Spartan
December 20, 2003
“Where is the girl?” This oft-repeated line lies at the centre of Spartan (2004), a political thriller from writer-director David Mamet. At the heart of this film is a mystery, one that the central character must solve and, in doing so, discover something...
Cop Land: Director’s Cut
December 11, 2003
Cop Land (1997) is a homage to police corruption films like Sidney Lumet’s Serpico (1973) and Prince of the City (1981). In many respects, Cop Land is also a modern western, complete with a High Noon (1952) style showdown. A big deal was made about...
The Long Goodbye
December 1, 2003
When The Long Goodbye was released in 1973, MGM promptly bungled its ad campaign. Robert Altman’s film radically reworked Raymond Chandler’s novel of the same name and the studio had no idea how to market the offbeat movie. It polarized critics...
The Glimmer Man
November 30, 2003
Ahh, Steven Seagal, aka, ‘The Portly One’, how I love you! How much pleasure have I derived from your films over the years? Oh trembling hand let me respond! Too much! Thou art a God! On the other hand… How much of my life have I wasted...
The Eye (Jian gui)
November 25, 2003
Japanese cinema is fast becoming the benchmark for modern horror, what with The Ring movies and this little oddity from the directors of the ultra violent assassin thriller Bangkok Dangerous. The Eye, though perhaps not quite on the same level after close...
xXx
November 19, 2003
“From the makers of The Fast & the Furious”. Those words instilled fear in me that xXx was going to be one of the worst films I had ever seen, for the testosterone charged excuse for a film that was Fast & the Furious gave the word...
Mulholland Drive
October 1, 2003
‘Academy Award Nominee!’ screams the front cover of the DVD, and rightly so. The fact that Lynch lost out the title of Best Director to Ron ‘Splash’ Howard in the 2002 Oscar race is neither here nor there. What do the academy know...
Half Past Dead
September 22, 2003
It’s time once again to let Daz loose on another offering from the Portly One, Steven Seagal. The film is Half Past Dead and what’s the betting that old Stevie plays a cop? Well actually it’s a FBI agent, and he goes undercover. The...
The Man Who Haunted Himself
September 1, 2003
Sir Roger Moore is known primarily as everyone’s favourite British secret agent 007 but has been involved in many other films such as this overlooked 1970 release getting the DVD treatment courtesy of Anchor Bay. Directed by Basil Deardon –...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
August 5, 2003
Since the birth of DVD the format has spread faster than CD audio, due to some hard-core film fanatics, some large scale marketing campaigns and the odd fantastic DVD release. Lethal Weapon 4 showed us what DVD was capable of in the shape of extra features,...
