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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
Role Models Growing old disgracefully… Two reckless salesmen are ordered to mentor some wayward children. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash...
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The Best view |Comrades: A Lanternist’s Account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Scottish director Bill Douglas was one of the most gifted and original filmmakers British cinema has produced, yet nearly two decades after his tragically premature death at the age of 57 in 1991, his...
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Tonight’s Aussie Horror Classic | The Survivor
12.30am, BBC2 Long before M Night Shyamalan’s terrible Unbreakable, there was this underrated 1981 Aussie thriller, in which a pilot emerges from the wreckage of his downed 747 completely unharmed....
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Pete’s Peek | Bad Boy Bubby on Blu-ray
Fans of quirky, twisted cinema are in for a treat. Bad Boy Bubby, one of the most controversial cult films of the 1990s, has just been given a new lease of life in on Blu-ray. Awarded a Special Jury...
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At the Cinema | The Boys Are Back
Shine director Scott Hicks returns to Australia after his decade-long Hollywood sojourn for this funny, touching drama based on the best-selling memoir by The Independent’s parliamentary sketch...
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Samson & Delilah – True love Down Under
Life is incredibly unfair. And every now and again a movie comes along to emphasize that very fact and promptly depresses the hell out of me. Samson & Delilah is that kind of a film. The director,...
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Couch Potato’s Top Women in the World of Film
I wanted to feature a celebration of outstanding women in the film industry to mark the International Women’s Day Centenary today. But there are so many women deserving of acknowledgement, and no time...
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Pete’s Peek | Is Lake Mungo Australia’s answer to Paranormal Activity?
Lake Mungo is one of those films where the chills come gradually rather than in short sharp shocks, just likethe similarly-themed Paranormal Activity. In the small rural town of Ararat, southwest...
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DVD review | Mental – PJ Hogan unleashes Toni Collette’s subversive nanny on...
Toni Collette and PJ Hogan, star and director of Muriel’s Wedding, reunite for another darkly funny Aussie comedy – but this time the duo fail to pull off another brash triumph. Mental finds Collette...
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Pete’s Peek | Shocking. Funny. Provocative. You won’t forget The ABCs of...
Inspired by alphabet teaching books, a group of cutting edge indie film directors from across the globe have created 26 short films ranging from the absurd, the baffling and the cleverly comic to the...
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Son of a Gun | Film review – Ewan’s lifer takes rookie Brenton on a...
Part gritty prison drama, part hard-boiled gangster thriller and part crafty heist caper, Australian writer-director Julius Avery’s feature debut, Son of a Gun, switches genres with profligate ease,...
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The Inbetweeners 2 | Film review – The loser lads are scraping the bottom of...
The loser lads from E4’s cult comedy series head Down Under for the inevitable sequel to 2011’s big-screen spin-off, a runaway hit that broke box-office records to become the UK’s biggest grossing...
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