DVD & Blu-ray review: Django (15)
“You can clear up the mess now but don’t touch my coffin.â€
February 2, 2013
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“You can clear up the mess now but don’t touch my coffin.â€
Like a melancholy remake of The Terminator , Looper stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a hitman whose targets have been sent back to him from the future … which is fine until he finds himself face to face with his older self (Bruce Willis).
Denis Lavant’s “performerâ€, while being ferried around Paris in a white stretch limo, adopts 10 different guises –including a withered old lady, a troubled parent, a hoodlum and, most memorably, a one-eyed, barefoot, flower-munching troll/leprechaun.
A ghoulish hotel, weird buddies and a nostalgic look at airlines are part of this week’s new DVD releases.
A bold, atypical thriller from Ealing, scripted by the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan and starring Maggie Smith in her first film role.
The spirit of Carry On pervades this limp sex comedy, which centres on the invention of the vibrator in Victorian London.
James Marsh’s determinedly downbeat tale, set in 1993 during the Northern Ireland peace process, centres on Colette (Andrea Riseborough, excellent), an inept IRA terrorist who is captured by MI5 after bungling a London Tube bombing.
Once, long ago, in a console cycle far, far away, Microsoft championed the HD DVD  format while Sony backed Blu-ray. read more
Two writer-directors this week — Judd Apatow brings us This Is 40 and Woody Allen You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.