DVD REVIEWS



Fantastic Factory Boxset

Four films from Brian Yuzna: Arachnid, Beyond Reanimator, Romasanta and Faust

In Our Name

Joanne Froggatt stars as a soldier returning from Iraq

Sniper: Reloaded

Solid, entertaining third sequel which seeks to re-energise the series with a new face

Blood Out

Luke Goss goes undercover to find out who killed his brother

SNUB

effective low budget horror/thriller set in a real nuclear bunker

Zhang Yimou's Blood SImple

Excellent adaptation of the Coen Brothers classic

I Saw The Devil

amazing revenge thriller from the director of A Bittersweet Life

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike's love letter to Kurosawa's samurai movies

The Door

psycho-thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen

Woochi: The Demon Slayer

Excellent mix of sorcery, action, adventure, romance and comedy

Wushu

Sammo Hung leads a cast of spectacular athletes

Norwegian Ninja

Arne Treholt - communist traitor or patriotic ninja?

Seawolf

Hard-bitten adventure tale set aboard two rival seal-hunting ships

Zonad

gentle comedy involving "aliens" in rural Ireland

Rubber

Bizarre film about a tire called Robert which can kill...

Monsters

Gareth Edwards' excellent debut feature needs to be seen from the right perspective

The Unforgiving

Independent horror with intriguing puzzle motif

The Man from Nowhere

High Calibre hard-edged action from Korea - highly recommended

Caged

gory horror in which 3 doctors are abducted by organ harvesters on their way home from a warzone

Skyline

Why all the hate? Alien invasion tale isn't bad at all!

Primevil

a remake of After Dusk They Come!

Wake Wood

Newly re-formed Hammer films have produced this atmospheric horror

The King Maker

Badly dubbed and acted, but there is still some charm to this action-packed tale

The Diplomat 71-Into The Fire

Epic, moving war movie sees 71 students face down an army

Phenomena

Underrated Argento, starring Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasance

And Soon The Darkness

Amber Heard and Karl Urban in pedestrian thriller that comes to life at the end

Damned By Dawn

Great "Evil Dead" atmospherics let down by rubbish CGI

Ip Man 2

Donnie Yen reprises his most famous role in excellent sequel

The Hunter

Iranian thriller in which a grieving father exacts revenge on the police force that killed his wife and daughter

Bedevilled

Acclaimed Korean thriller set in an isolated community

Clash

Johnny Nguyen and Veronica Ngo star in an action-packed remake of Ronin

Primal

Australian horror riffing off it's native people's beliefs about evolution

Game of Death

Wesley Snipes takes on rogue agents Gary Daniels and Zoe Bell.

Black

MC Jean Gab'1 stars in a rocking French action pic

In Their Sleep

French horror starring Anne Parillaud

The Assassin Next Door

Olga Kurylenko stars in this Israeli-made thriller

22 Bullets

Jean Reno is so hard, 22 bullets can't stop him!

Alien vs Ninja

Great concept, great costumes and carnage - but horrid looking alien

Tajomaru

a tragic tale told from different perspectives

Amer

Giallo-influenced thriller proves to be a visual and aural feast

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

Redundant-seeming remake turns out to have some redeeming qualities.

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