Inglourious Basterds DVD & Blu-ray, Universal It’s taken a decade for this to arrive (no time wasted on spellcheck, though), and Quentin Tarantino’s epic second world war romp is the best thing he’s done in ages. It’s deceptively Tarantino-esque; just because it’s a period piece doesn’t mean he skimps on his trademark pop-culture references. It’s just that here he geeks out not on Les Big Macs …
The DVD/Blu-ray box set of the year has to be the Alien Collection (20th Century Fox), due in no small part to the fact that it’ll probably take you a year to get through all the incredible extras and alternate edits.
A Serious Man DVD & Blu-ray, Universal Refreshing to see the Coen brothers are still in love with making movies enough to ditch their big star casts and large budgets every now and then – you couldn’t imagine someone like Martin Scorsese pulling a similar move. This isn’t a film with what you’d call massive commercial potential, but then great films seldom are. It starts with a non-sequitur, a …
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The Exiles DVD, BFI In 1961 British-born director Kent Mackenzie made The Exiles, one of the first films to show the lives of Native Americans.
E1 Entertainment, cert 15, retail It’s about dolphins, but beware, there’s nothing cuddly to see here, and anyone with an interest in animals will be angry and sad at the end of this documentary about Taiji, Japan, described as “kind of like the Twilight Zone” in that it has a hidden bay with a shocking secret. Central figure Ric O’Barry is a longtime dolphin trainer who worked on the TV series …
Recommended Let’s be honest: a lot of movies and TV shows from our childhoods just don’t hold up now, since kids are much more forgiving of…well, total crap. Disney’s loose adaptation of Robin Hood (1973) was a personal favorite growing up, mostly because a friend of mine always seemed to be watching it when I came over. He pretty much wore the cassette out after a few short years…but during …
After the intensity of Shane Meadows’ last two features, Dead Man’s Shoes and This Is England, this feels like a small holiday project. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a teen escaping a bad home life and a refugee of sorts; he meets a genuine one in Polish teen Marek (Piotr Jagiello), left to his own devices while his father works on the St Pancras redevelopment (Eurostar was the main financier). The …
If The Box seems like an extended episode from the 1960s episode of The Twilight Zone, that’s because it is If The Box seems like an extended episode from the 1960s episode of The Twilight Zone, that’s because it is. Richard Matheson, best known for The Incredible Shrinking Man, wrote it as a six-page story for Playboy. But since the director is Richard Kelly, of Donnie Darko fame, the original …
The Aboriginal Australian women whose lives inspired the acclaimed movie “The Sapphires” have protested at the film’s US DVD cover, saying its portrayal of a white male actor as the lead disrespects people of colour.