Reviews

DVD Review: Rupert Everett Is DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (The Cemetery Man)

Before he was invited to My Best Friend’s Wedding, Rupert Everett was killing the living dead in Dellamorte Dellamore or The Cemetery Man. This 1994 film is an interesting curio, and there’s much to recommend in director Michele Soavi’s [...]

March 5, 2012

DVD Review: Ryan Gosling In Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive is a stripped down action-thriller for the art-house crowd, the perfect antidote to Hollywood’s overly glossy car movies like The Fast and the Furious franchise or Gone in Sixty Seconds. Based on James Sallis’ [...]

March 3, 2012

DVD Review: Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell In CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE

Crazy, Stupid, Love is an odd movie. Tonally it lies between a studio comedy and an Independent drama, something that is further highlighted by the odd casting mix of Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon. Carell and [...]

March 3, 2012

DVD Review: Director Brett A. Hart Impresses With His Debut BONE DRY

This desert based chase film is in the tradition of Duel, The Hitcher and Breakdown. Luke Goss stars as a businessman returning home from a trip who, for no apparent reason is chased and tormented by the mysterious Jimmy (Lance Henriksen). This low [...]

February 28, 2012

Review: Douglas Schulze’s MIMESIS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Lately, mainstream horror has been in the doldrums; studios seemingly appear to only want to remake older films, hoping that name recognition will draw audiences. Recent years have seen films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing and The Wolfman [...]

February 28, 2012

DVD Review: Milla Jovovich Stars In The Terrible FACES IN THE CROWD

Faces in the Crowd is actress Milla Jovovich’s latest attempt to try and branch out beyond her usual action efforts (like the Resident Evil franchise) and try to show that she has what it takes to be a leading lady, who doesn’t just kick-ass and [...]

February 25, 2012

DVD Review: The Artist’s Jean Dujardin Stars In ‘CA$H

Jean Dujardin is now best known around the world for starring in Michel Hazanavicius’ Oscar nominated silent film The Artist. However, the French star has had a successful career on his home soil, starring in a string of successful comedy films, [...]

February 24, 2012

DVD Review: Owen Wilson In Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

It’s pretty much standard to hail every new Woody Allen film as a “return to form”. Now, Midnight in Paris may not be vintage Allen, but it is one of his finer efforts in recent years, and like many of Allen’s films over the last decade or [...]

February 24, 2012

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