The DVD Channel

Review - Indiana Jones : The Adventure Collection

Much like Lucas’s Star Wars franchise, the films were structured like the old 1930’s serials, where villains were larger than life, heroes were as gallant as ever, cheese dripped from its lips, and the action adventure knob was turned to 11.

Review - Ghost In The Shell - The Laughing Man

For those who have seen the GitS movies, you'll know that the Laughing Man is the villainous hacker who commits various acts of state vandalism and corporate terrorism, not unlike the unfolding story of Fight Club. Will Barker has more...

Review - Eskernville Kings

Released in 1999, this low budget Aussie flick is one of the best movies to come out of Australia in a long, long time. It's simple, it's to the point - it hasn't got any of that absurdist junk which seemed to be manditory in Australian films between 1990 and 2005 - and there are some great performances.

Review - Run Fatboy Run

This is pretty much as good as a light heartened comedy can get. It's funny, it's got heart and there are at least two shots of a bare arsed Dylan Moran. Sean Lynch takes a look at this superb UK comedy.

Review - Step Up 2 The Streets

The dancing is pretty good, the tone is light and fun, and if you're a fan of amazingly brilliant US crime series set in Baltimore The Wire, then this film's Baltimore setting is gold on it's own.

Review - Sleek Geeks

Sleek Geeks is a six-part factual series featuring Triple J cult hero Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and maths whizz Adam Spencer. Developed off the back of their successful stage show of the same name, the series is an everyday look at science in Dr Karl and Adam's own eclectic style.

Review - The Other Boleyn Girl

Engrossing as it is downright trashy, Boleyn comes as somewhat of a surprisingly watchable piece of history. Much like the multi-award winning Atonement, Boleyn gets started rather stereotypically but quickly takes off on it's own path.

Review - South Park : Imaginationland

Welcome to Imaginationland - or more to the point - Trey Parker and Matt Stone's imagination. With Futurama making a comeback via the DVD-Movie, it only seems sensible that in lew of a second big screen adventure from the South Park boys that the creators churn out a DVD that is just as epic.

Review - Feast Of Love

The flick follows several characters which often temps the audience into thinking that we may be privy to a cleverly intertwined Pulp Fiction type adventure however, for some reason, it ends up looking like the writer gave up on such a plan by the half way mark.

Review - We Were Soldiers : Remastered

Apart from non-stop battle scenes, the movie allows you to meet the families of the men who fought the battle and, more poignantly, lets you watch their wives as they receive telegrams delivered by taxis that tell them their loved ones are dead or wounded.

Review - We Own The Night

There's nothing else in the world that can get a movie off to a cracking start quite like watching Eva Mendes getting hot and heavy with herself. Forget the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark - Eva is the way to lure punters in!

Review - Futurama : Beast With A Billion Backs

The second of four all-new feature-length adventures which follows the latest extraterrestrial exploits of Bender, Fry, Leela and a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles (or as we later learn "Genta-ticals").

Review - Charlie Wilson's War

In the film, Tom Hanks takes on the real-life role of Charlie Wilson, a playboy congressman who teams up with a renegade CIA agent (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and a beautiful Houston socialite (Julia Roberts) to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history.

Review - The Kite Runner

There are very few films which come along under the guise of "Oscar Favourite" and actually live up to the expectations. But rarely, oh so rarely, a film comes along that conveys a message so profound - it's near impossible to ignore.

Review - The Tattooist

This creepy little flick which channels The Ring follows an American tattoo artist who gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoos, and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit.

Review - Definately Maybe

You know when you go to a local hamburger joint (where they cook with real mince & vegetables bought from the market earlier in the day) and it just blows you away when you compare it to a McDonald's burger? Definitely, Maybe is that Local Joint burger.

Review - Dan In Real Life

Steve Carell goes for a mood that's more Little Miss Sunshine and less The 40 Year-Old Virgin in this wry tale of Dan, a single dad who goes to spend a holiday with his very large extended family, only to fall in love with his brother's girlfriend.  

Review - National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets

National Treasure 2 is pure surgary junk. The jokes fall flat, there is no chemistry what so ever with the cast, the plot is down right ludicrous - and Nicholas Cage's teeth look like they were stolen from the set of The Mask.

Review - Eagle vs Shark

Jemaine Clement is superb as the deadpan and undeservedly arrogant Jarrod, and without doubt the star of the flick. While you tend to get the nagging feeling that it's far too close to Napoleon Dynamite the film is still ridiculously funny and entertaining.

Review - Walk Hard : Special Edition

Was it inspired by the success of the cheap & nasty Epic/Date/Scary Movie franchise? Was it a guilty pleasure? Or was it simply because the movie studio threw a buttload of cash at Apatow to create something that wouldn't cost them to much and would allow him to screw around with his mates.

Review - Rendition

The cast seem somewhat under used - with each seeming to have been rationed one 'Oscar clip' scene each. And, aside from those brief moments where they are allowed to truly shine (especially Streep and Arkin), they all seem to be on auto pilot.

Review - Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out

While Chris Rock is travelling around the world breaking ridiculous audience size records, Tony Robinson's first one-man comedy show is located in a fairly run down town hall in some obscure English village. However once you get past the poor acoustics this truly turns into a unique piece of theatre.