Pugilist Pulls Press
It had already had a strong performance at the Oscars and garnered plenty of coverage on its theatrical release and that strong performance continued on to DVD for Momentum’s The Fighter, as our weekly round up of press coverage and reviews in the national press shows. The previous week had witnessed a fair amount of [...]
Click here for more >A Frosty Reception
Best pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost understand what makes fans tick, they are, after all, the ultimate fan boys turned film stars themselves. And when it comes to supporting a release the duo, who had become best pals before hitting paydirt with Spaced and, later, films such as Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz [...]
Click here for more >Gritty Determination
With Father’s Day looming large, reviews and coverage for DVD over the past seven days has had a distinctly blokey feel. There were special supplements in the likes of The Sun, offering DVD-friendly gift suggestions, and, given that many releases were aimed at dads of all ages, the reviews in the national press over the [...]
Click here for more >Hours Means Inches
In a week that saw its fair share of sizeable releases, it was the winning combination of a British director (Danny Boyle), a star coming into his own with a tour de force performance (James Franco) and a based on real events plot that was so remarkable you couldn’t make it it up (“I had [...]
Click here for more >Go Gets A Green Light From Reviewers
It may not have been universally positive coverage, but the combination of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston proved irresistible to most reviewers over the weekend, with their romcom Just Go With It being among the best reviewed films of the past seven days, as our weekly round-up of DVD and Blu-ray coverage proves. Also scoring [...]
Click here for more >Tangled Up In Blu
Black Swan continued its strong run of coverage into another week, as did Gulliver’s Travels and The Next Three Days. But the real winner of the week was probably Disney’s Tangled, which got plenty of coverage as highlighted in our weekly round-up of home entertainment coverage in the national press and elsewhere. What’s more most [...]
Click here for more >The Swan’s Way
After dominating the proceedings last week, Momentum’s The King’s Speech had another outstanding week in terms of reviews and coverage, as our weekly round-up of press coverage for home entertainment shows. Chief among Monday’s releases receiving coverage were Fox’s Black Swan and Lionsgate’s The Next Three Days both scoring well. On the television side, there [...]
Click here for more >Hornet Has A Sting
Despite the wealth of coverage and plethora of supplements The Royal Wedding didn’t succeed in pushing home entertainment off national newspapers’ pages over the weekend, as our weekly review of the reviews across the press shows. If anything, there was more coverage than normal, and much of it included The Green Hornet, which, in its [...]
Click here for more >Tourist Visits Review Pages
Sometimes films can earn themselves lots of criticism on their theatrical bow, and earn a deserved reassessment when they arrive on DVD and Blu-ray. At other times, they may not necessarily be reassessed, but deemed to be worthy of home viewing – where maybe a trip to the cinema was thought to be pointless, they’re [...]
Click here for more >Legacy Leaves A Lasting Impression
It was the week of the colon, as the three best reviewed DVD titles over the past week each had the dreaded colon in them, signifying that much of the coverage in our regular round-up was devoted to sequels. Those three were Tron: Legacy, from Disney, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader [...]
Click here for more >No Deathly Hush As Harry Makes Noise
It was the biggest release of 2011 so far and, given the size and scale of the franchise, it was no surprise to see the latest title in the Harry Potter series, Deathly Hallows Part 1, dominating the weekend’s coverage. But there were other titles snapping at the young wizard’s heels. There was another Warner [...]
Click here for more >Mind Over Matter
With a wealth of studios and other companies now releasing CG animated fare, it’s not as easy to make a noise about a release as maybe it was in the early days of the boom in this kind of film. Animation fatigue sometimes afflicts reviewers, but DreamWorks can still attract attention to one of its [...]
Click here for more >Tamara Comes, Dagenham Has It Made
With Mother’s Day on the way, much of this weekend’s coverage was devoted to female-friendly releases, or rather two in particular. Tamara Drewe and Made In Dagenham, both released ahead of the April 3 event (it’s later than usual this year) were covered by pretty much every newspaper these past few days, as our weekly [...]
Click here for more >Kids Did More Than All Right…
An outstanding cast, a novel plot, Oscar and awards nominations and a feeling that it under-performed and was forgotten at many ceremonies all meant that The Kids Are All Right ticked many of the right boxes for DVD reviewers, and, as our weekly round-up of home entertainment coverage in the national press and in assorted [...]
Click here for more >Life Is Sweet For Leigh’s Latest
Mike Leigh has long been the darling of critics among the broadsheets, but his works were sometimes ignored by tabloid reviewers, while others from the red-tops criticised him for perceived crimes against the working classes… One writer who gave a hugely favourable review to Another Day, Leigh’s latest outing, once spent half an hour telling [...]
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