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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD, TV on February 1, 2012 | No Comments

DVD Review: Futurama: Season 5

DVD Review: Futurama: Season 5
Sady, season five is Futurama’s most wildly uneven yet, with some of the series’ worst episodes to date. Though there’s a trio of excellent adventures to balance it out, the rest manage to be just decent enough, with a laugh-out-loud moment or two per episode, and that’s a far cry...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on January 11, 2012 | No Comments

DVD Review: The Devil’s Double

DVD Review: The Devil’s Double
A stylish and sometimes shocking gangster movie filled with debaucherous ’80s excess, The Devil’s Double makes for an often tense and incredibly watchable thriller, and as an acting showreel for Dominic Cooper it’s incredible, but a slightly slapdash script fails to deliver the incisive...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on October 18, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Assassination Games

DVD Review: Assassination Games
It doesn’t give Van Damme anything resembling a worthy follow up to J.C.V.D. in terms of substantial character, but even those expecting a fun, mindless martial arts flick will be incredibly disappointed by the sheer lack of action to be found here...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in Competitions, DVD on October 10, 2011 | No Comments

Competition: Win ‘The Mentalist: The Complete Third Season’ on DVD

Competition: Win ‘The Mentalist: The Complete Third Season’ on DVD
To celebrate Warner Home Video’s DVD release of The Mentalist: The Complete Third Season on 10th October 2011, we have three copies of the set to give away to lucky readers...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on October 7, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Buffy: Season Eight – The Motion Comic (Issues 1-19)

DVD Review: Buffy: Season Eight – The Motion Comic (Issues 1-19)
While Buffy: Season 8 is something all fans owe it to themselves to check out, the digital comic incarnation isn’t the best way to do it. You’d be better off picking up the collected volumes in trade paperback form, where there’s no stilted voice acting, cut content and hyperactive, often...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on September 23, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Atrocious

DVD Review: Atrocious
It’s far from the worst Blair Witch knock-off around, but it also fails to deliver the creeping chills and primal terror that we’ve come to expect from the best of the found footage genre, leaving Atrocious a wildly flawed and highly disappointing entry...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD, TV on September 12, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Dexter: The Complete Fifth Season

DVD Review: Dexter: The Complete Fifth Season
The formulaic structure combined with some lazy storytelling means that the show is starting to wear slightly thin, with season five feeling more than ever like writers spinning their wheels until they’re allowed to change things up. Problems aside, though, a thrilling and engrossing major plot fuelled...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on September 2, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: The Veteran

DVD Review: The Veteran
A great central performance from Toby Kebbell does wonders with little material, but unfortunately The Veteran is far from the British Bourne...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on July 25, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Rango

DVD Review: Rango
Rango might not be an instant hit with kids who’ll probably find its obscure references and slant of surreal existentialism sails over their heads, but older viewers will likely have a huge grin plastered across their face until the credits roll. It’s a dyed-in-the-wool western movie rife with...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on July 21, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Lake Mungo

DVD Review: Lake Mungo
Anderson’s film certainly requires a patient viewer to appreciate it, but is nonetheless effortlessly rewarding for its restraint. And while the few overt shocks are indeed immensely effective, it’s the subtle complexities of the eerily dreamlike final reel that linger on the mind long after the...
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