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Monday, August 9, 2010: THE GHOST WRITER (France/Germany/UK, 2010) 8/10 Monday, August 16, 2010: CENTURION (UK, 2010) 7/10...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

Monday, August 2, 2010: DET FEMTE ELEMENT [The Fifth Element] (BD, Region B, Denmark) Wednesday, August 4, 2010: GLADIATOR: 10th Anniversary Edition (BD, Region ABC, Netherlands) Saturday, August 7, 2010: THE GHOST WRITER (BD, Region A, Canada) Friday, August...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray

...for anyone else with an ATI Radeon 5000 series video card who has been suffering from latency issues due to the card's PowerPlay power saving technology, the latest drivers seem to have cleared up the problem completely. No more glitchy...

Posted at 10:46 AM in Technology

Sorry for the criminal lack of updates to this site recently. I'm still here, just pretty busy with other stuff at the moment, namely writing. My thesis is getting the bulk of my attention at the moment, but while I...

Posted at 9:15 PM in General

Great in-game footage over at Gamespot of a tutorial area, which looks more action-packed and filled with impressive pyrotechnics than the endgame content of a lot of titles I could mention. It looks very much like Arena.net are intent...

Posted at 2:55 PM in Games

RED RIDING (BD, IFC Films, Region A, USA) I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that cramming three feature length films on to a single BD-50 is...

Posted at 1:08 PM in Blu-ray

There's not a whole lot of point in me writing paragraph after paragraph about PSYCHO, since I doubt I can say anything about it that hasn't already been said more eloquently by someone else. A landmark in horror cinema, it's...

Posted at 12:48 PM in BD Impressions

I was pleasantly surprised by CENTURION. After the disappointment of Neil Marshall's previous film, DOOMSDAY - a sloppy and ill-disciplined hodge-podge of homages to various genres which started off amusingly stupid but quickly succumbed to being just plain stupid -...

Posted at 8:51 PM in BD Impressions

PSYCHO (BD, Universal, Region ABC, UK) Although not listed anywhere on the packaging, this release includes the original mono mix. Those who don't want to wait a further two months for the US release can therefore order with confidence....

Posted at 6:15 PM in Blu-ray

FAITHFUL PLACE by Tana French; Hachette Ireland; 2010; 448 pages Tana French is an author with an amazing ability to choose exactly the right words to conjure up a particular mood. Although I found certain plot developments a little hard...

Posted at 10:28 AM in Reviews

I'm not going to recount the entirety of GLADIATOR's less than rosy history on BD. Suffice it to say that the previous version, released less than a year ago, was a massive disappointment in the image quality department, with many...

Posted at 8:14 PM in BD Impressions

CENTURION (BD, Pathé, Region B, UK)...

Posted at 2:11 PM in Blu-ray

Roman Polanski's latest offering, THE GHOST WRITER (THE GHOST in the UK), has been somewhat overshadowed by its director's temporary stint under house arrest (which prevented him from being present in the editing room during the final stages of post-production)......

Posted at 10:44 PM in BD Impressions

THE GHOST WRITER (BD, E1 Entertainment, Region A, Canada)...

Posted at 9:22 PM in Blu-ray

GLADIATOR - 10th Anniversary Edition (BD, Universal, Region ABC, Netherlands) The improvement is NOT SUBTLE. This is potential 10/10 material....

Posted at 6:06 PM in Blu-ray

DET FEMTE ELEMENT [THE FIFTH ELEMENT] (BD, SF Film, Region B, Denmark) Hmm, Sony's US re-release doesn't look quite so spectacular any more......

Posted at 6:27 PM in Blu-ray

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Posted at 1:14 PM in Games