DVD/Blu-Ray Review Archives - Page 40 of 93

Blu-Ray Review: Last Year in Marienbad

Very occasionally, a film will come along which defies expectations and logic. A film which plays with the very texture of film and storytelling to create something which is simultaneously…

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Blu-ray Review: Witness for the Prosecution

Whilst Charles Laughton is now probably best-known for the only film he directed, Night of the Hunter, he was a versatile an indominable stage and screen actor. He made over…

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Blu-Ray Review: Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Whilst the country found itself in a deep depression after defeat in World War II and subsequent occupation, the 1950s is considered to be the golden age of Japanese cinema.…

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Blu-ray Review: Custody

Divorce or separation is never an easy time for those involved but it’s often the children who suffer the most. It’s all too common for adults to get caught-up in…

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Blu-Ray Review: I Vitelloni

Federico Fellini was one of the greatest directors and screenwriters ever to work in Italian cinema. Films such as 8 ½, La Dolce Vita, La Strada and The Night of…

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DVD Review: The Night Eats The World

Zombies have become big business over the last couple of decades. They seem to have seeped into every nook and cranny of popular culture. Whilst the success of The Walking…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Jean Renoir was undoubtedly one of the greats of early cinema and amongst the most influential directors in the history of French film-making. Indeed, two films he made during the…

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Blu-ray Review: Missing

Most of the history taught in schools around the Cold War centres on tensions between the USA and the USSR and nuclear proliferation. However, the biggest destructive impact of this…

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DVD Review: The Last Warrior

Over the last decade or so Russia has begun to re-position itself on the world stage as a cinematic competitor to China and America. In a similar vein to the…

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Blu-Ray Review: Jackie Chan’s Police Story and Police Story 2

Whilst the recent footage of Tom Cruise’s accident on the set of Mission Impossible: Fallout may have left a few feeling queasy, he’s by no means the first actor to…

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