Category: DVD & Blu-Ray

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    Barnaby Walter

    DVD & Blu-Ray: Water for Elephants ★☆☆☆☆

    Set in the American depression of the 1930s, this big-screen adaptation of Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel may be sumptuously filmed, but unfortunately it is yet another example of a film that is gorgeous to look at but ultimately dead from within. The film is bookended by an old man called Jacob telling the story of […]

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    Barnaby Walter

    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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    Barnaby Walter

    DVD & Blu-Ray: Tangled ★★★★☆

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

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    Barnaby Walter

    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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    Barnaby Walter

    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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    Barnaby Walter

    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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    Barnaby Walter

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

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