Category Archives: DVD Releases

Pete’s Peek | The Masters of Cinema’s timely re-release of Hitchcock’s wartime drama Lifeboat

Posted on 2 May 2012 by peter

Alfred Hitchcock has long been regarded as the Master of Suspense, but he was also pretty good at propaganda judging from the Masters of Cinema release of Lifeboat (1944), which was his direct response to the ongoing war in Europe. … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Tom Cruise clings on to his action man status

Posted on 30 April 2012 by Jason Best

Tom Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt pulls off his trademark feats of acrobatic insanity with breathtaking panache in his latest adventure, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but whereas previous outings have seen him hogging most of the action this time … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Iron Lady – Meryl Streep perfects Thatcher’s bark in biopic lacking political bite

Posted on 29 April 2012 by Jason Best

Ruffling feathers all along the political spectrum, the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady is neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job but deserves to be seen for Meryl Streep’s magnificent Oscar-winning performance in the lead role. Reuniting with her … Continue reading →

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Create your own ghoulish creature of the night and win a Demons goody bag

Posted on 27 April 2012 by peter

Out on Monday 30 April from Arrow Films comes the limited edition deluxe versions of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s blood-curdling zombie horror classics Demons and Demons 2 as restored Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook editions, alongside Demons 3, an exclusive … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Murder, Ink

Posted on 23 April 2012 by Jason Best

David Fincher’s Hollywood version of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is dark and twisted, bleak and brutal: everything the book’s fans would want. And it’s not just the story’s mood that he gets right. … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato’s DVD Pickings: The Last Summer of La Boyita – a coming-of-age movie with a difference.

Posted on 23 April 2012 by Beth Williams

Puberty is hard – feeling different from everyone else because of uncertainty over bodily changes; uncertainty over whether everyone’s experiencing the same transformations; hiding stuff; keeping secrets. But eventually we all learn, over time, that while everyone’s experiencing a sense … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | On this day in 1949 – Jean-Pierre Melville’s tribute to the French Resistance, Le Silence de la mer

Posted on 22 April 2012 by peter

On this day (22 April) in 1949, director Jean-Pierre Melville released his debut feature, Le Silence de mer, an adaptation of a nouvella by the French author Vercors. Published in 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, and secretly distributed, … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The Saint vs The Falcon – two classic 1940s mystery series get a UK DVD release

Posted on 19 April 2012 by peter

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, RKO Pictures made a popular series of hard-boiled thrillers starring Leslie Charteris’s hero The Saint, with George Sanders in the role that Vincent Price originally made famous on radio. Following Louis Hayward’s attempt … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1930s political thriller still dazzles and disturbs

Posted on 18 April 2012 by peter

Based on Alberto Moravia’s 1951 novel, Il Conformista, Bernardo Bertolucci’s stunning recreation of the 1930s is a period piece that looks as good today as 40 years ago. Haunted and uptight Marcello Clerici (Jean Louis Trintignant) pursues his quest for … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Dream House – Daniel Craig & Rachel Weisz’s suburban idyll turns creepy

Posted on 16 April 2012 by Jason Best

Disowned by director Jim Sheridan and snubbed by stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, psychological thriller Dream House is clearly something of a wreck, yet watching the film provides glimpses of the better film the project might have been had … Continue reading →

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