James Cameron movie is brilliant at bringing a world to life you sometimes feel bludgeoned with his none too original green, antiwar message writ large. By Rob Mackie There is no 3D version on either DVD or Blu-ray planned for the near future but there will be a director’s cut out in the autumn. For now, a 2D version still feels like an event without that third dimension.
Universal, rental and retail Predictably outrageous, Sacha Baron ÂCohen’s latest sticks close to the Borat template without ever having quite the same impact. Partly, this is the law of Âdiminishing returns: this time our jaws drop almost by reflex
The Earth’s crust gets unstable in Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster movie, starring John Cusack. By Rob Mackie Roland Emmerich’s appetite for destruction is keeping the disaster movie going, pretty much single-handed.
Director John G Avildsen is better known for films like Rocky and The Karate Kid, neither of which suggest that he was once capable of a movie as complex and ambiguous as this under-appreciated 1970 classic. But then he seldom had worked with actors as powerful as Peter Boyle. Boyle died in 2006 but left a legacy of note-perfect performances in such varied movies as Taxi Driver, Young …
We were all supposed to be basking in the glory of Blu-ray by now, but it hasn’t exactly worked out that way. After seeing off its “Betamax” rival, HD-DVD, in a costly battle that had little regard for the consumer, Blu-ray’s offers of picture quality four times better than DVD and interactive extra features have gone largely unwanted. But why
‘Malcolm, have you been to the set? I’ve never seen so much cock in all my life! Oh do tell me if you think they’re pubescent or shaved!’ Malcolm McDowell’s on-stage memoir about his cinematic mentor may be billed as a tribute to Lindsay Anderson, but it’s his account of John Gielgud’s excitement while filming Caligula (recently released uncut for the first time in the UK) which raises the …
At the time of its release, there was some criticism levelled at this film for scaremongering, what with its use of rural teenagers as villains. But isn’t that what horror films are supposed to do
Iron Man £19.99, Paramount It’s such a simple thing, the key to making a good comic book adaptation: don’t mess too much with the source material.