This week on DVD Pixar's Brave and the re-boot of The Amazing Spider-man both take aim for home entertainment superiority. We also take a look at the underrated holiday heartwarmer Arthur Christmas, the apocalyptic comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and two cheesy direct to DVD action films: one that has Bruce Willis and the other with Steve Austin and Steven Segal.
Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation features multiple locations and a new, compelling female protagonist. But a litany of glitches and bugs will test even the most ardent fans of the parkour-and-daggers series.
It might still have Steven Spielberg's trademark streak of sentimentality, but Lincoln might be the director's most satisfying historical drama to date,
While not terrible and despite a solid cast of pros, The Oranges is a limp comedy that trods over the same ground as countless suburban based comedies and dramas that came before it.
As one might expect, the flashy UK remake of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher ends up being a mostly pointless exercise, adding a tonne of shallow style but very little substance to the proceedings. Director Luis Prieto pushes the source material through that Guy Ritchie gangster movie filter, and in the process robs his remake of the gritty naturalism that made the rough around the edges original work.
One of the best environmental docs of the year and unfortunately timely in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Chasing Ice is more of a personal story of man interacting with nature that's refreshingly free of didactic lecturing on the subject of climate change. It's one thing to hear about how glaciers are melting. It's another thing to actually see it like you do here.
Despite moving the events of Pierre Choderlos De Lacois' timeless Dangerous Liasons to Shanghai, this sumptuous looking production is still only exactly what one would expect this adaptation of a literary classic to be.
Master Chief is back, now under the banner of Halo-centric studio 343 Industries at the start of a whole new “Reclaimer” trilogy. In its return, Halo 4 may have just accomplished its duty, but does that mean it can win the war for a massive demographic's trigger fingers after being MIA for some key years?
RZA's directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists might only appeal to lovers of old school kung-fu, but in that same respect, it ain't nothin' to fuck with.
While not as original as one would hope and overlong, Wreck-It Ralph still holds a high amount of entertainment value for gamers both old and young.
Despite an excellent leading performance from Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis' Flight is an odd duck of a movie, lurching wildly between crowd pleasing Oscar bait and an intense and far better look at the nature of addiction.
Some books were just not meant to be made into movies, and despite the best efforts of director Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children happens to be one of those books.
How to Survive a Plague brings back the events of the early days of AIDS research activism ti the big screen showcasing how ignorance and fear can be toppled by the right people refusing to let an important issue disappear.
Despite forgetting to add in a certain degree of sincerity that 80s and 90s cheeseball replicas need to succeed as comedies, the ultra low budget Manborg from Winnipeg's Astron 6 has enough funny moments and interesting stop motion effects to spare.
This week at the video store, we check out the timely comedy of The Campaign, the out of time Oliver Stone thriller Savages, the zombie apocalypse of [REC]3: Genesis, the romantic dramedy stylings of A Little Bit of Heaven and Ruby Sparks, and the goings on in the world of Mad Men.
