1960s trilogy of terror gets the Arrow Video treatment

Posted on 18 May 2013 by peter

THE STORY Boris Karloff plays master of ceremonies in 1963′s Black Sabbath, an Italian trilogy of terror from director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Lisa and the Devil). The Telephone, set in the 1960s, is a giallo-inspired story in which a … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Curandero: Dawn of the Demon | Robert Rodriguez’s Mexican indie is CSI with an occult twist

Posted on 17 May 2013 by peter

THE STORY When Satanic drug leader Castaneda (Gabriel Pingarrón) escapes from a Mexico City jail, leaving a trail of bloody corpses in his wake, federal agent Magdalena (Gizeht Galatea) calls on faith healer Carlos (Carlos Gallardo) to purify the station. … Continue reading →

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Win Quentin Tarantino Western Django Unchained on Blu-ray!

Posted on 17 May 2013 by Adele Craciun

Django Unchained, the action-packed, Oscar-winning Spaghetti Western from writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) is coming out on Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on Monday 20th May. Django Unchained is a classic Tarantino revenge story about a slave (Jamie Foxx) who, … Continue reading →

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Film review | Les Misérables – Bowled over by the barnstorming gusto of Jackman, Crowe & co

Posted on 14 May 2013 by Jason Best

Director Tom Hooper and a full-throated cast led by Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo’s ex-convict hero Jean Valjean bring the world’s longest-running stage musical, Les Misérables, to the screen with barnstorming gusto. From the majestic opening shots of storm-lashed prisoners … Continue reading →

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DVD Review | Konga | The kitsch 1960s British ape movie that deserves cult status

Posted on 12 May 2013 by peter

‘Fantastic! There’s a huge monster gorilla that’s constantly growing to outlandish proportions loose in the streets!’ THE STORY Batty botanist Dr Charles Decker (Michael Gough) experiments with a growth serum to create giant insectivorous plants and an oversized chimp (actually … Continue reading →

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Film review | Quartet – Maggie Smith & Tom Courtenay access all arias in Hoffman’s cosy comedy-drama

Posted on 9 May 2013 by Jason Best

Dustin Hoffman makes his film-directing debut with heart-warming ensemble comedy-drama Quartet – and it’s no surprise that he should get the best from a classy line-up of veteran British stars led by Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay. Based on the … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Great Gatsby – Solid TV movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic

Posted on 6 May 2013 by Jason Best

Chosen as this year’s Cannes opener, Baz Luhrmann’s new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is days away from its first public airing. So it’s a timely moment for the DVD release of the BBC/Granada TV movie version of F Scott … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Impossible – When disaster strikes, Naomi Watts & Ewan McGregor rise to the challenge

Posted on 6 May 2013 by Jason Best

Based on the harrowing experiences of a family caught up in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, real-life disaster movie The Impossible will leave you awestruck. In the leading roles, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor dial down their Hollywood glamour … Continue reading →

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