Tag Archives: DVD Releases

DVD review | The Beaver — Mel as a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Seriously?

Posted on 10 October 2011 by heidi

An actor famous for his highly public personal meltdown plays a character going through a highly public personal meltdown in offbeat comedy drama The Beaver which gets its DVD & Blu-ray release this week. Mel Gibson is, of course, the … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Senna – Ayrton lives fast, dies young and makes for a fascinating docu-subject

Posted on 8 October 2011 by Jason Best

You don’t have to be a Formula 1 nut to enjoy this enthralling documentary about legendary racing driver Ayrton Senna: British director Asif Kapadia’s film Senna is so skillfully put together that its portrayal of a complex, charismatic and fascinating … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Flypaper – Judd and Dempsey get caught in a web of silly plot twists and turns

Posted on 6 October 2011 by Jason Best

Crime comedy Flypaper, from the writers of The Hangover (Scott Moore and Jon Lucas), spins an intricately plotted tale from the simultaneous arrival at a bank of two separate gangs of robbers. Caught in the crossfire are teller Ashley Judd … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Point Blank – A French thriller with pace, panache and plenty of va-va-voom

Posted on 3 October 2011 by Jason Best

Not to be confused with John Boorman’s 1967 noir masterpiece, Point Blank is a tautly plotted, fast-moving French thriller in which a trainee nurse, Gilles Lellouche’s Samuel, must smuggle a patient out of hospital in order to save his heavily … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Lemonade Mouth – More fizzy, fresh and sugary high-school jinx from Disney

Posted on 26 September 2011 by Jason Best

The Breakfast Club meets Glee as five high-school outcasts hook up in detention and form a band. With a big music competition in the offing, the new friends must get the better of the school’s sports-worshipping principal and some arrogant … Continue reading →

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Win a copy of Attack the Block on DVD

Posted on 15 September 2011 by heidi

What happens when the only thing standing between you and an invasion of marauding aliens are a gang of feral streets kids who’d mug you as soon as look at you..? It’s hug-a-hoodie time, innit! Joe Cornish’s hit sci-fi horror … Continue reading →

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Win Lemmy on DVD, plus some rockin’ goodies

Posted on 24 January 2011 by peter

This competition has now closed Heavy metal pioneer Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead fame, gets the rockumentary treatment in a rockin’ new film exploring the great man’s amazing life and career. Over more than four decades, Kilmister’s career has intersected with … Continue reading →

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Win a copy of Moon on Blu-ray

Posted on 16 November 2009 by heidi

A thinking-person’s journey into the science fiction universe, this taut, tense and fascinating psychological thriller follows in the footsteps of genre classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running. Sam Rockwell stars as the obedient working stiff whose … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | I Can’t Think Straight & The World Unseen

Posted on 4 May 2009 by Jason Best

Writer-director Shamim Sarif has two movies out on DVD today. Both films draw on her own experiences and heritage, both are based on her own novels, and both star Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth as young women struggling to overcome … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Australia

Posted on 27 April 2009 by heidi

Baz Luhrmann’s Australia which hits the DVD shelves today was dubbed ‘The Antipodean Gone With the Wind’ by the critics (when they weren’t busy panning it) probably because it’s both a larger-than-life romantic fantasy and a lush OTT homage to … Continue reading →

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