News|Movies|BD & DVD|Writings|Other

Upcoming US and UK Blu-ray titles for the next week. Titles I intend to pick up at some point are in bold. Monday, September 14: American Virgin (Metrodome, UK) Angel-A (Optimum, UK) Angels and Demons (Sony Pictures, UK) Atlantis (Optimum,...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

Dollhouse is the latest series from Joss Whedon, whose previous shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, all attained cult followings and are fondly remembered despite never having made it big with the masses. (In fact, Buffy and Angel...

Posted at 9:22 PM in Television

I've yet to work out whether Brett Easton Ellis loves the 80s, or hates them, or loves and hates them in equal measure. This film, co-adapted by him from his own novel, was supposedly recut multiple times, with a good...

Posted at 7:07 PM in BD Impressions

I found watching Rachel Getting Married to be a frustrating experience. On the one hand, I was bowled over by Anne Hathaway's naturalistic performance. True, the character she was playing was hard to like, but she brought her to life...

Posted at 4:21 PM in BD Impressions

Of late, there have been quite a few "coming of age" movies set during the 80s but at the same time not really saying anything specific about the decade. I suspect the reason for it is that a number of...

Posted at 12:10 PM in BD Impressions

A few thoughts on the opening two-parter of the eighth series of Waking the Dead. (Warning: spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen it.) Overall, a stronger story than the last two season premieres, mainly because this one had a...

Posted at 10:55 AM in Television

Little Miss Sunshine (BD, 20th Century Fox, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 10:52 AM in Blu-ray

It's difficult to argue against Braveheart being one of the finest packages assembled on Blu-ray this year. With a transfer that is extremely close to perfection, a rollicking good audio mix and a nice (if slightly incomplete) array of bonus...

Posted at 3:57 PM in Reviews

Upcoming US and UK Blu-ray titles for the next week. Titles I intend to pick up at some point are in bold. Looks like a total barrage of Warner titles this week... Monday, September 7: The Boat That Rocked (Universal,...

Posted at 12:00 AM in Blu-ray

I'm slightly late in reporting this, but the good news is that, as of the latest firmware patch for the Playstation 3, 50 Hz Blu-ray content will no longer "crash" NTSC-territory machines. If you have a title like the Australian...

Posted at 12:20 PM in Blu-ray

The 2009-2010 television season will shortly be starting on either side of the Atlantic. While British television doesn't really operate around the same seasonal structure as its American counterpart, there's still something of a tradition of new series of popular...

Posted at 4:03 PM in Television

Rachel Getting Married (BD, Sony Pictures, Region ABC, UK) I picked this up at a discount from Amazon along with Little Miss Sunshine. For some reason, they were sent out separately and only one of them has arrived....

Posted at 12:59 PM in Blu-ray

I hadn't watched Braveheart in a while. Not since I was still in school, in fact. To be honest, I approached it with some trepidation: I quite liked it back in the day, but was worried that I would have...

Posted at 11:33 PM in BD Impressions

Mr. Crowe: Mr. Gibson: Both taken from the recent Blu-ray releases of their respective films. Which of them do you think was given the better treatment? You know, I seriously wish I could say one of these images was doctored....

Posted at 10:37 PM in Blu-ray

The Informers (BD, Sony Pictures, Region ABC, USA)...

Posted at 4:39 PM in Blu-ray

The Blu-ray format, to me, is supposed to be about experiencing films in a state that is as close to perfection as is realistically possible. Perfection is, of course, an unattainable ideal, but the fact remains that, with regard to...

Posted at 4:24 PM in Reviews

This is the first time I've ever bought a Blu-ray Disc simply to confirm what I already knew to be the case. I picked up Gladiator because I feel that it is important to get the word out about this...

Posted at 10:40 PM in BD Impressions

Braveheart: Sapphire Series (BD, Paramount, Region A, USA) Gladiator: Sapphire Series (BD, Paramount, Region A, USA) Oh boy, here we go......

Posted at 10:00 AM in Blu-ray

I really didn't know much about this film going in, other than that it starred both Emily Blunt (who first dazzled me in My Summer of Love) and Amy Adams (who, in Enchanted, took a character who could so easily...

Posted at 11:10 AM in BD Impressions