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Wednesday, March 2, 2011: CUCKOO (UK, 2009) 6/10 Friday, March 4, 2011: NEVER LET ME GO (UK/USA, 2010) 7/10 Friday, March 18, 2011: THE ILLUSIONIST (UK/France, 2010) 6/10 Sunday, March 20, 2011: TANGLED (USA, 2010) 6/10 Wednesday, March 30,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

Thursday, March 3, 2011: WEEDS: SEASON SIX (BD, Region A, USA) Friday, March 4, 2011: NEVER LET ME GO (BD, Region AB, USA) Monday, March 7, 2011: PHENOMENA (BD, Region ABC, UK) Monday, March 14, 2011: 127 HOURS (BD,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray

The film: A number of Disney features have had what are known in the trade as "troubled productions", but TANGLED has got to rank as one of the rockiest of them all. Originally set to be the directorial debut of...

Posted at 10:33 PM in BD Impressions

The film: See my review from a couple of years back here. 8/10 Image quality: This is the fourth BD release of INFERNO so far, with UK, French and Japanese versions having preceded it. (A fifth, from German label Camera...

Posted at 2:19 PM in BD Impressions

A review of the new Blue Underground BD should be posted in a few minutes. Until then, here are some comparative screen captures to tide you over: DVD (20th Century Fox, Region 2 Italy) BD (Arrow Video, Region ABC UK)...

Posted at 2:10 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Blue Underground, Region ABC, USA)...

Posted at 6:03 PM in Blu-ray

Note: Time constraints prevent me from doing a full review of PHENOMENA, as I have done for other recent Argento BD releases like INFERNO, TENEBRAE and DEEP RED. At some point in the future I might come back and add...

Posted at 2:59 PM in BD Impressions

The film: It's hard to put my finger on precisely why Sylvain Chomet's follow-up to his excellent LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE doesn't have the same verve as its predecessor. It shares both the same visual style and languid pacing, but...

Posted at 2:18 PM in BD Impressions

(BD/DVD combo, Buena Vista, Region ABC/1, USA)...

Posted at 9:42 PM in Blu-ray

The pieces are beginning to fall into place for my model railway layout. The plan is to ultimately have a setup measuring 240 x 190 cm, with four lines (three passenger lines and one goods line in the centre), a...

Posted at 11:10 AM in Model Railways

This past weekend, the BBC's Emmy-winning crime series WAKING THE DEAD began its ninth and sadly final season with a two-parter, "Harbinger", penned by Ed Whitmore. Whitmore is someone whose writing I have a lot of time for, particularly with...

Posted at 1:01 PM in Television

Released in late 2009, the initial instalment in Bioware's "Dragon Age" series, DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS, was a welcome callback to their old Dungeons & Dragons BALDUR'S GATE series from earlier in the decade, focusing more on questing, character development and...

Posted at 8:51 PM in Games

(BD/digital copy combo, 20th Century Fox, Region A, USA)...

Posted at 1:30 PM in Blu-ray

The film: I finished Kazuo Ishiguro's novel NEVER LET ME GO somewhere in the region of 48 hours before watching the movie adaptation. This is admittedly not always a good idea, as it means the source material is so fresh...

Posted at 1:04 PM in BD Impressions

(BD, Arrow Video, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 10:49 PM in Blu-ray

...to tide you over until I have some actual news to post about my layout. I've got a 15% off voucher for B&Q, so I'm going to go and eye up potential materials for my baseboard later this week....

Posted at 3:42 PM in Model Railways

(BD, 20th Century Fox, Region AB, USA) I recently read and was rather enthralled by the Kazuo Ishiguro novel and decided that catching up with the film adaptation was the next logical step. Shall be interested to see how...

Posted at 12:17 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Lions Gate, Region A, USA)...

Posted at 3:01 PM in Blu-ray

The film: I previously reviewed the 2010 remake of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE in a fair amount of detail back in January. Rather than repeat myself here, therefore, I'll simply direct you to that review, which also considers how...

Posted at 5:38 PM in BD Impressions