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DVD REVIEWS

The Band's Visit

Almost note-perfect and an ensemble cast of wry, touching performances,

Iron Man

Iron Man has the virtue of novelty: he's not a sequel or a remake and there is a terrific actor to bring him to life.

The Dennis O'Rourke Collection

Shock is releasing two box sets of the work of Australian filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke.

Inland Empire

David Lynch's Inland Empire is a dark, haunting, proliferating stew of stories, non-linear narratives that open and morph into each other.

Dexter: Season Two

Dexter Morgan (Michael Hall), returns for a second round of blackly comic murder and mayhem in the Miami sunshine.

Tiger: Spy in the Jungle

This is an up-close-and-personal account of the lives of a litter of four tiger cubs, two male, two female.

Flight Of The Red Balloon

Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien travels to Paris to create a lovely, deceptively leisurely, undemonstratively dense evocation of childhood.

Fanny and Alexander

This is a rich, sensuous, epic work, with a large cast of Bergman regulars.

Global Metal

Global Metal is the excellent follow-up to the 2005 documentary Metal - A Headbanger's Journey.

It All Starts Today

French director Bertrand Tavernier's It All Starts Today is set in a small town in Northern France.