While Frankenweenie didn’t make my list of the top 5 movies of 2012, it was still an excellent film, and certainly one of the best stop-motion projects ever done. read more
IDG News Service – A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs. The MDisc, developed by Utah-based Millenniata, will be available from June this year in a 25 gigabyte capacity and will join a long-lasting DVD already offered by the company.
IDG News Service – Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website.
The third Harold & Kumar film is a cosy, cockle-warming comedy, which is quite an achievement, considering that it contains, to quote the parental guidelines, “strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence”.
Leigh Francis’s fake-tanned, sleazy northern businessman, as seen on ITV2’s Celebrity Juice , gets a feature-length caper which will please his fans while baffling and/or disgusting everyone else.
The Bourne franchise continues (this is number four), with Jeremy Renner sitting in for Matt Damon and the series writer, Tony Gilroy, taking over the director’s job from Paul Greengrass, but the transition is a surprisingly smooth one.
Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale complete their Batman trilogy – following Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – with an ambitious, apocalyptic drama in which Tom Hardy’s musclebound Bane is planning to wipe Gotham City off the map.
Everything feels off in this eco-friendly fable in which a 12-year-old boy (Zac Efron) searches for a “real” tree to impress earnest Audrey (Taylor Swift). The trees were wiped out by the foolish Once-ler and a wicked capitalist has exploited the town’s lack of clean air for profit. The animation is bright and garish, the humour humourless and the romance lacks charm
Walter Hill is one of American’s most underrated action directors and this deeply unsettling 1981 thriller, set in Louisiana’s swampland, is one of the auteur’s finest. A dysfunctional group of National Guardsman (including Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine) embark on a routine weekend exercise and end up being inexplicably picked off by a group of inscrutable Cajun hunters.
Universal Studios has posted a number of trailers along with a bonus feature list for its upcoming home release of the sci-fi film. read more