Anne Billson on the most tasteless DVD cover ever
Anne Billson on the most tasteless and inappropriate DVD cover ever
August 5, 2013
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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.
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 …
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 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.
Universal, rental and retail Predictably outrageous, Sacha Baron ÂCohen’s latest sticks close to the Borat template without ever having quite the same impact. Partly, this is the law of Âdiminishing returns: this time our jaws drop almost by reflex
Sony’s answer to the Flip Flip Video was one of the gadgets of 2008 , so it’s no surprise that the rest of the tech industry is trying to muscle in to regain a bit of market. Flip was a best seller at Christmas in both the UK and US, so what can the big boys do to compete?
The Earth’s crust gets unstable in Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster movie, starring John Cusack. By Rob Mackie Roland Emmerich’s appetite for destruction is keeping the disaster movie going, pretty much single-handed.