16 Blocks
June 24, 2006
Bruce Willis essays yet another burnt out cop in 16 Blocks (2006) playing detective Jack Mosley. He’s world-weary and has definitely seen better days. Willis has had a lot of practice playing this kind of role and slips into it effortlessly in the way...
CSI: Miami: Season 3.1
June 5, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American T.V. series that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American shows such as Buffy, X-Files, 24 etc…...
Brilliant But Cancelled: Crime Dramas
June 1, 2006
This DVD collects four different episodes from four different crime shows that had brief but (sometimes) memorable runs on television because they failed to capture a large enough audience to ensure a prolonged existence. It has become even more cutthroat...
25th Hour
May 1, 2006
Set in a post 9/11 New York, Spike Lee’s latest ensemble drama converges around a convicted drug dealer’s last day of freedom before being hauled off to serve seven years in jail. Based on a book and screenplay by David Benioff, the writer...
Baise-moi
May 1, 2006
Ok, so my French isn’t exactly brilliant (that’s grade ‘F’ for ‘French’). But surely in my five years of secondary school education, the vulgar words that any healthy 11 year old boy looks up on his first encounter with a phrase book couldn’t...
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
April 12, 2006
By 1955, Orson Welles’ Hollywood career was over having burned his final bridges with Tinseltown over The Lady From Shanghai (1947). He would direct Touch of Evil (1958) for Universal a few years later but only at Charlton Heston’s behest. Mr. Arkadin...
CSI: NY: Season 1 part 2
April 2, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American TV series, attracting 17 million viewers an episode, that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American...
Lord of War
March 13, 2006
Note to reader: This review and verdict is a reflection on the movie only as whatdvd.net was not sent the special features disc of the Lord of War 2 disc set. Disc One contains the movie only with the option of subtitles. We apologise for any inconvenience. Director...
Traffic: Criterion Collection
March 13, 2006
By the time he made Traffic (2000), Steven Soderbergh was at the zenith of his popularity having just come off the crowd pleaser, yet socially conscious Erin Brockovich (2000), with an even more powerful critique on a problem that plagues the United States...
NYPD Blue: Season 3
March 13, 2006
NYPD Blue was seen as the successor to that other venerable television cop show, Hill Street Blues. However, NYPD Blue took the gritty realism to a whole other level with busy, hand-held camerawork, racy sex scenes and profanity not seen on network T.V....
