Category Archives: DVD Releases

Who won the Underworld Quadrilogy box-sets?

Posted on 25 May 2012 by Adele Craciun

Thanks to everyone who entered our Underworld competition. The Kenneth Branagh movie that kicked off Kate Beckinsale’s career was of course Much Ado About Nothing. And the two lucky winners, drawn at random, are Melanie Crumpton and Graeme Denman. Congratulations … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Haywire – Gina Carano bursts on the scene in a B-movie with A-grade action

Posted on 21 May 2012 by Jason Best

Betrayed by her bosses, a freelance black-ops agent goes on the run in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, a taut action thriller that is as briskly efficient and muscular as its heroine. Played by mixed martial artist Gina Carano, lean, mean ex-Marine … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Grey – Liam Neeson’s alpha male leads the pack in gripping survival thriller

Posted on 21 May 2012 by Jason Best

A survival thriller with teeth, The Grey pits Liam Neeson’s hardy sharpshooter against a pack of ravenous wolves in the frozen wastes of Alaska. Neeson’s Ottway is the alpha male among a group of oil refinery workers who survive a … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Dare you enter the House of Pain on the Island of Lost Souls?

Posted on 18 May 2012 by peter

Alongside Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein and Freaks, 1933’s Island of Lost Souls ranks as one of the best classic horror films. But its controversial story, gruesome (at the time) vivisection scenes, and poor distribution has kept it virtually hidden from … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The sublime 1950s Italian fantasy Miracle in Milan is a ray of sunshine in a cynical age

Posted on 16 May 2012 by peter

In between making his gritty neo-realist masterpieces Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D, Italian director Vittorio De Sica lens the fantasy Miracle in Milan, a modern-day fable that would earned him the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1951. Francesco Golisano (who … Continue reading →

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Win Underworld Quadrilogy box set on DVD

Posted on 14 May 2012 by peter

Kate Beckinsale is back as kick-ass, leather-clad vampire warrior Selene in Underworld Awakening – and to mark the occasion we’ve got two box-sets containing all four action-packed Underworld movies to give away! To celebrate the 14th May UK DVD release … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Shame – Fassbender bares all in McQueen’s drama of sex, lies and emotional pain

Posted on 14 May 2012 by Jason Best

A fearless, unblinking, full-frontal portrait of a sex addict from actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen (no relation), who first worked together on the acclaimed 2008 film Hunger about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands. Fassbender plays 30-something New Yorker Brandon, … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Wayne Wang’s generation-spanning tale of female friendship

Posted on 13 May 2012 by Jason Best

With Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, director Wayne Wang, maker of The Joy Luck Club, has come up with another generation-spanning tale of female friendship set in both China and the West. This one is based on the bestselling … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – The game’s afoot, again, for Downey Jr’s quirky ‘tec

Posted on 12 May 2012 by Jason Best

Following the success of 2009’s surprisingly entertaining Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr’s manic, mischievous, unexpectedly kick-ass hero returns for A Game of Shadows, a sequel that is even more knockabout and irreverent than its predecessor. This time Downey Jr’s dandyish, … Continue reading →

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Exploring the erotic world of 1970s underground film-maker Peter de Rome

Posted on 11 May 2012 by peter

As part of the BFI’s remit to archive the films of all British artists comes the DVD collection The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome – probably the most risqué of all of the BFI’s archived film material as it … Continue reading →

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