Drew: The Man Behind The Poster The Haunting Of Black Wood

Release Date: 16 February

2013 | E | DVD

Take a slug of

bourbon each time you hear the word “iconic” in this celebration of poster artist Drew Struzan and you’ll be blotto by the end credits. For once, however, it’s the perfect word: illustrating campaigns for everything from ET to Star Wars, Blade Runner to Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Struzan’s fusion of romance and realism defined the iconography of these films as much as anything contained in the celluloid itself.

It’s a fond, respectful tribute, marshalling a galaxy of collaborators and admirers. Spielberg admits, “I have to live up to his art,” while Michael J Fox decodes Struzan’s lively brushstrokes as being like warpaint on the face of Indiana Jones. Struzan himself emerges as heroically modest.

None. Nick Setchfield

Release Date: OUT NOW!

2011 | 15 | DVD

There’s an

initial creak of cliché about this one – but it’s deceptive. Three strangers meet at a secluded cabin in the kind of remote woodland where vengeful spirits swap touristslaying tips with axe- crazed hillbilly psychos. Who are they? Why are they there? What’s their life expectancy? By the time one of them declares, “I’m in the third ring of Hell” you may think you have this modest little horror rumbled.

Then, to its credit, it does something rather more interesting, revealing itself to be a Twilight Zone- style chamber piece, more interested in the interplay of its protagonists than threatening their body parts. To say any more would spoil the twist, but this ends up as a considerably smarter proposition than it first appears.

None. Nick Setchfield