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Green Zone
Make Damon kicks ass in Iraq
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In the wake of the 2010 Oscars, Green Zone will, rightly or wrongly, be compared with the big winner – The Hurt Locker. Kathryn Bigelow’s film was...
Posted March 11, 2010 Read More
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Taking Woodstock (DVD)
Ang Lee engages in a bit of flower power
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It’s the late 60s and things aren’t going well for Elliot’s family. Their motel in a Catskills backwater is hardly making any money and things only look like they’re going to get worse. However Elliot, who left New...
Posted March 9, 2010 Read More
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Zombieland (Blu-ray)
'A flawed but enjoyable...undead delight on Blu-ray'
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A highly contagious virus has turned most of the Earth’s population into killer zombies, though a few survivors remain. One such survivor is nervous, nerdy college student, Columbus (Eisenberg), who is trying to...
Posted March 9, 2010 Read More
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Julie & Julia (Blu-ray)
Half of a good recipe for a film
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In 1948, Julia Childs (Streep) and her diplomat husband, Paul (Tucci,) move to Paris, where Julia embarks on a career as a chef. Learning the trade at a prestigious cooking school, Julia quickly discovers her knack in...
Posted March 9, 2010 Read More
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Katalin Varga (DVD)
Tapping into David Lynch for a revenge drama
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It's difficult to provide a synopsis of Katalin Varga without giving the game away: it's a slow-burning thriller in which the details of its back story are gradually revealed, and it's only 82 minutes long. For our...
Posted March 9, 2010 Read More
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Doctor Who: The Space Museum & The Chase
William Hartnell gets put behind glass
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I’ve been enjoying covering older incarnations of Dr. Who on DVD for Movie Muser. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. Well actually it IS a tough job, as some of these back catalogue releases have got...
Posted March 9, 2010 Read More
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Only When I Dance (DVD)
Into the world of Brazilian ballet
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Lazily billed as the Brazilian version of Billy Elliot, presumably because it, too, is a film and features a male ballet dancer, Only When I Dance is not really all that similar to the hit 2000 British drama. For one thing, it is...
Posted March 8, 2010 Read More
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The Day Of The Triffids (Blu-ray)
Dougray Scott does his best Gerard Butler impression
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Shown on TV at Christmas, this is a modern day version of the iconic, best selling, John Wyndham novel, The Day of the Triffids. It’s been updated, bringing it up to 2009, and now the Triffids are a source of oil...
Posted March 8, 2010 Read More
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The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto (DVD)
Rob Zombie gets animated
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Rob Zombie ventures into animation and adds yet another entry into his ever growing hall of stinkers with this - a strictly adult animation that promises laughs and shocks aplenty, but mostly fails on both counts. The...
Posted March 8, 2010 Read More
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The Shinjuku Incident (DVD)
Jackie Chan shows off his acting chops
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Jackie Chan forgoes his usual cocktail of fisticuffs and frolics and turns his attentions to something more serious in director Derek Yee’s latest offering; The Shinjuku Incident. Chan plays Steelhead, a Chinese...
Posted March 8, 2010 Read More
 
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