Suburban Girl
January 28, 2008
How does an adaptation of best-selling book The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin, go direct-to-video? The obvious answer is that the film isn’t that good and that it was rightly relegated to obscurity....
The Grudge 2
February 21, 2007
Was this a sequel that really needed to be made? The previous film was a remake of the Japanese horror film, Ju-On (2003) and directed by the same filmmaker – Takashi Shimizu – but the American version felt like a diluted rehash that had its moments...
I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Collection
August 10, 2006
At first glance, it seems incredible that a film as awful as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) did well enough to spawn two sequels. How could a film that was essentially Beverly Hills 90210 meets Scooby Doo with blood have been so successful? It’s...
The Grudge
August 19, 2005
A lot was riding on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new movie, The Grudge (2004). If it failed at the box office she could be faced with the prospect of more Scooby Doo sequels while its success could lead to bigger and better things. After all, it was her...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5
July 7, 2005
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always been a dark show. However, the arrival of Season Five saw the series take an even darker turn as two major characters died and a seemingly unstoppable villain threatened to destroy Sunnydale and the rest of the world....
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7
June 14, 2005
The last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a bittersweet affair. Sarah Michelle Gellar made it known that she had grown tired of playing Buffy and wanted to move on—presumably to motion pictures (which is exactly what she did with Scooby Doo 2...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3 Box Set
October 20, 2003
First off, if you’re not a fan, you should be. This is one of the defining TV shows of our generation. Second off, the DVDs are half the price in the US that they are in dear old Blighty. Drawback: We’re almost on season 6 but they’ve...
Angel: Season 1 Box Set
August 29, 2003
Angel, the spin off from Buffy The Vampire Slayer gets its first DVD release in a feature packed six DVD box-set. How does it compare to its parent series, and what sort of treatment has the DVD received from the good people at Fox? The first series of...
Scooby-Doo
July 10, 2003
Go back to your childhood as you sit cross legged in front of the TV on a school day afternoon and watch the continuing adventures of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and of course Scooby-Doo. Irony has become very much a theme in Hollywood in recent years...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4
May 17, 2003
The occult cult that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer reaches its fourth season on DVD, and this time they follow the lead set by Angel season 2 and give us the widescreen version. If you’re new to Buffy be warned, this does contain spoilers. Season...
