Author: Tom Leins

â€¢ Tom Leins spent two years working as a film critic for national movie magazine DVD Monthly. Since the magazine closed down in 2009 he has contributed to a variety of websites, not least Devon & Cornwall Film, which showcases 'Sex, Leins & Videotape', his entertaining DVD round-up. Tom'sÂ short fiction has been widely published online, and he is currently working on his first novel. To find out more visit: Things To Do In Devon When You're Dead. http://www.thingstodoindevonwhenyouredead.wordpress.com/

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Sex, Leins & Videotape #194. Tom Leins reviews Looking, A Most Wanted Man and Night Moves
ByTom Leins January 26, 2015January 27, 2015
Tom Leins reviews the latest DVDs, the box set of Looking, Philip Seymour Hoffman in A Most Wanted Man, and Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg in Night Moves
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #194. Tom Leins reviews Looking, A Most Wanted Man and Night Moves
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #193. Tom Leins reviews The Rover, Retribution and The Prince.
ByTom Leins January 12, 2015July 15, 2015
Tom Leins continues his series of DVD reviews and takes a look at The Rover, Retribution and The Prince
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #193. Tom Leins reviews The Rover, Retribution and The Prince.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #192. Tom Leins reviews The Missing and The Fall Series 2
ByTom Leins January 1, 2015January 5, 2015
Tom Leins turns his eye to classy TV drama with the release of The Fall and Missing on DVD
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #192. Tom Leins reviews The Missing and The Fall Series 2
Competition
Competition! Win a copy of Retribution on DVD!
ByTom Leins December 28, 2014December 30, 2014
We have three DVDs of the film Retribution to give away in our competition
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Competition! Win a copy of Looking on Blu-ray!
ByTom Leins December 28, 2014December 30, 2014
Win a copy of new HBO drama Looking on Blu-ray with our competition
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #191. Tom Leins reviews The Inbetweeners 2, The Guvnors and A Spell to Ward off the Darkness
ByTom Leins December 18, 2014December 20, 2014
Tom Leins reviews The Inbetweeners 2, The Guvnors and A Spell to Ward off the Darkness
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #191. Tom Leins reviews The Inbetweeners 2, The Guvnors and A Spell to Ward off the Darkness
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #190. Tom Leins reviews The Killing, Mystery Road and Earth To Echo
ByTom Leins November 19, 2014November 19, 2014
Intrigue in Seattle in the Killing series; murder Down Under in Mystery Road; and a backwards-looking family movie in Earth to Echo -Tom Leins reviews DVDs
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #190. Tom Leins reviews The Killing, Mystery Road and Earth To Echo
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #189. Tom Leins reviews 20,000 Days on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive and Grand Piano
ByTom Leins October 30, 2014October 30, 2014
October’s oddest DVDs reviewed, featuring Nick Cave, Jim Jarmusch and, erm, Elijah Wood
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #189. Tom Leins reviews 20,000 Days on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive and Grand Piano
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Competition! Win a copy of The Art of the Steal on Blu-ray!
ByTom Leins October 23, 2014November 5, 2014
Win a copy of The Art of the Steal blu ray -starring Kurt Russell -in this film competition
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #188. Tom Leins reviews Hannibal – Season 2, Postman Pat: The Movie and Tokarev
ByTom Leins September 29, 2014October 2, 2014
Hannibal Lecter, Postman Pat and Nicolas Cage go head-to-head in this week’s DVD round-up. At the outset of Hannibal -The Complete Season Two (StudioCanal) criminal profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) is incarcerated in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, accused of a series of crimes committed by cannibalistic culinarian Dr Hannibal Lecter (Mads…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #188. Tom Leins reviews Hannibal – Season 2, Postman Pat: The Movie and Tokarev
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #187. Tom Leins reviews Sabotage, The Two Faces of January and Brick Mansions
ByTom Leins September 12, 2014September 19, 2014
Tom Leins reviews Arnie in Sabotage, Viggo in The Two Faces of January and dystopian Detroit Brick in Mansions
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #187. Tom Leins reviews Sabotage, The Two Faces of January and Brick Mansions
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #186. Tom Leins reviews The Raid 2, Locke and Killing Season
ByTom Leins August 31, 2014November 17, 2018
It’s a bumper classy week for the Sex, Leins and Videotape review column as Tom Leins takes a look at The Raid 2, Locke and Killing Season
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #186. Tom Leins reviews The Raid 2, Locke and Killing Season
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #185. Tom Leins reviews Starred Up, Deception, McCanick and Under The Skin
ByTom Leins August 3, 2014August 3, 2014
Gritty prison drama Starred Up batters the other DVD releases into submission in this week’s DVD round-up. In Starred Up (20th Century Fox)unhinged 19-year-old Eric Love (Jack O’Connell, Eden Lake, The Runaway) is plucked out of a young offender’s institute and thrust into an adult prison two years ahead of schedule -because he is deemed…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #185. Tom Leins reviews Starred Up, Deception, McCanick and Under The Skin
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #184. Tom Leins reviews Mistaken For Strangers and Pulp: Life, Death & Supermarkets
ByTom Leins July 21, 2014July 21, 2014
It’s Battle of the Bands in this documentary double-dip: The National Vs Pulp Matt Berninger is the lead singer of critically adored US rock band The National. Meanwhile, his younger brother Tom is a likeable thirty-something slacker, who lives at home, listens to unfashionable ’80s heavy metal and makes low-budget horror movies on the side….
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #184. Tom Leins reviews Mistaken For Strangers and Pulp: Life, Death & Supermarkets
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #183. Tom Leins reviews Helix, 13 Sins and A Voodoo Possession
ByTom Leins July 9, 2014July 11, 2014
Tom Leins takes a look at sub-zero infections, deadly challenges and Haitian voodoo as he reviews the creepy DVDs, Helix, 13 Sins and A Voodoo Possession
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #183. Tom Leins reviews Helix, 13 Sins and A Voodoo Possession
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #182. Tom Leins reviews Lone Survivor, RoboCop and Non-Stop
ByTom Leins June 24, 2014June 25, 2014
Navy SEALS in peril, crime and punishment in Detroit and heroism at high altitude -this week’s biggest DVDs reviewed.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #182. Tom Leins reviews Lone Survivor, RoboCop and Non-Stop
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #181: the rise and rise of Matthew McConaughey.
ByTom Leins June 16, 2014March 10, 2021
After a decade of dispiriting comedies Matthew McConaughey is back on track with Dallas Buyers Club, says Tom Leins.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #181: the rise and rise of Matthew McConaughey.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #180. Tom Leins reviews Out of the Furnace, Inside Llewyn Davis and Wish You Were Here
ByTom Leins June 9, 2014June 9, 2014
Blue collar violence, thwarted beatniks and deceit Down Under -Tom Leins reviews this week’s biggest DVDs. Directed by Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper, Out of the Furnace (Lionsgate) is a bloody, sweaty drama that examines the violent lengths that some men will go to in order to survive in a ravaged steel industry town. Russell Baze…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #180. Tom Leins reviews Out of the Furnace, Inside Llewyn Davis and Wish You Were Here
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #179. Tom Leins reviews Orange Is The New Black and Hinterland
ByTom Leins May 27, 2014November 23, 2018
Tom Leins reviews two fascinating new TV dramas in this week’s DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #179. Tom Leins reviews Orange Is The New Black and Hinterland
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #178. Tom Leins reviews The Railway Man and Hustlers.
ByTom Leins May 7, 2014May 12, 2014
Tom Leins reviews The Railway Man and Hustlers
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #178. Tom Leins reviews The Railway Man and Hustlers.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #177. Tom Leins reviews Homefront, Dom Hemingway and The Family
ByTom Leins April 4, 2014April 5, 2014
Vigilante justice in the deep South, a London safecracker comes home and mobster carnage in France -Tom Leins reviews this week’s biggest DVDs.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #177. Tom Leins reviews Homefront, Dom Hemingway and The Family
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #176. Tom Leins reviews Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Ender’s Game
ByTom Leins March 22, 2014March 23, 2014
Tom Leins judges the battle of the teen franchises in this week’s DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #176. Tom Leins reviews Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Ender’s Game
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #175. Tom Leins reviews The Americans, We Are What We Are and For Those In Peril.
ByTom Leins March 11, 2014March 12, 2014
Retro espionage, unhealthy appetites and watery graves -Tom Leins reviews the week’s best DVDs: The Americans, We Are What We Are and For Those In Peril
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #175. Tom Leins reviews The Americans, We Are What We Are and For Those In Peril.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #174. Tom Leins reviews Filth and This Ain’t California
ByTom Leins February 11, 2014March 2, 2014
Tom Leins reviews Filth and This Ain’t California in this week’s DVD round-up. Filth (Lionsgate) tells the story of Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy, Welcome To The Punch), a corrupt, drug-addicted cop who finds himself in line for an unlikely promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Tasked with solving…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #174. Tom Leins reviews Filth and This Ain’t California
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #173. Tom Leins reviews In A World, Piercing Brightness and The Colony
ByTom Leins January 22, 2014January 23, 2014
Quirky comedy, art-house sci-fi and post-apocalyptic chills are on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up, with In A World, Piercing Brightness and The Colony
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #173. Tom Leins reviews In A World, Piercing Brightness and The Colony
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #172. Tom Leins reviews The Tunnel TV series and Last Passenger
ByTom Leins January 15, 2014November 24, 2018
There is blood on the tracks in this week’s DVD round-up. Tom Leins reviews The Tunnel TV Series and Last Passenger in Sex, Leins & Videotape
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #172. Tom Leins reviews The Tunnel TV series and Last Passenger
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #171. Tom Leins reviews The Great Train Robbery, Vendetta and Lords of London.
ByTom Leins January 6, 2014January 19, 2014
Tom Leins takes to the DVDs to review The Great Train Robbery, Vendetta and Lords of London
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #171. Tom Leins reviews The Great Train Robbery, Vendetta and Lords of London.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #170. Tom Leins reviews We’re The Millers and Lovelace
ByTom Leins December 18, 2013January 19, 2014
Drug-smuggling and ‘porno chic’ – Tom Leins gets some new vices in this week’s DVD round-up…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #170. Tom Leins reviews We’re The Millers and Lovelace
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #169. Tom Leins reviews The Heat, 2 Guns and Only God Forgives
ByTom Leins December 3, 2013December 5, 2013
Law and disorder in the DVD section -Tom Leins reviews this week’s biggest home entertainment titles.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #169. Tom Leins reviews The Heat, 2 Guns and Only God Forgives
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #168. Violent delights are on offer in this week’s DVD round-up.
ByTom Leins November 14, 2013November 18, 2013
Violent delights are on offer in this week’s DVD round-up. Originally released in Sweden in 2010, word-of-mouth sensation Easy Money (Icon/Lionsgate) didn’t actually arrive in UK cinemas until this summer. Now available on DVD, this violent, absorbing thriller proves to be well worth the wait. Cash-strapped economics student Johan ‘JW’ Westlund (Joel Kinnaman, The Killing…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #168. Violent delights are on offer in this week’s DVD round-up.