Title: Essential Killing

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast: Vincent Gallo

Runtime: 83 min

Rating: R

Reviewed by Rhys Dowbiggin

With so many luxuries at our disposal we often forget that life is a matter of meeting basic needs. When these basic needs are taken from us we realize just how vital they are — and how worthless everything else is. In order to live, all we need is to eat, to sleep, to have shelter and warmth. Everything else is secondary. And in certain environments, it can be a matter of life or death.

Essential Killing is a film both difficult and incredibly simple to describe. The film focuses on an Afghan warrior (Vincent Gallo) who is captured by military forces, shipped to a holding facility in a frigid European country and eventually finds himself escaped. That is the simple part. It gets complicated when describing everything else.

DVD Review

Gossip Girl: The Complete Fourth Season

Created By: Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage

Cast: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr

Network: The CW

Genre: Drama

Reviewed By Adam A. Donaldson

Hey there Upper East Siders. It’s time again to take stalk of another year full of hook-ups, break ups, and f**k-ups courtesy of the cast of characters that make up The CW hit Gossip Girl. There were some big changes and some big developments, but if you can’t find the part of your brain that digs seeing good-looking young people scheme, scream and brawl with each over about assort melodramatic developments, then GG will remain inexorably vexing to the average viewer.

DVD REVIEW
Title: Last Night
Studio/Distributor: eOne Films
Directors: Massy Tadjedin
Principle Cast: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Guillaume Canet, Eva Mendes
Length: 90 minutes
Released: 2010
Reviewer: Christine Bode

Director, writer & producer Massy Tadjedin has scored a hat trick with her beautiful, contemporary and honest character-driven debut film Last Night, in which she undertakes an intimate exploration of monogamy, temptation and betrayal within the three year marriage of New Yorkers Michael and Joanna Reed.

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DVD Review

Title: Wish Me Luck

Season: 3

Distributor: eOne

Starring: Jane Asher, Shirley Henderson, Jane Snowden, Kate Buffery, Terrence Hardiman, Michael J Jackson, Julian Glover

Length: 414 Minutes

Episodes: 23

Originally Aired: 1990

Released on DVD: July 26^th 2011

Reviewed By: Kindah Mardam Bey

The third and final season to Wish Me Luck is a compelling end to the show that originally aired in 1990. A solid storyline, talented cast and true stories from WWII make Wish Me Luck one of the most historically accurate and well produced series on WWII that England has ever created.

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