by Dave Bradley | Jan 5, 2016 | DVDs
Paramount, M, 131 Mins It’s been four years since the fourth M:I epic (Ghost Protocol), and that’s more than enough time to whip up something fittingly and spectacularly silly for this fifth instalment in the franchise (which has been running since 1996, believe it or...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 29, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Paramount, M, 126 Mins The fifth Terminator film (in 3D, of course) is also a somewhat blurry rejigging of the first, and revels in absurd time paradoxes and complicated chronological rewritings to the point that even Doctor Who might have been bewildered....
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 105 Mins Character star William H. Macy’s debut as director (and co-writer, executive producer and co-star) is a tough and uncomfortably moving affair that hasn’t made many friends but still proves to be one of the best direct-to-DVD titles so far this...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 107 Mins One of the mightiest of all original cult/midnight movies, this stark, semi-factual B+W drama from 1969 was directed for a short while by a young Martin Scorsese (who was fired for being too slow), handled for a bit thereafter by industrial...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 95 Mins Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as his intriguing cast gets psychologically terrorised (and do some psychological terrorising...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 99 Mins British cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe (filmed by Stephen Frears) was a Thomas-Hardy-influenced attack on pretentious, snobby English types, and this movie version of another of her works heartily mocks both the English...