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Thursday, September 1, 2011: SISTERS (USA, 1973) 7/10 Saturday, September 3, 2011: BODY DOUBLE (USA, 1984) 3/10 Sunday, September 4, 2011: OBSESSION (USA, 1976) 7/10 Monday, September 5, 2011: DOWNFALL (Germany/Italy/Austria, 2004) 7/10 Monday, September 12, 2011: FOUL PLAY...

Posted at 11:36 PM in Cinema

Saturday, September 10, 2011: THE FOX AND THE HOUND/THE FOX AND THE HOUND II (BD/DVD, Region ABC/1, USA) Wednesday, September 14, 2011: TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN (BD, Region ABC, UK) Thursday, September 15, 2011: THE GIRL WITH THE...

Posted at 11:36 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD combo, Buena Vista, Region ABC/1, USA) Good news: the "Morning Report" sequence has been consigned to the deleted scenes section where it belongs. Bad news: they've messed around with the studio logo and credits AGAIN (and deleted the...

Posted at 8:33 PM in Blu-ray

With the second trailer for David Fincher's upcoming English language and yet-to-convince-me-it's-in-any-way-worthwhile remake of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO having recently hit the web, it somehow seems appropriate that the extended television version of the original Swedish adaptation and...

Posted at 9:35 PM in Television

(BD, Blue Underground, Region ABC, USA) A mixed bag, to be sure. It's unquestionably a huge upgrade over the quite nasty-looking Anchor Bay DVD of yesteryear, but it still suffers from many of the problems that tend to be...

Posted at 2:39 PM in Blu-ray

...on a quad-core Intel Core i7 with hyperthreading enabled. That's just from bog standard typing - nothing fancy. It's no wonder my laptop's battery drains in a couple of hours if I'm using the program on it. Honestly I'm...

Posted at 8:15 PM in Technology

(BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region ABC, USA) Incorrectly labelled as Region A on the back cover, but confirmed to work with all regions....

Posted at 10:27 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Momentum, Region B, UK) And now I can finally watch the longer television cuts of these films with English subtitles......

Posted at 10:30 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Paramount, Region ABC, UK) Well now, here's a disappointment. My primary motivation for picking up this disc was because at one point it was stated to be one of the few commercially available BDs (at the moment) encoded...

Posted at 10:21 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD combo, Buena Vista, Region ABC, USA) This is not my favourite Disney film by any stretch of the imagination, but it remains something of an interesting curiosity nonetheless. A product of Disney's "dark age" that many feel began...

Posted at 11:30 PM in Blu-ray

Sorry about the complete lack of posts over the last week (seems like I'm forever saying this these days). This time, the culprit was a rather nasty stomach bug, followed up for good measure by a less nasty but still...

Posted at 11:27 PM in General

This Sunday, myself, Lee and our friend/long-term listener Daniel Sardella will be recording an episode of the Movie Matters podcast dedicated to director Brian De Palma. As without LORD OF THE RINGS podcast, we'd like to read out as many...

Posted at 8:21 PM in Podcast