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Monday, November 3, 2009: Up (BD, Region A, USA) Monday, November 9, 2009: District 13/District 13: Ultimatum (BD, Region B, UK) Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Left Bank (DVD, Region 1, USA) Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Max Manus: Man of...

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Left Bank (DVD, IFC, Region 1, USA) Max Manus: Man of War (BD, Revolver, Region ABC, UK) Left Bank, described on the front cover as "as important as Left the Right One in" (whatever that means), is the first...

Posted at 10:26 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

Friday, October 2, 2009: Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection (BD, Region ABC, USA) Saturday, October 3, 2009: The New York Ripper (BD, Region ABC, USA) Saturday, October 3, 2009: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (BD, Region A,...

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The Vice: The Complete Series (DVD, Network, Region 2, UK) A bit of a story behind this: LoveFilm has the first series of The Vice available for rental. I added it to my queue, it arrived the other day,...

Posted at 11:37 PM in DVD

Trailer for the upcoming platinum edition DVD of Suspiria from Nouveaux Pictures: In the age of Blu-ray, I'm not sure we need another standard definition release of Suspiria, but I'll be picking this up for the new bonus materials, particularly...

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009: Braveheart (BD, Region A, USA) Wednesday, September 2, 2009: Gladiator (BD, Region A, USA) Thursday, September 3, 2009: The Informers (BD, Region ABC, USA) Friday, September 4, 2009: Rachel Getting Married (BD, Region ABC, UK)...

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Szamanka ...also known as "Shaman" and "She Shaman". This is Andrzej Zulawski's latest film but one, a nutty cocktail of sex, screaming and insanity from 1996. No release date or specifications are available just yet, but as with the...

Posted at 10:36 PM in DVD

L'amour braque (DVD, Mondo Vision, Region 0, USA) [sample copy] In terms of image quality, I think this is the best Mondo Vision disc yet....

Posted at 9:50 PM in DVD

The third DVD release from Mondo Vision is Andrzej Zulawski's L'amour braque ("Limpet Love", 1985), a film blessed with perhaps the greatest opening scene any film has ever had, ever, in the history of cinema. Okay, maybe that's open...

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Saturday, August 1, 2009: Footprints (DVD, Region 0, UK) [review copy] Wednesday, August 5, 2009: Go (BD, Region ABC, UK) Thursday, August 6, 2009: The Ninth Gate (BD, Region ABC, USA) Thursday, August 6, 2009: Labyrinth (BD, Region ABC,...

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

I generally don't do direct comparisons between DVD and Blu-ray releases, because I tend to feel that there isn't much point. Even the weakest BDs tend to improve exponentially on their DVD counterparts (unless we're talking about a standard definition...

Posted at 1:27 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

Footprints (DVD, Shameless Screen Entertainment, Region 0, UK) [review copy]...

Posted at 10:10 PM in DVD

Saturday, July 4, 2009: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six (DVD, Region 1, USA) [birthday present] Saturday, July 4, 2009: The Children (BD, Region ABC, UK) [birthday present] Saturday, July 4, 2009: Eden Lake (BD, Region B, UK) [birthday...

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

The World at War (DVD, Fremantle, Region 0, UK) I picked this up for £25 - a bargain for what is widely considered, with good reason, to be the best documentary ever made on the subject of the Second...

Posted at 5:12 PM in DVD

I got the following for my birthday: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 (DVD, Warner, Region 1, USA) The Children (BD, E1 Entertainment, Region ABC, UK) Eden Lake (BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) Martyrs (BD, Optimum, Region B, UK) My...

Posted at 11:47 PM in Blu-ray / DVD

I've taken an in-depth look at Mondo Vision's North American DVD release of Andrzej Zulawski's L'important c'est d'aimer, released in two days' time at Amazon.com, stacking it up against the three previous editions most readily available: the French version from...

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