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DVD Review: The Boys Are Back (12A) **** May 14 2010

DIRECTED by Shine’s Scott Hicks, Coventry-born star Clive Owen is on career-best form in a drama which illustrates what it’s like to be left as a single parent following the death of your partner. Read

DVD Review: Sherlock Holmes (12A) *** May 14 2010

AFTER some appalling movies like Snatch, Swept Away, Revolver and RocknRolla, Guy Ritchie at last reverts to the Lock Stock form which made his name. Read

DVD Review: It's Complicated (15) **** May 07 2010

HERE’S a typical comedy from What Women Want director Nancy Myers. In other words, this story about a woman who sleeps with a married man (Alec Baldwin) goes on a bit too long and it’s not always going to be tickling your ribs given that Steve Martin lost his funnybone years ago.Read

DVD Review: St Trinian's 2 (PG) * May 07 2010

THIS uncalled for sequel is at the opposite end of the spectrum to Where The Wild Things Are. Read

DVD Review: Where The Wild Things Are (PG) **** May 07 2010

I’VE got a soft spot for this film which I think is one of the best children’s movies of the century. Most offerings for youngsters are just content to whack them over the head with cheap tricks.Read

Graham Young reviews this week's DVD releases. May 07 2010

TENDERNESS (15)Read

Debut well worth wait May 07 2010

IF the credits to his debut album are anything to go by, Harper Simon’s mobile phone contacts list must read like a musical Who’s Who.Read

DVD Review: Carriers (15) *** Apr 30 2010

SWINE flu gave this ‘virus’ thriller a certain topicality for its delayed cinema release last autumn – as did an astonishingly-perceptive Tiger Woods’ kissing gag and the fact that Chris Pine had just been in Star Trek. But even the huge success of the latter a year ago couldn’t turn this into a big hit. Read

DVD Review: Tenderness (15) **** Apr 30 2010

WITH his Oscar nominations and consistent track record, Russell Crowe is probably one of the last actors you’d imagine going straight to DVD.Read

Graham Young reviews this week's DVD releases. Apr 30 2010

TENDERNESS (15)Read

DVD Review: The Stepfather (15) ** Apr 16 2010

ALTHOUGH this is a pointless remake of the 1987 cult horror, it could still have been a genuine social commentary, with Nip/Tuck star Dylan Walsh as the bad guy David Harris. Read

DVD Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats (15) *** Apr 16 2010

OPENING as a war movie with real comedy bite thanks to the notion that if you can kill a goat just by thinking then that is a combat weapon worth having.Read

DVD Review: Nine (12) **** Apr 16 2010

RELEASING this film on Boxing Day wasn’t a good idea because it was swamped by the might of Avatar.Read

DVD Review: Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel (U) **** Apr 09 2010

THE competitive arrival of the Chipettes is all set to give the boys a warning lest they become too complacent with success. Read

DVD Review: Law Abiding Citizen (18) **** Apr 09 2010

GERARD Butler takes the twinkle-eyed title role of a man out for revenge at any price. Read

Mail Film Editor Graham Young reviews this week's DVDs, including Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 and Law Abiding Citizen. Apr 09 2010

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (18)Read

DVD Review: The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnussus (12) *** Apr 02 2010

DIRECTOR Terry Gilliam turns Heath Ledger’s death part way through filming into an opportunity to cast Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.Read

DVD Review: The Informant! (15) *** Apr 02 2010

MY worst nightmare is bad fluorescent lighting, so being asked to suffer it for most of a whistleblowing movie is not exactly fun. Read

DVD Review: Planet 51 (U) *** Apr 02 2010

THE central idea is fine. First, put an astronaut on a planet that resembles the 1950s’ picket-fence America and then have him trying to escape becoming museum meat. Read

Mail Film Editor Graham Young reviews this week's DVD releases. Apr 02 2010

PLANET 51 (U)Read

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