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DVD Reviews: The Kite Runner

August 5th, 2012 By hecklerspray staff

Don’t let the bookworm prestige of the title or the two-hour plus running time dissuade you from The Kite Runner.

It’s one of those rare ‘issue’ films that remains an enticing and emotionally electrifying viewing experience that may restore your faith in cinema after the distracting memory left by that turgid Indiana Jones encounter you had a few weeks back.

The story commences in 2000 San Francisco, where a young Afghan writer receives a mysterious phone call from someone in Pakistan telling him that he has a chance to redeem himself.

Win The Kite Runner On DVD Right Now

August 7th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

Time for another one of our super soaraway competitions – and this time you can win The Kite Runner on DVD.

Oh, you know, The Kite Runner – the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father’s Hazara servant. It was Oscar nominated and directed by the man behind the new Bond movie. We called The Kite Runner “the star on top of the tree,” whatever that means. Anyway, it’s out on DVD and HD on June 2 and we’ve got two copies to give away to you right now.

MOVIE REVIEW: The Kite Runner

August 5th, 2012 By hecklerspray staff

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat. Or to be more accurate in this day and age, they're probably getting bird flu.

Nevertheless, it's not only the geese that are getting fat. All over Hollywood, producers and powerful studio executives gorge themselves after another year of profit. Once more the Hollywood Scrooges have cashed in on Christmas and generally taken a big shit on Tiny Tim. If we consider the Hollywood films that have been placed under the Christmas tree this year we'll find such shoddy gifts and returnable items as Fred Claus, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and The Perfect Holiday.

Yet one film released this Christmas stands out as the star on top of the tree, The Kite Runner. The seventh film from the gifted Marc Forster, director of Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland and Stranger than Fiction to name a few. The Kite Runner is a story of friendship, taking a stand and the circularity of life. It tells the tale of Afghan refugee Amir, played by Scottish born Khalid Abdalla who featured in United 93. The story comes from Khaled Hosseini's best-selling book, with the screenplay by David Benioff who also worked with Forster on Stay. The film is a pretty accurate conversion of the book, although some information is changed and excluded as you may expect.