LATEST ADDITIONS

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 23, 2012  |  0 comments

When a young girl (Bailee Madison) is forced to move in with her father (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in a spooky old home they’re restoring, she isn’t exactly thrilled by the idea. But things get even worse when she starts hearing voices calling her name and seeing little creatures running around the building.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 22, 2012  |  0 comments

StudioCanal has parterned with La Cinematheque de Toulouse to present a brand-new restoration of Jean Renoir's 1937 meditation on class and war, La Grande Illusion.

Ed Selley  |  Feb 22, 2012  |  0 comments

 

Elipson has launched a new surround system. This makes use of the new Planet M. A smaller version of the well regarded Planet L, the M is also a Spherical design. It makes use of a 10cm treated paper membrane driver with a coaxial 20mm silk dome tweeter.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 21, 2012  |  0 comments

Despicable Me tells the story of Gru, the world’s greatest super villain. Or, at least that’s what he thinks. Truth is, there are worse people in the world than him and his latest plan - involving the theft of the moon and three orphaned girls – could end up changing his life in ways he never imagined.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 18, 2012  |  0 comments

If you’re serious about home cinema, you will never be happy with just a living room equipped with a TV and a Blu-ray player, no matter how high quality. The ultimate aim of any home cinema enthusiast must be to own a dedicated media room, designed and built to emulate the theatrical experience. You can pay the professionals thousands of pounds to do the work for you, or you can do it yourself!

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 17, 2012  |  0 comments

'So he caresses her bosom and perhaps she does the same with him'

While this boxset's title (and those of the films it contains) conjures up cheerful images of light, saucy frolics, the contents prove to be a much more serious proposition. Of the six films included, three are actually sex education movies, while the three fiction films on offer centre on 'damaged' women caught up in games of sex, control and power.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 17, 2012  |  0 comments

If the first two Saints Row games were little more than rather forgettable GTA-wannabes, then this latest outing is a much more interesting proposition. But rather than try to reinvent the open-world action genre, Saints Row the Third tries its hardest to simply subvert it, throwing in every outlandish concept and gameplay style it can think of and hoping that somehow it all holds together.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 17, 2012  |  0 comments

British cinema lost one of its true legends in November with the death of director Ken Russell. Regularly described as an iconoclast and the enfant terrible of the UK film industry, the Southampton-born Russell carved out a niche as one of our most pioneering and controversial filmmakers, yet one who has been mostly overlooked by the majority of DVD labels in his native country. Indeed, the only bright spot surrounding his passing is that UK studios and distributors might finally get their act together.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 17, 2012  |  0 comments

Clichés are not necessarily a bad thing. There’s a good reason why some ideas are reused over and over again. Ultimately, it’s all about how you can make a cliché work for you.

Richard Stevenson  |  Feb 16, 2012  |  0 comments

Regular readers of this column may find it hard to believe that I have gone green. I mean I have heard of being environmentally friendly, I am aware of carbon footprints and CO2 emissions, but I was never going to let any of that get in the way of my lifestyle. Previously, I made Jeremy Clarkson look like a tree-hugging hippie.

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