Author: Barnaby Walter

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Submarine ★★★☆☆

    Richard Ayoade jumps into his directorial debut with a bit too much enthusiasm, making Submarine a little hard to handle.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Tangled ★★★★☆

    Rapunzel is brought back to life by Disney, in a cheesy but thoroughly enjoyable way.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Monsters ★★☆☆☆

    Derivative, tedious and rather trying, this low-budget sci-fi road movie is far from the masterpiece some have claimed it to be. Heralded as an extraordinary achievement in production (which is, for the most part, a fair assessment), the film relies on beautiful photography and vague menacing moments to keep the audience captivated. This didn’t work […]

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Charlie St. Cloud ★★☆☆☆

    Wonderful cinematography and Zac Efron’s half-decent performance can’t save this boring story.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Doubt ★★★★☆

    The issue of child sex abuse is handled carefully and commendably in John Patrick Shanley’s 2009 drama.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: Coraline 3D ★★☆☆☆

    Because Hollywood is so desperate to con people into thinking 3D entertainment is the best thing since sliced bread, studios are re-releasing their back catalogues in digital three-dimensional versions. Here we have a strange animated film from 2009, Henry Selick’s Coraline. Dakota Fanning voices the annoying title character in this muddled and unpleasant fantasy adventure. […]

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: The Incredibles ★★★★☆

    While not as good as some of Pixar’s finest works, The Incredibles is still widely enjoyable and entertaining.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: The Resident ★★☆☆☆

    It’s hard to see whether this inept and boring thriller is an affectionate throwback to old damsel-in-distress pictures of long ago, or just another conventional, cruelly exploitative piece of Hollywood trash. Actually, although set in Brooklyn, The Resident happens to be a British film made by the newly rebooted horror studio Hammer; and while it’s […]

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    Almodóvar’s Bad Education is an unconventional, colourful feast of entertainment

    A mix of various influences and styles, Pedro Almodóvar’s 2004 Spanish drama is an eccentric but spectacular work of art.

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    DVD & Blu-Ray: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ★★★★☆

    Non-sensationalist Holocaust film, handled with care

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    ARCHIVE: High School Musical 3: Senior Year ★★★★☆

    We’re all in this together

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    Bottom of the Barrel: Get Him to the Greek

    As sleazy, tasteless and misogynistic as any other Judd Apatow-backed comedy

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    DVD & Blu-ray Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 ★★☆☆☆

    Though the series ends on a high with Part 2, it’s a shame you have to sit through Part 1 first

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    ARCHIVE: Donkey Punch (2008) ★★★★☆

    Low-budget slasher is right up Barnaby Walter’s street