Good news for Blu-ray fans as Sony enter a new dimension.
Blu-ray marches on in Europe as disc sales hit an all-time high.
FUBAR audio glitch leads to Paramount asking for their Blu-rays back.
Avatar, it seems, has hit UK Blu-ray sales with quite a resounding thump.
More Spielberg finally makes it to Blu-ray.
You'll be wearing multi-colored sunglasses indoors in no time.
After the total farce of being recalled due to a sloppy audio transfer, Spielberg's epic finally reaches us on Blu-ray. But was it worth the wait?
If you don't like prawns, you might sympathise with the poor chap at the centre of this cracker from Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp.
The Brits prove to be the masters of the mockumentary once again.
The indie rom-com of the year isn't actually a romance.
Low budget science-fiction makes for high brow entertainment.
Magic, wizardry and witchcraft make for a spellbinding Blu-ray.
Good news for Blu-ray fans as Sony enter a new dimension.
Sony have today released their first 3DTV model, the Bravia HX803 3DTV, for UK consumers.
Despite the hype, there’s been a dearth of 3D related releases since Panasonic launched their 3DTV model a while back. But with Sony joining the market just in time for the World Cup it seems things are about to hot up.
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Blu-ray marches on in Europe as disc sales hit an all-time high.
European Blu-ray sales have doubled in a year, according to figures for the first quarter of 2010 released by Digital Entertainment Group Europe.
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After the total farce of being recalled due to a sloppy audio transfer, Spielberg’s epic finally reaches us on Blu-ray. But was it worth the wait?
Famous for it’s bloody portrayal of the D-Day landings in 1944, Spielberg’s classic has been a long time coming. Now it’s been released, glitch-free, and we’re left with the inevitable questions:
Can Blu-ray work its magic once again? Can the violence get any more graphic? Can the explosions get any scarier? Can Tom Hanks’ stare get any more piercing?
The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating…
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FUBAR audio glitch leads to Paramount asking for their Blu-rays back.
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that they are recalling all copies of the special 2-disc blu-ray edition of ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
Apparently there’s a significant audio glitch somewhere on the disc which Technicolor, the people responsible for the transfer, failed to notice at the pre-release quality control stage.
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If you don’t like prawns, you might sympathise with the poor chap at the centre of this cracker from Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp.
A low budget indie from South Africa produced by a New Zealander known for his high-budget antics, District 9 was the under-the-radar hit of 2009.
Now it’s arrived on Blu-ray, and it seems to have lost none of its off-beat charms along the way.
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Avatar, it seems, has hit UK Blu-ray sales with quite a resounding thump.
According to 20th Century Fox, in its first day alone it easily smashed the previous UK sales record held by The Dark Knight, selling 222,824 units – that’s more than the Batman flick shifted in its first week.
Simultaneously it was announced that Avatar notched up a total of 6.7 million sales on DVD and Blu-ray in North America in 4 days.
According to Steven Leighton, Senior Vice President, TCFHE Northern Europe and Asia, “The incredible day one sales figures illustrate the urgency that fans of all ages have to return to the world of Pandora and more significantly, experience Pandora in high-definition.”
Special features not included.
However, the current Avatar Blu-ray release, though no doubt a big draw for all BR junkies, does not include a 3D version, which isn’t slated until November. This means that Avatar will not, contrary to what we all might expect, be among the first wave of 3D Blu-ray releases, with Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Monsters Vs. Aliens likely to hit the shelves first.
Looks like we’re all going to have to wait a little longer for the full Pandora experience.
The Brits prove to be the masters of the mockumentary once again.
109 minutes of profanity-laced hilarity
In The Loop is basically a film version of the BBC television show The Thick of It. I’m sure any British readers out there already realize this, and conversely, I’m sure practically no American readers know this. If the television series is anywhere near the quality of this film, I’ll be a happy man once I track it down.
In The Loop is a scathingly, brilliantly hilarious political satire that pretty much never stops with its one-liners and vitriolic arguments.
It’s pretty obvious early on — or from any of the trailers — that In The Loop is poking fun at the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. There are people on both sides that want to go to war and vice versa, and they are all entwined in a web of confusion and absurdity.
The events of the movie are kickstarted when British minister Simon Foster (played by Tom Hollander) says that war is “unforeseeable” in a radio interview, and the media runs with it, as Simon is berated and emasculated by his superior Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). Simon doesn’t quite realize the storm he’s created until he is confronted in the street by reporters and provides yet another soundbite that is blasted over the airwaves. It just seems that every time he opens his mouth, things only get worse.
Starting on the day of the “unforeseeable” quote, Toby Wright (Chris Addison) becomes Simon’s assistant throughout the entire affair, shuttling between meetings in both the UK and America. He manages to do damage of his own, accidentally leaking information to the press and also destroying his romantic relationship back home in probably the most embarrassing fashion imaginable. Simon and Toby make for an immensely amusing disaster of a team.
There's a lot of this in the film.
Meanwhile, the two Americans they work with, the US Assistant Secretary of State Karen Clarke (Mimi Kennedy) and her assistant Liza (Anna Chlumsky), seem on the ball and mostly treat the two Brits as the bumbling — if well-intentioned — idiots they are. They work together with Gen. George Miller (James Gandolfini) to try to stop the seemingly unstoppable march to war. They are mostly up against another Assistant Sec. of State, Linton Barwick (David Rasche), who is naturally the most unlikeable character in the film. I think you can guess how it turns out.
The star of the film is undoubtedly Capaldi, who seems to be ripping someone apart in every other scene. Every time he opens his mouth, a geyser of expletives shoots out, hitting whoever happens to be around square in the face. You may think *he* would be the most unlikeable character, but it’s hard to hate someone who is capable of effortlessly eviscerating anyone within shouting distance. There’s a reason why the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay — and that reason is that insults have never been piled on top of each other so well outside of a David Mamet film.
Probably the only complaints I can think of are the subplot that has Steve Coogan complaining to Simon about a wall that is about to fall and possibly crush his mom and perhaps that the movie just kinda of ends. But the former is still pretty funny and the latter — well, I wasn’t really watching the film for a twist or tidy, meaningful ending. I think it works fine and shows that politics just go on. And go on as dysfunctional as they’ve always been.
The indie rom-com of the year isn’t actually a romance.
Even the cover looks indie.
Parenthesis in the title. Zooey Deschanel dressing up in silly clothing. The two main characters sharing a love of The Smiths. A musical number complete with a bit of hand-drawn animation. Could a movie get any more indie?
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More Spielberg finally makes it to Blu-ray.
So much cooler than the iPad.
Paramount has announced that Minority Report — the Steven Spielberg-directed, Tom Cruise-driven sci-fi thriller — will be available on Blu-ray on April 20th.
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Low budget science-fiction makes for high brow entertainment.
Better than a Pink Floyd album!
It’s a big ball of cheese in the sky.
What would happen, wondered first-time feature director Duncan Jones, if Aretha Franklin lived on it? She’d probably eat it all, he quickly concluded. So he put Sam Rockwell up there instead. You know, just to see what would happen.
As it turns out, the result was really quite something.
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