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Watershed

paul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:51:30 +0000

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

Genius

paul — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:22:42 +0000

Watch this.

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

Lazy

paul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:51:53 +0000

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.

Reasons why June will rock

paul — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:10 +0000

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

2. E3. I’m expecting to discover the release date of 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.

Kung Fu Panda

paul — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:53:59 +0000

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 yearn for a big bottom

paul — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:46:11 +0000

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

This is why Gizo is awesome

paul — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:14:36 +0000

Thanks man!

When can you come and see it with us?

Slumdog Millionaire

paul — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:37:06 +0000

You must see this film.

Why are you still here? Go.

Yet more proof that copyright is broken

paul — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:41:21 +0000

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.

The Dark Knight

paul — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:49:38 +0000

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.