★★★★☆ True Blood first burst onto our screens in 2008, attracting a legion of bloodthirsty vampire fans and curious readers of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels on which it was based. As the seasons progressed, however, viewers dropped like flies in the wake of vampire overkill and the birth of Continue Reading
★★★★☆ A perfect antidote to the weighty, sociopolitically savvy undead allegories of George A. Romero, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) receives a welcome Blu-ray release this week in all its unrated glory. That’s not to say that the video store R-rated cut doesn’t have it’s fair share of slop and viscera Continue Reading
★★★★☆ For Crazy Heart (2009), director Scott Cooper immersed himself the Americana of the country music scene, and with the aide of T Bone Burnett crafted a sincere and hopeful portrait of a man wrestling with his innate talent. Again inspired by his fascination with American culture, but more closely Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ There’s more than a hint of hagiography in Joshua Michael Stern’s tick-box biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, out now in the UK on both DVD and VOD. On paper at least, the late Jobs represents ripe material. He was a megalomaniac figure who would revolutionise the technology industry. Continue Reading
