Mar

17

Bond buffoonery

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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
Many women find Daniel Craig rather tasty.
Mothers tend to be female.
So, Sony Pictures are releasing Casino Royale on Monday.
Clever.

Feb

12

“Shadows? On my lungs?”

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“Oh God in heaven help me,” and other quotes from British films of yesteryear featured in popular music of the last twenty years over on my last.fm journal.

Feb

24

HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray: customers to be screwed

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I should have known that there was more to the HD-DVD / Blu-ray debate than meets the eye. Increasingly, it’s becoming clear that the media industry is hell-bent on alienating its customers. Now I’m beginning to learn that the real idea behind these two new media is not to allow customers access to higher quality [...]

Dec

24

Another example of corporate disrespect

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Yesterday morning, I thought I would let my daughter (2) watch “Shrek 2” Why is that DVD makers make it so time-consuming to play the blasted film? You can’t just slap in the DVD, press play and walk away. You have to wait while it plays some stupid THX introduction, and a few corporate logos, [...]

Aug

25

DVDs

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I’ve been rather a fan of films and, more particularly, the cinema for longer than I can really remember. When I bought my OnDigital box (back in the days when the things cost something like £250!) the clincher was FilmFour, a channel which promised a wide variety of English-language and foreign-language films.
Sadly, we never really [...]