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Monday, April 12, 2010: ZOMBIELAND (USA, 2009) 8/10 Wednesday, April 14, 2010: HARRY BROWN (UK, 2009) 7/10 Sunday, April 18, 2010: BROKEN EMBRACES (Spain, 2009) 8/10 Monday, April 19, 2010: THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (Germany/France/Czech Republic, 2008) 8/10...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

Friday, April 2, 2010: CRACKS (BD, Region B, UK) Saturday, April 10, 2010: HARRY BROWN (BD, Region B, UK) Monday, April 19, 2010: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (BD, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 9:40 PM in Blu-ray

Just a quick note to alert readers to the fact that commenting functionality has now been restored to the site. If you attempted to post a comment in the last few days, you more than likely got a submission error....

Posted at 7:21 AM in Web

Just checking in quickly to apologise for the total lack of news posts lately. I've been super-busy lately working on revisions for the second analysis chapter of my thesis. That said, I've ordered the remaining two components of my system...

Posted at 8:06 PM in General

Here's your chance to do something really important. No, I'm not talking about voting in the upcoming election (although that's nearly as important): I'm talking about making a contribution to how this site looks. As you may have gathered, I've...

Posted at 7:57 PM in Web

I just need to pick up the motherboard and power supply, and I'll be all set. (The CPU's outer packaging got a little battered in transit, but that's a small price to pay given that I got it sealed...

Posted at 2:00 PM in Technology

I knew a little about the Red Army Faction (RAF), a terrorist group which was active in Germany from the 1970s through to the late 90s, but I had no knowledge of the people behind it and never heard the...

Posted at 1:31 PM in BD Impressions

I loved VOLVER, director Pedro Almodóvar's previous collaboration of Penélope Cruz. In fact, I ranked it number 9 in my Top 10 Films of the Decade list. It was the only Almodóvar I had ever seen, which remained the case...

Posted at 6:14 PM in BD Impressions

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (BD, Lions Gate, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 4:55 PM in Blu-ray

Something rather amazing is happening in British politics. The latest YouGov poll, which measures the public's voting intention for the country's three main political parties, puts the Liberal Democrats in first place for the first time in... well, certain...

Posted at 1:33 PM in General

I've been continuing to participate in the STARCRAFT II beta, generally getting in a few matches each day and playing with different strategies. After a lengthy stretch playing Protoss almost exclusively, I've found myself gravitating back towards Terran, who were...

Posted at 10:15 PM in Games

Generally speaking I try to avoid politics on this site, since I think it's fairly safe to assume that people come here for my latest impressions on films and BD transfers, not who I'm going to vote for in the...

Posted at 11:15 AM in BD Impressions

I like all the Walt Disney classics (by which I mean the ones produced while Walt himself was still around) to one degree or another, but I can't help wishing he'd made more like DUMBO. Whereas the likes of FANTASIA...

Posted at 9:24 PM in BD Impressions

It's good to be back; to be back is good. After nearly a month with no way of watching movies on the big screen, I'm glad we picked ZOMBIELAND as the first film to watch via my brother's newly repaired...

Posted at 1:24 PM in BD Impressions

Yeah, really fucking descriptive, Mr. Computer. As it turns out, my laptop's hard drive is kaput. Over the last couple of days, I'd been noticing that its performance was steadily decreasing. This morning, assuming that the fault lay with...

Posted at 3:28 PM in Technology

HARRY BROWN (BD, Lions Gate, Region B, UK) Described as a British GRAN TORINO, I've wanted to see this for some time, ever since I first heard about it and its, erm, divisive message. Good news, by the way:...

Posted at 6:12 PM in Blu-ray

The original STARCRAFT was locked to a resolution of 640x480 with a 256-colour palette and, if memory serves me correctly, the sole graphical option was a toggle for something called "colour cycling". In contrast, STARCRAFT II presents you with a...

Posted at 8:23 AM in Games

I think it's fairly safe to say that Blizzard Entertainment's STARCRAFT II is THE real time strategy game release of the year, if not the decade. It had better be, because we've waited more than twelve years for it. Just...

Posted at 11:11 PM in Games

See you in the internet pipes!...

Posted at 8:36 AM in Games

Saving Private Ryan Minority Report Seriously, I wish ALL catalogue titles looked this good on BD. Source: AV Science forum (1, 2)...

Posted at 10:32 AM in Blu-ray

A few months back, I posted the cover art for the standard edition of the next Mondo Vision release, Andrzej Zukawski's SZAMANKA. Today I can exclusively reveal the artwork for the Limited Edition: The final specs have yet to be...

Posted at 9:15 PM in DVD

Who says Hollywood is short of original ideas? In other irrelevant movie world news, TRUE BLOOD star Anna Paquin is bisexual. Believe it or not, this is considered by some people to be a big deal....

Posted at 6:02 PM in Cinema

Our dear friend Christopher Tookey, resident film critic at Britain's most popular right-wing crackpot gutter rag, the Daily Mail (and the man who spearheaded a campaign to have David Cronenberg's CRASH banned back in 1996 after reacting with fury to...

Posted at 6:42 PM in Cinema

CRACKS (BD, Optimum, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 4:59 PM in Blu-ray