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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on April 26, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Tekken

DVD Review: Tekken
Chalk it up to low expectations, but against the odds, Tekken is a solid, fun video game adaptation. It boasts a likeable cast and energetic direction, but that energy is often misdirected, resulting in some unnecessarily tight and overactive camerawork during fight scenes. Still, while it won’t set...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on March 29, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Wake Wood

DVD Review: Wake Wood
Wake Wood is an often familiar, derivative horror outing, but with an excellent cast and oodles of style, atmosphere and unsettling moments, it holds up as a solid, creepy and entertaining film, even if it’s not a massively original one...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on March 3, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: 5 Centimeters Per Second

DVD Review: 5 Centimeters Per Second
Directed By Makoto Shinkai Starring Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondo, Satomi Hanamura and Ayaka Onoue Taking its name from the speed at which cherry blossoms apparently fall to the ground, 5 Centimeters Per Second tells three short, interconnected tales all surrounding the love that blossoms between childhood...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on January 31, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

DVD Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
While it’s never a film that shocks or surprises with its twists and turns, an excellent cast and a light, breezy pace leave us with a fun film that just about earns its place as a worthwhile follow-up to Wall Street...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on January 17, 2011 | No Comments

DVD Review: Outcast (2010)

DVD Review: Outcast (2010)
Taking a languid pace and all-too-sparse character and slapping them together with derivative, sloppily-executed horror movie ideas and a messy, exposition-filled mythology, sadly the unique identity and original ideas sandwiched between are largely outweighed and obscured by everything the film does wrong...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD, TV on December 15, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Review: Whites: Series 1

DVD Review: Whites: Series 1
Unfortunately, there’s not enough bite or wit injected into Whites to make it more than a decent, serviceable sitcom, and there’s nothing here that you won’t have seen before, but if you’re a fan of any of the cast, it’s a light, effortlessly watchable stuff elevated by an...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on December 13, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Review: The Expendables

DVD Review: The Expendables
Stallone’s film might not be the ultimate action movie he planned, but it’s plenty of fun, and as a hopeful comeback vehicle for Dolph Lundgren, The Expendables more than delivers...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on December 3, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Review: Eden of the East: The Complete Series

DVD Review: Eden of the East: The Complete Series
Steadily unveiling key pieces of its larger puzzle like a shifty dealer quickly slipping the latest fix into a junkie’s hands, Eden of the East is incredibly gripping and addictive stuff, and at 11 episodes is a show that absolutely breezes by without feeling light or insubstantial...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on November 28, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Review: Deadly Crossing (aka True Justice: Deadly Crossing)

DVD Review: Deadly Crossing (aka True Justice: Deadly Crossing)
If you’ve ever wanted a version of CSI Miami where, instead of David Caruso solving crimes and breaking out cringeworthy one-liners, Horatio Caine were played by Steven Seagal and simply snapped the wrists of every perp remotely connected to the case before pummelling them into the concrete, then...
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Posted by Simon Rowson in DVD on November 26, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Review: Little Big Soldier

DVD Review: Little Big Soldier
The anti-war message that the film adopts is occasionally muddled, and the more melancholy tone of the third act is a little at odds with the slapstick that appears throughout, but even in its weaker moments, it’s kept alive by the heart and soul injected by Jackie Chan’s wonderfully rounded...
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