★★☆☆☆ The first offering in a busy year for Steve Coogan – and newly released this week on DVD and Blu-ray – The Look of Love (2013) is the latest collaboration between the comedian and genre-hopping British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom. This fruitful creative partnership has, in the past, […]
★★★☆☆ Making its way onto DVD and Blu-ray in a newly restored (circa 2012) form this week courtesy of Eureka’s always excellent Masters of Cinema label, Stanley Kubrick’s little-seen 1953 debut feature Fear and Desire offers a bizarre and intriguing glimpse into the legendary director’s future career. Utilising […]
★★★★☆ Providing a new twist to a sub-genre as stale and fetid as that of the zombie movie is no mean feat, so great credit is due to Argentinian director Alejandro Brugués for producing a second feature as funny, fresh and inventive as Juan of the Dead (Juan […]
★★★☆☆ Finally finding its way onto DVD and Blu-ray thanks to the BFI’s Flipside label, Norman J. Warren’s 1967 erotic drama Her Private Hell deserves recognition for its confrontational stance, bravely taking up the mantle of the UK’s first narrative sex film. Below some occasional messy editing and […]
★★★★☆ A huge critical success upon its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Prize for lead actors Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman and the Directing Award, British actor Paddy Considine’s debut feature Tyrannosaur (2011) is an undeniably tough watch, but gentle moments […]
