DVDs
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Something of a critical darling when released in cinemas, DVD is as good a time as any to reappraise Andrew Dominik’s pseudo-philosophical western.
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
If you’re a director with unimpeachable indie credentials, critical love, fan boy worship and studio backing, this is exactly how you’d want to piss it away: with an epic folie de grandeur starring Justin Timberlake, Sarah Michelle Gellar and The Rock.
Flags of our Fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
Clint Eastwood’s double-headed recount of one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War is an ambitious piece of filmmaking.
Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006)
Director James Longley adds his voice to the clamour of pissed-off liberals raging over the Iraq War.
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua, 2007)
You know it’s all going to go tits up when Bob Swagger’s sniper buddy pulls out a picture of his hot fiancé just as the bad guys roll round the corner.
Fracture (Gregory Hoblit, 2007)
Anthony Hopkins as a highly intelligent killer playing cat-and-mouse with a hotshot youngster.
Outlaw (Nick Love, 2007)
Outlaw offers further evidence of Nick Love’s obsession with male eroticism masquerading as violence, this time starring Sean Bean as well as usual muse Danny Dyer.
