Browsing: Film
Ted Blu-ray review ★☆☆☆☆
This is a movie about a talking teddy bear. But it isn’t the new Disney…
Review: Life of Pi ★★★★☆
Ang Lee isn’t a stranger to challenging literary adaptations. He captured Austen’s comedy brilliantly with…
The Dardenne Brothers Collection DVD review ★★★★★
This dazzling collection of the works of Belgian siblings Jean-Pierre and Luc is one of…
Review: The Girl ★★★★☆
For film lovers of my generation, the genius of Hitchcock is something we appreciate as…
100 Discs of Christmas #99 – The Polar Express (2004)
It isn’t the best film ever made, but may well be the most Christmassy. The…
Archive Christmas: The Nightmare Before Christmas
George Doel talks about the one film you should be watching above all this Christmas
100 Discs of Christmas #98 – To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gregory Peck’s performance as the white lawyer determined to defend a young black man is…
100 Discs of Christmas #97 – War Horse (2011)
Big, moving, well-made family blockbusters don’t come along very often. But when they do, they…
100 Discs of Christmas #96 – Lifeboat (1944)
Masters of Cinema have given us some of the best blu-ray releases of the year…
100 Discs of Christmas #94 – Gladiator (2000)
This year marks 100 years of Universal Pictures. It’s an achievement worth celebrating, and Universal…
Archive Christmas: Black Christmas is a terrifyingly good slasher
When the topic of the most influential ‘slasher’ films is brought up, the discussion often…
100 Discs of Christmas #93 – Touch of Evil (1958)
This was a film ahead of its time. It contains radical decisions in filmmaking and…
100 Discs of Christmas #92 – L.A. Confidential (1997)
It’s 1953 Los Angeles and life in the ‘City of Angels’ isn’t so great. Crime…
Hostel III Blu-ray review ★☆☆☆☆
Eli Roth’s Hostel and Hostel Part II were far from masterpieces. They did, however, influence…