DVD & Blu – ray review: Turn Me On, Goddammit (15)
Frustrated Alma is going through ch-ch-changes in the parochial hinterlands of Norway.
March 29, 2013
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Frustrated Alma is going through ch-ch-changes in the parochial hinterlands of Norway.
This is as rare as Javan rhinos, an absorbing, beautifully acted romantic comedy featuring recognisable humans: Bradley Cooper’s bipolar Pat, who is fixated about getting back together with his cheating wife, Jennifer Lawrence’s resentful widow whose cop husband has recently died and Robert De Niro’s volatile, OCD gambler who struggles to comprehend his son.
A muscular, tattooed Santa (Alec Baldwin) and his fellow guardians require the services of maverick Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to defeat misery guts Pitch Black (Jude Law), a bogeyman who wants to engulf the world in darkness. My children (ages three and five) were transfixed, but this weak DreamWorks animation lacks humour and wonder.
London looks positively post-apocalypse in this damning look at Thatcher’s Britain, and the C4 series is a little dated.
Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle says he believes 3D movies have no future – and predicts they will just be a “phase” for the cinema industry.
Iain Glen convinces as damaged Jack Taylor, an alcoholic former cop who now works as a Galway gumshoe. As one sultry client says near the start, “They say you’re good, because you’ve nothing else in lifeâ€
Neil Maskell is horribly convincing as Arby, a psychotic working for shadowy organisation The Network.
The DVDs, with the content in PDF format, are likely to be available by the end of the month at a nominal cost, say authorities
Hairy funnyman Ross Noble plays Mr Jelly, a grubby clown who is freakishly killed at an children’s party.
Finally, thankfully, Twilight comes to an end and it appears, given the sloppy acting, to be a relief for everyone.