Nicolas Cage’s career has had a see saw swing ever since he took the Oscar for his alcoholic tragic in Leaving Las Vegas. For every The Rock and Face Off there’s been the dire dross of substandard supernatural or splatter …
If you like truth in advertising, then you’re going to love the title of this week’s film screening on TVS: The Amateur Monster Movie (2011). It certainly is amateur, and it is indeed a movie (if only in the strictest …
The first season of From Dusk Till Dawn The Series (1996) has just been released on DVD this month along with a re-issue of the original film! Earlier this year director Robert Rodriguez adapted his cult classic From Dusk Till …
David Lynch’s innovative nineties television series is back on Blu-ray to haunt an entirely new audience! While it’s feasible that there’s the odd person over thirty-five years of age out there that didn’t see the Twin Peaks series when it …
Fresh from her Oscar tipped turn in the current box office smash, BLUE JASMINE, Cate Blanchett also shines in THE TURNING, the audacious and ambitious rendering to the screen of Tim Winton’s story cycle of the same name.
The seventeen …
Kiwi Scott Walker has gone north to Alaska to helm a true horror show, FROZEN GROUND (MA).
Sub zero is serial killer temperature and it’s definitely ice that’s coursing through Robert Hansen’s veins as he rapes, tortures and kills a …
Mow the grassy knoll, lock the windows of the book depository, and don’t deal with Dealey Plaza.
To commemorate the assassination of JFK check out PARKLAND on DVD.
Nonplussed that this very fine film failed to find a cinema release, …
New to DVD is Terrence Davies’s film of Terrence Rattigan’s play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA .
On the face of it, THE DEEP BLUE SEA (M) seems terribly old fashioned and an odd choice of film for a 21st century
One of the great mysteries of this year’s Academy Award nominations was the omission of Pedro Almodovar’s scintillating THE SKIN I LIVE IN, from the Best Foreign Language Film category. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) the spooky, kooky Almodovar
BURNING MAN. the latest film from Jonathan Teplitzky (BETTER THAN SEX, GETTIN’ SQUARE) is a reckless, haunting, funny, life-affirming love story, all of which is reflected in the film’s opening short scenes: a lovely empty garden, a car crash, a