Category Archives: DVD Releases

DVD review | Albatross – Jessica Brown Findlay’s spunky seaside rebel comes of age

Posted on 7 February 2012 by Jason Best

Best known for her role as Downton Abbey’s aristocratic rebel, Jessica Brown Findlay slips down the social scale to play an even spunkier heroine in British coming-of-age drama Albatross. Emelia is a wayward 17-year-old orphan who explodes like an incendiary … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Midnight in Paris – A champagne comedy to toast Woody’s return to form

Posted on 2 February 2012 by Jason Best

Woody Allen seemed to have lost his fizz as a filmmaker of late – and then he uncorked the sparkling Midnight in Paris, a comic fantasy with all the effervescence of vintage champagne. He has a new leading man this … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John LeCarre’s classic spy thriller comes in from the cold in fine style

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Jason Best

John Le Carré’s classic spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy becomes a feature film – and the result is a superbly clever, fiendishly gripping thriller that measures up to the iconic BBC TV series from 1979. In the lead role, … Continue reading →

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Win the super cool Drive starring Ryan Gosling on DVD

Posted on 30 January 2012 by peter

Without doubt the coolest movie of last year was the Ryan Gosling actioner Drive, which is being released onto Blu-ray, DVD and Dual Layer on 30 January. Adapted from James Sallis’ 2005 novel, Drive is the story of a Hollywood … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Drive – Ryan Gosling is the new ‘King of Cool’ in this turbo-charged noir thriller

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Jason Best

Oozing attitude and dripping with charisma, Ryan Gosling proved himself a worthy heir to Steve McQueen as the nameless hero at the wheel of this terrific, precision-tooled thriller – my top film of 2011. A laconic tough guy who is … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Dario Argento’s lost masterpiece Four Flies on Grey Velvet gets a 40th anniversary release

Posted on 27 January 2012 by peter

For Dario Argento fans there’s really no need to review Shameless Screen Entertainment‘s latest release, because it’s destined to become a collector’s item. Practically unseen since the 1970s, Four Flies on Grey Velvet is being released for the first-time on … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Place your bets! Hostel: Part III is heading to Vegas – but it ain’t all fun and games

Posted on 27 January 2012 by peter

As the old saying goes, ‘Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer’? And, no truer words were spoken than in Hostel: Part III. Unlike the first two films, this latest instalment in the franchise has more in common with … Continue reading →

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Win Perfect Sense on DVD and a poster signed by Ewan McGregor

Posted on 25 January 2012 by peter

OK, it’s January and it’s all a bit dismal but at the end of this month Perfect Sense is released on DVD. If Ewan McGregor and Eva Green can manage to find love as the world is crashing down around … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Perfect Sense – Global disaster fare on a shoestring budget? Perfect nonsense more like!

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Jason Best

What would happen to humanity if our senses started packing in, one by one? Would society inevitably break down? Would love survive? Those are the questions facing Ewan McGregor’s cocky Glasgow chef and Eva Green’s rueful epidemiologist in David Mackenzie’s … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Red State – Slacker comedy supremo Kevin Smith takes aim at America’s God squad

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Jason Best

Taking equal opportunity swipes at Christian fundamentalist bigots and the US government, Kevin Smith’s subversively satirical movie keeps its audience continually off balance. Starting off in teen sex-comedy territory as three randy teenage boys barrel along Deep South back roads … Continue reading →

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