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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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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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Jamie Ewbank
23 March 2009 11:25
Much has been made of the slightly disjointed feel of Bond’s 22nd outing, Quantum of Solace , and while a glossy blu-ray presentation can’t do anything to fix the mid-trilogy feel of the film, it does bring the action and excitement to the fore, making
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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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Jamie Ewbank
16 January 2009 11:45
It’s been a pleasantly surprising week on the Leisure Lab, where our expectations have been exceeded by both Somers Town on Blu-ray and Gears of War II . Expecting the first to be unable to live up to the excellent This Is England and the second to simply
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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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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
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight, The Joker, Batman
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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Jamie Ewbank
17 October 2008 12:13
If you’ve ever lamented the fact that blockbuster movies just don’t grab you the way they used to, then Iron Man is the film to restore your faith in the genre. For starters, the special effects are genuinely special. The titular armour is all gloss and
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Jamie Ewbank
10 October 2008 15:40
The grumpy green shape of The Incredible Hulk is the first of the summer comic book blockbusters to make the jump to DVD and Blu-ray on October 13th. After Ang Lee’s thoughtful but surprisingly placid Hulk in 2003, Director Louis Leterrier clearly wants
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, The Eyehe Incredible Hulk
Jamie Ewbank
29 September 2008 14:42
Hollywood remakes of successful Asian horror films all tend to hit the same snag: when stripped of the subtitles and cultural differences present in the original, the audience no longer have the added thrill of unfamiliarity to enhance the chills, and
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, The Leisure Lab, film reviews, The Eye, Jessica Alba, The Eye Review
Jamie Ewbank
03 September 2008 09:21
Adapted from a pair of hefty graphic novels, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's illustrated autobiography and tells the story of her youth in Iran and Austria, with the Iranian revolution providing a contrast to Marjane's feisty personality and leftist leanings.
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Jamie Ewbank
07 August 2008 16:10
The Leisure Lab , our software reviewing sister site, is growing up fast. We've just added a new music review channel and we're moving from weekly to daily updates. Among the goodies going up this week are Brian DePalma's controversial Iraq movie, Redacted
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Audio, Stuff.TV, CD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, whathifi.com, MP3, movies, Samsung, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, film reviews, music reviews