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Thursday, June 2, 2011: SOMEWHERE (USA/France/Italy/Japan, 2010) 4/10 Monday, June 6, 2011: MONSTERS (UK, 2010) 9/10 Saturday, June 11, 2011: MACHETE (USA, 2010) 6/10 Sunday, June 26, 2011: CHLOE (USA/Canada/France, 2009) 5/10 Tuesday, June 28, 2011: POSSESSION (France/West Germany,...

Posted at 11:54 PM in Cinema

Wednesday, June 1, 2011: THE BIG BANG (BD, Region A, USA) Saturday, June 4, 2011: DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (BD, Region B, Italy) Thursday, June 9, 2011: MONSTERS (BD, Region B, UK) Friday, June 17, 2011: THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE...

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I picked up a webcam and did a thing with it:...

Posted at 12:56 AM in Web

Source: Cartoon Brew...

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(BD/DVD, Warner/New Line, Region ABC/1, USA)...

Posted at 9:47 AM in Blu-ray

My good friend Kentai has posted his thoughts on the curious case of the two distinct HD masters that exist for Dario Argento's TENEBRAE and what this potentially means for the current state of Italo-cult releases on BD in general....

Posted at 10:17 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD/digital copy combo, Paramount, Region ABC/1, USA) I plan to go on a Coen brothers binge at some point - amazingly, I've not seen anything they've done beyond BURN AFTER READING and their ill-advised remake of THE LADYKILLERS....

Posted at 7:46 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD combo, Arrow Films, Region B/2, UK) This BD looks bee-yoo-tee-ful: I also picked up Arrow's BD of SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES), which I'm told also looks excellent, but I'm saving that one for my birthday....

Posted at 3:02 PM in Blu-ray

Few films can claim to have as troubled a history as Fritz Lang's M. Heavily cut by the censors, altered by a succession of distributors and subjected to numerous incorrect presentations on video, LaserDisc and DVD over the years, it's...

Posted at 2:09 PM in BD Impressions

A few screen captures of Arrow's upcoming UK BD release of Dario Argento's TENEBRAE have materialised on the AVForums board. Much to my surprise, they show the Arrow BD to have been derived from a completely different master from the...

Posted at 11:59 AM in Blu-ray

I would urge everyone with a BD-ROM drive in their PC to check out DAPlayer, as far as I'm aware the first of its kind: a completely free playback solution for BDs. Oh, and it plays HD DVDs too. It's...

Posted at 6:52 PM in Blu-ray / Technology

The film: MACHETE is probably about as good a film as can be expected from something that began life as a three-minute gag. That gag was a trailer for a non-existent "Mexploitation" film attached to the start of GRINDHOUSE, Robert...

Posted at 7:06 PM in BD Impressions

(BD, Universal, Region ABC, USA) A very curious state of affairs: the director's cut opens with a text disclaimer by Ridley Scott warning that the image quality is less than optimal, but to my eyes it actually looks better...

Posted at 1:31 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD combo, Paramount, Region ABC/1, USA) If you don't love SpongeBob, you have no heart. Incidentally, this was one of the first titles Paramount ever announced for release on HD DVD and BD, back in 2006. Five years and...

Posted at 1:29 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region ABC, USA) The original classic, not the remake with John Travolta and Denzel Washington. It's a Best Buy exclusive, but I was able to source it from Blu-rays For Everyone. A cursory glance suggests...

Posted at 1:25 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Momentum, Region B, UK) An absolutely brilliant film - I rented this one, watched it earlier in the week and decided to buy it based on how good it was....

Posted at 2:18 PM in Blu-ray

In this special giallo-themed episode of the Movie Matters podcast, regular hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie welcome special guest and giallo enthusiast Sandy "The Gialli Fan" Richardson of the Dark Dreams web site to discuss that unique brand of...

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I'm currently working on a review of Universum Film's 80th anniversary German BD release of Fritz Lang's M, kindly supplied to me by Torsten Kaiser, senior producer of TLE Films and the guiding hand behind this new release. Although it...

Posted at 7:40 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, CG Home Video, Region B, Italy)...

Posted at 6:19 PM in Blu-ray

...is required reading if you're having trouble with colour profiles in Windows 7 or Vista: Stop Losing Display Calibration with Windows 7...

Posted at 4:10 PM in Technology

My birthday isn't till next month, but ever mindful of the potential for cock-ups to occur when technology is involved, if I'm planning on getting anything computer-related I generally make a point of buying early in order to (a) pre-empt...

Posted at 12:16 PM in Technology

(BD, Anchor Bay, Region A, USA)...

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