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The Revenant (Cinema Review)

January 14, 2016 By Stephen Sclater Leave a Comment

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
Director: Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu
Running Time: 156 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: January 15th 2016 (UK)

2016 should be the year that Leonardo DiCaprio bags his first Oscar, while Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu picks his second for Best Director and Best Picture (following last year’s Birdman). As in the title of the film, DiCaprio is a revenant – a person who has returned supposedly from the dead.

Based on a true story, the premise of the film is one of revenge set against the backdrop of the bleak wilderness of America around 1820. Glass (played by DiCaprio) and his half-Indian son are fur trappers, whose party is attacked by a group of Indians intent on stealing their fur so that they can trade it with the French. The decimated party then struggle against the elements to make their way back to their base, whilst trying to shake off the Indians, who are intent on killing them and stealing the furs. [Read more…]

You’re Human Like The Rest Of Them – The Films Of B.S. Johnson (DVD/Blu-ray)

April 15, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: B.S. Johnson, William Hoyland, Bill Owen
Director: B.S. Johnson
Running Time: 156 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: April 15th 2013

The BFI is very good at delving into its archive to bring out things that feel like it’s a very good thing that they’re out there for the public to find, even if it’s difficult to imagine any more than a very tiny segment of that public ever caring to seek them out. That’s very true of You’re Human Like The Rest Of Them, which I think it’s safe to say won’t be reaching the top of the DVD/Blu-ray sales chart, but gives an outlet to the work of an intriguing artist who has a bit of a cult following in certain circles. [Read more…]

Hard – Series 1 (DVD)

February 19, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Natacha Lindinger, Francois Vincentelli, Anne Caillon, Charlie Dupont
Director: Cathey Verney
Running Time: 156 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 18th 2012

Sophie lives a comfortable middle-class life with her husband and two children. However that changes dramatically when her hubby dies and she discovers that he wasn’t in shipping as he’d claimed, he actually ran SophX, a porn website.

She also discovers that her hubby took out new loans on the house, and so she has to step up and turn the business around, even though she finds porn disgusting. Initially she hopes to make something a bit more upmarket that women will also enjoy, but faces opposition from those entrenched in an old idea of how porn works, as well as adult stars who don’t really know what to do when asked to do proper acting. [Read more…]