On DVD and Blu-Ray
The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience is one of the more courageous and challenging films to come out this year, and the fact that it’s Soderbergh’s can give us all hope.
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
Aptly described as a ‘feel-good war movie’, it charts some of the more bizarre elements of the US military as they experimented with new-age techniques.
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The Box
When the nicest thing that can be said about The Box is that it isn’t quite as bad as Kelly’s previous film; Southland Tales, things don’t bode well.
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2012
If you can suspend your disbelief as a man with two flying lessons under his belt pilots a jumbo jet and a family escapes a citywide inferno in a car then it makes for compelling viewing.
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The Informant!
Steven Soderbergh takes us on an altogether more cynical and often sarcastic journey through what could have been the biggest corporate scandal in modern American history.
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Bunny and the Bull
Tragedy never really enters The Mighty Boosh world – it is too wacky, too detached from reality for that – but Bunny and the Bull is as moving as it is funny.
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Glorious 39
Poliakoff has made his most recent step up to feature film one of the most dramatic, harrowing tales of the year. It is a shame then that what makes this film most enjoyable is also what dampens its brilliance.
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Zombieland
When Mad Cow Disease turned the world into flesh-eaters, there were very few humans left. “My friends, this is now the United States of Zombieland,” our young protagonist tells us.
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Law Abiding Citizen
The best thing that can be said about Butler’s performance is that he is as painfully bad as he has always been, so top marks for consistency.
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
You would expect a film about passionate, dangerous, thwarted love to feel ecstatic and urgent; this felt more like a gentle Valium downer. After the emotional thrills of Twilight, New Moon feels more than a little underwhelming.
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