Films
DVD/Blu-ray
Gold Rush, The
Like all great films, Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush has classic comedy moments that are endlessly referenced in various films, such as Johnny Depp homage in Benny and Joon (1993), proving the enduring significance of th...
DVD/Blu-ray
Psychosis DVD
A buy the numbers horror thriller that wants to be The Shinning but feels more like a badly lit room in a student dorm. Ask yourself what you want from a horror film? Scares? Tension? Blood spewing gore? Intelligent subtext? If...
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Splintered
WARNING! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! Sometimes there’s nothing more enjoyable than a bad movie. Sometimes it just doesn’t matter that the screenwriter couldn’t write the F-word on a dusty Venetian blind, that the ac...
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Down Terrace DVD/BR
Not-so-happy families ensue in this brilliantly dark comedy about low-level gangsters in Brighton. The British gangster film has rapidly become something of a joke. Rife with diamond geezers, predictable plots and horrible acti...
DVD/Blu-ray
Social Network, The
David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin prove to be a match made in cinema heaven with this dark tale about the creation of Facebook. Some filmmakers are intrinsically connected to the modern zeitgeist. They have a sense of what needs t...
DVD/Blu-ray
Involuntary
Involuntary is essentially a series of five vignettes, snapshots of the interactions of groups in contemporary Sweden. The stories and characters are diverse, but are all based around one central theme: the nature of group dyna...
DVD/Blu-ray
Paranormal Activity 2 DVD/ BR
More grainy footage shocks in this spooky follow-up. When Paranormal Activity was released in 2009 it made Blair Witch Project (1999) style profits. Made for as little as 15K and raking in roughly $183 Million at the worldwide ...
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Girl Who Played With Fire, The
Hot on the heels of flat-packed thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, every Guardian reader’s favourite kickboxing, lesbian Goth avenger/sociopath is back in the second of Swedish author Steig Larsson’s Millenni...
DVD/Blu-ray
Undertow
Debut film by director Javier Fuentes-León, Undertow is a sympathetic and engaging tale about two men in love in a culture where it is frowned upon – not to mention the fact that one of them happens to be married t...
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Frontier Blues
A low key comedy about a handful of men living on the Iran border that, while staggering to behold at times, is an ultimately flawed attempt to charm. When a film’s main focus is addressing people’s boredom it is vi...
