John Ashbrook

John Ashbrook has been publishing half-assed opinions about films, TV shows et al for twenty years now. He's hosted radio shows, taught Film Studies, written books and magazine articles by the cartload and now composes his own film review blog The Cellulord is Watching ... (www.cellulord.co.uk). Of course, what he *really* wants to do is direct.

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Blu-Ray Review: Quai Des Brumes Comes Out Of The Shadows

Quai des Brumes was made shortly before the war, in a fatalistic time when everyone knew it was…

Blu-ray Review: The Trial - Orson Welles’ Guilty Pleasure

StudioCanal embarks on the second round of its self-styled collection with the release of a…

John Carter Blu-ray Review - The Red Planet Sneaks Out Onto Blu-Ray

This is simple, direct story-telling featuring exactly that kind of unshackled imagination that…

DVD Review: You Only Live Once – The Original Bonnie and Clyde

Back in the Prohibition days, when real gangsters were feted like tabloid celebrities,…

Blu-Ray Review: Two Lane Blacktop – 70s America On The Road To Nowhere

The years when we couldn’t see Two-Lane Blacktop have been kind to it and now we can, we…

Blu-Ray Review: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

In Case You’ve Forgotten How Great This Film Is!

Blu-ray Review: REQIUEM FOR A DREAM - Darren Aronofsky's Masterpiece

Requiem for a Dream is a visual assault from its opening frames. Darren Aronofsky likes to…

Blu-ray review: THE DEAD - Africa's Zombie Nation

If you watch zombie films to see people getting their faces blown off and their heads run over…

Blu-ray Review: Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers

Rather shamelessly packaged to fool you into thinking these are in some way tied-in to the new…

TV Review: TRUE BLOOD 4.12 – “And When I Die” - Season Finale!

Well, some of my predictions for the big finale were realised … And some weren’t.