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 #167. Tom Leins reviews Snitch and The Bling Ring.
ByTom Leins November 3, 2013November 4, 2013
Sex, Leins & Videotape #167. Tom Leins reviews Snitch and The Bling Ring.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #167. Tom Leins reviews Snitch and The Bling Ring.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #166. Tom Leins reviews The Deep, Breakout and Twixt
ByTom Leins October 31, 2013October 31, 2013
Cinematic endurance tests are the order of the day, as The Deep, Breakout and Twixt go under the movie microscope.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #166. Tom Leins reviews The Deep, Breakout and Twixt
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #165. Tom Leins reviews The Iceman and Siberian Education
ByTom Leins October 9, 2013October 10, 2013
Contract killing in 1970s America and violent criminality in gangland Russia: Tom Leins presides over a ‘true crime’ double-act in this week’s DVD round-up. The Iceman (Lionsgate) tells the true story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon, Take Shelter), the notorious contract killer who is believed to have murdered over a hundred people while maintaining…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #165. Tom Leins reviews The Iceman and Siberian Education
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #164. Tom Leins reviews The Kings of Summer, No One Lives and Dead Man Down
ByTom Leins September 26, 2013November 24, 2018
Tom Leins casts a critical eye over a coming of age drama, a backwoods horror movie and an enigmatic revenge thriller in this week’s DVD round-up
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #164. Tom Leins reviews The Kings of Summer, No One Lives and Dead Man Down
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #163. Tom Leins reviews Banshee Season One and Hammer of the Gods
ByTom Leins September 6, 2013September 6, 2013
Small town secrets and vicious Viking quests are on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up. New US drama Banshee (HBO Home Entertainment) tells the story of a recently paroled master thief (Antony Starr, Outrageous Fortune) who assumes the identity of the incoming Sheriff of Banshee, Lucas Hood, who is killed before he can take…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #163. Tom Leins reviews Banshee Season One and Hammer of the Gods
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #162. Tom Leins reviews Mud, Olympus Has Fallen and Rebellion.
ByTom Leins August 29, 2013August 30, 2013
Southern-fried drama, hostages in the Pacific and the White House under attack -this week’s DVDs under review. Set on the banks of the Mississippi, Mud (eOne) tells the story of youngsters Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) who spend their idle summer days exploring the murky secrets of the river, when they find a…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #162. Tom Leins reviews Mud, Olympus Has Fallen and Rebellion.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #161. Tom Leins reviews The Place Beyond The Pines, Compliance & The Look Of Love.
ByTom Leins August 16, 2013August 16, 2013
Fatherhood, manipulation and pornography are all on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up. The Place Beyond The Pines (StudioCanal) is director Derek Cianfrance’s epic follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed romantic drama Blue Valentine. Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling, Drive) is a travelling motorcycle stunt rider who attempts to put down roots in Schenectady, New York after…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #161. Tom Leins reviews The Place Beyond The Pines, Compliance & The Look Of Love.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #160. Tom Leins reviews The Paperboy, Escape and Stolen
ByTom Leins August 1, 2013August 1, 2013
There is no shortage of blood and guts in this week’s DVD round-up! Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by cult author Pete Dexter, The Paperboy (Lionsgate) is the story of two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey, Killer Joe), a successful reporter and Jack (Zac Efron, High School Musical), a college dropout…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #160. Tom Leins reviews The Paperboy, Escape and Stolen
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #159. Tom Leins reviews Run and Welcome To The Punch
ByTom Leins July 24, 2013November 28, 2018
Tom Leins samples a double-dose of Brit-grit in this week’s homegrown DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #159. Tom Leins reviews Run and Welcome To The Punch
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #158. Tom Leins reviews Broken and Broken City.
ByTom Leins July 3, 2013July 10, 2013
Tom Leins looks at the latest DVDs Broken and Broken City
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #158. Tom Leins reviews Broken and Broken City.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #157. Tom Leins reviews Veep and Portlandia.
ByTom Leins June 25, 2013June 25, 2013
A pair of US comedy box-sets go head-to-head in this week’s DVD round-up. Created by BAFTA-winning writer Armando Iannucci, (The Thick of It, In the Loop) Veep: The Complete First Season (HBO Films) is an all-too-rare example of a US comedy spin-off that manages to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its British counterpart. US vice president Selina…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #157. Tom Leins reviews Veep and Portlandia.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #156. Tom Leins reviews Zero Dark Thirty, I Give It A Year and Blood
ByTom Leins June 14, 2013June 17, 2013
Dysfunctional CIA agents, dysfunctional relationships and dysfunctional cops come under the microscope in this week’s DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #156. Tom Leins reviews Zero Dark Thirty, I Give It A Year and Blood
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #155. Tom Leins reviews Bullhead and The Last Stand
ByTom Leins June 5, 2013June 6, 2013
Elderly Arnie takes on a Belgian farmer pumped full of cattle steroids in this week’s DVD grudge match.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #155. Tom Leins reviews Bullhead and The Last Stand
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #154. Tom Leins reviews Sweet Vengeance, Dead Mine and White Collar Hooligan 2
ByTom Leins May 23, 2013May 25, 2013
Tom Leins casts a critical eye over a trio of straight-to-DVD thrillers.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #154. Tom Leins reviews Sweet Vengeance, Dead Mine and White Collar Hooligan 2
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #153. Tom Leins reviews Bait and The Facility
ByTom Leins May 9, 2013May 15, 2013
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
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #153. Tom Leins reviews Bait and The Facility
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #152. Tom Leins reviews Spartacus: War of the Damned and Ultraviolet
ByTom Leins April 25, 2013May 2, 2013
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.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #152. Tom Leins reviews Spartacus: War of the Damned and Ultraviolet
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #151. Tom Leins reviews Seven Psychopaths, Blood Simple: Director’s Cut and Ten Years
ByTom Leins April 21, 2013April 25, 2013
Psychotic behaviour, uncomfortable high school reunions and retro noir are all on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #151. Tom Leins reviews Seven Psychopaths, Blood Simple: Director’s Cut and Ten Years
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #150. Tom Leins reviews Sightseers, The Hunt and Maximum Conviction
ByTom Leins March 27, 2013April 25, 2013
Dark secrets and bloody violence dominate this week’s film reviews in Tom Leins’ DVD round-up.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #150. Tom Leins reviews Sightseers, The Hunt and Maximum Conviction
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #149. Tom Leins reviews End of Watch, The Bay and Small Town Murder Songs
ByTom Leins March 20, 2013March 22, 2013
Tom Leins’s Sex Leins and Videotape DVD review column focuses on law and disorder
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #149. Tom Leins reviews End of Watch, The Bay and Small Town Murder Songs
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #148. Tom Leins reviews Rust & Bone, Sleep Tight, The Package and LOVE.
ByTom Leins March 3, 2013April 25, 2013
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 of…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #148. Tom Leins reviews Rust & Bone, Sleep Tight, The Package and LOVE.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #147. Tom Leins reviews Sinister, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Pusher
ByTom Leins February 17, 2013February 17, 2013
Thrills, chills and (Bathtub) spills are all on the agenda in this week’s DVD round-up. At the outset of Sinister (Momentum) struggling true crime writer Ellison (Ethan Hawke, Training Day) attempts to revive his waning career by moving his unwitting family to the scene of his latest story, more specifically the suburban home of a…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #147. Tom Leins reviews Sinister, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Pusher
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #146. Tom Leins reviews Holy Motors, Taken 2 and Wrong Turn 5
ByTom Leins January 31, 2013January 31, 2013
Art-house quirkiness, Liam Neeson on the rampage and the horror franchise that will not die -Tom Leins reviews this week’s biggest DVD releases. Holy Motors (Artificial Eye) tells the story -or rather stories -of Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) who travels around Paris in chauffeur-driven limousine, embarking on a series of nine ‘appointments’, each of which…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #146. Tom Leins reviews Holy Motors, Taken 2 and Wrong Turn 5
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #145. Tom Leins reviews American Mary, The House at the End of the Street and Enlightened
ByTom Leins January 21, 2013January 21, 2013
Body-horror, cat and mouse thrills and the latest comedy-drama from HBO -Tom Leins checks out this week’s strangest DVD releases. Directed by the Soska Sisters (also known as the Twisted Twins!) American Mary (Universal) offers a sick, slick spin on the well-worn female revenge thriller. Struggling to make ends meet while studying to be a…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #145. Tom Leins reviews American Mary, The House at the End of the Street and Enlightened
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #144. Tom Leins reviews The Imposter, Berberian Sound Studio and Codename: Geronimo
ByTom Leins January 8, 2013January 9, 2013
Sex, Leins & Videotape #144. Tom Leins reviews the DVD releases of The Imposter, Berberian Sound Studio and Codename: Geronimo
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #144. Tom Leins reviews The Imposter, Berberian Sound Studio and Codename: Geronimo
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #143. Tom Leins reviews Ted, Snow White & the Huntsman and The Baytown Outlaws
ByTom Leins January 1, 2013January 9, 2013
Sex, Leins & Videotape #143. Tom Leins reviews the DVDs of Ted, Snow White & the Huntsman and The Baytown Outlaws
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #143. Tom Leins reviews Ted, Snow White & the Huntsman and The Baytown Outlaws
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #142. Batman and Sly Stallone fight it out for a place on your Christmas list! The Dark Knight Rises versus The Expendables 2
ByTom Leins December 9, 2012December 11, 2012
Batman and Sly Stallone fight it out for a place on your Christmas list!
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #142. Batman and Sly Stallone fight it out for a place on your Christmas list! The Dark Knight Rises versus The Expendables 2
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #141. Tom Leins reviews Luck, Southern Comfort and The Arrival of Wang
ByTom Leins December 2, 2012December 2, 2012
Gambling, gunplay and government conspiracies -Tom Leins reviews the latest DVD releases. Created by esteemed TV screenwriter David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), and boasting a pilot directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) Luck (HBO Home Entertainment) was tipped for big things when it arrived on our screens earlier this year, only to fizzle out in…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #141. Tom Leins reviews Luck, Southern Comfort and The Arrival of Wang
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #140. Tom Leins reviews Killer Joe, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World & Storage 24.
ByTom Leins November 9, 2012November 15, 2012
Demented cops, apocalyptic romance and suburban sci-fi -Tom Leins checks out this week’s best DVD releases.
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #140. Tom Leins reviews Killer Joe, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World & Storage 24.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #139: Halloween horror DVD special: American Horror Story, Chernobyl Diaries, Cockneys Vs Zombies and Dark Tide.
ByTom Leins November 2, 2012November 2, 2012
Trick or treat? Tom Leins reviews a disturbing selection of Halloween horror DVDs. Created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, who previously collaborated on hit shows such as Nip/Tuck and Glee, American Horror Story: The Complete First Season (20th Century Fox) tells the story of the Harmon family, who move into a restored…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #139: Halloween horror DVD special: American Horror Story, Chernobyl Diaries, Cockneys Vs Zombies and Dark Tide.
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Sex, Leins & Videotape #138. Tom Leins reviews Hung, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Rosewood Lane
ByTom Leins October 25, 2012October 25, 2012
Gigolos, vampire killers and a psychotic paperboy -just another typical week in DVD-land! Buoyed by a tremendously likable central performance by one-time Punisher Thomas Jane, Hung became one of the more unassuming dramas in the HBO stable when it made its debut in June 2009. Hung is essentially the story of Ray Drecker (Jane), a…
Read More Sex, Leins & Videotape #138. Tom Leins reviews Hung, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Rosewood Lane