DVDs & Rentals

Friendless and alone, spiky weirdo Barbara (Madison Wolfe) knows she’s an awkward freak. She knows no one likes her. And she knows that everything she does looks crazy. But that’s not going to stop from protecting her small coastal New Jersey town from...

By Laura Dee Milnes Was Jayne Mansfield's grisly end the result of a curse, courtesy of Anton LaVey? Let's cut straight to the chase here, unlike this entertaining but meandering documentary from the people who brought us Room 237. When I say...

The Ninth Cloud, directed by Jane Spencer, is beautifully strange. Well, that was my first most coherent thought that I could pull from the dreamy dregs of what I had just watched. A truly existential drama, this is as much a moving account of a young...

Given the shadow they’ve cast over Anglo-Irish relations for the last 50 years, it’s strange how few decent films have come out of the Troubles and of those that have, how few have grappled directly with the reality of the situation.  Yann Demange’s...

Still mourning the death of his wife, tough LA cop Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) struggles to connect with his wayward adult son Trent (Jonny Weston). But when an alien invasion decimates the City of Angels, kidnapping its population and sucking their brains out...

Literally shoveling shit for a living emptying septic tanks, Chip (Matthew Gray Guber) isn’t exactly one of life’s winners. But he’s happy, content almost, and puppyishly in love with his dominating former stripper/hooker girlfriend Liza (AnnaLynne...

Riding in at the end of Hammer’s dabbling with psycho-thrillers, Fear In The Night is an enjoyable, albeit slight romp that is likely to please fans of old-school British horror. Showcasing a standout turn from lead Judy Geeson, backed up by Ralph Bates,...

I’ll be honest, I always have a slightly weird sensation when it comes to re-watching and reviewing the first film in any horror franchise. It’s trying to operate without the benefit of hindsight, or casting aside the dirge that may well have followed...

I'm depressed. The shards of hope I nursed for the future are gone, shattered by the heavy feet of prurience and pretension.  You see, last week I saw Kuso, Steve Ellison's (aka music producer Flying Lotus) tsunami of shit, pus and spunk jokes. Yesterday...

Before it became a global franchise to rival McDonalds, it’s worth remembering that when George Lucas first set out to make Star Wars, it was only because he’d been thwarted in his attempt to get the rights to Alex Raymond’s comic strip hero Flash...

“Who can be a friend in this age?” That’s the question that beats at the heart of Kim Jee-woon’s elegantly vicious 1920s-set spy thriller transposing the twists and turns of vintage Le Carre or classic war movies (even it’s title a nod to...

  ***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS CANINE SPOILERS***   As soon as it was announced there was going to be a sequel to Keanu’s killer surprise 2014 hitman hit John Wick, there was only one question that mattered: given that a callous act of puppy murder...

Body horror Let Her Out, directed by Cody Calahan, follows Helen , a bike courier who suffers a traumatic accident. Whilst she is reassured her recovery will be simple and fast, she begins to experience black-out episodes, hallucinations and nightmares. When...

A downbeat, depressing opus, Sean Brosnan’s My Father Die takes no prisoners. That’s not to say it isn’t any good – at times, it really hits the right notes, but the film is such a gruelling, tortuous gut-punch of a movie that it’s hard to...

Escaping a dark past, Evie (Morjana Alaoui) takes a job as a live-in carer for an ex-rockstar and tetraplegic, Jon (Mel Raido - Legend, 2015). Having suffered weeks of verbal and mental abuse from her intolerant patient, Evie’s frustrations begin to trigger...

Rough, hard-nosed and thoroughly ‘British’, Hell Drivers makes a welcome return to shelves thanks to a superb Blu-Ray restoration. A classic thriller, starring a veritable who’s who of the UK’s acting talent of the time, Hell Drivers delivered the...

Divorced workaholic Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) hasn’t been the best of fathers lately, choosing the office over his daughter Su-an’s (Kim Su-an) recital and buying her the same game console for her birthday that he bought her the year before. So when he offers...

The zombie apocalypse has come and gone and humanity lost, the majority of the population reduced to mindless, ravenous monsters, “hungries”, by a fungal infection, passed by body fluids, that attacks their brains much like the parasite that afflicts the...

Set in Florida in 2005, David Packouz (Miles Teller) is a down-and-out massage therapist who becomes a multi-millionaire when he teams up with a high-school friend, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), supplying weapons to the U.S. government. Directed by Todd...

With Remembrance Sunday only a few short weeks away, this seems like the perfect time to review two of Network’s most recent releases – one a landmark of British film, the other one of British television’s true jewels in the crown - ‘Carve Her Name...

An eye-poppingly attractive actress on the cusp of superstardom, a fur bikini, some iconic pre-release marketing images – oh, and some stop-motion dinosaurs – One Million Years BC seemed to have a lot going for it back in 1966. And so it proved for...