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Sex, Leins & Videotape #156. Tom Leins reviews Zero Dark Thirty, I Give It A Year and Blood

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Dysfunctional CIA agents, dysfunctional relationships and dysfunctional cops come under the microscope in this week’s DVD round-up.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #155. Tom Leins reviews Bullhead and The Last Stand.

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Elderly Arnie takes on a Belgian farmer pumped full of cattle steroids in this week’s DVD grudge match.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #154. Tom Leins reviews Sweet Vengeance, Dead Mine and White Collar Hooligan 2

Tom Leins casts a critical eye over a trio of straight-to-DVD thrillers.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #153. Tom Leins reviews Bait and The Facility

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The Bait has plenty going for it in terms of tense creature feature thriller, and The Faculty offers dodgy medical testing shenanigans. Tom Leins reviews

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #152. Tom Leins reviews Spartacus: War of the Damned and Ultraviolet

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It is a battle of the box-sets as Spartacus: War of the Damned goes head-to-head with Ultraviolet in this week’s DVD round-up.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #151. Tom Leins reviews Seven Psychopaths, Blood Simple: Director's Cut and Ten Years

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Psychotic behaviour, uncomfortable high school reunions and retro noir are all on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #150. Tom Leins reviews Sightseers and Maximum Conviction

Dark secrets and bloody violence dominate this week’s film reviews in Tom Leins’ DVD round-up.

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #149. Tom Leins reviews End of Watch, The Bay and Small Town Murder Songs

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Tom Leins’s Sex Leins and Videotape DVD review column focuses on law and disorder

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #148. Tom Leins reviews Rust & Bone, The Package and LOVE.

Violence and loneliness collide in this week’s DVD round-up.

 

Rust & Bone (StudioCanal) is director Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to the phenomenal 2009 prison drama A Prophet. Disenfranchised twenty-something Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead) dreams of becoming a professional boxer, but is forced to put his ambitions on hold when he is abruptly given custody

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