Sherlock Hound: The Complete Series (Review) (DVD)
Before you start window-shopping and price comparisoning, let’s get this clear first, Sherlock Hound will be an HMV exclusive when it...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Embodiment of Evil (Review) (Blu-ray)
To celebrate the career of Brazilian horror icon José Mojica Marins, Anchor Bay Entertainment have not only released the five disc, nine...
Posted by David Beckett
Review of Contract, The (Review) (DVD)
Frank Carden (Morgan Freeman) is a black ops specialist who runs a small team who specialise in assassination. Whilst setting their latest...
Posted by Si Wooldridge
Review of WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars Of The 80`s (3 Discs) (Review) (DVD)
With just two little words, the WWE could have had wrestling forums aggressively bickering about this particular DVD set for months....
Posted by Brian Elliott
Review of Commando (Review) (DVD)
Well, I must confess to being an Arnie fan, having seen all of his films including from the quite awful "Hercules in New York" to the latest...
Posted by Chris Cox
Comment on Review for Sammy Going South
Excellent news about the re-release of an actual 35mm print, Leah. I know people these days are used to seeing classic films on...
Posted by David Rayner
Comment on Review for Sammy Going South
The Independent Cinema Office has just re-released it on print, and I will do my best to get a recording done and pop it up on our...
Posted by leah byrne
Comment on Review for Sammy Going South
Thanks for letting us know, Leah. Manchester is only 48 miles north west of where I live in Stoke-on-Trent and I would love to...
Posted by David Rayner
Comment on Review for Sammy Going South
We have an exclusive screening of this film at Cornerhouse, Manchester as part of the Family Friendly Film Festival this Sunday, 12...
Posted by leah byrne
Comment on Sammy Going South
We have an exclusive screening of this film at Cornerhouse, Manchester as part of the Family Friendly Film Festival this Sunday, 12...
Posted by leah byrne
Comment on Trailers
That was really superb. You need to get Richard Ayoade to do the next one...
Posted by Si Wooldridge
Review for UFC 111: St. Pierre vs. Hardy (Review) (DVD)
Introduction
When UFC President Dana White announced that it would be Dan Hardy taking on George St. Pierre for the UFC Welterweight...
Posted by Joe Rimmer
Review for UFC: Rampage Greatest Hits (Review) (DVD)
Introduction
Whether you love or hate Quinton Jackson, better known by his 'UFC name', Rampage, you cannot deny his place in MMA history....
Posted by Joe Rimmer
Review for 009-1: Volume 1 (Review) (DVD)
Damn it! Just when I was in the mood for some new James Bondery, they went and cancelled the forthcoming flick. The recession, coupled...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Review for Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful - Volume 3 (Review) (DVD)
MVM's one volume per month release schedule is relentless, and when you are talking about seven episodes per disc, even a little...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Sherlock Holmes (Review) (Blu-ray)
Introduction
Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's greatest detective creations, appearing first in 1887 in A Study In Scarlet and...
Posted by Si Wooldridge
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (Review) (DVD)
With some films, you can wax lyrical about the narrative structure and the character arc that each person goes through as, due to modern...
Posted by David Beckett
Review for Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (Review) (DVD)
The colourful cast of Death Note (2006) reunite for this inspired manga/anime adaptation. It is a riveting sizzler of a movie made with...
Posted by Curtis Owen
Review for Thirty Minutes Worth - Series One (Review) (DVD)
Anyone who lived in the UK in the 1960’s, and was old enough to notice, will remember Harry Worth. For me, the residing memory will always...
Posted by Stuart McLean
Review for Fish Story (Review) (DVD)
Can a punk song save the world?
More importantly, can you make a movie about a punk song that saves the world? Apparently director...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Review for Soul Eater: Part 2 (Review) (DVD)
Soul Eater was quite the surprise when it made its UK debut last month. On paper it seems like just another typical shonen action show,...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Paranoiac! (Review) (DVD)
Such is the nature of British films that you think you have seen them all when another one pops up on DVD or BD. Sadly, many great British...
Posted by David Beckett
Channing Tatum Q & A
Q: Lasse told us, when he knew that you were the man for the movie, all he knew was you come from action movies. Channing, how difficult was it for you to prove yourself to do a very different job?
CT: Yeah, I mean, there's an aspect of anxiety...
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Amanda Seyfried Q & A
Q: How did you get the role?
AS: I got the script. I had a meeting with Marty Bowen and with Wyck Godfrey, Tucker Tooley….
Q: So they were after you, not you after them.
AS: What? Oh no, it starts off as a mutual kind of passion. And then...
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Interview with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried
DEAR JOHN: ON BLU-RAY & DVD 23 AUGUST 2010
With an unashamedly romantic comedy it’s all about getting the tone right so you don’t slide into melodrama, isn’t it?
Amanda: Lasse is allergic to melodrama so he likes to do it very subtly. It’s...
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Anime Review Roundup
Beck The Movie
Last week it was Gantz, this time it's the turn of Beck, another manga turned anime that is getting the big screen live action treatment. I loved the series when I saw it, a tale of an unlikely band following their bumpy destiny to...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Anime Review Roundup
Gantz: The Movie
Gantz was the full on sex and violence anime series that was released here a few years ago by MVM. You might remember it; a weird alien ball suddenly appears in a nondescript apartment, where it begins to resurrect the recently...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Anime Review Roundup
Manga Entertainment For Sale, One-ish Careful Owner
Last month it was Navarre looking to offload Funimation, this week it's the turn of Starz looking for a buyer for its entertainment properties, among them Anchor Bay Entertainment, which happens...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
10 Films guaranteed to keep the kids amused this Summer
10 Films guaranteed to keep the kids amused this Summer
If you are dreading the arrival of the Summer holidays and the search for things to keep the kids occupied do not fear because come rain or shine a movie is bound to keep the children amused...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime Expo News: Funimation
Not our Expo, the American Expo, which just took place this weekend. There's a lot more anime, plenty more companies, and a heap load more announcements than we usually get in the UK, and not all of it will be relevant...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
A day I'd rather forget
Well, that was a weird old day! This morning, my care team leader (I'm a tetraplegic who requires 24/7 nursing care) who, along with my GP, was concerned that I was not shifting my second bout of Clostridium difficile so told me I should be...
Posted by David Beckett
Anime Review Roundup
I told you that we had entered an anime drought. It's why there were no reviews last week, and why there is only one new title reviewed this week. Fortunately I had some back catalogue titles to look at to round the numbers up. First up is a show...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Top 10 Vampire Movies
The vampire is the monster with the longest literary heritage, with the first story, The Vampyre, written by John Polidori at the same 'writer's retreat' at which Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley penned Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Probably the...
Posted by David Beckett