Review: Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

With the release of this fourth and final feature-length movie, once again we come to the 'end' of Futurama as we know it. These days, TV shows never really die – they're just put on hiatus until outraged fans buy enough DVDs (come on Browncoats, resurrect Firefly!). But given the mixed reception these new releases have received...

Review: Futurama: Bender's Game

Good news, everybody! Futurama's back! It's been a strange old scenario ever since the show was resurrected from TV Hell. Instead of another series of 22-minute episodes, Fox – in their infinite wisdom – recommissioned Futurama in the form of four feature-length DVDs, each of which are basically four episodes back to back (to be...

Review: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

“Let me put it this way...all the good parts of Superman II are mine.” A pissed-off Richard Donner, 1989 It's a long story, but 26 years after it was filmed, Richard Donner's version of Superman II is finally unleashed on the world. Donner had already shot 80% of the movie when the Salkinds, notorious control freaks and own...

Review: Waiting...

Kevin Smith may very well have pissed all over the chips of Waiting before it was even served up as a movie. One can almost picture the pitch to the studio: “It’s kinda like that Clerks movie. Only it’s set in a restaurant. And it’s in colour.” They may not have added “Only it’s not going to be as funny. Or as twisted. Even tho...

Review: HERO

Before I go into detail about this DVD, I have a confession to make; I have never, ever liked Martial Arts movies. I never got what the big screaming deal was about seeing an inscrutable hero kick seven shades of unpleasantness out of a gang of remarkably stupid villainous henchmen. Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan...all the...

Review: THE DAY TODAY

Russia have elected a cobweb, Hugh Scully is menacing citizens of a local town and John Major has just punched the Queen in the face – it can only be the twisted brain-wrongs of Chris Morris and his news factory The Day Today. Spiritual successor to radio show On The Hour and predecessor to the razor-sharp BrassEye, The Day Tod...