I can’t believe how many films I’ve watched already this year. I’m behind on the cinema viewings (I wanted to go once a week), but the home cinema experience is hardly slumming it. I watched The Host alone last night, and The Fountain with Crumpet tonight. I’m very glad she chose to watch it – [...]
Archive for February, 2008
24 frames per second
Posted in Film on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Zodiac
Posted in Film on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This one started off very promising (I felt it was going to be a buyer), but it dragged towards the end with too much police procedure and not enough spooky murdering. Also, not enough Robert Downey Jr. But then, there can never be enough RDJ. And man, it’s long. So long that they obviously had [...]
Stupid error of the month
Posted in Macs on February 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Seriously, Apple. What. The. FUCK.
Apocalypto
Posted in Film on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We watched this last night – well worth watching, but I don’t want to say too much about the plot besides the fact that Mel Gibson is still obsessed with brutality. The image was really… interesting. When it moved slowly, it looked very good – excellent detail, decent good shadows, but it didn’t feel ‘perfect’. [...]
Bring it on
Posted in Film on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The format war is over. Moments after Toshiba announced they were giving up on HD DVD, Universal followed suit. It’s certainly not unexpected, but there was always the possibility that Universal would be tied into some stupid exclusivity contract until the end of 2009. I can’t wait for Children of Men on Blu-ray! And of [...]
