Will this be the first year that we watch more Blu-rays than DVDs? I don’t know, but it’ll be close.

Watch this.

I am entirely serious when I say that this review had more work put into it than The Phantom Menace.

Wow, I really haven’t been updating my recently-viewed films. Fixed now! So many I’ve seen! The best being (IMHO) Mike Leigh’s ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’, which is pretty damn near perfect. You should probably check it out.

1. It’s the end of the financial year, and that means tax return time!

2. Gran Turismo 5, the game that tipped me over the edge to buy a PS3 over an Xbox 360.

3. WWDC. With luck, we’ll be told the release date of the new OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, and a new iPhone will be launched.

4. Ghostbusters on Blu-ray!

More reasons as they come to me.

Short review: Entertaining, and a fantastic sound mix. Not quite up to Pixar standards visually but a lot better than, say, Shrek. I do get annoyed by Dreamwork’s insistence on using big name actors even when they don’t fit the character they’re playing (I’m looking at you here, Seth Rogen).

Stunning low end in parts too, and how would I know that? I do wonder.

I am literally moist with excitement* at the prospect of buying a truly stunning subwoofer for the home theatre.

I picked up a pair of old Richter Wizard tower speakers that have replaced my tiny wall-mounted rear surrounds. Bass in the theatre is now being handled by four speakers instead of two, and there’s a corresponding increase in the amount of wha-hey while watching action movies.

I also finally got around to buying banana plugs for my speaker cables, so I can now pull the system apart and rewire it in minutes instead of an hour or so. Pity about the cost of the plugs – ouch.

*not really

Thanks man!

When can you come and see it with us?

You must see this film.

Why are you still here? Go.

Here I go again, bringing politics into it.

So there’s this woman who’s spent 3 years to make a film. She used music from the 1920s. The music itself is out of copyright but the sheet music is still tied up. The copyright owners want $200,000 – non negotiable.

This stuff is 90 years old, people. Let it go. You’ve perverted the entire concept behind copyright, just so a large corporation can maintain their stranglehold grip on a fucking cartoon mouse.

Article is here, Ebert blog post that led me to it is here.

The film itself looks fantastic and I’m upset that I’ll likely never see it.

Too grim, over-long and really not very much fun. The Blu-ray transfer is pretty disappointing too, being overly processed and edgy.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I didn’t get very much out of this one. Lucky I paid less for the disc than I would have for a cinema ticket, then.