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Sunday, July 4, 2010: TRUE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON (BD, Region ABC, UK) [birthday present] Sunday, July 4, 2010: THE BOX (BD, Region B, UK) [birthday present] Sunday, July 4, 2010: FIGHT CLUB (BD, Region ABC, UK) [birthday...

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

Sunday, July 4, 2010: THE BOX (USA, 2009) 7/10 Monday, July 5, 2010: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (UK/USA, 1981) 6/10 Wednesday, July 7, 2010: THE NUMBER 23 (USA, 2007) 6/10 Friday, July 9, 2010: 36 (France, 2004) 6/10 Sunday,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

So, STARCRAFT II, huh? Would you believe it's great? The last time I waited for a sequel that took forever to materialise, it was Dario Argento's MOTHER OF TEARS, a film which bore little resemblance to its predecessors, SUSPIRIA and...

Posted at 8:26 PM in Games

...playing STARCRAFT II....

Posted at 8:23 PM in Games

I've waited twelve years for this. I think I'll be able to handle another twelve hours....

Posted at 1:27 PM in Games

No, I don't know why there's a full stop in the title either. AFTER.LIFE attracted me with its interesting premise: a young woman, supposedly killed in a car accident, wakes up on mortuary slab and is informed by the funeral...

Posted at 11:49 PM in BD Impressions

WAKING THE DEAD: THE COMPLETE SERIES SEVEN (DVD, 2 Entertain, Region 2, UK)...

Posted at 6:22 PM in DVD

You couldn't make this up. Mere weeks after passing Dario Argento's INFERNO uncut for the first time, the British Board of Film Censors have gone on what can only be described as a political correctness rampage (and I normally hate...

Posted at 12:48 PM in Cinema

AFTER.LIFE (BD, Anchor Bay, Region A, USA) WAKING THE DEAD: THE COMPLETE SERIES EIGHT (DVD, 2 Entertain, Region 2, UK)...

Posted at 10:48 AM in Blu-ray / DVD

...a.k.a. LUFTSLOTTET SOM SPRÄNGDES, a.k.a THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST. See here for my review of the film. To summarise: I came away from THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST thinking it the weakest of the three...

Posted at 8:14 PM in BD Impressions

I don't envy those faced with adapting the third and final instalment in Stieg Larsson's posthumously published Millennium trilogy, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE NORTNETS' NEST. The novel is extremely discursive, the dramatic tension is often lacking, and the heroine,...

Posted at 8:01 PM in Cinema

It looks as if the GLADIATOR BD tale of woe is finally coming to an end. Screen captures have materialised of the 10th Anniversary Edition released in the Netherlands, and it seems fair to say that the previous, substandard release...

Posted at 1:27 PM in Blu-ray

The other day I finished the DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS expansion that I got for my birthday, DRAGON AGE: AWAKENING. I had fun with it, but wouldn't call it particularly in-depth or eye-opening. It felt more like a postscript to the...

Posted at 6:13 PM in Games

Two things are clear about the final published instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST. First: that while the first part, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, functioned adequately as a standalone novel, HORNETS'...

Posted at 2:46 PM in Reviews

In the time since I last posted about STARCRAFT II: WINGS OF LIBERTY, my most anticipated game of the year, the beta has been taken offline and brought back for a final brief round of testing, an actual release date...

Posted at 6:28 PM in Games / Web

Olivier Marchal's cop thriller 36 is downbeat, grim and melancholic in a rather browbeating way. The characters rarely crack a smile, the sky is always bleak and overcast, and barring the odd woman or child there are no good people,...

Posted at 5:26 PM in BD Impressions

I bought a new pair of 5.1 gaming headphones to replace my faulty Roccat Kave. The Medusa NX from Speedlink is priced similarly to the Roccat Kave (approximately £50) and offers the same basic functionality and connectivity, the bonus being...

Posted at 7:36 PM in Technology

As the James Bond series limps into the 1980s, it's beginning to look as crusty and worn-out as its incumbent star, Roger Moore. The clichés are now so firmly established that all those involved seem simply to be going through...

Posted at 3:56 PM in BD Impressions

Well, I got less than twenty-four hours' usage out of my new headphones before they started malfunctioning. I'm starting to think I'm cursed. I spent most of yesterday playing DRAGON AGE: AWAKENING (it's a lot of fun, provided you don't...

Posted at 9:53 PM in Technology

There was a point when everyone in this country seemed to love Richard Kelly's debut film, DONNIE DARKO, but the craze seemed to die out pretty quickly and I honestly can't remember the last time I heard anyone mention it....

Posted at 5:17 PM in BD Impressions

My birthday haul: TRUE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON (BD, HBO, Region ABC, UK) THE BOX (BD, Icon, Region B, UK) FIGHT CLUB (BD, 20th Century Fox, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 5:42 PM in Blu-ray

...and here is my swag: - Roccat Kave 5.1 surround sound gaming headset - DRAGON AGE: AWAKENING expansion set - TRUE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON on BD - FIGHT CLUB on BD - THE BOX on BD ...and a...

Posted at 9:40 AM in General

Seriously, Fox, is this meant to be a joke? Great comment by Robert A. Harris on this mess: Whatever post facility created this master should be tarred, feathered and rode out of town on a log. In the past I...

Posted at 7:23 PM in Blu-ray

I've been receiving rather a lot of spam comments recently. Spam has been an issue for this site almost from the get-go, but I've tended to take care of it simply by deleting messages as and when they appear, and...

Posted at 5:07 PM in Web