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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011: THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADÈLE BLANC-SEC (BD, Region B, UK) Saturday, August 13, 2011: SOURCE CODE (BD/DVD combo, Region B/2, UK) Thursday, August 18, 2011: OBSESSION (BD, Region ABC, UK) Monday, August 29, 2011: HANNA...
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Monday, August 29, 2011
(BD/DVD/digital copy combo, Universal, Region ABC, UK) Heard very mixed things about this. This should probably have been a rental, but I actually pre-ordered it ages ago and completely forgot about it....
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
(BD, Arrow Video, Region ABC, UK)...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011: SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (BD, Region B, UK) (birthday present) Monday, July 4, 2011: CROSS OF IRON (BD, Region B, UK) (birthday present) Monday, July 4, 2011: ICE COLD IN ALEX (BD, Region B, UK)...
Posted at 11:59 PM in Blu-ray
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
(BD, Criterion, Region A, USA) Only $20.49 plus shipping from Amazon.com - a most generous price given how expensive Criterion's BD releases tend to be. As I mention in the upcoming ninth episode of the Movie Matters podcast, I've...
Posted at 11:18 PM in Blu-ray
Thursday, July 21, 2011
(BD, Disney, Region B, UK) Have never seen either of these... well, I think I might have seen the end of TRON years ago on TV....
Posted at 5:22 PM in Blu-ray
Monday, July 18, 2011
(BD, Icon, Region B, UK) A last minute shopping spree in the HMV sales as my summer holiday comes to an end. Picking up a few of the last year's major releases that I still haven't seen....
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(BD, Paramount, Region ABC, UK) Am I the only one who's noticed that this UK BD is labelled as Region A on the back cover?...
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Friday, July 15, 2011
(BD/DVD combo, Optimum, Region B/2, UK)...
Posted at 10:28 PM in Blu-ray
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
(BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) - birthday present...
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Monday, July 4, 2011
(BD, Summit, Region A, USA) - birthday present...
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(BD, Paramount, Region ABC, USA) - birthday present...
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(BD, Kaleidoscope, Region ABC, UK) - birthday present...
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(BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) - birthday present...
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(BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) - birthday present...
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(BD, Arrow Films, Region ABC, UK) - birthday present...
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
(BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) Sorry to report that this appears to be a CAT O' NINE TAILS style degraining job (albeit without the harsh noise overlaid on top of it). I'm really disappointed and considering just returning the...
Posted at 7:30 PM in Blu-ray
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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...
Posted at 11:54 PM in Blu-ray
Source: Cartoon Brew...
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Friday, June 24, 2011
(BD/DVD, Warner/New Line, Region ABC/1, USA)...
Posted at 9:47 AM in Blu-ray
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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....
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- Shameless FOUR FLIES BD notes
- #1132: Four Flies on Grey Velvet
- #1131: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- #1130: Drive
- Three Colours: Blue framing issue
- #1129: Melancholia
- #1128: Angels of Evil
- #1127: Arrietty
- #1126: Colombiana
- #1125: Troll Hunter
- #1124: The Naked Gun
- #1123: Airplane!
- #1122: Zodiac
- #1121: Road to Perdition
- #1120: Y tu mamá también
- #1119: Battle of Britain
- #1118: Boogie Nights
- #1117: Robin Hood
- Went shopping, bought films
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in December 2011
- #1116: The Skin I Live In
- #1115: The Spaghetti Western Trilogy
- #1114: The Bourne Trilogy
- #1113: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One (Limited and Numbered Edition)
- #1112: Jurassic Park: Ultimate Trilogy
- #1111: A Lonely Place to Die
- #1110: Kill List
- #1109: Asterix Conquers America
- #1108: In Bruges
- #1107: Winnie the Pooh
- #1106: Super 8
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in November 2011
- #1105: Rare Exports
- #1104: Panic Button
- #1103: Phantom of the Paradise
- #1102: Cars 2
- #1100: Portier de nuit
- #1099: Three Colors
- #1098: The Conversation
- #1097: The Woman
- #1096: Tom & Jerry Golden Collection Volume 1
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in October 2011
- #1094: The Secret of NIMH
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in September 2011
- #1093: The Lion King
- #1092: Torso
- #1091: Dressed to Kill
- #1090: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/The Girl Who Played with Fire/The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest: Extended Versions
- #1089: Tomorrow, When the War Began
- #1088: The Fox and the Hound/The Fox and the Hound II
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in August 2011
- #1087: Hanna
- #1086: Obsession
- #1085: Source Code
- #1084: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in July 2011
- #1083: Blow Out
- #1082: TRON: Legacy/TRON
- #1081: A Single Man
- #1080: The American
- #1079: The Kids Are All Right
- #1078: No Country for Old Men
- #1077: Unknown
- #1076: The Loved Ones
- #1075: Drive Angry
- #1074: Once Upon a Time in the West
- #1073: The Horseman
- #1072: Ice Cold in Alex
- #1071: Cross of Iron
- #1070: Spirits of the Dead
- #1070: Don't Look Now
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in June 2011
- Oh yes please
- #1069: The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition)
- Tenebrae redux
- #1068: True Grit
- #1067: Rififi
- A tale of two Tenebraes
- Finally a free BD playback solution for Windows
- #1066: Legend
- #1065: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- #1064: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
- #1063: Monsters
- Reviewer has problem, needs help
- #1062: Dellamorte Dellamore
- #1061: The Big Bang
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in May 2011
- Coming soon...
- An Argento BD status check
- #1060: Cat O' Nine Tails
- #1059: M
- #1058: Deep Red
- #1057: Taxi Driver
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in April 2011
- #1056: The Promise
- #1055: London Boulevard
- #1054: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- #1053: Unstoppable
- #1052: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
- #1051: The Girl Who Played with Fire
- #1050: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- #1049: The French Connection
- #1048: Black Swan
- Silent Hill quickie comparison
- #1047: Silent Hill
- #1046: Cuckoo
- #1045: Misery
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in March 2011
- Inferno comparison
- #1044: Inferno
- #1043: Tangled
- #1042: 127 Hours
- #1041: Phenomena
- #1040: Never Let Me Go
- #1039: Weeds: Season Six
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in February 2011
- #1038: Thelma & Louise
- #1037: L'illusionniste/Les triplettes de Belleville
- Buried OAR blunder alert
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in January 2011
- #1036: Winter's Bone
- #1035: Amer
- #1034: I Spit on Your Grave (remake)
- #1033: I Spit on Your Grave
- #1032: Alice in Wonderland
- Veronique, attempt no. 2
- My top 10 BD transfers of 2010
- #1031: Dollhouse: The Complete Season 2
- #1030: The Social Network
- #1029: Army of Shadows
- #1028: Resident Evil: Afterlife
- A few thoughts on Arrow Video's new Deep Red BD
- #1027: Deep Red
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in December 2010
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- Christmas swag redux
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in November 2010
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- Tenebrae region coding update
- Some thoughts on Wild Side's new Tenebrae BD
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in October 2010
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- Disney fail
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of September
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- A few thoughts on the new Mulholland Drive BD
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- Some thoughts on Arrow Video's new Inferno BD
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- Fight Club captures
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of August
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of July
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- At my signal, unleash detail
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- What the fuck is this?
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of June
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- Inferno on BD... uncut!
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- Blue Underground, Blu-ray and grain
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of May
- Holy crap - that looks amazing!
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of April
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- Can Steven Spielberg please supervise more film transfers?
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of March
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- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy BD - a typical New Line job
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- Alice in Wonderland coming to BD in April
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of February
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- Gladiator: take two?
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- Broken product
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of January
- Holy crap, they fixed Gangs of New York!
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- Suspiria: the good, the bad and the downright ugly
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- Image comparison: The Descent
- Bakshi's Lord of the Rings on BD in March
- Top 20 BD Transfers of 2009
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of December
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of November
- Blu-ray Brit round-up
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- Upcoming BDs from exotic lands
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of October
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- This week's BDs: October 26, 2009 - November 1, 2009
- This week's BDs: October 19, 2009 - October 25, 2009
- Beware of inaccurate BD captures
- This week's BDs: October 12, 2009 - October 18, 2009
- The revolution begins...
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- This week's BDs: October 5, 2009 - October 11, 2009
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of September
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- This week's BDs: September 28, 2009 - October 4, 2009
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- This week's BDs: September 21, 2009 - September 27, 2009
- The lesser of two evils
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- Screenshot science: Se7en
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- This week's BDs: September 14, 2009 - September 20, 2009
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- This week's BDs: September 7, 2009 - September 13, 2009
- Back in action
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- Battle of the Mad Australians
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of August
- And the award for proper treatment of the master goes to... Lions Gate
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- This week's BDs: August 31, 2009 - September 6, 2009
- Booby blunder
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- The funniest two pictures I've seen all week
- This week's BDs: August 24, 2009 - August 30, 2009
- Paramount's Blu-ray seesaw
- Lossy vs. lossless results
- This week's BDs: August 17, 2009 - August 23, 2009
- Lossy vs. lossless
- Image comparison: Go
- This week's BDs: August 10, 2009 - August 16, 2009
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- This week's BDs: August 3, 2009 - August 9, 2009
- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of July
- Blu-ray Disc replication
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- This week's BDs: July 27 - August 2, 2009
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- Spooktacular BD fun
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- This week's BDs: July 20 - July 26, 2009
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- BDs and DVDs I bought or received in the month of June
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- Monsters, Inc. BD notes
- The PS3 PAL lockout saga continues
- Upgrade at your own peril
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- The New York Ripper in mono
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- Geri's Game weirdness
- The New York Ripper announced for BD
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- A boatload of BD
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