Howl?s Moving Castle Blu Ray CoverIt?s time to take a look at the second Studio Ghibli film to be released on Blu-Ray this month. Following on from the under-par Tales From Earthsea we have the ?in-another-league? Howl?s Moving Castle. Both films were being produced at the same time, but it was Howl that [...]

Total Recall
Let?s be honest, 80?s sci-fi movies were ace, weren?t they? Explosions, scantily-clad women (and men!), cool aliens/mutants/monsters, shamelessly OTT spaceships, and cheese by the bucket-load. At the end of the period (1990) we were offered a slice of SF pie par-excellence. Baked by master chef Paul Verhoeven, and filled with the [...]

WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS – DVD CoverGood grief, after years of trying to remember which film it was I?d seen as a kid on TV that involved a Bathysphere, a boat being attacked by a giant octopus and a whole heap of underwater shenanigans, what turns up in the reviewing post-box?only ?Warlords of Atlantis? from Amicus, [...]

Tales From Earthsea Blu Ray Cover
Ghibli are back with another brace of Blu-Ray releases (Howl?s Moving Castle & Tales from Earthsea) edging us closer to the much-waited for release of their most popular films ?Spirited Away? and ?My Neighbour Totoro?.
First up is Goro Miyazaki?s ?Tales Form Earthsea?, based loosely on the third Earthsea book by [...]

Daniel Radcliffe windswept and a bit Hugh Grant in The Woman In Black
Hammer Films has been releasing new films for a while now, but none so far have had that ?Hammer? feel fans associate with the classic horror brand. That is until now. ?The Woman In Black? is Hammer at its classic-movie best, chills [...]

HULK SMASHing High Definition
It is the year of The Avengers, and so I?ve been taking the time to rewatch the movies that led up to this behemoth of a film. And behemoth is a good word to use, as I?ve been watching ?The Incredible Hulk? starring Ed Norton, Tim Roth and Liv Tyler. [...]

The Frighteners Blu-rayWay back in 1996 a much younger Peter Jackson broke in to the mainstream (after a string of cult horror movies) with ?The Frighteners?. A ghost-thriller comedy starring Michael J Fox and Jeffrey Combs, the film was at the cutting edge of CGI for the time, and successfully copied Tim Burton?s Beetlejuice [...]

The Karate Kid Blu-ray
The joy of Blu-Ray is that it gives me an excuse to rewatch old films and get excited by them all over again. In this case it is the original ?The Karate Kid? with Ralph Macchio and the incomparably brilliant Pat Morita. 1984 was the year and Ralph burst onto [...]

The Three Muskateers
Paul WS Anderson takes a break from the zombie-killing ?Resident Evil? franchise for some retro-steampunk (ish) silliness with ?The Three Muskateers?. Starring his lovely wife Milla Jovovich as Milady, Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham, Logan Lerman as D?Artagnan and Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen and Luke Evans as the infamous trio [...]

Thor (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy)
Now that ?Avengers Assemble? has graced our screens, I thought it would be a good time to take a look again at one of the build-up movies, ?Thor?, starring Chris Hemsworth, as the golden-haired Norse god. There was a whole heap of hype leading up [...]