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Bringing Up Bobby
This looks good and sounds good, but unfortunately Bringing Up Bobby doesn’t live up to expectations, for which a number of factors are to blame. Read more...
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Legally Blonde - The Musical
International award-winning, Legally Blonde The Musical, has arrived. The uplifting feel-good musical adaptation opened in Melbourne on May 09 at the Princess Theatre, after gracing audiences in Brisbane and Sydney. Read more...
Fast & Furious 6
The car racing franchise that somehow bounced back from diminishing returns is on the upswing. Read more...
Black Sabbath
Bava’s finest film – a trilogy of suspense and the supernatural – inspired legendary heavy metal outfit Black Sabbath to use the name for their band after hearing about the film! Read more...
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Motel Hell
Welcome to Motel Hell, where it takes all kind of critters to make Farmer Vincent fritters! Actually, the motel in question is called Motel Hello, but the neon ‘O’ flickers and often goes more off than on. And that’s not the only thing going off in this riotous horror-comedy! Read more...
Van Veteeren
The latest instalment in Arrow’s Nordic Noir series introduces us to ace detective Van Veeteren, who, recently having retired, opens a second hand bookshop for hobby's sake. However, he can’t quite give up on playing sleuth. Read more...
On The Fiddle
Never have so few fiddled so many in this riotous war comedy from 1961, which sees a then relatively unknown Sean Connery amongst the lead, before achieving global fame as 007. Read more...
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Amateur
Amateur! Accountancy, Murder, Amnesia, Torture, Ecstasy, Understanding, Redemption; just some of the topics covered in this gem of a film. Nineties indie noir returns with this welcome re-issue on blu ray of Hal Hartley’s 90’s cult classic. Read more...
Edgar Wallace presents The Four Just Men
This fast paced thriller has patriotism running through it beginning to end, in a tale that sees four ‘just men’ fight wrongdoers who are beyond the arm of the law. Read more...
Man At The Top
This hard-hitting and sometimes explicit film from 1973 offers a grittier treatment than its 1950’s predecessor. It follows the progress of Joe Lampton Read more...
Baron Blood
This gory tale of an incantation gone wrong is high in the visual stakes, but as far as plot continuity and logic are concerned, it’s certainly not one of Bava’s finest moments. Still, it does have its moments. Read more...
Billy Liar - 50th Anniversary
For the first time available on DVD and Blu-ray in fully restored glory, this British answer to ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ was part of the British new wave/kitchen sink drama, and stars Tom Courtenay as the lying daydreamer. Read more...
Beat Girl
Beat Girl is a British drama revolving around a young woman, Heather, set on a musical career via prestigious school Juilliard. Read more...
Chimpanzee Interview
Ahead of the theatrical release of the Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, life-long advocate of conservation efforts, Sir David Attenborough, and acclaimed natural history directors Read more...
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee is the story of an adorable and orphaned chimp called Oscar, but more than just a touching story set in the Tai National Forest in Africa’s Ivory Coast, the film functions as a vehicle to highlight the decline of the Chimpanzee population. Read more...
Flying 55
Based upon a novel by Edgar Wallace, this 1939 b/w adaptation fuses blackmail and other dodgy doings with the thrill of the horseracing world. Read more...
Spanish Fly
Spanish Fly? If I were a bloke, I’d be hanging as limp as a wet sock after watching this sorry excuse of a bawdy romp comp. Read more...
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Iron Man 3
So my editor and I went down to see the press screening of the third instalment of Marvels’ superhero Iron Man. Read more...
She Monkeys
I don’t quite get where the ‘modern western’ bit comes from which several critics referred to when reviewing the film. The story is set in Sweden, and takes place primarily amongst the world of equestrian vaulting. Western? Read more...
All Stars
This fantastic feel good film is aimed at older kids and is spot on. From the producers of Horrid Henry and Street Dance it hits cinemas on May 3rd. Read more...
Jack Dee
Jack Dee is a misery guts and proud of it. He wears the whinging, grumpy, Englishman tag to a tee; it bodes him well. Read more...
Love is all you need
After cornering the market in moody bleak detective programmes, the Danes are now moving into rom com territory and based on this offering they are likely to be as every bit as successful. Read more...
Derren Brown - Svengali
‘Svengali’ is the latest release from Derren Brown, one of the UK’s most popular illusionists. Filmed before a live audience at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, Brown’s acclaimed fifth tour won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2012. Read more...
Ripper Street - Series 1
This is television drama as it should be – bold, entertaining, and with superb acting and gripping plots! Ripper Street, despite the slightly misleading cover photo Read more...
Blood Simple - The Directors Cut
Blood Simple won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. It also launched the careers of the Coen Brothers, who went from strength to strength since. This newly released Director’s Cut is three minutes shorter as the original theatrical release – resulting in tighter editing. Read more...
The House In Nightmare Park
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd hams it up as struggling tragedian Foster Twelvetrees in this laugh out loud parody of 70’s British horror flicks. Read more...
The Servant - 50th Anniversary
With a screenplay by Harold Pinter and adapted from the novel by Robin Maugham, class warfare and as well as sexual tension has rarely been portrayed so unsettling and yet, enticing. Read more...
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Based on the controversial and award winning play by Joe Orton, this black comedy film from 1970 is a pure treat. Peter McEnery excels as the sleazy, sexy and morally bankrupt Mr. Sloane. Read more...
Accident
Adapted from the novel by Nicholas Mosley, and with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, this intense psychological drama boasts a stellar cast and bravura performances by its key cast. Read more...