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Tue
31.8.10
BREAKING EMMY RECORDS: SPHE
Trevor D
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is proud to recognise three of its distributed contemporary TV titles among the award winners at the 2010 Primetime Emmy® Awards. Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Nurse Jackie won a total of five awards at the ceremony held in Los Angeles yesterday including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series respectively. This is the highest number of awards by a local distributor announced in the Primetime Emmy Awards. Once again breaking records, acclaimed Lionsgate and AMC drama Mad Men won Outstanding Drama Series for the third year in a row. Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy also won Outstanding Writing for a Drama series, demonstrating the fact that we’ve all gone mad for the pensive characters in the show. On the acting front, Lionsgate’s Nurse Jackie saw Edie Falco win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Sony Pictures Television‘s Breaking Bad was commended on two fronts with Bryan Cranston winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the second year in a row, and his co-star Aaron Paul winning Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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Sat
4.9.10
North Face (Nordwand) (2008)
Trevor D
In 1936 there remained one "problem" in Europe - the North face of the Eiger mountain, a fierce, icy, rocky deathtrap. In this dramatic recreation of the second attempt on the face, German director Philipp Stoelzl excels at putting us right there on the mountain, not knowing whether our heroes will live or die. Padding out the action with a love story and some political context lessens the tension a little but this is still a highly watchable adventure.
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Fri
3.9.10
Book of Eli, The (Blu-ray) (2010)
Ray N
In The Book of Eli The Hughes Brothers (From Hell) provide their take of a post-apocalyptic world. Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman are protagonists seeking to use the messages contained within “the book of Eli” in different ways to lead humankind out of the darkness. The film looks great, builds tension well, features an excellent Denzel Washington performance and good action sequences.
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Thu
2.9.10
A Prophet (2009)
Trevor D
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film,Un Prophete is a tough, uncompromising prison movie. We follow Malik, a young man with French and Arab heritage, in a prison where the twain never meet. Starting as an "under the radar" inmate he is forced to step up when the local Corsican mafia Mr Big takes an interest in him. The rise of Malik is not a Scarface tale but rather an oblique, shaggy dog story that rewards with patient watching. Never an easy watch, this tough film has a decent transfer on DVD and a few interesting extras. Highly recommended.
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Wed
1.9.10
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are [Not] Alone (Evangerion shin...) (Blu-ray) (2007)
Trevor D
Giant robots, giant personalities with giant defects and a pile of secrets - all cast against the background of a devastated earth. Welcome to Tokyo 3 and the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Creator Hideaki Anno has gone back to the drawing board, literally, to recreate the series in a quartet of movies. The first Evangelion 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone is a thrilling entry to the world. The only flaw is the long wait for the next installments.
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Tue
31.8.10
iMurders (2008)
Ray N
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iMurders is another film that establishes a large range of characters and situations and then gradually intertwines their stories and connections. However, in their keenness to mix genres, to sow red herrings and dead ends, and to connect various strands, the filmmakers have created a film that has some interesting ideas but which ultimately is far too contrived to be convincing.
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Mon
30.8.10
Basic (Blu-ray) (2003)
Mike B
John Travolta and Connie Nielsen team up to unravel this military based thriller set in the wilds of Panama. Basic comes complete with a script almost as impenetrable as the jungle and with more twists and turns than a basket full of pythons. Unfortunately the extras seem to have been lost in transit.
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