DVD Review

There is a famous quote which claims that if you remember the 1960s you probably weren't there. It would seem the same could be said of Studio 54, the infamous New York nightclub at the heart of a new documentary bearing the same name.…

The concept of the Sparrows - attractive female spies trained to use their sexuality to compromise male targets - sounds like something that would be right at home in farcical espionage literature. Remember Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye?

When it all finally goes south for the Ryan family, Mom and Dad falls somewhere between Home Alone and Don't Breathe, as Cage and Blair team up to try and off their offspring.

Fear And Desire may be Kubrick's most humourless film, a simple exercise in showing war and what it can take to survive it.

The Killing operates in a bare bones film noir atmosphere with the minimum of character needed to propel celluloid forward. The big score, a daring heist on the vast reserves of cash swilling around on race day is the heart of the film.

...you could argue that a perfectionist like Stanley Kubrick includes everything for a reason, adding some degree of relevance to the findings.

Joaquin Phoenix channels the tragic, corrosive brutality of Travis Bickle in Lynne Ramsay's revenge thriller.

As you get older, staying in becomes the new going out.  The once craving for clubbing and drinking gets replaced  by the sensible yearning for staying in and playing board games. Nothing beats a game of Saturday Scrabble, that's for sure.…

If you don't remember the 60s...

Go small or go home...