DVDs & Rentals

When it comes to the body-horror sub-genre, there’s nobody quite like David Cronenberg. Whether it be James Woods stuffing a video cassette in his gut in Videodrome, organic gaming devices in eXistenZ or Jeff Goldblum going all gooey in The Fly, the...

By Liam Freeman Wallowing in the seedy underbelly of the police force, Badge Of Honor focuses on two narcotics detectives who wrongfully shoot an unarmed kid in a brutal drugs raid, triggering an intense investigation with an internal affairs...

Ever had that feeling where, a good way through a film, you feel that you must, just have to, be missing something? You know what I mean – you’re settled in, watching a film that everybody else has given a hearty thumbs up to, and about an hour in...

It’s been twenty years since a heavily armed police SWAT team led by the hard-bitten Snowdon (Shaun Dingwall) brutally ended serial child murderer Edward Jansen’s (Pete Lee-Wilson) reign of terror, tracking him to his subterranean lair and executing him...

Okay. Let’s make this one fast. Three treasureseekers, armed with their trusty state-of-the-art metal detectors, trespass onto private land under cover of darkness to search for a buried horde of Saxon gold. Two of the treasure hunters – Gus and Sally...

You know the story already. How could you not? You don't? Where have you been living? A cave? Here it is, spoiler free: Guy’s beautiful, perfect wife goes missing on their wedding anniversary. Wife’s diary reveals guy to be a bit of a low-life,...

By Tom Powter It’s astounding how little I know. Despite having a self-professed knowledge of the gaming industry as it stands today, it was criminal of me to think I knew anything about the past. Atari: Game Over tells the story of the lost E.T....

When his girlfriend Beth (Aubrey Plaza) dies after a freak snakebite, the grieving Zach (Dane DeHaan) finds himself getting closer to her parents, the Slocums, bonding in particular with her dad Maury (John C. Reilly), the pair staying up all night smoking...

By Liam Freeman Originally hitting cinemas back in 1991, Toy Soldiers is finally making its way to Blu-Ray and DVD and I have to say it’s one of those films that deserve to be brought back to the shelves. A terrorists-taking-over-a-boarding-school...

Pretty much every review you’ll read of Hans Petter Moland’s In Order Of Disappearance will make lazy mention of one film – Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo. Which is something of a shame as, while both are blackly funny, all they really share is a lot of...

Following Charlotte, a London business woman whose life has become completely defined by her career, Keeping Rosy is a thoroughly modern, British exploration of a woman on the verge of absolute destruction, as her world comes tumbling down leading her to an...

In the wasteland of lazy, lairy, Charlie Big Potatoes, Mockney geezer, bish-bash-bosh, Brit crime flicks beloved by Engerland's Stella-swilling aging lads it almost seems a no-brainer that some crafty blighter would note the success of the football hooligan...

OK, let me explain right from the outset. I actually sat down and watched The Downing Street Siege about a week ago, but it’s taken me this long to put my thoughts in order and type up a review. The reason? Well, I couldn’t quite work out whether...

‘Two for the Road’ stars Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney as Mark and Joanna Wallace, a married couple in crisis. When we first meet them they are barely speaking. When they sit on the plane they make sure there is an empty seat between them and Mark...

By Liam Freeman Confusion, awkward acting and Nicolas Cage all add up to nothing much in Left Behind, a film which will leave you wondering “what in the world did I just watch?” Released in some unfortunate parts of the world late last year, it has...

When the husband and wife writer / director team of Victor and Jessica Mitchum (Justin Dray & Stephanie Sanditz) receive the go-ahead to stage a new theatre production, Victor doesn’t want to fall back on one of his old scripts. He wants to create...

Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ needs no introduction. It is indisputably one of the most famous silent films of all time and even those who have just a fleeting interest in cinema will be familiar with the title and the iconic image of Robot-Maria who still...

There’s no adequate way to describe a film as monumentally important as Shoah in a single review. A myriad of critics and scholars have discussed Claude Lanzmann’s extraordinary documentary before, with far more intelligence and insight than I ever could....

By Ben Winkley In 1960, as the chill of the Cold War was beginning to be felt from Saigon to Stuttgart, the final details of the Second World War were still being worked out in South America. Wakolda, an Argentinian drama of great restraint and high...

I have always had a love-hate affair with found footage films. Although, I fear recent offerings have forced me to slip on the spectrum closer to hate. Paranormal Activity in 2007 was genuinely one of my favourite horror offerings in recent years. It was...

When a crew of young filmmakers shoots a horror movie in an abandoned house where, almost fifty years earlier, an exorcism took place… well… you can guess the results won’t be good. Blood spatters, ancient evil is awakened, and not even God knows if any...