Tag Archives: DVD REVIEWS

WATCH AT HOME: Calibre, Dreamland, Of Human Bondage, The Host and Intolerance reviewed by Robert Tanitch

CALIBRE (Netflix) won Best British Film at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 and well deserves the large audience it will now at last reach. Two young men (Jack Lowden and Martin McCann) decide to take a ...

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DVDs: The Elephant Man, The Windsors, Nights of Cabira and White Sheik reviewed by Robert Tanitch

THE ELEPHANT MAN (SudioCanal). David Lynch’s disquieting 1980 film is notable for its compassion. In 1886 John Merrick, body and face, hideously deformed was admitted to the London Hospital. Dr Freder ...

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DVDs: JoJo Rabbit, Sons of Denmark, My Left Nut and Villain – reviewed by Robert Tanitch

JOJO RABBIT (Fox Searchlight) will interest and divide audiences. Many will be offended by this World War II drama set in Nazi-occupied Austria, a satire on blind fanaticism. A 10-year-old Hitler Yout ...

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Good news for opera and ballet lovers – free viewings

Robert Tanitch reviews The Royal Ballet’s Peter and the Wolf on line During the coronavirus the Royal Opera House is offering a programme of opera and ballet productions for free via ROH’s Facebook an ...

andrew 2067 views 0 likes Mar 30, 2020