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.
Artificial Eye, rental and retail Andrea Arnold’s uncompromising Âsecond feature film, which has more in common with her Oscar-winning short film Wasp (included with the DVD) than her feature debut, Red Road. Debutant Katie Jarvis is in virtually every scene as the elder daughter of a feckless mother in an Essex tower block.
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 …
Anne Billson on the most tasteless and inappropriate DVD cover ever
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.
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 …
Optimum, rental and retail Has any nice couple in a film ever adopted a sweet, charming child and had everything go just swimmingly?
The now 97-year-old Ronald Neame worked with Alec Guinness on five important British films: as producer of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist , and director of The Card, The Horse’s Mouth and Tunes of Glory, made when we had a properly functioning film industry. The neglected Horse’s Mouth is a labour of love by Guinness. He adapted it from Joyce Cary’s rambunctious novel and himself played the …
James Cameron movie is brilliant at bringing a world to life you sometimes feel bludgeoned with his none too original green, antiwar message writ large. By Rob Mackie There is no 3D version on either DVD or Blu-ray planned for the near future but there will be a director’s cut out in the autumn. For now, a 2D version still feels like an event without that third dimension.