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Thursday, December 1, 2011: DIE ANOTHER DAY (UK/USA, 2002) 3/10 Friday, December 2, 2011: SUPER 8 (USA, 2011) 8/10 Sunday, December 4, 2011: THE FIGHTER (USA, 2010) 7/10 Saturday, December 10, 2011: POINT BLANK (France, 2010) 7/10 Sunday, December...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Cinema

Thursday, December 1, 2011: SUPER 8 (BD/DVD/Digital Copy, Region ABC, USA) Saturday, December 17, 2011: WINNIE THE POOH (BD/DVD/Digital Copy, Region ABC, USA) Tuesday, December 20, 2011: IN BRUGES (BD, Region ABC, UK) - Christmas present Friday, December 23,...

Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

It's a little early for me to reveal my Top 10 films of 2011, primarily because I still have some catching up to do in my viewing, but also because I want to save the reveal for the first Movie...

Posted at 2:49 PM in Cinema

(BD, Pathé, Region B, UK)...

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Salander vs. Salander...

Posted at 9:55 PM in Cinema

(BD, 20th Century Fox/MGM, Region AB, UK)...

Posted at 12:47 PM in Blu-ray

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

Posted at 12:46 PM in Blu-ray

(BD, Warner, Region ABC, USA)...

Posted at 12:43 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/digital copy combo, Universal, Region ABC, UK)...

Posted at 12:42 PM in Blu-ray

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

Posted at 12:40 PM in Blu-ray

(BD/DVD combo, Studio Canal, Region B/2, UK)...

Posted at 12:37 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

Christmas BDs: Christmas trains: I'll write more later....

Posted at 9:41 AM in General

The Movie Matters podcast returns for its final episode of 2011. In this special Christmas instalment, co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie exchange gifts, casting an eye on French actor turned filmmaker Guillaume Canet's adaptation of American crime author Harlan...

Posted at 6:03 PM in Podcast

(BD, 20th Century Fox, Region ABC, Italy) The bizarre things that show up on BD in far-off lands......

Posted at 8:30 PM in Blu-ray

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/prometheus/ Oh, yes please. Ridley Scott + Noomi Rapace + a return to the world (and, by the looks of it, the atmosphere) of ALIEN = my most anticipated film of 2012 to be sure....

Posted at 9:18 PM in Cinema

(BD, Universal, Region ABC, UK) Early Christmas present from my Movie Matters partner in crime Lee, ahead of our upcoming Christmas episode (being recorded this Thursday). Thanks, buddy!...

Posted at 11:43 PM in Blu-ray

Yesterday I said I thought the backgrounds were the most striking artwork in Disney's 2011 WINNIE THE POOH revival. On further reflection, though, I think Eric Goldberg's animation of Rabbit, which is almost Clampett-like in its exaggeration, is the most...

Posted at 9:22 PM in Animation

(BD/DVD/digital copy combo, Buena Vista, Region ABC, USA) Watched this earlier today. As I suspected would be the case, it's essentially harmless fluff - technically well-made and lovely to look at (the painterly backgrounds are particularly nice), but this...

Posted at 10:29 PM in Blu-ray

I'd known this was inevitable for some time, but all the same I was deeply saddened and somewhat shocked to wake up this morning to discover that Christopher Hitchens, author of GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING, had...

Posted at 11:30 AM in General

The film: ** THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! ** Sorry, that was the sound of me pounding my head off my desk repeatedly. In the eloquent words of Roger Moore: "I thought it just went too far - and that's from me,...

Posted at 1:50 PM in BD Impressions

(BD, Paramount, Region ABC, USA)...

Posted at 11:32 PM in Blu-ray

Image quality: This is a difficult one to rate because, while this is technically a superb presentation - a flawless one, even - it differs in some key ways from the version of THE LION KING that was released in...

Posted at 4:18 PM in BD Impressions