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Early Doors - Series 1
Comedy Craig Cash, Rodney Litchfield, Rita May, Christine Bottomley, John Henshaw, Phil Mealey
How people can accept "2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps" as comedy is beyond me when there is pure gold in the form of "Early Doors". For me this ranks as one of the very best from the 1st scene of series one where Ken sings "they can't take away my dignity" as he cleans the bogs it gets better and better and better. Genius! Buy it now and stick it next to Porridge and The Office in your collection.

Eating Out
World Cinema Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros, Emily Stiles, Ryan Carnes, Rebekah Kochan Q. Allan Brocka
Title: Eating Out
ASIN: B000C05YHC
Straight boy pretends to be gay so that he can get close to gay boy's sexy female roommate. However, in order to be convincing he needs to go on a date with gay boy. As you would expect things don't go completely to plan and the result is a fun and entertaining mix between a romantic comedy and farce. As light entertainment this is works really well. The cast is very sexy and the director makes every effort to show the actors in the nude or half dressed. This movie does not pretend to be anything other than a comedy. The world it portraits is free of homophobia, but other than that this movie has no political ambitions. Fun, forgettable and sexy.

Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
Comedy Eddie Izzard Lawrence Jordan (II)
Izzard is unrelentingly funny in this late 90's concert from San Francisco. There are laugh out loud moments nearly all the time and even having watched it more than a dozen times now it I still find it funny. Even when the material isn't that funny (which it can't be 100% of the time for everyone) I always find Eddie Izzard interesting to listen to. Underlying his comedy is an intelligent and thoughtful man.

There are some good extra's, particularly if you speak French (as Izzard does)! Many of his shows are worth buying but this DVD catches him at a comedy peak. Sadly since then the shows have not been of the same quality but this one and the ones that precede it are all worth getting.

Eddie Izzard - Sexie
Stand Up Eddie Izzard
Eddie can be one of the funniest men on the planet. Unfortunately on this DVD he simply isn't. Loses the live audience early on and shortly afterwards anyone watching at home will be bored as well. You are unlikely to make it to the end of this. Stick with his (far better) earlier stuff.

Eddie Izzard : Circle
Comedy Eddie Izzard Anastasia Pappas
"Circle" reminds us that, despite his less than successful dalliances with film and TV, Eddie Izzard's reputation rests securely on his genius for stand-up comedy. "Circle" comes on the back of an ever-growing global touring schedule, with this particular performance being recorded in New York. Always sensitive to his environment, the comedian throws in several local references to gratify his strongly partisan audience. Much of the delight of an Izzard performance is watching him weave from topic to topic, often painting himself into a corner, and "Circle" is no exception. A little slow to get started, once he finds his stride this is a veritable masterclass in live comedy, dealing with subjects ranging from the absurd to the everyday. Indeed, Izzard is almost a human equivalent of "The Far Side" cartoon series, weaving the worlds of the bizarre and the ordinary together to make fresh points: witness his show-stopping account of the Death Star canteen. This is a must for all fans, equally so for those yet to fall under his spell. --"Phil Udell"

Edge Of Seventeen
Drama Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Anderson Gabrych, Stephanie McVey, Lea DeLaria David Moreton
This is a film that I would recommend to everyone that wants to see a romance with a twist. Though I didn't grow up on the eighties, being a mere fetus back then, I could understand and empathise with Eric and what he was going through. I loved this film and I thought that it captured young love beautifully and the difficulty (which I can only imagine) of being gay in the community of the eighties. This film is a must see if you are doing something like culture studies or something like that. It's great to watch and funny to see what people wore back then. If you remember that era, then you will cringe to think that you might have been wearing the sort of clothes that they wore in the film, or you might remember this with fondnes. Either way it's a nostalgic view at an era that has passed, but coming round again. Really great and fantastic to watch

The Edukators
Crime Daniel Bruhl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg Hans Weingartner
A film of two halves really fails to ignite the radical tension that the always brilliant Daniel Bruhl generates. The first half is a good film, humerous and somewhat insightful but never overtly challenging. The second half breaks down into a study in relationships where the characters motivations are never any particular shade of grey.

There are some strong positives about the film, with excellent performances from the leading cast and the development of a firebrand rhetoric in what is a reasonably well thought out anarchic viewpoint. However, this film is not in the same class as Goodbye Lenin and is not as good as What To Do In Case Of Fire, both of which are superior films in pretty much every way. That doesn't mean that this is a bad film, just that there are some very good films that portray the same sense of anti-establishment hubris that this one attempts.

The concept of The Edukators is a good one, reaching into the disaffected mindset of a disenfranchised pair of rebels and providing them with a reality check. However, the reality check it presents is dealt with in a less then convincing manner and while I will not spoil the ending, I was disappointed by it.

Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell, Caroline Aaron, Dick Anthony Williams, O-Lan Jones, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Susan Blommaert, Linda Perri, John Davidson (II) Tim Burton
"Edward Scissorhands" achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavour of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-coloured suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighbourhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", "Beetlejuice" and "Batman") are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy but "Edward Scissorhands" is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's child-like vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in "Nosferatu" and the sleepwalker in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, "Edward Scissorhands" lays that heart bare. "--Bret Fetzer"
On the DVD: Tim Burton is famed for his visual style not his ability as a raconteur, so it's no surprise to find that his directorial commentary is a little sparse. When he does open up it is to confirm that "Edward Scissorhands" remains his most personal and deeply felt project. The second audio commentary is by composer and regular Burton collaborator Danny Elfman, whose enchanting, balletic score gets an isolated music track all to itself with his remarks in-between cues. Again, for Elfman this movie remains one of his most cherished works, and it is a real musical treat to hear the entire score uninterrupted by dialogue and sound effects but illuminated by Elfman's lucid interstitial remarks. Also on the disc are some brief interview clips, a "making of" featurette and a gallery of conceptual artwork. The anamorphic widescreen print looks simply gorgeous. --"Mark Walker"

Elephant
Drama Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson (IX), Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor (II), Carrie Finklea, Nicole George (II), Brittany Mountain, Alicia Miles, Kristen Hicks, Bennie Dixon, Nathan Tyson, Timothy Bottoms, Matt Malloy, Chantelle Chriestenson Gus Van Sant
"Elephant", the elegant and unsettling movie from Gus Van Sant ("My Own Private Idaho", "Good Will Hunting"), depicts students at a high school before and during a harrowing, Columbine-style shooting. The movie follows one young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch, then loops back in time and follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then loops back and follows another--all captured in long, unedited tracking shots that are serene and unhurried, even when two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, arrive at the school and begin shooting. "Elephant" doesn't attempt to explain their behaviour; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and painfully important at the same time. Your reaction to "Elephant" will depend as much on your life experiences as anything in the movie itself. --"Bret Fetzer"

Equilibrium
Science Fiction & Fantasy Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Angus MacFadyen, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean, William Fichtner Kurt Wimmer
A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, "Equilibrium" takes a respectable stab at a "Fahrenheit 451"-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression; if no-one feels anything, no-one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbours. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, "Metropolis"-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/duelling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but "Equilibrium" should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling. --"Tom Keogh"

Europa Europa
World Cinema Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski, André Wilms, Ashley Wanninger, Halina Labonarska, Klaus Abramowsky, Michèle Gleizer, Marta Sandrowicz, Nathalie Schmidt, Delphine Forest, Martin Maria Blau, Andrzej Mastalerz, Solomon Perel Agnieszka Holland
this is simply one of the all time best films I've ever seen. Whilst not being able to add much that has been said by other people here, this film shows you the strength of the human spirit over the absurd and often cruel forces of history. Even if it were not a true story, it would be an extremely good film but being aware all along that it is a true story, makes the pathos and the humour all the more personal. The cruelties of history - and especially of this period of history -so often just shows the horror of the effects on peoples - it is so rare to see a story where the human spirit has been maintained in the very worst grip of cruelty. I can have nothing but praise for this film -with the acting of the main charter by Marco Hofschneider - being superb - but also the story of one individual who was able to maintain their spirit (and sanity!) whilst being thrown into sureal situations by fate into the very heart of the very worst forms of evil - and surviving!



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