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Jason and the Argonauts – Blu Ray Review

Jason and the Argonauts is one of Ray Harryhausen’s masterpieces. Pioneering stop motion effects, Harryhausen was bringing creatures to life long before the age of digital film effects and animation. Finally we are seeing his films released on Blu Ray. Keep in mind, this is a review of the Blu Ray release, not the film
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Time Bandits – Blu Ray Review

I have very fond memories of Time Bandits, a 1981 Terry Gilliam classic. Ihave owned 3 or 4 formats and versions of this film over the years and was very exited to hear of its release on Blu Ray. Please keep in mind though, this is a review of the Blu Ray, not the movie
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird – Review

Kim Ji-woon brings us this South Korean action adventure featuring some of the best Korean talent out there. Normally I’m not ready to jump into just anything, and most of my Asian film collection consists of horror or martial arts exclusively. The Good, The Bad, The Weird is one of those films I could have
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Predator – Ultimate Hunter Edition Blu Ray – Review

Finally John McTiernan’s (Die Hard, The 13th Warrior) classic sci-fi action flic Predator has been re-released (fixed) in the form of The Ultimate Hunter Edition. Owners of the previous release were subjected to a terrible transfer which was really no better than the DVD, and contained no real extra features besides trailers. Although far from
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Flash Gordon – Blu Ray Review

I still remember the joy I felt leaving the theatre after seeing Flash Gordon for the first time. I was but a teenager. It may have been intentionally cheezy, but at that time, I thought it was the best film I had ever seen! The football fight in Ming’s court, Vultan’s attack on War Rocket
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The Wolfman (2010) – Blu Ray Review

The Movie – See my Review Video Quality –   4/5 Audio Quality –   5/5 Extra Features – 3/5 Being the trooper that I am, I decided to take in Joe Johnson’s The Wolfman on Blu Ray right after Alice In Wonderland. My first thought when looking at the packaging is Wow they’ve included the original
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Red Cliff (extended) – Blu Ray Review

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the West, and East Wu in the South. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale,
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The Killer – Blu Ray Review

The Movie:        The Blu Ray:       Jeffrey (Chow Yun Fat) is a hired killer(hitman) who inadvertantly blinds a nightclub singer while trying to complete a job. His emotions get the best of him as he takes it uoon himself to take care of the blind singer. Just one more job, and he can afford
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Clash Of The Titans – Blu Ray Review

This review is for the Blu Ray only, not the film! Although directed by Desmond Davis, this film is always going to be remembered as Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans. One of the epic films of the 80s that featured Ray Harryhausen’s trademark stop motion effects. I picked up the Blu Ray to get hyped
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Halo Legends – Blu Ray Review

After last weeks’ premature expectations, I finally got my hands on the Blu Ray edition of the animated feature Halo Legends. This compilation is very reminiscent of earlier releases like Batman Gotham Knights and the Animatrix. Seven different stories by seven different anime directors, all based in the Halo universe. The segments were hit and
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Near Dark – Blu Ray Review

I’m slowly getting through the huge pile of Blu Ray movies I got over the holidays. So this weekend I took in Kathryne Bigelow’s Near Dark. With her recently found fame with her Oscar nominated The Hurt Locker, I thought I’d take in one of her more brilliant efforts of the past. Back in ’86,
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Hardware – Blue Ray Review

The Film – Hardware is a 1990 low budget horror/sci-fi about a military robot that rebuilds itself and starts a killing spree in a young woman’s apartment. It all starts when a distant boyfriend shows up with some droid parts he’s salvaged from the desert wasteland. The woman, being an artist that works in junk
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District 9 – Blu Ray Review

  District 9 is based on Neill Blomkamp’s short Alive in Joburg. Blomkamp was also responsible for the independantly produced Halo based short. I’ve posted both shorts below. Synopsis: In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by
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Inglorious Basterds – Blu Ray Review

Tuesday December 15th marks the release of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds on Blu Ray. The film itself is fantastic, set in an alternate history of the Second World War where Lt. Alto Raine(Brad Pitt) leads his Basterds in a violent Nazi killing spree. This  is quite possibly one of Tarantino’s best films to date, and
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Public Enemies – Blu Ray Review

SCORE NOT BASED ON ACTUAL FILM Directed by Michael Mann(Miami Vice) and starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, Public Enemies is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Depp). He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s
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