Category: DVD Review

Director – Ben Kellett

Staring – Brendan O’Carroll, Jennifer Gibney, Rory Cowan, Danny O’Carroll, Amanda Woods, Fiona O’Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Elish O’Carroll, Dermot O’Neil, Martin Delany, Pat “Pepsi” Shields, Gary Hollywood, Robert Bathurst, Dermot Crowley, Simon Delaney

A developers plans threatens Mrs Brown’s market stall in Moore Street Dublin. M’s Brown and her family and friends, along with a troop of trainee blind ninjas, a barrister with tourettes try to fight for the stall as secrets from Mrs Brown’s past are revealed and her daughter Caril has to make a big decision.

This is based in the TV series but misses some of the features it has on the TV such as the live audience and then bloopers left in.

DVD features – documentaries and blooper reels

6/10

Director – Joe Jonston

Staring – Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci

In the beginning we see scientists find a frozen shield of Captain America in the cockpit of a derelict aircraft.

In 1942 we see Nazis lead by Johann Schmidt entering German occupied Norway to steel a mysterious relic with mystery powers.  New York City Steve Rogers is rejected for military recruitment because of health and physical problems. He then visits an exhibition of future technologies with his friend Sgt James “Bucky” Barnes, where Howard Stark is exhibiting levitating car.  Rogers tries to enlist again this time Dr Abraham Erskine allowed him to list is recruited into the strategic scientific reserve as part of a super soldier experiment led by colonel Chester Phillips and a British agent called Peggy Carter. He all the tests that are set and undergoes the expert which leads him to be much taller and stronger than before.
One of the people witnessing the experiment is working for Schmidt and murders Erskine but avoids capture by Killing himself senator Brandt rebranded Rogers into Captain America to help promote war bonds to prevent scientist from studying him and discovering the formula used to make him stronger.

What is named the bones unit is missing in Action and goes to look for them with Howard Stark and agent Carter he finds them in the fortress of snakes Hydra organisation and frees them.  What is confront Schmidt even use his face mask to reveal a red skull Facebook means he’s called the Red Skull.  Escapes and Rogers returns to the army base with all the freed soldiers

What is recruit Barnes and some of the other recipes soldiers into a new unit to try and destroy other hydro bases stop provider Rogers with the equipment and suit including a circular shield made of Indestructible metal they attack a train and capture the Reds Skull’s assistant but Barnes falls from the train and is presumed dead raja’s Leeds attack to try and stop Schmidt from using massive bombs on American cities and manages to climb on board the aircraft as it’s taking off during the flight one of the weapons lights up and dissolved Schmidt and Rogers has to Crash Land the plane into the Arctic to prevent it from crashing into New York City and then presumed dead.

However he wakes up in what appears to be a 40s style hospital room realises something is wrong when he hears a radio announcement that was from a few years before he went to war he Rushes outside and find himself in present-day Time Square shield director Nick Fury tell him that he has been asleep for nearly 70 years in a post-credits sequence Fury asks Rogers to join him on a mission with worldwide ramifications and there is a message to say that they will return in the Avengers Assemble film.

DVD extras includes behind the scenes features

6/10

Director – Matthew Vaughn

Staring – Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Strong, Train Edgerton, Michael Caine

Kingsman follows secret agents in training who are going to join the Kingsman agency who are fighting the megalomanic Richmond Valentine who wants to take over the world using implants in peoples heads that they get through using his free sim cards.

DVD extras include – behind the scenes

5/10

Director – Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin

Staring – David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly

Doug (Tennant) and Abi (Pike) take their three children to the Scottish Highlands to visit Doug’s dad for his birthday party, but don’t wand the dad to know that they have separated so ask the children to keep it secret. The children then have to take control when the are out with their grandad dies and the other adults are too busy arguing with each other.

As with Hamilton and Jenkins’s Outnumbered this is part improvised to give believable lines to the children.

DVD extras include interviews and directors commentary.

7/10

Director – Matthew Warchus

Staring – Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott

Based on a true story of a group of London based gay and lesbian activists who decide to raise money to help striking miners in the 1980’s. They find a community willing to accept their money in a remote part of Wales where they then visit and face some hostility but eventually they make lifelong friends.

DVD extras include commentary and behind the scenes programmes.

8/10

Director – Gerald Thomas

Staring – Sid James, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Liz Fraser

Black and white comedy where Sid James runs a cab commonly but his wife Hattie Jaques is felling neglected at home so decides to secretly set up a rival cab firm staffed exclusively by women. Hilarity ensues while they each try to outwit each other until the truth is revealed and then how they deal with the fallout.

DVD extras includes commentary

8/10

Director – Kenneth Branagh

Staring – Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, René Russo, Anthony Hopkins

In 965AD King Odin of Asgard defeated the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and their leader Laufrey to prevent them from attacking the 9 realms starting with Earth and seized the source of their power the Casket of Ancient Winters.
In the present day, Odin’s son Thor is preparing to take the throne from his father but is interrupted by the Frost Giants who want the Casket back. Thor follows the Giants against his father’s orders along with his brother Loki and their friends. There is a battle breaking the long held truce and banishes Thor to earth and removes his godly powers and throws Thor’s hammer to earth wit and enchantment which only allows those who are worthy to use it.

Thor and his hammer land in New Mexico where 3 scientists Jane Foster, Darcey Lewis and Erik Selvig are investigating the strange events. The hammer is found and SHIELD officers guard it. Thor tries to lift it but is unable to do so. He resigns himself to living on exclie on Earth and starts a romance with Jane.

In Asgard Loki discovers he is Laufreys son and was rescued by Odin. Odin is tied and Loki takes the throne. Thors friends warn Thor what is happening but Loki sends a robot monster to earth to attack them all. Thor offers himself as a sacrifice and when his is near death his regains the power to summon his hammer and regains his godly strength as he has shown his worthiness. Thor kisses Jane goodbye and returns to Asgard promising to return soon.

Loki and Thor fight and Thor is left with no choice but to break the passage to Earth to save them.

A notice appears saying Thor will return in the Avengers.

There was is a post credit scene with Selvig being taken to a SHIELD office and Nick Fury asks him to investigate a cube shaped object. We see and invisible Loki tell him to accept which he does.

The DVD has some problems with jumping.

There is a directors commentary as an extra.

7/10

Director- Scott McGhee and David Segel

Staring – Julianne Moore , Alexander Skarsgard, Onata April, Joanna Vanderham, Steve Coogan

Maisie is a six years old girl who is stuck in the middle of her parents divorce. Both parents are too self absorbed to care for her, so she is left with their new younger partners, who she grows to love more than her parents as they show her that care and security she needs which her parents must face up to eventually.

The film follows Maisie who is able to understand more than those around her give her credit for.

DVD extras include Directors commentary.

7/10