On DVD and Blu-Ray
Four Lions
Superior satirical comedy is very hard to come by – and even harder when it tackles tricky topics like religion, especially fundamentalist Islam in the UK today, a subject so hot that others dare not touch.
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Cemetery Junction
Dripping with nostalgia, Cemetery Junction centres on three working class lads in their early twenties who want to break free from their small hometown in search of more exciting lives.
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Dear John
Dear John’s signature style of over-simplifying and repeating everything leaves no room for subtlety or duality of meaning but sometimes that’s exactly what is called for.
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The Scouting Book For Boys
It longs, unashamedly, to be a quirky, parochial indie-comedy, whilst striving, also, to hit those Loach, Leigh and Meadows notes of gritty slice-of-life gravitas.
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The Blind Side
I was in awe of this movie; stunned. Stunned that it had made it to the big screen, let alone the Oscars. The Blind Side is just not good filmmaking.
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Perrier’s Bounty
The best stories, characters, images and ideas persist in the mind when the credits roll, but Perrier’s Bounty meekly expires as the screen fades to black.
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Centurion
Neil Marshall has now developed a distinctive cinematic voice and he’s showing the older players that there can be other ways of doing things.
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Whip It
It was refreshing to watch a mainstream flick where women were calling the shots, both in front of and behind the camera. A genuinely funny, feel good coming of age film.
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Shutter Island
Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.
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Chloe
Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.
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