News|Movies|BD & DVD|Writings|Other

...or "Why I Can't Stand Children" History repeats itself. A few posts back, I told you about my foolish decision to go and see Pixar's Finding Nemo during the school October week holidays of 2003. Well, today, I went to...

Posted at 9:20 PM in Cinema

On Monday night, we went to see a screening of the limited theatrical re-release of Toy Story in 3D. (In the US, both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 have been re-released together, but on this side of the pond,...

Posted at 9:40 PM in Cinema

Film censors around the UK are waking up to disturbing news today. Apparently, due to an administrative oversight, the 1984 Video Recordings Act, which requires all videos (I'm including DVDs and Blu-ray Discs under that umbrella) sold in the UK...

Posted at 1:06 PM in Cinema

One of the defining voices of '80s American cinema, dead at 59 years young. Read about it at E! Online....

Posted at 9:49 PM in Cinema

I've been pretty outspoken on the whole issue of the 2007 high definition remaster of Suspiria, which has since been released in various iterations on DVD and Blu-ray. Basically, its colour and contrast values look completely different to those of...

Posted at 11:12 AM in Cinema

Donkey Punch is a low budget British horror movie from 2008. It was, for the most part, shredded by the critics when it came out, but personally I thought it was better than its reputation suggested. It genuinely surprised me...

Posted at 11:43 PM in Cinema

Having now seen Giallo, I think the time is ripe for me to update my ranking list for Dario Argento's films. In order of favourite to least favourite, they are: Suspiria ***** Deep Red ***** Opera ***** The Bird with...

Posted at 9:05 PM in Cinema

Well, I'm off to Edinburgh to catch the premiere of Dario Argento's latest film, Giallo. As with any new project from the maestro, it's difficult to have any idea of how it will turn out in advance, but it should...

Posted at 8:29 PM in Cinema

It doesn't bode well when a film's own director starts downplaying it prior to release, but that's exactly what Dario Argento did with his most recent film, Giallo, while attending the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in New York, according...

Posted at 10:41 AM in Cinema

I can't think why I didn't mention this before, but I've obtained a ticket for the premiere of Dario Argento's new film, Giallo, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Thursday, June 25th. I've followed this film fairly closely from...

Posted at 9:55 AM in Cinema

Pixar's latest movie, Up, opened on Friday in the US, fresh from making waves at the Cannes Film Festival. Predictably, it will be some time before it ends up on UK shores... October, apparently. How Disney can justify this sort...

Posted at 10:06 PM in Cinema

Back on my previous site, I posted about my experience of seeing Dario Argento's Suspiria on the big screen and my observations about how closely the UK theatrical print I saw matched the overall colour, brightness and contrast balance of...

Posted at 12:18 AM in Cinema