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  • Blades of Glory - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Blades of Glory - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can Ferrell bring Talladega Nights to the ice? 15 August 2007 11:00 GMT

    Such is his popularity at present that only four words - Will Ferrell does NASCAR – were required to convince Sony to commission his last project, the $150 million making Taladega Nights.

    And so, treading a similar path, we now have "Will...

  • Gone  - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Thriller 0

    Gone - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can the Brits make a decent thriller out of Gone? 2 August 2007 0:00 GMT

    Gone is a low budget Brit thriller that sees a post university backpacking holiday turn into “Dead Calm in the desert” for two 20-something love birds.

    Evans (best known for his work in series two of Teachers) plays Alex, a ginger Scouser...

  • Catch a Fire - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Catch a Fire - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Political masterpiece or not worth the bother? 31 July 2007 9:00 GMT

    Catch a Fire is the true story of political activist Patrick Chamusso who was sentenced to 24 years in prison after attempting to blow up a South African oil refinery in 1980.

    Derek “Antwone Fisher” Luke plays Chamusso, a loving husband...

  • The Illusionist - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action 0

    The Illusionist - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Two magician-based stories in as many months? Which one should you watch? 18 July 2007 11:00 GMT

    You wait years for a movie about early nineteenth century magicians to come along and then, hey presto, two turn up at once. Hot on the heels of Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" comes the big screen adaptation of Steven Millhauser's short story "Eisenheim...

  • Ghost Rider  - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action 0

    Ghost Rider - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW Comic book great or just comic? 7 July 2007 11:00 GMT

    After hearing that his chain-smoking old man is about to die from lung cancer (someone really should warn people that these things aren’t good for them!) motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Cage) makes a deal with Mephistopheles (Fonda) to save his pop’s...

  • The Good Shepherd - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Angelina Jolie 0

    The Good Shepherd - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can De Niro impress with his latest directed offering 29 June 2007 9:00 GMT

    Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a high flyer at Yale University in 1939 when he is recruited to join the American secret service.

    His hidden life gives him first hand experience of the Second World War and the Soviet expansion into Eastern...

  • Blood Diamond - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Blood Diamond - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Can DiCaprio and Hounsou impress? 23 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    Set amid the carnage of the Sierra Leone civil war of the late-1990s, Blood Diamond tells the story of Solomon Vandy (Hounsou), a Mende fisherman forced into slavery after his village is decimated by rebel guerrillas.

    Put to work in the...

  • The Fountain - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD 0

    The Fountain - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Does this film flow with appeal, or was the studio right to try and bury it? 21 June 2007 9:00 GMT

    Loved by some and hated by a whole lot of others, Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie is every bit as weird and, some would say, wonderful, as his previous highly original movies, Pi and Requiem for a Dream.

    Tom (Hugh Jackman) is a scientist...

  • Hot Fuzz - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Hot Fuzz - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW I fought the law and the law one - has it with this movie? 18 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    Three years on from their big screen “Rom-Zom-Com” debut, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are back for another slice of genre busting action in Hot Fuzz, but does it match up to its predecessor? We get watching to find out.

  • Apocalypto - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action, Drama 0

    Apocalypto - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Worth a gander or more gruesome tales from Gibson? 16 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    Three years on from The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson returns to the director’s chair for a brutal action thriller set against the backdrop of the fall of the Mayan empire.

    When a savage tribe decimates a peaceful village, Jaguar Paw...

  • Infamous - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Daniel Craig 0

    Infamous - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Deja vu or worth a look? 14 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    Following directly in the footsteps of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar winning turn in 2006, Toby Jones now takes on the role of Truman Capote - the famously eccentric American novelist, playwright and screenwriter - in Infamous.

    The story...

  • Bobby - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Bobby - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can Estevez pull off a drama? 12 June 2007 0:00 GMT

    Bobby follows the stories of 22 fictional characters in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel on the night of June 4th 1968, when Presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated moments after claiming victory in the crucial California primary....

  • Rocky Balboa - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action 0

    Rocky Balboa - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Can the sixth installment be crown Rocky's glory years? 28 May 2007 9:00 GMT

    Despite looking more like his mum than the Italian Stallion we remember from his Oscar-winning 1976 debut, Sly Stallone is back for his sixth, and final, outing as Rocky Balboa.

    Having hung up his gloves in the early-90s, Rock now spends...

  • Babel - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Babel - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW One to watch or just one the critics enjoyed? 25 May 2007 9:00 GMT

    The third collaboration between Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) is a multi-stranded epic, spanning three continents.

    A rifle shot in the African desert sparks a chain of events linking...

  • The Last King of Scotland - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    The Last King of Scotland - DVD review

    4.5 REVIEW Does it justify the hype? 23 May 2007 0:00 GMT

    Based on Giles Foden’s best selling novel, The Last King of Scotland is an enthralling political thriller set amid the destruction of Idi Amin’s (Whitaker) murderous reign as Ugandan president during the 1970s.

    A mixture of fact and fiction,...

  • London to Brighton - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    London to Brighton - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Dark and moody, but is it any good? 17 May 2007 13:00 GMT

    Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) is a prostitute, forced by Derek (Johnnie Harris) her bullying pimp to find a child to satisfy a ruthless gangland boss’ sexual appetite.

    When things turn nasty, Kelly escapes with 11-year-old Joanne (Georgia Groome)...

  • Smokin' Aces - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Smokin' Aces - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW A great follow up to Narc or one to avoid? 16 May 2007 11:00 GMT

    From the creator of gritty undercover cop thriller Narc, comes a furiously bloody action flick set in the murky underworld of the Las Vegas mafia. When Buddy “Aces” Israel (Piven), a magician and small-time crook, decides to turn state’s evidence against...

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Thriller 0

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Has this film got its sense of smell? 11 May 2007 11:00 GMT

    Deemed “unfilmable” since its release in 1985, Patrick Süskind’s best-selling novel finally makes its big-screen debut after a decade in development hell that saw both Ridley Scott and Tim Burton pass on the project after showing early interest.

  • Black Book - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Black Book - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can Verhoeven return to form with this movie? 7 May 2007 13:00 GMT

    Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's oddball career has given us classics such as Robocop and Basic Instinct, but also howlers like Showgirls. We're happy to say that Black Book is in the first camp.

    A beautiful Jewish singer, Rachel (Carice...

  • Miss Potter - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Ewan McGregor 0

    Miss Potter - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can Zellweger pull of playing the storyteller? 25 April 2007 12:00 GMT

    Just the sight of the name in the title may have some people clicking quickly to another review but, thankfully, this Potter film has nothing to do with the four-eyed dope that has blighted our Christmas schedules for the last 6 years.

    Miss...

  • Eragon - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    Eragon - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Is this the next Lord of the Rings? 19 April 2007 11:19 GMT

    Eragon is a lifeless fantasy adventure based on 15-year-old Christopher Paolini’s phenomenally successful novel, the first book in his epic “Inheritance Trilogy”.

    Newcomer Ed Speleers plays the titular character, a young farm boy from the...

  • Flushed Away - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Animations 0

    Flushed Away - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can the move to CGI improve on previous efforts? 11 April 2007 11:00 GMT

    Aardman, the Bristol-based team behind Wallace and Gromit, join up with animation giants DreamWorks (Shrek) for their third big-screen adventure. Leading a strong list of A-List stars Hugh Jackman plays Roddy, a pet rat from a luxurious Kensington apartment...

  • Tenacious D: In The Pick Of Destiny - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Jack Black 0

    Tenacious D: In The Pick Of Destiny - DVD review

    2.5 REVIEW Is this the greatest rock film in the world? 6 April 2007 9:00 GMT

    Tenacious D - the folk-rock band created by Jack Black and Kyle Gass on HBO’s comedy sketch programme “The Mr. Show” - make a premature leap to the big screen in this meandering comedy written by the film’s stars.

    Rebelling against his puritanical...

  • Jackass number two - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Steve-O 0

    Jackass number two - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Worthy second instalment or cash-in? 2 April 2007 13:00 GMT

    Four years on from their first big screen outing, the Jackass crew are back for another 95 minutes of bone crunching, testicle crushing mayhem. Dispensing with any pretence of a plot the gung-ho gang launch themselves into a string of uproarious skits...

  • The Heart of the Game - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Documentary 0

    The Heart of the Game - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Is this the female version of Hoop Dreams? 28 March 2007 13:00 GMT

    Acclaimed documentary from first time director Ward Serrill that follows a high school girls basketball team and their unconventional coach Bill Resler over a seven-year period.

    The story begins with Resler’s first season in charge of the...

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