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Blu-Ray Review – Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

No war has focused the minds of American film-makers quite like Vietnam. It’s a conflict which split American society; polarising a nation. Given the controversy surrounding events within the region,…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Criminal

Stanley Baker was hardly what you’d call a typical leading man in post-war British cinema. Unlike his peers, who were almost always handsome and debonair, the former electrician’s apprentice cut…

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DVD Review: The Fight

Films about boxers overcoming adversity are a long and noble tradition within cinema, but the protagonists of such films are, with very few exceptions, men. Spaced star Jessica Hynes is…

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Blu-Ray Review: Dark City

In a career which spanned over sixty years, Charlton Heston became an American icon and one of the most familiar cinematic faces. He has starred in over seventy films with…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller was never a director to shy away from controversy or take the easy road. The controversial film-maker never abided by convention and was seemingly incapable of resting on…

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Blu-Ray Review: Shock Corridor

It has been a long time coming but, in the West at least, mental illness is finally being treated as seriously as physical conditions. The brain is an incredibly complex…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Ear

Living under an oppressive regime essentially means spending your life in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Those citizens residing in communist countries during the Cold War faced a…

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Blu-ray Review: Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee is one of the most powerful political voices in black American film-making. During the late 1980s and early 1990s he released a string of films which either challenged…

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DVD Review: Pond Life

British films tend to play up to stereotypes. Whether that’s the cheeky Cockney, comedy Celt or slimy spoilt public-school boy. This trend is often at its basest when it comes…

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Blu-Ray Review: In Bruges

Today, Belgium is a multi-cultural mecca which attracts visitors from all around the world. However, it wasn’t so long ago that it was considered one of the continent’s least appetising…

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