Thumped's Random DVD trip: Wherein Hector Grey enters the Xtravision across the road and grabs the first couple of things that appear in the shelf. This week: The Raven & Playback.
Thumped's Random DVD trip: Wherein Hector Grey enters the Xtravision across the road and grabs the first couple of things that appear in the shelf. This week: Chernobyl Diaries & Dredd.
'Broken City constantly tries to tell you how gritty and 'real' its story and characters are without actually putting in the work to develop these themes in a justifiable and meaningful way.'
'...if you're going to make a 'by the numbers' revenge crime triller like this, you should at least make it entertaining' - Thomas Parkes on his almost-biopic, Parker.
'A saga about poor decisions, and the heavy price attached to trying to do the right thing, about atoning and consequences' - Dara Higgins on The Place Beyond The Pines.
GORE! SLASH. CRIMSON ARC OF ARTERIAL SPRAY! KAPOW! LOUD NOISES! INCESSANT FUCKING LOUD NOISES! Break it down, it’s HORROR time.
'This is a film to remind you, you whinging, big city prick, with your negative equity and pension levy, that things could be much worse' - Dara Higgins counts his blessings on Pilgrim Hill.
'Once the film starts it goes fucking nuclear and I nearly moved a few rows back because I thought my brain might explode, for real' - Thomas Parkes on Star Trek Into Darkness.
'As a player, he’s up there at the toppermost. But there remains an enduring mystery about Ginger: why is he such a dick?' - Dara Higgins on Beware Of Mr Baker.
'A film that grasps for greater meaning but winds up flailing around in the dark' - MacDara Conroy on Neil Jordan's modern vampire fable Byzantium