DVD review: Tulpan (12)

Few films feature so little of their title character – and fewer still can claim to have created moving human drama depicting the lives of the shepherds of the Kazakhstan steppe. Asa, a graduate of the pacific navy with “top marks in basic training”, struggles with the relentless repetition of desert life. His attempts to woo ...- 09/04/2010, Reviews

DVD review: Unmade Beds (15)

Unmade Beds, written, perhaps, as a calculated attempt to make the average Londoner feel painfully dull and unattractive, tells the story of a group of the capital’s economically unhindered hipster underclass and the relatively meagre trials that cloud their lives. Centring on Axl, a young Spaniard in search of his English father, and Vera,...- 02/04/2010, Reviews

DVD: Misfits (18), Tom Green (DVD)

Misfits doesn't promise much: a bunch of community service teens get struck by lightning thereby developing superpowers. We've heard it all before, haven't we, thanks to the considerably bigger-budget NBC series, Heroes. Happily, it delivers much more than it should. This is largely down to the spunk of E4's writers. The script is sassy and offbea...- 18/12/2009, Reviews

DVD: Peep Show – Series 6, For retail & rental, (4 DVD)

"Soph wants a pre-birth paternity test; it's not mine. It'd better not be mine. Oh God. Does Dobby really want me? What do you mean you're closing the office? Hmm, £2,000 to go all in with Alan. Seems sensible. Even if he has gone a bit mad. And why's Super Hans brought his snake to our party? Oh God, why? Why?"- 01/11/2009, Reviews

DVD review: Momma's Man, For retail & rental (Diffusion)

This piquant American indie comedy-drama zeroes in on the adult male urge to regress to the comforting cocoon of childhood. - 18/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: Katyn, For retail & rental (Artificial Eye)

Andrzej Wajda's Oscar-nominated feature takes its core from one of the most shocking massacres of the Second World War, when, in March 1940, 22,000 Poles were executed by the Soviets in Katyn forest, including 8,000 military officers. - 18/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: X Men Origins: Wolverine, For retail & rental (20th Century Fox)

Gavin Hood, the director of Tsotsi, revives Marvel Comics' X-Men franchise with this handsome yet redundant prequel. - 18/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: Coraline, Henry Selick, 101 mins (PG)

Eleven-year-old Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) is dismayed and lonely after being forced to move to Oregon, and wishes her parents had more time to spend with her. So when she finds a mysterious door in their house that leads to a parallel, happier world, it appears her prayers have been answered... yet all is not as it seems. Thankfully,...- 16/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Gavin Hood, 107 mins (12)

Young Logan (Hugh Jackman) claws his old man to death and goes on the run with his similarly clawed brother, Victor (Liev Schreiber – what in hell's teeth is he doing in this rot?). The wolverines grow up fighting together in a bunch of wars, before joining a brigade of mercenary mutants. After some unpleasant business in Lagos, Logan ab...- 16/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: My Name Is Earl: Season 4, Various directors, 761 mins (PG)

It is always a big blow when one of your favourite shows is cancelled, and even more so when the makers are not even given the chance to film a proper ending. That's what happened to My Name Is Earl fans earlier this year, when it was announced that there would be no follow-up to this, the comedy's fourth season. As a result, the show as a who...- 16/10/2009, Reviews

DVD review: Katyn, Andrzej Wajda, 121 mins (15)

In Katyñ veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda tackles a terrible war crime carried out against the Polish people early in the Second World War. The film focuses on the massacre in the forest of Katyñ, where the Soviet NKVD executed tens of thousands of Polish soldiers on Stalin's orders. While it introduces those in the prisoner of...- 15/10/2009, Reviews

Microsoft plans to become a big player in Britain's news industry

It's really called a huddle but we are so whacky and new media here we call it The Cuddle," laughs Matthew Ball, as he heads off into a corner of the newsroom and gathers his staff about him. Then in a circular space, looking out towards Buckingham Palace, Microsoft's British editor-in-chief, addresses his team of news, entertainment, motoring and busines- 31/08/2009, Online

DVD Review: Paula Rego (E), Jake Auerbach (47 mins)

It’s impossible not to think highly of Portuguese painter Paula Rego after watching this compelling documentary, which offers a glimpse into an immodestly-portrayed and enigmatic artistic world; for starters, Rego is a delight to watch. As she speaks frankly about her childhood, you become aware that she is not just a storyteller on canv...- 07/08/2009, Reviews

DVD Review: Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus (15), Bent Harner (86 mins)

Following his adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, Bent Hamer returns with this bittersweet tale of train driver Odd Horten (played with heart-warming precision by B�rd Owe) who is facing retirement after 40 years. The plot is delightful: after accidentally missing his last shift,Horten finds himself wrongly arrested, and driven ar...- 07/08/2009, Reviews

DVD Review: O'Horten (15), Bent Harner (86 mins)

Following his adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, Bent Hamer returns with this bittersweet tale of train driver Odd Horten (played with heart-warming precision by B�rd Owe) who is facing retirement after 40 years. The plot is delightful: after accidentally missing his last shift,Horten finds himself wrongly arrested, and driven ar...- 07/08/2009, Reviews