Driving Lessons
DVD Review
A repressed young man discovers the world with the help of an eccentric actress.
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Jaws
DVD Review
A small seaside community dependent on tourism is terrorised by a great white shark with a hunger for human flesh.
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Adrift
DVD Review
Six party-goers find themselves stranded in the ocean, unable to get back aboard their yacht. Out to own on DVD from December 26.
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Blade Runner: The Director's Cut
DVD Review
Rick Deckard is a Blade Runner, an elite cop trained to hunt down and ‘retire’ rogue replicants, android beings designed to be ‘…more human than human’.
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Three... Extremes 2
DVD Review
Tryptich of short horror films, featuring Memories, The Wheel and Going Home.
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Van Helsing
DVD Review
CGI overload as Dracula hunter encounters famous fictional characters and assorted beasties
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The Quay Brothers: The Short Films, 1979-2003
DVD Review
Celebration of the weird and wonderful short film puppetry and animation work of the Quay Brothers.
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Irreversible
DVD Review
Brutal story of a violent rape, told in reverse. Now out to own in special collectors edition.
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The Vengeance Trilogy
DVD Review
Six-disc box set celebration of Chan-Wook's trilogy of tales about love, loss and revenge.
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Monster House
DVD Review
Three teenagers investigate a haunted house which turns out to be a real live monster.
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