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The Unborn (BD, Universal, Region ABC, UK) [review copy] Any opinions on this movie? I know next to nothing about it....

Posted at 1:27 PM in Blu-ray

As you've probably noticed, the site now looks a little different. The response to my preview of the redesign last night seemed to be pretty positive, so I decided to go ahead and make it official. While the new look...

Posted at 12:48 PM in Web

I've been toying with a slightly different design for the site over the last couple of days, and have put up a sample for your perusal. It requires very little changes to the HTML code (the main menu was the...

Posted at 8:46 PM in Web

A big thank you to Land of Whimsy visitor George for pointing out that Blue Underground's upcoming Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci's notorious The New York Ripper will in fact have its original mono audio mix intact, as per Blue...

Posted at 8:10 PM in Blu-ray

It doesn't bode well when a film's own director starts downplaying it prior to release, but that's exactly what Dario Argento did with his most recent film, Giallo, while attending the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in New York, according...

Posted at 10:41 AM in Cinema

Monsters, Inc. (BD, Disney, Region ABC, Japan) This was originally scheduled to come out in the US at the same time as A Bug's Life, but ended up being postponed, presumably so they can put it out at the...

Posted at 10:35 AM in Blu-ray

I'm actually pretty surprised that Slumdog Millionaire has been so widely marketed as a "feel-good" film, as in reality it's actually pretty grim in places, with police brutality, domestic abuse and exploitation of children being part of the backdrop to...

Posted at 12:00 AM in BD Impressions

Thanks to Land of Whimsy reader Parotaku for pointing out a strange anomaly in the version of Jan Pinkava's 1998 short Geri's Game that is included on the recently released Blu-ray Disc of A Bug's Life. For some reason,...

Posted at 12:08 AM in Blu-ray

I've decided to create this entry to allow me to keep track of changes I make to the site and its design without having to bore you with creating a new post every time I make a tiny alteration. It...

Posted at 11:04 PM in Web

Well, I can't say I saw this coming. As per Blu-ray.com, Blue Underground has just announced that Lucio Fulci's the notorious The New York Ripper, the giallo so heinous that its prints were supposedly ejected from the British Isles under...

Posted at 9:50 PM in Blu-ray

A Bug's Life was Pixar's second feature and one that was a good deal more ambitious in terms of scale and scope than its predecessor, Toy Story. Ironically, while Toy Story looks rather dated nowadays, this is less obvious than...

Posted at 12:50 PM in BD Impressions

Operating under the assumption that not everyone wants to read a DVD or BD review of several thousand words, and indeed that not every film or disc requires such an essay, DVD Times recently started a series of "capsule reviews"...

Posted at 12:05 PM in Reviews

I got rid of it. That's the short answer. The long answer was that I came to the conclusion that it wasn't serving a great deal of purpose, given that the exact same links can be found on the right-hand...

Posted at 10:09 PM in Web

I haven't used my camera in what seems like years, and in point of fact I'm really not much of a photographer. I am, however, rather interested in techniques for making digital photographs seem a bit less, well, digital. Some...

Posted at 6:43 PM in Technology

I've come across a strange bug in the Opera browser (version 9.64 to be specific) relating to the rendering of this site's "blockquote" element. It's supposed to have a solid 1px border around it, using the following CSS code: blockquote...

Posted at 2:29 PM in Web

Mirror's Edge is one of those games that I've been meaning to try out for some time. Various reasons have conspired to prevent this from happening, however, ranging from its DRM implementation (I'm still pissed about losing one of my...

Posted at 11:10 AM in Games

Slumdog Millionaire (BD, 20th Century Fox, Region A, USA) One of those "everyone's talking about..." movies that, surprise surprise, I've yet to see. I had a discount voucher for MovieTyme and decided to put it to use....

Posted at 7:20 PM in Blu-ray

UK distributors Optimum Home Entertainment have just unveiled what Blu-ray.com accurately refers to as a "deluge" of Blu-ray releases for the summer months. This impressive slate covers a broad range of films, from gung-ho action spectacles like Highlander and several...

Posted at 7:10 PM in Blu-ray

Quelling the fears of a lot of concerned gamers, worried by cagey responses from Blizzard Entertainment spokespersons, we now have explicit confirmation from the company's president himself, Mike Morhaime, that the upcoming Starcraft II (due to go into beta this...

Posted at 4:16 PM in Games

I can't think why I didn't mention this before, but I've obtained a ticket for the premiere of Dario Argento's new film, Giallo, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Thursday, June 25th. I've followed this film fairly closely from...

Posted at 9:55 AM in Cinema

Pixar's latest movie, Up, opened on Friday in the US, fresh from making waves at the Cannes Film Festival. Predictably, it will be some time before it ends up on UK shores... October, apparently. How Disney can justify this sort...

Posted at 10:06 PM in Cinema

Back when the current series of Casualty started airing last September, I put together a write-up about the opening two-part storyline, expressing admiration at how effective it turned out to be. I've remained quiet about the rest of the series...

Posted at 8:21 PM in Television

Less than 24 hours into its life, I've made a slight alteration to the site. The main menu at the top of each page now consists of text links rather than images. In addition to reducing the amount of data...

Posted at 4:31 PM in Web

Back on my previous site, I posted about my experience of seeing Dario Argento's Suspiria on the big screen and my observations about how closely the UK theatrical print I saw matched the overall colour, brightness and contrast balance of...

Posted at 12:18 AM in Cinema

Please remain calm. There is no need to panic or adjust the vertical hold on your television set. I've properly launched the new site layout - Land of Whimsy version 2 (or version 11, if you're counting back to the...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Web