Breaking Wind (2011)

As I was one of the few people who quite enjoyed The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (reviewed here) I must admit that I was quietly optimistic about the immaturely-titled Breaking Wind. The fact that it was also a spoof of the Twilight movies increased my...

April 5th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Touching comedy dramas set in concentration camps are few and far between (I’m sure most of us can maybe think of this one and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . well that’s me all out of candidates) so we should be thankful that Life Is [...]

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The Yellow Sea (2010)

Korean director Hong-jin Na put himself firmly on the map with his very successful debut movie, the 2008 thriller The Chaser. Hailed by critics as the beginning of a new kind of thriller genre, The Chaser won many awards. Hollywood took notice and partly financed Na’s next movie, The Yellow Sea....

April 2nd, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Switch (2011)

Having seen Eric Cantona in Ken Loach’s brilliant Looking For Eric (2009), I was intrigued by his latest acting endeavour in French thriller Switch. Firstly, don’t be fooled by the British artwork for this film, which shows Cantona wielding a gun in an action hero stance with an exploding car and...

April 1st, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Shadow of the Sword (2005)

Also known as The Headsman, this is a historical drama that takes place in Tyrol, starting in 1520. At the age of about 8, two boyhood friends are adopted by the Archbishop and brought up separately. Martin is trained as a soldier, and Georg is brought up as part of the clergy. Twenty years later, [...]

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The Living Wake (2007)

Before Oscar nominated Jesse Eisenberg reached worldwide audiences in Zombieland (2009) and The Social Network (2010), the latter film revealing his Oscar nominated leading performance, he stared in a little known film The Living Wake. This time not the lead but the support to Mike O’Connell’s eccentric...

March 25th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Kill Keith (2010)

The small, unassuming British comedy. It’s often a very hit or miss affair. If there’s no involvement from Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant or Robert Carlyle then you don’t know what you’re in for. The UK has managed to create some wonderful little films (case in point, Being Sold)....

March 25th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Weekend (2011)

Weekend is a sincere and affecting love story which sees two gay men come together over the course of a weekend where they discuss various matters including the issues of what it means to be gay in modern society and the social taboo that still exists around homosexuality. On the surface it’s just...

March 24th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Doom Generation (1995)

The Doom Generation is a hugely entertaining movie that feels like it could almost have been made by a handful of other directors. There’s a hint of David Lynch kookiness in there, John Waters comes to mind (most probably because of the unflinching and open sexuality of the characters) and there’s...

March 24th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Love On A Pillow (1962)

In his 1972 biography Brigitte Bardot: Eternal Sex Goddess, Peter Evans shares a quote about the purring icon from millinery designer Jean Barrate, who compares watching her graceful pirouettes to “observing the magnificent lines of a hammerhead shark from behind bullet-proof glass.” Bardot...

March 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

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