DVD REVIEWS

Beauty and the Beast is for family audiences

Beauty and the Beast is for family audiences

Robert Tanitch reviews a DVD for the festive season Beauty and the Beast (Disney). The classic text for one of the world’s oldest stories is by Madame Leprince de Beaumont and was first published in 1 ...
Love isn’t a dirty word in the L-shaped room

Love isn’t a dirty word in the L-shaped room

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The L-Shaped Room (StudioCanal) is in a sleazy boarding house in a tawdry 1962 Notting Hill Gate. The landlady is played Avis Bunnage (excellent) and her lodgers ...
Four Film Noir Classics

Four Film Noir Classics

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Four Film Noir Classics (Arrow) directed by Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Abraham Polonsky and Joseph H Lewis in one box-set The Dark Mirror (1946). Robert Siodmak ...