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Sunday, April 3, 2011: UNKNOWN (UK/Germany/France/Canada/Japan/USA, 2011) 7/10 Monday, April 4, 2011: THE FINAL DESTINATION (USA, 2009) 4/10 Monday, April 18, 2011: MARNIE (USA, 1964) 6/10 Monday, April 25, 2011: UNSTOPPABLE (USA, 2010) 5/10 Monday, April 25, 2011: LONDON...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

Friday, April 1, 2011: MISERY (BD, Region A, USA) Saturday, April 2, 2011: CUCKOO (BD, Region ABC, USA) (competition win) Tuesday, April 5, 2011: SILENT HILL: Édition Collector (BD, Region ABC, France) Friday, April 8, 2011: BLACK SWAN (BD,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray

I'm currently doing my best to finish the first draft of Chapter 6 of my PhD thesis, which I'm intending to submit to my supervisor on Tuesday. I'm afraid I've done my usual thing of stretching the research and note-taking...

Posted at 8:21 PM in General

The film: OK, how to put this politely? This is a big ol' pile of shit. It's a passable enough distraction up to a point, but it's easily the most brain-dead movie I've watched recently. I've got nothing against but...

Posted at 9:30 PM in BD Impressions

(BD, Channel 4, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 1:48 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Entertainment in Video, Region B, UK) This title has the distinction of being my first ever Entertainment in Video BD. EIV and their theatrical wing, Entertainment Film Distributors, are a British distribution company who at one point put...

Posted at 1:40 PM in Blu-ray

The film: Supposedly, Christopher Plummer hated doing THE SOUND OF MUSIC. He called it "The Sound of Mucus", which I suspect many would agree is an apt description. And yet, in spite of its sickly sweetness, simplistic world view and...

Posted at 11:09 PM in BD Impressions

The long-overdue seventh instalment of the Movie Matters podcast arrives in the form of a Danny Boyle special, looking at the two latest instalments in the gifted director's diverse filmography: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and 127 HOURS. Co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael...

Posted at 4:27 PM in Podcast

(BD, Universal, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 6:42 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, 20th Century Fox, Region BC, UK) Yes, I'm well aware that this film is likely to be incredibly stupid, but it looks so incredibly stupid it would be a shame to pass it up. Plus, like an increasing...

Posted at 6:38 PM in Blu-ray

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

Posted at 8:10 PM in Blu-ray

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

Posted at 8:09 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Momentum, Region B, UK) Shocking that this is me just getting down to picking up a version of this great film (#3 in my Top 10 of 2010) that has English subtitles. Originally, I planned to hold out...

Posted at 8:04 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, 20th Century Fox, Region ABC, UK) I picked up some discounted BDs today at HMV. This one was worth the £10 for the jaw-dropping colour timing featurette on the second disc in which William Friedkin destroys the look...

Posted at 7:58 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, 20th Century Fox, Region AB, USA)...

Posted at 1:41 PM in Blu-ray

This is a quick preliminary look at the differences between the German HD DVD (and BD) of SILENT HILL released by Concorde Home Entertainment in 2007 and the 2009 French collector's edition from Metropolitan Film & Video. Bear in mind...

Posted at 11:48 PM in Blu-ray

I'm currently making my way through Bioware's recent DRAGON AGE II for the second time and am rapidly coming to the conclusion that it lacks anything in the way of replay value, even when playing a different character class and...

Posted at 7:41 PM in Games

Édition Collector (BD, Metropolitan, Region ABC, France) Thanks to FoxyMulder for pointing out that a version of this film had finally been released without the raised blacks issue that has affected every version I've come across so far. Now...

Posted at 10:09 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Verve Pictures, Region ABC, UK) Another freebie, although I actually won this through a competition on Twitter organised by the film's producers, Punk Cinema. To the best of my knowledge, it's the first time in my life that...

Posted at 10:55 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region A, USA) I qualified for another freebie through the PlanetAxel (the new name for AxelMusic) rewards scheme and chose this. I've been meaning to see it for ages, and now I've got the perfect...

Posted at 10:34 PM in Blu-ray