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Warrior (DVD Review)
 If you didn’t get enough of brutal ring action and dysfunctional family drama with The Fighter, then Gavin O’Connor’s your man to fill that hole as two former boxers are forced by...
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Welcome To The Rileys (DVD Review)
 Welcome to the Rileys takes an interesting premise with leading acting lights playing against type, but ultimately fails to deliver enough dramatic pull. The movie talent is high-class. James...
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Resurrecting The Champ (DVD Review)
 Approximately five years after its cinema run in the USAResurrecting the Champ, comes to DVD in the UK. Starring Josh Hartnett as a struggling journalist and Samuel L...
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Restless (DVD Review)
 He crashes the funerals of people he doesn’t know and his best friend is the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot with whom he plays Battleships. She’s got terminal cancer with...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (DVD Review)
 Come the night and it may well lose out to The Artist, but nominated for 11 BAFTAs, including best film, director and actor, there’s no denying that this new version of John...
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Crazy Stupid Love (DVD Review)
 In recent years it been increasingly harder to find a romantic comedy that doesn’t involve a flood of foul mouthed language, crude sexual humour and gross behaviour...
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The Whistleblower (DVD Review)
 The Whistleblower is a hard-hitting and often sickening expose thriller set in post-war Bosnia. Lead by the superb Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac the audience follow..
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Spy Kids 4 - All The Time In The World (DVD Review)
 All The Time in the World is the fourth installment in the Spy Kids series of films from writer and director Robert Rodriguez, it stars Jessica Alba, former Spy...
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Le Silence De La Mer (DVD Review)
 Le Silence de la Mer is an adaptation of the wartime novella of the same title by French Resistance author Vercors, the pen name of Jen Brulier. The movie, released in 1949...
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Boardwalk Empire (DVD Review)
 Being executively produced by Martin Scorsese, winner of eight Emmy awards and nominated for eighteen, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire seems to be proving to be a big fish in the small pond...
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Killer Elite (DVD Review)
 Loosely adapted from The Feather Men, an allegedly factional novel by Ranulph Fiennes (rather flatteringly played by Dion Mills in a brief scene) about the assassination...
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Burn Notice Season 4 (DVD Review)
 Everyone’s favourite former spy, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan), return s to our screens for an all new season of Burn Notice. The season picks up shortly after the events..
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Go To Blazes (DVD Review)
 Go To Blazes released in 1962 stars Dennis Price, Maggie Smith and Norman Rossington. The film it is a light hearted British crime caper and a definite blast from the past. Complete with...
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The Smurfs (DVD Review)
 Do today’s children even know who The Smurfs are? Created by Belgian comic strip illustrator Peyo in 1958, the tiny blue skinned creatures with white hats live in mushroom shaped...
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Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights (DVD Review)
 Stand-up comic and panel-show regular Frankie Boyle sees his latest creation Tramadol nights released on DVD this month and with a title that suggests the relief of pain, its ironic just...
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Desperate Housewives – Series 7 (DVD Review)
 Desperate Housewives has always been one of the funniest, most dramatic series on TV and, even after so many years, series 7 is as fast paced as its predecessors. It sees the...
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How I Met Your Mother Season 6 (DVD Review)
 How I Met Your Mother had the unenviable task of being the latest TV sitcom based on friends living in New York. Whilst it doesn’t live up to the iconic statue of Friends, in the most...
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The Way (DVD Review)
 Although Emilio Estevez’s ‘The Way’ should never be maligned for any lack of genuine sincerity, the neatly introspective, and at times even Chaucerian, treatment of its pilgrims’ tale...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (DVD Review)
W erner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams is one of the highest grossing independently released documentaries at the box office in 2011. Herzog’s exploration of the Chauvet...
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Supernatural Season 6 (DVD Review)
 Scary just got sexy. Or so we were told when we first met ghost hunting siblings Sam and Dean Winchester, who in spite of their exciting new show were not expected to last longer...
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The Caller (DVD Review)
 Uh Sookie. It these words do it for you then you might want to give this a watch. Yes, Stephen Moyer of True Blood stars, and is only marginally less vampirey. He is joined by...
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Princess of Montpensier (DVD Review)
 With films such as Dartagnan’s Daughter, Round Midnight, A Sunday In The Country and Death Watch, Bertrand Tavernier is one of the great French directors, but he comes a bit...
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Last Night (DVD Review)
 ‘Last Night’ sees Keira Knightley take the female lead alongside Sam Worthington in Massy Tadjedin’s directorial debut. After attending a work’s drinks, Joanna’s (Knightley) suspicion...
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The Insect Woman (DVD Review)
 Released on Blu-ray on February the 20th by Eureka! Shohei Imamur’s anthropological offering The Insect Woman (Nippon-konchuki in its original Japanese) follows the working-class...
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I Don’t Know How She Does It (DVD Review)
 Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan star in this new DVD release about a woman and her struggle to juggle her family life and her career. Kate Reddy (played by Parker) is a...
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Abduction (DVD Review)
 The premise of Abduction no doubt had Taylor Lautner fans swooning over the idea of the Twilight actor starring in a dramatic action thriller whilst those not so keen on his...
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Midnight In Paris (DVD Review)
 After years declaring Woody Allen’s return to form simply because his latest film wasn’t as insubstantial as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion or Hollywood Ending, it’s a relief to...
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Drive (DVD Review)
 Although inexplicably snubbed any Oscar nominations, Ryan Gosling had a remarkable 2011, giving outstanding performances in three consecutive films that were both critical and...
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Two-Lane Blacktop (Blu-ray Review)
 Monte Hellman's open-road classic Two-Lane Blacktop comes to Blu-ray this month and after thirty years of repeat TV-screenings its not surprising the melancholy-laden epic...
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Just Henry (DVD Review)
 With the winter nights still long and cold, comfort viewing is the order of the evening. Meeting this need like a nice but slightly watery shop-bought Lancashire hot pot is feature-length...
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Shameless Series 8 (DVD Review)
 Shameless is back on DVD for its eighth series and 100th episode. Meanwhile, series nine has just started on Channel 4. That is quite a feat for any British TV show. Indeed, nothing else...
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The Guard (DVD Review)
 In 2008, writer-director Martin McDonagh provided Brendan Gleason with one of the best roles and some of the best dialogue of his career as the weary hitman in the black...
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Sins Of The Father: A Very British Gangster (DVD Review)
 A Very British Gangster 2 is the follow up feature-length documentary directed by investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre and this film...
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CSI New York Season 7 (DVD Review)
 The youngest of the CSI series and already into its seventh year with Gary Sinise still at the head of the unit as blunt speaking widower Mac Taylor, opening episode The 34th Floor...
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Misfits Season 3 (DVD Review)
 From Captain America to Spiderman, the last few years have brought an onslaught of superhero movies. Each of these are there to remind us of a few tedious facts- good always...
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Apollo 18 (DVD Review)
 Basically Paranormal Activity in space, this purports to be an edited assemblage of Internet uploaded footage taken from 84 hours worth recorded by three astronauts on a secret...
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Conan The Barbarian (DVD Review)
 Created by Robert E Howard in 1932, by the time Howard committed suicide four years later he’d written 21 complete stories about the Hyborian age adventures of his Cimmerian...
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Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon (DVD Review)
 On hearing of Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon, my initial thoughts were that a documentary about this band was perhaps a bit premature....
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Jethro The Cornish Ambassador (DVD Review)
 Jethro is back with yet another stand-up DVD in time for Christmas. He styles himself “the world’s funniest Cornish comedian”; I’d hate to see the competition. The best I can...
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Come On Eileen (DVD Review)
 After she starts a new relationship with stoner Bill (Stephen Taylor), Eileen (Jackie Howe) lapses back to a troubled past .We watch as she relapses, resulting in the demise of her...
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The Drummond Will (DVD Review)
 The Drummond Will is an attempt at classic Ealing-style British comedy, with a 21st century attitude to morals and violence, but lacks charm, class or laughs. The film is the debut feature...
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Adam Hills: Inflatable (DVD Review)
 Aussie-comic Adam Hill began doing stand-up aged just 19. That’s a heck of a lot of time to hone one’s craft, and boy does it show in this bravura performance on his 40th birthday at...
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Blu-ray Review)
 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 crime horror movie, about the random crime spree of American serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. It stars Michael...
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One Tree Hill Season 8 (DVD Review)
 For dedicated fans who have followed the show through eight seasons, this latest DVD offering is another typical One Tree Hill. Premiering last September, the 22 part series really plays to...
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The Mentalist Season 3 (DVD Review)
 Beyond boasting a title that truly doesn’t translate to English audiences (i.e. protagonist Patrick Jane is not mental. Rather he uses his background as psychic-conman to aid...
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River Cottage Winter's On The Way (DVD Review)
 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is at his most exciting when he sets out to shock and provoke. Slammed recently for his blasé remark that puppies could be...
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