Blu-Ray Review: The Big Clock
When it comes to actors with a huge presence, Charles Laughton was unmistakably a heavyweight. Theatrically trained, the West End led to Broadway and then eventually Hollywood. He made a…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Grand Duel
In the mid-1960s, a very strange phenomenon occurred in the American-centric world of Westerns. Whilst there was already a small industry of comedy variants being made in Europe, it wasn’t…
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DVD Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore is one of those film-makers who you either love or hate. Whilst he’s obviously well-intentioned and has a knack of hitting the nail on the head, he also…
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DVD Review: Death Trench
Wars provide fertile backgrounds for genre cinema given the natural horror generated by the brutalities and atrocities of conflict. World War I was particularly arduous, with thousands upon thousands of…
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Blu-ray Review: Iron Sky: The Coming Race
In 2012, Timo Vuorensola, Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko brought us Iron Sky, the Nazi science-fiction comedy the world didn’t know it was missing. In 1945, Hitler escaped and has…
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Blu-ray Review: Cujo
Since their domestication thousands of years ago, dogs have been man’s best friend. Loyal, obedient, protective, loving. Our cinema screens have been graced by some truly great canine performances –…
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DVD Review: Furious
Genghis Khan was the first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He united the largely nomadic tribes of Mongolia in the early 13th century to create what would eventually become,…
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DVD Review: Beyond the Sky
Each year, tens of thousands of people claim to be the victims of alien abductions. Extra-terrestrials, for some inexplicable reason, seem to target North Americans who often have the characteristics…
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Blu-Ray Review: Khrustalyov, My Car!
I don’t think any modern director has painted a portrait of a living Hell quite so starkly and disquietingly as Aleksei German. His final film, Hard to be a God,…
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Blu-ray Review: Everybody in Our Family
Romania has long produced highly individual and unashamedly idiosyncratic cinema. Heralded by the release of Cristi Puiu’s directorial debut Stuff and Dough in 2001, and exploding during the middle of…
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