Wednesday, January 13, 2010: Antichrist (BD, Region B, UK) - BD impressions Saturday, January 16, 2010: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (BD, Region ABC, UK) [review copy] - BD impressions, review Monday, January 18, 2010: Suspiria (BD, Region...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray

Clicky! Once again, the "screenshots scientists" and everyone else who complained about the woefully sub-par first release have been vindicated. Now come on, Disney, do the decent thing and set up an actual disc replacement programme instead of expecting us...

Posted at 1:02 PM in Blu-ray

The Double Life of Veronique (BD, Artificial Eye, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 11:00 PM in Blu-ray

Live and Let Die: in which James Bond discovers that every single black person in the world really is out to get him, and that they're all secretly communicating with each other by radio, tracking the whereabouts of this "honky"...

Posted at 12:45 PM in BD Impressions

My ASUS UL30A arrived first thing yesterday morning and I wasted no time in getting it up and running, which didn't take long, as I didn't have to install much - just OpenOffice, Google Chrome and a handful of...

Posted at 11:43 PM in Technology

Red Road (BD, Verve, Region B, UK) Pontypool (BD, Kaleidoscope, Region ABC, UK) Menn som hater kvinner (BD, Nordisk Film, Region ABC, Norway) Jenta som lekte med ilden (BD, Nordisk Film, Region ABC, Norway) The last two are better...

Posted at 8:54 PM in Blu-ray

In an attempt to cut down on the spam that's been accumulating on this site recently, I've installed the Blog Janitor plugin for Movable Type and set it to disable commenting on all entries over 30 days old. It's rather...

Posted at 9:28 PM in Web

On Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of February, the annual Glasgow FrightFest is being held at the Glasgow Film Theatre. As per the official web site, the full list of titles being screened is as follows: Friday: 7.00 pm -...

Posted at 7:20 PM in Cinema

I have nothing but admiration for Pixar's Wall-E and its push for realism, and I'll even grudgingly commend the heavily flawed 9 for its attempt to tell a darker, more mature story than we're used to with North American animation,...

Posted at 11:55 PM in Reviews

The thing about a film like Antichrist is that, unless you were in the fortunate position of having viewed it at its premiere, every man and his dog will have expressed an opinion on it by the time you get...

Posted at 8:42 PM in BD Impressions

When I bought my Sony VAIO VGN-FZ11Z back in Autumn 2007, I thought it was the bee's knees. It was actually the first laptop I ever owned, and it was a far cry from the variety of clunky old rustbuckets...

Posted at 10:46 PM in Technology

Mesrine (BD, Momentum, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 2:32 PM in Blu-ray

Monday saw the release of the first English-friendly BD of Dario Argento's masterpiece, Suspiria. Already released on BD in Italy just under a year ago, that release was pretty much a disappointment all round due to its lack of English...

Posted at 4:17 PM in Blu-ray

I'm currently working on an in-depth write-up about the new UK Suspiria BD release. I can't promise to have it up today, but for now, feast your eyes on this exclusive clip from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Amer, courtesy...

Posted at 1:59 PM in Cinema

Suspiria (BD, Nouveaux Pictures, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 11:58 AM in Blu-ray

It's a shame I didn't see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs before I posted my Top 10 UK Releases of 2009 or Movie Checklist 2009 lists, because it would have ranked pretty high on both. This may well be...

Posted at 11:37 AM in BD Impressions

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (BD, Sony Pictures, Region ABC, UK) [review copy] I doubt I'd have even given this a second thought had it not been for John Kricfalusi's review of it....

Posted at 6:20 PM in Blu-ray

...I came across a book with the title Slaughter in the Cotswolds, by Rebecca Tope. The contradiction of images struck me as so brilliant I just had to share it with you....

Posted at 5:46 PM in Books

On Her Majesty's Secret Service can lay reasonable claim to being the odd one out in the official series of James Bond films (by which I mean everything from Dr. No in 1962 through Quantum of Solace in 2008, discounting...

Posted at 10:36 PM in Cinema

As yet another take on the venerable "scary child" branch of the horror genre, Jaume Collet-Serra's Orphan has a handful of aces up its sleeve, primarily believable performances by Vera Farmiga as a recently bereaved mother who adopts a creepily...

Posted at 5:15 PM in BD Impressions

Antichrist (BD, Chelsea Films, Region B, UK) My first disc of 2010....

Posted at 6:41 PM in Blu-ray

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm...

Posted at 3:40 PM in General

In its original Swedish, the title of the first part of Stieg Larsson's posthumously-published Millennium trilogy is Män Som Hatar Kvinnor, a literal translation of which is "Men Who Hate Women". It's unclear precisely why the English translation was titled...

Posted at 2:59 PM in Reviews

In some respects I'm almost tempted to look on Defiance as a more po-faced Inglourious Basterds, as least in so far as it belongs to the underpopulated "Jews who fight back" sub-genre of World War 2 films. I'm led to...

Posted at 4:44 PM in BD Impressions

Ne le dis à personne is an adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel Tell No One, which I haven't read. I'm not entirely clear as to why an American novel ended up being made in French first of all, but I...

Posted at 10:28 PM in BD Impressions