DVD round-up from The TOMB

'Munich' and the 'Pusher' films rub shoulders with a dodgy flick starring the girl from the Whitesnake videos.

Jun 12 2006

It's a good week for serious cinema in the DVD vault this week, with 'Munich' proving to be the pick of the bunch.

Steven Spielberg's uncompromising account of the aftermath Palestinian terrorists' massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, it's a film that isn't scared to ask difficult questions without offering any easy answers.

Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds and Daniel Craig give colossal performances as the Mossad assassination squad assembled to carry out the campaign of vengeance, and the result is Spielberg's most mature work for nearly a decade.

'Pusher 2' and 'Pusher 3' also hit the streets this week, packaged in a box set with part one, and all three of Nikolas Winding Refn's films are worth a look.

Gritty, grotty little pictures (clearly inspired by 'Mean Streets') each follows the path of a different minor player on the Copenhagen crime scene, and all three are as intense and powerful as any film I've seen in the last few months.

Also worth checking out is the special edition of 'The Last Seduction', a fine film noir that made a star of Linda Fiorentino (though only for about 10 minutes) and proved to be the high point of director John Dahl's career thus far.

This special edition features a myriad of extras, including a fine director's cut and commentary, an alternate ending, and a brand new documentary about the making of the film.

Finally, 'Gwendoline' is out on DVD this week, and is definitely one for fans of the more trashy side of the home entertainment industry. Unfortunately, we don't have an official Time Out review of the film, but the fact that it stars Tawny Kitaen (of Whitesnake video fame) and is billed as a cross between 'Indiana Jones' and 'Emmanuelle' should tell you all you need to know!

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