March 1st, 2003
If you’re a fan of the classic early 80’s sight gag comedy of films like Flying High and Top Secret, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven to have both films in your DVD collection. This was the heyday of the comic parody.
May 1st, 2003
Rob Reiner’s seminal adaptation of the Stephen King novel pits an injured literary star Paul Sheldon (James Caan) against the psychopathic small town ex nurse who rescues him (Kathy Bates).
April 1st, 2008
An ex boxer-turned Buddhist monk collects horses and orphaned, malnourished children in his far north Thailand monastery, wielding his own special kind of boisterous, unsentimental love to boys who’ve never known it.
March 4th, 2003
The remake of a successful gangster film from Hollywood’s golden age, it charts the rise of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Pacino, a little hammy in hindsight but giving the role his all). All Montana has is his word and his balls. And he don’t bust neither of them for nobody.
April 1st, 2008
Charting a year in the life of far north Canada would have been a huge task but it feels like an old ABC nature series. In fact it’s not even that informative, glossing over scientific fact in favour of poetic description interspersed with godawful native Inuit music.
September 20th, 2007
The features are all pretty short and give you more of a taste than satisfy your appetite for information. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal tell us about cowboy school and we learn about translating the short story to a feature film from two screenwriters who look like they’ve just come from a funeral.