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  • Confetti  - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Confetti - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Is this the next Four Weddings? 27 September 2006 11:00 GMT

    Determined to rescue bridal magazine “Confetti” from a recent slump in sales, publisher Antoni (Carr) runs a “Most Original Wedding of the Year” competition with a £500,000 dream home first prize. The grand finalists are old-fashioned romantics Matt (Freeman)...

  • When a Stranger Calls - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Horror 0

    When a Stranger Calls - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Yet another horror remake from the 70s, but can this one scare?
    25 September 2006 0:00 GMT

    Yet another remake of a “classic” 70s horror (surely there can’t be many left now?) that no-one has ever heard of. After racking up a hefty $500 mobile phone bill talking to her dimwit boyfriend, high school student Camilla (Belle) is forced into taking...

  • Brick - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Brick - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Can film noir work in an LA high school? 22 September 2006 11:00 GMT

    “The OC” meets “The Maltese Falcon” in this modern day film noir. Gordon-Levitt is Brendan, a quick-witted loner who turns gumshoe detective when his ex-girlfriend Emily (“Lost’s" de Ravin) disappears in mysterious circumstances. With the help of his...

  • The Dark - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Horror, Maria Bello 0

    The Dark - DVD review

    2.5 REVIEW Sean Bean ditches the English villain role, but is this a horror that scares? 20 September 2006 11:00 GMT

    Sean Bean takes a break from playing posh English villains to star in this bonkers horror about Celtic myths in Wales. When 8-year-old Sarah (Stuckey) drowns in a freak accident Adelle (Bello) becomes plagued by visions that make her believe her daughter...

  • Silent Hill - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Horror 0

    Silent Hill - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Hollywood has once again turned to videogames for inspiration. We get ready to hide behind the sofa 8 September 2006 13:38 GMT

    Okay, we all probably remember getting scared playing the first episode of this horror game, but like so many before it, Hollywood has once again turned to videogames for inspiration, so does Silent Hill work as a movie? We get ready to hide behind the...

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

    Freedomland - DVD review

    2.5 REVIEW Samuel L Jackson stars as tough, but is it enough to save the movie? 7 September 2006 13:25 GMT

    Brenda (Moore) used to love injecting herself with hard drugs but now, after a remarkable mid-life transformation, she only loves her 4-year-old son Cody.

    When the little brat gets kidnapped in a bungled carjacking Brenda goes a bit loopy...

  • The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD 0

    The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Can Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut impress? 30 August 2006 13:19 GMT

    Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut is a modern day Western set on the Tex-Mex border that revolves around the shooting of Mexican immigrant Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo).

    Incensed by the lack of interest in his mate’s death – the local Sheriff...

  • Three - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Three - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Washed up on an island is this Swept Away part deux? 30 August 2006 11:54 GMT

    Brook puts in an unintentionally hilarious turn as “bikini-clad babe getting drilled on a beach” in this “Swept Away”-style stinker from Stewart “Mannequin 2: On the Move” Raffill.

    Loud-mouthed Texas businessman Jack (Zane) and his trophy...

  • Junebug - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Junebug - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Director Phil Morrison's debut tries to make its mark on the tale of two families colliding 23 August 2006 13:40 GMT

    When David (Nivola) brings sophisticated Chicago new wife Madeleine (Davidtz) home to stay with his family in rural North Carolina, everyone is uncomfortable except David’s innocent and extrovert sister-in-law Ashley (Amy Adams).

    OK so it is...

  • 16 Blocks - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action, Mos Def, David Morse 0

    16 Blocks - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Bruce Willis returns to his roots with this latest action movie 23 August 2006 0:23 GMT

    Bruce Willis “does a Clooney” in Richard “Lethal Weapon” Donner’s latest action thriller, piling on 40lbs and growing some dubious facial hair for his role as burnt out New York detective Jack Mosley.

    At the end of a hard night shift, spent...

  • Hostel - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Horror 0

    Hostel - DVD review

    2.5 REVIEW Can this really be the sickest film ever legally made? 16 August 2006 12:17 GMT

    Hostel is a Sado-horror chiller directed by Eli "Cabin Fever" Roth and executive produced by gore aficionado Quentin Tarantino.

    It’s the usual horror fest story; College jocks Paxton (Hernandez) and Josh (Richardson) team up with wacky Icelander...

  • Scary Movie 4 - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Anna Faris 0

    Scary Movie 4 - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Is the fourth and final instalment worth a watch? 16 August 2006 9:23 GMT

    The “Scary Movie” team, led by David “Airplane!” Zucker, return for the fourth and final chapter of the trilogy [Shouldn't that be fourilogy? - Ed].

    Following their extra terrestrial battles in episode three Cindy (Faris) and Brenda (Hall)...

  • Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Thriller, David Morrissey 0

    Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW Sharon Stone returns, but can she woo you into buying the DVD? 9 August 2006 13:00 GMT

    Thirteen years, and a lot of plastic surgery, on from her last murderous outing Sharon Stone returns as beaver-flashing psychopath Catherine Trammel. After fucking/butchering half of San Francisco she now satisfies her homicidal tendencies in London,...

  • The Squid and the Whale - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    The Squid and the Whale - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW It was shot in just 23 days so does the film cut corners? 9 August 2006 10:53 GMT

    The strangely named The Squid and the Whale is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story that tells the tale of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in 1980s New York.

    Daniels plays Bernard Berkman, a pompous would-be novelist...

  • Shooting Dogs - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Shooting Dogs - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW John Hurt stars in this heartfelt retelling of the Rwandan genocide 2 August 2006 11:46 GMT

    Based on a true story, “Shooting Dogs” looks at the 1994 Rwandan genocide - when 800,000 Tutsis were butchered by Hutu extremists - from the viewpoint of a Catholic priest (Hurt) and an idealistic young teacher (Dancy) working in Kigali.

    Protected...

  • V For Vendetta - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    V For Vendetta - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Sci-fi comic book remake genius or one to avoid? 2 August 2006 11:06 GMT

    Adapted by the Wachowski brothers (creators of "The Matrix") from Alan Moore's 1988 graphic novel, V For Vendetta is a piece of dystopian science fiction set in London in the not-too-distant future. V (Hugo Weaving) is a mysterious masked avenger fed...

  • Firewall - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action 0

    Firewall - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW Harrison Ford comes out of retirement for one last action movie 25 July 2006 21:18 GMT

    Ford ditches his Zimmer frame for one final crack at action hero stardom in this hi-tech crime thriller from Brit director Richard Loncraine. He plays computer security specialist Jack Stanfield, the man responsible for stopping Internet hackers from...

  • Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Wal-Mart 0

    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Documentary maker turns on supermarket 25 July 2006 21:09 GMT

    After exposés on the Iraq War and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel, director Robert Greenwald turns his attention to US supermarket giants Wal-Mart in this scathing “Super Size Me”-style documentary. Founded in 1962 by the Walton family (no not that...

  • Syriana - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Thriller, Warner 0

    Syriana - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW George Clooney's latest netted him an Oscar but is it any good? 17 July 2006 3:44 GMT

    "Gorgeous" George Clooney grows a beard and piles on 35lbs of flab to play undercover CIA operative Bob Barnes in this intricate study of America's world-wide involvement in the oil industry. When asked to explain the situation in the Middle East Barnes...

  • The Proposition - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Tartan Video 0

    The Proposition - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Guy Peace, hot, sweaty and trapped in a tight corner 17 July 2006 3:23 GMT

    Million dollar pay packets, red carpet luxury, loose-knickered fans, actors have got it easy right? Wrong. Just ask Guy “LA Confidential” Pearce who waived his usual seven-figure fee to star in this brutal Australian Western from slightly bonkers writer/musician...

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