Issue 146 is on sale tomorrow and it’s an end-of-the-summer blockbuster!
If it’s not everything blowing up in epic war retelling The Pacific (read our chat with exec producer and narrator Tom Hanks), it’s tough new cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest – the latest film from director Antoine ‘Training Day’ Fuqua. Meanwhile, we have reviews of all the action discs on your shopping list this month – from DIY superhero flick Kick-Ass, Ridley Scott’s big budget take on Robin Hood, to Jake Gyllenhaal’s buffed up Prince Of Persia.
Plus, it’s a TV marathon this issue as we count down the 50 boxsets you absolutely must watch, check off the best telly endings ever conceived, chat to the cast of Going Postal and go onset with Sherlock!
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Yes, it’s time to take a stroll down to your newsagent and pick up the latest copy of DVD & Blu-ray Review again, as we pack more into this month’s issue than a 20-strong hen party that’s off to Ibiza for two weeks. Or forget the walk and click here to subscribe (or call 0844 848 2852, remembering to quote code DBRP13 to bag the free movie hoodie!) – and get your postman to do all the hard work.
Click the Read More link below to find out why Kick-Ass was such a ball-ache to get from comic to screen, if Keeley Hawes enjoyed sitting on our couch and why it's OK to laugh at bumbling suicide bombers...
It’s all a little bit hardcore in this month’s issue of DVD & Blu-ray Review!
Matthew Vaughn avoids “a Dick Van Dyke in reverse” [sounds nasty - Ed] as he creates a superhero movie for the modern generation with Kick-Ass. Meanwhile, Rupert Grint leaves Potter well and truly behind him in the drug-fuelled teen drama Cherrybomb.
We also get the inside skinny on cheapo giant creature feature Mega Piranha, before celebrating two classic movie stars that love to kill: Predators and Mrs Bates’ little boy Norman. The former is attacking cinemas once more with a little help from Robert Rodriguez, while the latter’s getting a swish Blu-ray make-over for Psycho’s 50th anniversary.
That’s just a fraction of the goodies we have for you. To see a complete listing of everything that’s going to be rocking your entertainment world this month, click the Read More link below...
Another month, another issue of DVD & Blu-ray Review. But boy have we got some talent for you this month! A fresh Oscar winner, brilliant action pairings, an actor/director still going strong in his 80th year - check out our full list below before rushing to get your copy! Remember you can also subscribe by calling 0844 848 2852 and quoting reference P076 or visiting this website...
THE BIG NEWS If it's not in, it's not important!
DVD As billion-dollar rogue Tony Stark pulls on the tin pyjamas for Iron Man 2, we check out the heavy hi-def extras and Scarlett Johansson’s catsuit fight-scene. Plus, Louis Leterrier on Ray Harryhausen’s influence on Clash Of The Titans, DiCaprio gushes about Marty for Shutter Island and Timothy Olyphant goes bonkers for Romero remake The Crazies...
HI-DEF Blu-ray details for Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief, R-Pattz swoon-fest Remember Me, The Karate Kid saga and a new 50th Anniversary hi-def release for Psycho.
EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT ...the film of the book everyone’s reading on the bus, chilly Scandanavian crime-thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
ON THE COUCH Mark Wootton, creator of Acorah-esque fake TV psychic Shirley Ghostman, takes us through his favourite discs.
COMPETITION WIN! One of three thumping stereo speaker systems for your telly, courtesy of Q Acoustics!
FEATURES Greengrass and Damon, Eastwood, Hanks, Jackson, Oscar-nabbing Bridges – Review pulls out the big guns!
IN THE ZONE After collaborating in the Jason Bourne super-spy action-trilogy, director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon go to war in hot-button Iraq-set thriller Green Zone...
WHERE EASTWOOD DARES He’s hit his eighth decade this year, but after 35 years in the saddle making movies at either end of a camera living legend Clint Eastwood still hasn’t hung up his spurs. We check out his considerable career and look back at a life on disc...
SPACE ODYSSEY As Apollo 13 prepares for Blu-ray lift-off, Tom Hanks and the cast take a look back at the production of Ron Howard’s pant-browning space-disaster...
HEAVENLY FEATURES Peter Jackson goes back to more intimate subject matter with his adaptation of bestselling novel The Lovely Bones – Review checks out the Lord Of The Rings helmer’s CGI vision of the afterlife...
THE DUDE CONFIDES After finally winning the Oscar they should have given him years ago for boozy country music drama Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges talks us through playing a booze hound...
SELECT The best reviews section ever or no money back...
NEW FILM Tim Burton sprinkles his multi-million dollar quirkiness over Lewis Carroll’s classic kid’s story in Alice In Wonderland, Mel Gibson makes his acting return in Edge Of Darkness and Clint Eastwood’s film Invictus shows how Nelson Mandela saved South Africa through the power of... err... rugby. Plus – A Single Man, The Wolfman, Crazy Heart and Miyazaki animation Ponyo.
RETRO Including a cleaned-up print of The Dam Busters, plus Blu-rays of Doctor Zhivago, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, Apollo 13, Bad Boys and big-budget smut-fest Caligula. Don’t miss: the Dollars movies getting a hi-def shine in The Spaghetti Western Trilogy boxset.
TV Including Marc Wootton’s La-La Land, the fourth seasons of both The Office and Lewis, American Dad: Season 5, The L Word: Season 6 and Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 7.
MUSIC Including a look back at classic Black Sabbath album Paranoid, Celine: Through The Eyes Of The World, Porcupine Tree’s Anesthetize live and rock bombast in U2: 360° At The Rose Bowl.
Wednesday May 12, 2010
Issue 142 Out Today!
Had enough of all the political woe, ash cloud travel nonsense and general rubbish UK weather? Time to bury your head into some fantastic fantasy and leave all that real-life bobbins alone.
In Issue 142 of DVD & Blu-ray Review we get our teeth into the best bloodsuckers on the box with exclusive True Blood coverage, hear from Peter Jackson about his adaptation of heavenly novel The Lovely Bones and dish the dirt on two films where their stars are seeing things: Tahar Rahim in A Prophet and Mad Mel Gibson in Edge Of Darkness.
For a fuller list of the delights that await you, click the Read More link below...
If it’s not James Cameron still gobbing off about Avatar, or new hot-to-trot talent Aaron Johnson telling us what it’s like to play a young John Lennon, it’s Russell Crowe spilling his plate of beans about Ridley Scott’s latest epic Robin Hood. Yes, DVD & Blu-ray Review is out again and boy have we got enough to keep you satisfied this month!
Make sure you pick up a copy from you news agent tomorrow or subscribe by following this link or calling 0844 848 2852. Everything that's good in film this month is in there, along with all the stuff you need to know about DVDs, Blu-rays and VHS! (OK, we may have made the VHS bit up...)
Check out the full listing below to see why you can’t live without us again this month...
THE BIG NEWS It’s the end of the world as we know it, yet again – but not in the usual continent-smashing vein, as Cormac McCarthy’s none-more-bleak apoco-thriller The Road hits disc.
DVD NEWS He is not a number, he is... Jesus? Jim Caviezel dons the white-piped golf jacket and fights weather balloons in the remake of ultra-weird ’60s spy-fi classic The Prisoner.
EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT... ...the second German director called Florian (after the one who did The Lives Of Others). Florian Gallenberger talks about his biopic of John Rabe, China’s answer to Oskar Schindler.
HI¬-DEF NEWS Hiayo Miyazaki strikes gold again with another impeccably polished, heartstring-tugging anime. Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a human, is out on BD soon...
ON THE COUCH WITH... ...Shauna MacDonald. When the actress isn’t getting attacked by terrifying troglodyte-monsters in The Descent: Part 2, she enjoys nothing more than kicking back with a John Cassavetes boxset.
IN-DEPTH FEATURES RETURN TO SHERWOOD Ridley and Russell tell us how they’re at it again, turning dusty old tales of boring history into gallivanting romps of derring-do. Russell Crowe IS Robin Hood. Personally we thought he’d be trying out for Friar Tuck. Mmmmmm... fryer...
RIDLEY SCOTT ON BLU¬RAY Shiny discs for shiny movies: Scott’s slickest action flicks hit hi-def, and we’ve got the guide to the lot...
MAN AND BOY “Everyone in the front row just sharpen your pencils...” We go back to John Lennon’s schooldays with Aaron Johnson, as the ... Kick-Ass pretty-boy and Nowhere Boy director Sam Taylor-Wood chat about the latest Lennon biopic...
TAMING THE WILD THINGS Let the wild rumpus commence! From 339-word children’s picture-book to an $80 million feature that spent years in development hell: we reveal the story behind Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are and pray he hasn’t ruined our childhood...
KING OF THE UNIVERSE Not content with proclaiming himself King of the World after bagging statues for Titanic, James Cameron – or JAM¬CAM as we’ve renamed him on Review – is now setting his sights on a whole new dimension with the 3D sci-fi epic Avatar....
SELECT It’s still the planet’s best home entertainment reviews section and we repeat last month’s challenge to fight anyone who disagrees.
NEW FILM Including Avatar, Where The Wild Things Are, Nowhere Boy, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Departures, Me & Orson Welles, The Descent: Part 2, The Fourth Kind, The Box and Zombeak.
RETRO Including Blu-rays of Doctor Strangelove, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Last Emperor and The Passion Of The Christ, plus Melody and Night Of The Living Dead 3D on DVD.
TV Including Glee: Season 1 – Part 1, Mad Men: Season 3 on Blu-ray, Will Ferrell: You’re Welcome America, Supernatural: Season 5.1, Caprica: Feature Length Pilot and Chocky.
MUSIC Including Ultravox: Live At The Roundhouse, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland and Tom Petty: Damn The Tornadoes on BD.
Make sure you pick up a copy from you news agent today. Alternatively, you can subscribe by following this link or calling 0844 848 2852.
THE BIG NEWS As Panasonic rolls out some early 3D home-entertainment kit, Review bagged a super-top-secret WORLD EXCLUSIVE first look at Avatar on 3D Blu-ray!
...PLUS Lavv-a-duck! That Guy Ritchie’s only gawn and made a film that isn’t a comedy of errors about mockney gangsters! Sherlock Holmes hits Blu-ray in May – we have the details...
...WITHOUT FORGETTING The recent spat between Disney and Odeon over shortening the length of time between theatrical and disc releases, and what it means for home-ents consumers...
INTERVIEW: ON THE COUCH As Boosh-esque comedy Bunny And The Bull hoves into view, director and thoroughly nice fella Paul King chats to Review about his new animated animal-based project, Paddington Bear...
FEATURES: GODS AND MONSTERS Review chats to Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Gemma Arterton on the set of thunking great monster-mash remake Clash Of The Titans, as well as reflecting on the greatest past examples of the Sword and Sandals epic. From biblical ’50s Chuck Heston ones to sweaty, shouty CGI-fests, we pick the best...
MASTER OF DISASTER How many ways can you end the world in movies? Roland Emmerich’s at it again, destroying our planet with CGI acts of God – and we talk to him about his latest grim spectacular 2012 before pondering the greatest planet-threatening apocalypses mankind has ever suffered (on film, natch, we're not trying to depress you!).
THE RULES OF ZOMBIELAND All it takes to survive a zombie apocalypse is a zombie plan – we talk to writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick about the essential rules to make it out of horror-com Zombieland alive...
LAST ACTION HERO He’s made more classic ’80s and ’90s action flicks than you’ve had hot dinners – and a fair few crappy ones, too, by his own admission. Review grills movie mogul legend Joel Silver, and liked him way too much to use the headline ‘Vast Action Hero’...
SELECT The planet's greatest review section for DVDs & Blu-rays - and we'll fight anyone who disagrees.
NEW FILM Including Zombieland, The White Ribbon, Twilight: New Moon, Paranormal Activity, Cracks, Harry Brown, Bunny And The Bull, A Serious Man, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, Rumba and 2012.
RETRO Including The Clouded Yellow, The Agnès Varda Collection: Volume 2 and Sous Le Soleil De Satan. Plus Dumbo, The Ladykillers, City Girl and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas all on Blu-ray!
TV Including Twin Peaks: Season 2 (finally!), the complete Street Hawk, Eastbound And Down, Doc Martin: Series 4, Mo, Survivors: Series 2, Callan: The Monochrome Years and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – S9 on Blu-ray.
MUSIC Including Scott Walker: 30 Century Man and Patti Smith: Dream Of Life on Blu-ray, plus John Denver, Jethro Tull and Matt Monro DVDs.
Tuesday February 16, 2010
Issue 139 Out Tomorrow!
Issue 139 is out in shops tomorrow and boy do we have a bag full of weird for you this month!! Tim Burton turns as mad as a hatter with Alice In Wonderland, Wes Anderson (and friends) channel Roald Dahl in animated flick Fantastic Mr Fox and Terry Gilliam puts on a bizarre theatre show in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.
Make sure you pick up a copy from tomorrow to get your fantasy freak on. Alternatively, you can subscribe by following this link or calling 0844 848 2852.
Also appearing in Issue 139: THE BIG NEWS Peter Jackson’s crowd-pleasing fantasy saga The Lord Of The Rings is coming to Blu-ray! But will it mean the most epic double-dip in DVD history later on down the line?
DVD NEWS The poetry-writing emo-vampires get into a spot of bother when some sexy werewolves join the party, as Twilight sequel New Moon hits Blu-ray. Arooooo?!
HI-DEF NEWS Monster madness as Spike Jonze’s twinkly-eyed adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s much-loved children’s tale Where The Wild Things Are careers onto Blu-ray.
EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT After scaring the bejesus out of theatre audiences worldwide, Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli is shifting the fear to your front room...
ON THE COUCH Severance director Chris Smith pulls up a chair to chat about Stanley Kubrick, Sigmund Freud and his new psychological thriller Triangle. Oh, and pig-shagging too. Lovely.
THE FUTURE OF YOUR FRONT ROOM 3D comes to your living room in 2010... as we take you through some of the mad technology that will be hitting your living room (if you’re loaded) this year.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Hollywood’s official figurehead of weird Tim Burton turns his bizarre vibes onto Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. PLUS! Our guide to the best of Burton on disc.
ANIMAL ATTRACTION ...meanwhile, the no-less-eccentric-by-any-means Wes Anderson (and friends) talk us through their affectionate remake of Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox.
DEALING WITH THE DEVIL Yet more weirdness as legendary catastrophe magnet Terry Gilliam talks about The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus and takes us through his favourite movie disasters...
SELECT REVIEWS: NEW FILM Including Up, Fantastic Mr Fox, An Education, Bright Star, Jennifer’s Body, The Invention Of Lying, Boy A, Julie & Julia, The Horseman, Surrogates, Afterschool, Triangle and Amelia.
RETRO Including Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Mystic River, Last Action Hero, Stardust and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait on Blu-ray, plus Fritz Lang’s M, An Inspector Calls and The Double Life of Veronique.
TV Including In Treatment, The Mentalist: Season 1, Sleep With Me, Bernard & Doris, The Avengers: Season 3, Comedy Central Roast Of William Shatner, The Day Of The Triffids and The Royle Family: The Golden Egg Cup.
MUSIC Including Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Blur: No Distance Left To Run and Kissology: Volume 3 covering the years 1992-2000.
Tuesday January 19, 2010
ISSUE 138 OUT TOMORROW!
The Hoth-like weather conditions have relented just in time for us to get issue 138 in the shops for tomorrow! And it’s, quite quite literally, a monster one! Recoil in TERROR at our exclusive report from the set of Benicio Del Toro’s remake of The Wolfman! SCREAM in FEAR at our 12-page rundown of the most terrifying creatures, and their features, of Universal Studios! WET YOUR PANTS in childlike EXCITEMENT as we explore Pixar’s first 3D feature, UP! Also included within our hairiest cover ever is an interview with chin-stroking indie darling Stephen Soderbergh, who discusses his latest movie The Informant! and delivers his hard-hitting verdict on the Format War, and an on-set report from the London version of stalwart police procedural Law & Order: UK. You think that’s all? That’s most definitely not all...
THE BIG NEWS
The Informant! star Matt Damon and screenwriter Scott Z Burns discuss the amazing true story of America’s highest-profile corporate whistleblower.
Over the page, it’s more true life, as journalist Lynn Barber and screenwriter Nick Hornby chat about the coming of age story from Barber’s past that led to the film An Education.
And in our HD section, director Wes Anderson reveals how his stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr Fox was adapted from Roald Dahl’s classic tale in the storyteller’s own home!
EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT...
Director Cary Fukunaga has been hovering up awards with his refugee drama Sin Nombre. Next stop, he tells Review: Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
ON THE COUCH
In between coming up with rhymes for the word afro, comedian Graham Fellowes (AKA John Shuttleworth) ponders whether Mike Leigh still has something to say.
SELECT
Our in-depth reviews section is as tightly packed as Ryanair hand-luggage – new films this month include Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy No.1, Fish Tank, (500) Days Of Summer, The Soloist, Dorian Gray, Broken Embraces, Thirst, The Firm and The Taking Of Pelham 123.
Old-school retro releases include Film Noir Classics, The Terence Davies Collection, Lubitsch In Berlin plus Suspiria, Bullet Boy, Straightheads, Red Road and Une Femme Mariée on Blu-ray...
In TV land, we have write-ups on Collision, Breaking Bad, The Armstrong & Miller Show: S2, Sons Of Anarchy, Life, Danger Man and Seth McFarlane’s Cavalcade Of Comedy...
Music kicks off with guitar(ist) documentary It Might Get Loud and Motown: The Definitive Performances, plus Bon Jovi, Creed, Dolly Parton, Mötley Crüe and Spandau Ballet live...
DVD & Blu-ray Review issue 138 is on sale now from all good retailers. Do not miss it!
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Tuesday December 22, 2009
ISSUE 137 OUT TOMORROW!
Christmas is coming and before that inevitable visit from a fat man bearing gifts there’s one more chance to get your DVD & Blu-ray Review fix!
We’ll be winding up the decade with a look at the top 50 discs from 2000-2009 and looking ahead to what’ll be lighting up your home cinema screen in 2010.
And you CANNOT MISS the most revealing interview Tony Scott has ever given! It’s become legendary in our offices – even more so than the interview quotes from a certain rock star that we’ll never be able to publish! Full details below...
THE BIG NEWS Director Jean-François Richet sifts reality from fantasy in a double-feature on the life of France’s most wanted man, as Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy No 1 come to DVD.
Meanwhile, those who like a little extra bite to their vampire tales will relish Park Chan-wook’s latest film Thirst – even if the director admits he’s scared of horror films.
And in high-def news, Kate Beckinsale hunts a killer in the Antarctic wastes in Whiteout, Canada’s untold war stories finally get an airing in Passchendaele and kids fight it out with extraterrestrials in Aliens In The Attic.
EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT... Katie Jarvis. Most people don’t expect to get more than weak tea and delays at a train station, but newcomer Jarvis landed the lead role in Fish Tank while standing on a platform...
ON THE COUCH Comedian and internet sensation Rhod Gilbert (seven million YouTube views and counting!) discusses the interesting deaths of mince pies and his love of classic sitcoms.
2010 PREVIEW There’s a whole new year of movies just around the corner – naturally, many of them will be rubbish. We take a look at the ones you might want to actually watch...
DO THE HUSTLE Review reports from the set of con-artist drama Hustle as Robert Vaughn’s motley crew of sharp-suited ne’er-do-wells record the sixth season...
GOING UNDERGROUND Ridley’s little brother Tony Scott dishes the dirt on John Travolta’s facial hair, Marlon Brando’s undercarriage and whether or not there’s going to be a Top Gun sequel...
FILMS OF THE DECADE So how did the first decade of the third millennium do for movies? We’re skimming the cream of 10 years’ worth of discs to settle the score...
SELECT Our in-depth reviews section is packed to bursting once more and new releases include The Hurt Locker, District 9, Terminator Salvation, Moon, Antichrist, Funny People, GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, Shorts, A Perfect Getaway and Four Christmases.
Meanwhile, our retro round-up dishes the DVD dirt on Heat, The Polar Express in 3D, The Grinch and North By Northwest on Blu-ray, plus 1941, The Jacques Tati Collection and Silent Night, Deadly Night.
TV’s programmes rated this month include the return of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman In New York, Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold: Vol 2, Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Blu-ray and Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side.
And in our look at the best music onscreen we re-live Nirvana’s classic Reading Festival headline set from 1992, visit Rufus Wainwright and family, catch a fab Joan Baez biography and witness Kings Of Leon live at The O2.
Wednesday November 25, 2009
Issue 136 out today!
Issue 135 of DVD & Blu-ray Review is on sale now!
Inside the stunning new issue...
THE BIG NEWS Director Neill Blomkamp explains how he populated an area of South Africa with aliens in District 9, and promises DVD fans that this release is the definitive cut of his movie.
... Matt Lanter. The Heroes, Commander In Chief and 90210 star is a familiar face on your TV screens. But did you know he’s also the voice of the cartoon Anakin Skywalker?
ON THE COUCH
Al Murray reveals which of his Multiple Personality characters could drink in the Pub Landlord’s gaff, and wonders why someone hasn’t shot Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry.
TALES FROM THE THIRD DIMENSION
With James Cameron’s long-awaited CGI epic Avatar about to hit screens, we ask what the 3D technological revolution means for the future of home entertainment...
GRACE UNDER FIRE
Given her background in fine art, Kathryn Bigelow can’t help but make even Baghdad look beautiful on screen; we chat exclusively to the director of The Hurt Locker.
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
As we go on set with Harry Hill, the unlikely hero of Saturday nights, the big-collared comic reveals how making the hit clip show has ruined television for him forever...
HAPPY DISCMAS!
Nothing says “I didn’t know what to get you...” like a dull DVD under the tree. So put friends and family on the right track with our selection of perfect Christmas discs and gifts!
PARTY BOYS
In a boozy celebration of The Hangover coming to DVD, we talk about some films where people get drunk. That’s pretty much it.
SELECT
Our massive reviews section includes a selection of new film reviews includes Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, Year One, Sunshine Cleaning, The Proposal, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and Inglourious Basterds, while this month’s retro back catalogue includes Fight Club, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind on Blu-ray, plus a new Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs set.
Our TV reviews also feature a number of treats that’ll help make Christmas fly by, including FawltyTowers, Monty Python, Alan Bennett, The Sopranos on Blu-ray, Peep Show, Lost and the final season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Meanwhile this month’s music reviews include DVDs and Blu-rays of ABBA In Japan, More Than This: The Story Of Roxy Music, the documentary Soul Power and Billy Idol, Jethro Tull, John Denver, the Stones and ZZ Top live.
DVD & Blu-ray Review issue 136 is on sale now from all good retailers. Don’t miss it!
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Stuff explodes when MichaelBay is around. And the Transformers 2 cast dish the dirt on the director’s other on-set blow-ups...
THE HANGOVER
Everyone’s Talking About... beardy Hangover star Zach Galifianakis, who chats to Review about “being weird” (specifically, in his pants).
FRANCIS ROSSI
The legendary frontman takes a perch on our couch and reveals how his heart races when he watches a live Status Quo DVD. But he can handle living in an episode of The Sopranos...
FRONT ROOM
In other news, we chat to Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson, who discusses evil kids, while David Attenborough brings Life to the small screen.
SEX, POTIONS AND ROCK’N’ROLL!
Take your floo powder and travel with us to the set of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince as we chat to Daniel Radcliffe and director David Yates...
1939: A VINTAGE YEAR FOR MOVIES
Seventy years ago, with the world on the brink of a second world war, Hollywood kept spirits high with what’s still acclaimed as its greatest year of movies: 1939.
MOON MAKER
First-time director Duncan Jones talks us through the movies that inspired and influenced his sci-fi debut, Moon, from 2001 to Silent Running...
SELECT
Our comprehensive reviews section this issue includes Star Trek, Public Enemies, Drag Me To Hell, Looking For Eric, Last Chance Harvey, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, £45 horror phenomenon Colin, plus Blu-ray releases of Braveheart, Easy Rider, Ghost In The Shell 2.0, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, Twelve Monkeys, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually... Meanwhile, our TV reviews include season boxsets of True Blood, Spooks, Rome (on Blu-ray), House, Bones, Family Guy, Chuck and At Last Smith & Jones, plus a double Doctor Who Dalek special, while our music roundup offers an evening with Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer out of costume, plus Eminem, Status Quo, X-Ray Spex and Toto live...
DVD & Blu-ray Review issue 135 is on sale now from all good retailers. Don’t miss it!
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Friday September 25, 2009
Issue 134 Out 30 September!
There’s a new issue of DVD & Blu-ray Review out next Wednesday and right from the off it’s a stonking good read! There’s some big news to kick things off, as The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Thomas Dekker shares the pain of cancellation and lets off a lot of steam about Dollhouse. If you want to know what Joss Whedon *really* thinks about his underperforming TV series you have to read this!
Elsewhere in news, we chat exclusively to director Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie), who reveals how he got to play ground control to Sam Rockwell’s Major Tom in the sci-fi gem Moon...
And Everyone’s Talking About... no-budget zombie-flick Colin, which out-performed its £45 costs to play at Cannes and land theatrical and DVD releases. Did you know ex-Review staffer Rosie is actually in the film? We chat to writer/director Marc Price who credits his success to sitting and watching DVDs. Nice work, fella!
We also chat to Honor Blackman about how she graduated from The Avengers to Goldfinger. And you’d be surprised how many Bond flicks she hasn’t seen...
An in-depth interview with legendary director Sam Raimi adds to our glut of horror coverage (our make me an expert feature will also tell you everything you need to know about horror franchises), and we get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to sit in on the recording of the commentary for Looking For Eric!
As per usual, we’ve got the most comprehensive DVD and Blu-ray reviews on the planet. Here’s just a taster of what discs we’ve been spinning this month: Coraline; An American Werewolf In London on Blu-ray; Wolverine; FAQ About Time Travel; Synecdoche, New York; Rudo & Cursi; Anything For Her; Gladiator on Blu-ray; The Last House On The Left remake; Telstar; Ip Man; Le Donk And Sco-Zay-Zee; The Uninvited; Fast & Furious; seven Luc Besson Blu-rays; and one of the greatest films ever made – FW Murnau’s Sunrise.
We’ve got our office copies in and as Tony the Tiger would say, they look ggggrrrreeeeaaaaaaaaatttt! Subscribers should get theirs soon (barring any post delays due to the ongoing strike). Everyone else, start queuing at your local newsagent next Wednesday 30 September.
