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BLU-RAY REVIEWS: Slumdog Millionaire & The Spirit

Jamie Ewbank 05 June 2009 12:11
It’s another pair of polar opposites on our movies channel this week, with Frank Miller’s embarrassingly poor adaptation Will Eisner’s The Spirit picking up a single star for just about managing to look and sound vaguely interesting, while Slumdog Millionaire

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Defiance

Jamie Ewbank 15 May 2009 12:08
Arriving on Blu-ray on May the 18th, Defiance is director Edward Zwick’s follow up to the Oscar nominated Blood Diamond and recounts the true story of the Bielski partisans, a community of Jewish resistance fighters hiding in the Belorussian forests and

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Quarantine

Jamie Ewbank 19 March 2009 11:15
Quarantine ’s arrival on Blu-ray represents a clash of medium and message, in which a deliberately lo-fi, horror movie is presented on a format better suited to far slicker productions. The Blu-ray presentation is the mixed bag you’d expect, a product

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Pineapple Express

Jamie Ewbank 21 January 2009 14:42
Given the comedy pedigree of Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow and the directorial deftness of David Gordon Green, Pineapple Express would be an absolutely first-rate comedy if it were about anything but a pair of pot-smokers. Sadly, convincingly portrayed stoners

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Hancock

Jamie Ewbank 01 December 2008 12:33
After a year in which we’ve been inundated with superhero movies, all of which have been, to a greater or lesser extent, better than expected, we finally come to Hancock . On paper, it has the edge over all its rivals - it isn’t hampered by an original

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DVD REVIEW: The Dark Knight

Jamie Ewbank 19 November 2008 15:16
If Batman Begins was a surprisingly dark and serious take on the Batman mythos, then its all-conquering sequel, The Dark Knight , sees director Christopher Nolan heading into even grimmer territory to produce an excellent and unpredictable blockbuster

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DVD REVIEW: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Jamie Ewbank 07 November 2008 12:11
Age may have caught up with Harrison Ford, but in this fourth Indiana Jones movie he turns his advancing years into a virtue. Sadly, the same can’t be said for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, who direct and produce this rather disappointing sequel.

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The future of music on disc? Or just one future?

Andrew Everard 08 July 2008 14:48
You may remember a few weeks back we ran a story about the first audio-only Blu-ray Disc release, from Norwegian label 2L . Well, quite a lot has happened since then, including the re-launch of this site, and as a result it was only last weekend that

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