April 24, 2014
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This week’s best DVD releases Upstream Colour Blu-ray & DVD, Metrodome First acts are overrated. All too often, the first third of a movie is a narrative non-starter – a barren storytelling tundra hospitable only to weak expositional dialogue and lazy stock characters, easing us into a film like toddlers steered into naptime by a particularly over-explanatory lullaby. Taking the rare editorial …
‘White Dog is an angry, didactic take on a subject more commonly handled at arm’s length’ Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.