Scene stealer Christopher Walken, once again, appears to be acting in an entirely different film (a better one) in Martin McDonagh’s absurd but entertaining black comedy.
Midsomer Murders meets David Lynch in the BBC’s ripe, horribly compelling five-part thriller. A 15-year-old May Queen goes missing in a provincial town and three disagreeable middle-aged men – Peter Firth’s grubby property developer, Aiden Gillen’s sneering layabout and Peter McDonald’s creepy cop – are the main suspects.    Â
Criterion is releasing a Blu-ray of Alex Cox’s Reagan-era comedy “Repo Manâ€; Grapevine Video issues a complete version of Allan Dwan’s “Getting Mary Married†(1919).
Very different kinds of monsters star in this week’s new DVD releases.
Thanks to USB sticks and video streaming, DVD players are becoming all but obsolete.
It’s expected, and obvious from the outset, that The Hobbit is a pageant of visual wonder and in this respect it doesn’t disappoint at any stage during its journey.