On DVD and Blu-Ray
The Change-Up
This age-old formula of screwing up each other’s existence then ‘discovering’ the missing elements of one’s personality is a well-trodden and patronising path.
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Drive
When Nicholas Winding Refn compels you to look, look you shall. This is that rare find: a film that’s worth paying to see properly.
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Shame
As McQueen says, ‘Morality is like socialism, great idea but it doesn’t bloody work.’
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Haywire
Despite it being packed with thrills, spills and fight scenes, Haywire is tenuously held together by a confusing and poorly paced plot.
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She Monkeys
As a study of the seemingly insignificant and often ongoing battles people play out in their every interaction with others in life, Swedish director Lisa Aschan’s debut feature is an interesting spotlight.
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The Cabin in the Woods
The fun is in sitting in stunned silence, totally blind to what might happen next, which is a giddy and thrilling ride that’s all-too-rare in cinema.
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American Pie: Reunion
It’s been thirteen years since Jason Biggs made love to a freshly baked apple pie and not much has changed as the old gang return.
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Piggy
The incessant instrumentation only serves to amplify the unnecessary melodrama that is central to Piggy‘s problems.
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A Dangerous Method
Normally with Cronenberg we’re deep into psychosis, subjectively, down in the dirty of our subconscious and nightmares. Here we’re in therapy.
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Young Adult
As coming-of-age stories go, Reitman and Cody’s Young Adult is a stone-cold sobering one of sheer brilliance, packed with ironic laughs and painful honesty.
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