Movie DVD Reviews

• Saw VI

  The continuing (and seemingly never-ending) stories of John "Jigsaw" Kramer find a minor return to form with the latest blood-soaked offering of the franchise.

   
• American Son

  An independent drama from director Neil Abramson, American Son is the story of Mike Holland (Nick Cannon), a nineteen year old private in the US Marine Corps on a four-day leave before he is sent to fight in Iraq.

   
• Highly Strung

  There's a certain type of film that the French do so incredibly well that when those non-Gallic countries try to ape their style and panache they always end up falling upon their derrière.

   
• Dead Man Running

  You might think that the producing debut of Mssrs Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole would be a solid, dependable experience - in reality it's more like a weak backpass to the goalkeeper.

   
• Surrogates

  Jonathan Mostow's return to the big screen after 2003's Terminator 3 proves yet again that he is a director in dire need of a better script.

   
• Ocean Waves

  A minor Studio Ghibli film, Ocean Waves is a brief but entertaining affair from the production house that gave us such classics as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.

   
• Boy A

  Originally made for TV and then wisely picked up by The Brothers Weinstein for a wider cinema release in the US, Boy A is a superlative piece of film-making, based on the book written by Jonathan Trigell.

   
• Stan Helsing

  Once in a while, a film comes along that defies expectation and speaks to your heart and mind. Stan Helsing, however, is an inexorable pile of crap.

   
• Driving Aphrodite

  Shelved for over a year and rebranded for the UK as 'Driving Aphrodite', Nia Vardalos' My Life In Ruins is a mis-fire of a comedy driven by a creative team that should really know better.

   
• The Soloist

  A true-life story, The Soloist follows the friendship which emerges between Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), an LA Times columnist, and Nathaniel (Jamie Foxx), a homeless musical prodigy.

   

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