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DVD Review: Cherry Tree Lane

DVD Review: Cherry Tree Lane
Williams jettisons depth and originality, playing up to every conservative stereotype of urban youth, embracing scaremongering Daily Mail headlines in a hollow, predictable bit of exploitation...

DVD Review: Hunter Prey

DVD Review: Hunter Prey
A military ship carrying a dangerous alien captive crash-lands on an uncharted, barren desert planet. The prisoner escapes during the crash, leaving the three surviving members of the commando team stranded with orders to capture the fleeing alien alive at all costs. With dwindling resources, harsh terrain...

DVD Review: The 7th Dimension

DVD Review: The 7th Dimension
It’s Hollyoaks horror by way of The DaVinci Code as a duo of beautiful young college students get roped into a night of sci-fi, psychics and psychos...

DVD Review: The Blackout (2009)

DVD Review: The Blackout (2009)
The Blackout’s narrative is a cacophony of baffling, half-written nonsense. Parents send their child alone to explore a dingy, darkened basement to retrieve their Christmas present(!). Monsters somehow emit an elecromagnetic field which kills the city’s power, but only causes flashlights to...

DVD Review: Meat Grinder

DVD Review: Meat Grinder
Meat Grinder’s entire marketing campaign has been the standard for anything even close to the ‘gore porno’ sub-genre: plenty of comparisons to Saw and the usual hearty cries of “most violent movie ever!”. Sadly, to willingly compare Tiwa Moeithaisong’s film to Saw is to do...

DVD Review: Lymelife

DVD Review: Lymelife
Boasting a cast of real, substantial and fascinatingly flawed characters brought to life through a collection of exceptional performances, Lymelife is by equal measure darkly comic and oddly touching – a bittersweet jolt of indie movie magic...

DVD Review: Identity (2010)

DVD Review: Identity (2010)
Identity doesn’t bring anything new to the police procedural table and the few detours it does take towards the truly original are unfortunately road-blocked by an underdeveloped long-term plot and a complete lack of character development. Even so, fans of cop dramas and crime mysteries who...

DVD Review: Centurion

DVD Review: Centurion
A large-scale, blood-splattered dose of incredibly fun action carnage, it’s a film let down by an imbalanced pace and a complete lack of character development. But still, for those looking for a fun, fast action flick won’t be disappointed by the often dizzying rate at which Centurion tosses...

Competition: The Torment on DVD

Competition: The Torment on DVD
To celebrate Momentum Pictures’ upcoming UK release of British shocker The Torment on DVD, we have 3 copies to give away to lucky readers...

DVD Review: The Infidel

DVD Review: The Infidel
The Infidel doesn’t stray too far outside of its safe zone, and despite handling some thorny subject matter, Appignanesi and Baddiel don’t give their film any real bite or insight. But while they don’t go for the jugular in their pursuit of laughs, what they lack in subversiveness, they...

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