30 Days of Fright: Asian horror DVD round-up
You’re thinking twisty-faced Asian dead girls creeping towards the camera as incongruous sound-effects grind your mind into little bits, right?
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You’re thinking twisty-faced Asian dead girls creeping towards the camera as incongruous sound-effects grind your mind into little bits, right?
Looper stands out as one of the year’s smartest, slickest , most WTF-inducing sci-fi films.
This isn’t going to be anyone’s favourite episode of Doctor Who by a long-shot, but it is a fine stand-alone instalment that’s raised above mediocrity by its filmic feel.
No matter how cynical you are, it’s very difficult not to find yourself grinning.
Given their track record, you would think Sinbad and the rest of the Providence would be more cautious about offering strangers a ride.
Overall, The Sweeney didn’t need to be made, but it’s perfect popcorn fodder as a cop film in its own right.
There are many times when you feel that Wilfred would have been much better as a film, or as a number of sketches.
‘It’s quite ridiculous,’ the Doctor says at one point during this supercharged, Jurassic Park-meets-Alien-meets-Carry On Cleo romp. ‘Also: brilliant.’ He’s right on both counts. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship is possibly the most preposterous episode of Doctor Who since the days when Tom Baker proposed a talking cabbage as his new companion; yet it’s easily the … >
Although it can’t quite decide whether it’s a sanitised version of The Fades or simply Twilight-meets-Byker Grove, Wolfblood is a lot of fun.
Watching Parade’s End is like getting stuck into a lovely big slice of Victoria Sponge. If only life were all tea and cake for Christopher Tietjens…