Saturday, August 1, 2009: Footprints (DVD, Region 0, UK) [review copy] Wednesday, August 5, 2009: Go (BD, Region ABC, UK) Thursday, August 6, 2009: The Ninth Gate (BD, Region ABC, USA) Thursday, August 6, 2009: Labyrinth (BD, Region ABC,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

I just picked up Heather Nova's most recent CD, a 2008 release called The Jasmine Flower, which I wasn't even aware existed until I stumbled across it on Amazon a few days ago. I've got a soft spot for...

Posted at 6:27 PM in Music

Oh ho! What's this? It would appear that Image Entertainment have discovered the wonders of the low-pass filter and applied it to their Blu-ray release of John Maybury's Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love. A couple of months back,...

Posted at 5:02 PM in Blu-ray

The Edge of Love (BD, Lions Gate, Region B, UK) ...which makes for a very interesting comparison with the US release from Image Entertainment. More on this soon......

Posted at 3:06 PM in Blu-ray

Upcoming US and UK Blu-ray titles for the next week. Titles I intend to pick up at some point are in bold. Monday, August 31, 2009: The Damned United (Sony Pictures, UK) The Dark Crystal (Sony Pictures, UK) Dead Snow...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

This UK edition of Hannibal is being released by Universal next week. (Universal supplied me with a review copy, which I've had to return.) Alas, those who already own the earlier German release by UFA will have no reason to...

Posted at 11:56 PM in Reviews

Looks like Tim Minear has joined the staff of Dollhouse full time for its upcoming second season, after holding down a part-time consulting role on Season 1 (for which he wrote two episodes, including the broadcast season finale). This can...

Posted at 10:21 PM in Television

An eagle-eyed visitor to Land of Whimsy (thanks, Rob) has pointed out to me that Anchor Bay's recent US Blu-ray release of Sunshine Cleaning has been CENSORED!Amy Adams has a brief topless scene at around the seven-minute mark as she...

Posted at 7:12 PM in Blu-ray

Adventureland (BD, Buena Vista, Region A, USA)...

Posted at 6:31 PM in Blu-ray

Sunshine Cleaning (BD, Anchor Bay, Region A, USA) I loved Amy Adams' turn in Enchanted. I think Emily Blunt is one of the most gifted actors of her generation. Any movie to feature them both has got to be...

Posted at 2:04 PM in Blu-ray

Priceless, just priceless. As funny as the first picture is, the second is just the icing on the cake. In case you're not aware, they're a reference to Paramount's upcoming Blu-ray release of Gladiator, which I initially posted about a...

Posted at 6:34 PM in Blu-ray

Film censors around the UK are waking up to disturbing news today. Apparently, due to an administrative oversight, the 1984 Video Recordings Act, which requires all videos (I'm including DVDs and Blu-ray Discs under that umbrella) sold in the UK...

Posted at 1:06 PM in Cinema

It's funny how many cult classics fall into the "you had to be there" category. I was born in the early 1980s, but Ghostbusters was never part of my childhood. Well, I did see a couple of episodes of The...

Posted at 12:53 PM in BD Impressions

Upcoming US and UK Blu-ray titles for the next week. Titles I intend to pick up at some point are in bold. Note that, from now on, I won't be listing music titles or glorified screensavers like Water Life. Monday,...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

Over August 21 and 22, Blizzard Entertainment held its fourth annual BlizzCon convention in Anaheim, California, packing all the gaming fun and associated geekery one could wish for into a two day event. The convention, the 200,000 tickets for which...

Posted at 4:49 PM in Games

Back when Blu-ray and the now defunct HD DVD first appeared on the block, early adopters immediately began to clamour for the release of certain titles. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings adaptation and the original Star Wars trilogy...

Posted at 10:46 PM in Blu-ray

On Sunday, I wrote a post about the issues surrounding the use of lossy screen captures of Blu-ray Discs, arguing that there was no real world benefit to using a more space- and bandwidth-heavy lossless format such as .BMP or...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

There's something impressively gung-ho about Labyrinth. It clearly knows it's nonsense, but doesn't seem to care and simply runs with it, resulting in a movie whose irresistible charm makes up for the fact that the story is held together with...

Posted at 3:30 PM in Reviews

Hot on the heels of news that the release of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been pushed back to 2010 (come on, is anyone even slightly surprised?) comes a wealth of new information to tide us over, pertaining mainly...

Posted at 12:24 PM in Games

Upcoming US and UK Blu-ray titles for the next week. Titles I intend to pick up at some point are in bold. Monday, August 17, 2009: Angel Heart (UK) The Express (UK) Feast (UK) La Haine (UK) Near Dark (UK)...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

Note: This post was partly inspired by a discussion at the AV Science Forum. To view the original conversation and "test", take a gander here. One issue that rears its head again and again with regard to the posting of...

Posted at 4:39 PM in Blu-ray

It's funny - I was aware of both Christopher and Peter Hitchens, but for some reason I'd never made the connection between the two. They are in fact brothers, Christopher Hitchens being the more famous (or should that be notorious?)...

Posted at 2:37 PM in General

I generally don't do direct comparisons between DVD and Blu-ray releases, because I tend to feel that there isn't much point. Even the weakest BDs tend to improve exponentially on their DVD counterparts (unless we're talking about a standard definition...

Posted at 1:27 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

I'm an unabashed fan of the concept of parallel narrative storytelling. It's not always completely successful, of course (see Vantage Point for an example of the gimmick being repeated to the point of tediousness, or Barbara Machin's recent Kiss of...

Posted at 1:05 PM in BD Impressions

As I mentioned in a previous post, it's somewhat unusual for me to show any real interest in a horror remake. Ordinarily, you'd be more likely to find me railing against them and decrying the lack of originality in Hollywood...

Posted at 2:05 PM in BD Impressions