DVD Review: The Escape
Gemma Arterton’s first appearance on the big screen was hardly the most auspicious beginning. Then again, St Trinian’s is hardly a film which will go down in history as anything…
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Blu-Ray Review: Alpha
As the saying goes, a dog is man’s best friend, but it wasn’t always that way. Whilst Kevin Kostner may have been dancing with Wolves in the 19th century, human…
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DVD Review: Searching
Whilst the rise of social media and mobile communications has had a huge impact on our daily lives, it has caused a whole host of problems for film-makers. Especially when…
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Blu-ray Review: The Rider
Whilst the Wild West might be a place lost in the dim and distant past, the notion of the cowboy still lingers in the American psyche. Whilst ‘Indians’ are no…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Cooler
Whilst leads perennially hog the limelight, it’s supporting actors who are often likely to steal the show. Hollywood is hardly meritocratic. The ‘A’ List has as much to do with…
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Blu-Ray Review: Nigthshooters
Making a film can be dangerous undertaking. Sets are fraught with peril. One wrong move can literally bring everything crashing down around you. Then there are the pyrotechnics, fight scenes,…
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Blu-ray Review: When A Stranger Calls / When A Stranger Calls Back
As demonstrated so successfully in the Scream franchise, one of the most popular motifs in modern genre cinema is that of the mystery caller. Especially when your protagonist is a…
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Blu-Ray Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A
Over the course of the last decade, the portrayal of refugees in the UK media has been simplistic, to say the least. The entire debate has been focused on those…
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Blu-Ray Review: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The end of World War II marked the start of a boom time for the United States of America. In the period leading up to the 1960s the country saw…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Serpent’s Egg
Although his star has been on the wane over the past couple of decades, Ingmar Bergman is without doubt one of the most important film-makers who has ever lived. The…
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