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I'm not sure what else I expected, really. I won't be so presumptuous as to claim that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the worst film of the decade. What I do feel fairly confident in stating is that, with...

Posted at 11:38 AM in BD Impressions

(500) Days of Summer (BD, 20th Century Fox, Region A, USA) For the love of Zooey... Licence to Kill (BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region A, Canada) An underrated gem....

Posted at 11:24 PM in Blu-ray

I forgot to renew my domain, that's what. Yes, I'm a boob. Mea culpa. In my defence, I didn't receive any form of email notification from NameCheap, the service I use. (Either that, or for some reason my email provider...

Posted at 10:46 PM in Web

Source: Cartoon Brew...

Posted at 2:08 PM in Cinema

Christmas time's a-coming!...

Posted at 4:01 PM in General

One of the guiding lights behind the late 80s/early 90s Disney animation renaissance is dead. Roy E. Disney, nephew to Walt Disney and ever-present figure at the Walt Disney Company, passed away this morning at the age of 79. Disney...

Posted at 8:50 PM in Animation

I'm always slightly wary of any game that is flaunted by a major publisher as ground-breaking, particularly when that publisher is Electronic Arts. This is, after all, a company renowned for milking its intellectual properties to death, with an annual...

Posted at 8:05 PM in Games

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (BD, Paramount, Region ABC, UK) An early Christmas present. Not a title I would have chosen myself, admittedly, but very much appreciated nonetheless....

Posted at 7:13 PM in Blu-ray

Yes, it's a better film than Dr. No. It's actually an improvement in just about every conceivable way: it's grander in terms of both scale and ambition, the narrative is consistently engaging, and despite the continued presence of SPECTRE (a...

Posted at 3:45 PM in BD Impressions

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (BD, Warner, Region B, France) ...probably better known to most English speakers as A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou's second collaboration (the first, of course, being Amelie). Unusually for a Warner...

Posted at 11:55 AM in Blu-ray

Disney's return to hand drawn animation, The Princess and the Frog, opened in theatres in the US on Friday. In typical Disney fashion, its doesn't hit UK shores until February, but in the meantime I thought you might enjoy this...

Posted at 1:47 PM in Animation

I've been a Microsoft Office user for as long as I can remember. I started out on Word for DOS back in the late 80s and moved over to the Windows version (Word 2.0 at the time) when I got...

Posted at 9:35 PM in Technology

In his review of Inglourious Basterds, Mark Kermode said that the film had some good ideas in it but didn't really work as a whole, or words to that effect. While I like Quentin Tarantino's latest opus a lot more...

Posted at 5:03 PM in BD Impressions

Last night was my very first time watching the very first James Bond film, a title that has somehow managed to elude me all these years. Still, in a sense I'm glad I waited so long, because watching it for...

Posted at 2:01 PM in BD Impressions

Inglourious Basterds (BD, Universal, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 1:37 PM in Blu-ray

James Bond Blu-ray (BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region ABC, UK) Six Bond movies on BD for £8 - I kid you not. Borders has gone into receivership and is flogging their goods at a discount. Most items have only...

Posted at 10:31 PM in Blu-ray

I have a story to share with you. The other night, we decided to celebrate Christmas early and belatedly toast the dearly departed John Hughes by popping in the BD release of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It's...

Posted at 3:28 PM in BD Impressions