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.
Universal Music Group has acquired the exclusive DVD/ Blu – ray rights to History of the Eagles, the iconic band’s acclaimed documentary, which is set for release on April 29.  This exceptional three-disc set includes History of the Eagles Part One and History of the Eagles Part Two, as well as Eagles Live At The Capital Centre – March 1977, featuring never-before-released …
Dogme figurehead Thomas Vinterberg memorably exposed historical child abuse in Festen.
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€