DVDs – Page 2

So lets face some honest facts. 2013’s Pacific Ring was an ok action film based on two solid points, it was directed (and written) by Guillermo del Toro, and it wasn’t owned by Hasbro….

In the early scenes of Darkest Hour all I could think of was how much more Brian Cox looked like Churchill than Gary Oldman does, in their respective turns at impersonating the man. Cox…

American Pastoral is a story about a man who had the world at his feet but decided to do nothing but exist. I may be oversimplifying (or totally missing) the theme of Philip Roth’s…

Some years ago, I was recommended an unknown (at least to me) book by a good mate, Drew. That book was Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. It became pretty much one of my favourite…

It’s a risky proposition when you choose a Gerard Butler film these days, I mean the guy is normally more cheese than is required, so why then did I choose to review Den Of…

On the surface, Tomb Raider is just another video game movie adaptation, in a long line of such films. But dig a little deeper and you’ll soon discover that this is more of an…

After a couple of middling dramedies, The American Office’s John Krasinski subverts expectations with his third directorial effort, turning out a tight, tense, and downright enjoyable sci-fi, horror-thriller. A Quiet Place is an efficient…

Black Panther is an origin story, which is always a good start for a Marvel film, and follows the fate of T’Challa aka the Black Panther. We go back in time to set the…

del Toro’s The Shape Of Water is on one hand a re-imaging of Beauty and the Beast and on the other hand a love letter to the old Hollywood monster films. It’s also a…

Stronger isn’t the first film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, in 2016 Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg delivered the action focused film Patriots Day which followed the hunt for the bombers in the…