Articifial Eye, retail, cert U More of a starter than a main course, Mid-August Lunch has the following plot: a middle-aged Italian caring for his mother, has three other elderly women to look after for a couple of days.
Horror movies divide into several very different categories: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horror, Asian horror and revolting Eli Roth films. Devotees of one category often have no interest in the others, a fact that is incomprehensible to snooty types who cavalierly make no distinctions. All of these subgenres rely on worthy, battle-tested cliches that appear again and again
If I can sit through the Saw movies or The Human Centipede without my pulse missing a beat, it just means the tipping points have shifted Back in 1976, when Taxi Driver first opened, I trotted off to see it with no idea what I was in for. Imagine that.
Struggling US video and DVD rental firm expects to emerge swiftly with help from investor Carl Icahn Blockbuster, the loss-making DVD rental chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, after being hammered by online rental film services such as Netflix, and DVD mail order companies. But the company should swiftly re-emerge after a restructuring deal was agreed with creditors …
Broadcaster Sky could be forced to change the way it deals with rivals and US studios after regulator’s preliminary finding The Competition Commission has said BSkyB is making “excess profits” on its movie channels, increasing the likelihood that the company could be forced to change the way it does business with Hollywood studios and rival broadcasters.
Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space | Robot & Frank | Arbitrage | Castle Freak | The Car Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space Jon Pertwee’s first outing as the Doctor – and the first time his adventures were shown in colour – is something of an oddity in the show’s long run. Due to industrial action in the BBC studios, this one was filmed largely on location and, unique for old Who, shot entirely on …
The case: courtroom movies are a crime against cinema. The accused?
Artificial Eye, cert 18, rental and retail Lars von Trier’s latest shocker is extremely beautiful in places. Its black and white opening, shot with digital cameras at 1,000 frames per second, indelibly records the death of the young son of Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, falling out of the window in the snow while his parents are having sex. The rest of the film is in three sections …
Studio’s plan to bring forward UK DVD release date for the Pixar film blocked by British cinema owners Kids in Britain won’t be getting Pixar’s Up in their Christmas stockings this year following a clash between Disney and UK cinema owners. Last month, Disney decided to bring forward the DVD release of Up from 15 February to December
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 …