Fast & Furious 6 on DVD is too much of a dubiously good thing, but Curzon on Demand’s classics are well worth streaming There was a time when two-hour-plus films were the preserve of languorous art cinema and porridgey Richard Attenborough-style biopics. Nowadays that’s still true – though you can add the cheerfully petrol-brained Fast & Furious franchise to the list. Clocking in at 135 minutes …
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BFI, retail Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London. Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He’s best …
Anchor Bay, rental and retail Produced largely by the same team as the delightful Little Miss Sunshine, this is never as successful or as funny as that surprise hit, but does have the performances of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to commend it. Not only are these strong and empathetic, but they are playing very much against type: the usually imperious Blunt is the family screw-up, while Adams, sunny …
Articifial Eye, retail, cert U More of a starter than a main course, Mid-August Lunch has the following plot: a middle-aged Italian caring for his mother, has three other elderly women to look after for a couple of days.