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Wed
23.5.12
Torchwood-Series 4: Miracle Day (Blu-ray) (2011)
DanielB
The fourth series of Torchwood takes the show in a more American direction, with most of the action transplanted and two new American characters added to the core team. Flawed but very interesting and intriguing. Quality Blu-ray set.
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Tue
22.5.12
Melancholia (Blu-ray) (2011)
Trevor D
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Danish director Lars Von Trier got himself kicked out of the Cannes Film Festival last year for making Nazi jokes overshadowing his remarkable film Melancholia and its career defining (but Oscar overlooked)performance from Kirsten Dunst. She stars as the mentally troubled sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg set against the end of the World. The Blu-ray is of high quality in sound and vision terms and has some interesting extras including a commentary track from Von Trier himself.
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Mon
21.5.12
Earthflight (Blu-ray) (2011)
DanielB
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A truly magnificent BBC Earth series following birds all over the world. The footage is quite amazing. Quality Blu-ray set.
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Fri
18.5.12
Vega$-The First Season-Volume 2 (1978)
GarryA
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This second volume of Season One of Vega$ contains twelve episodes and completes the initial season. The show, consistently slick, glossy and entertaining, was shot completely in Las Vegas. The city itself dazzles and the star, Robert Urich, is as charismatic and handsome as we remember him. This is mindless entertainment, extremely well executed. The transfers are very pleasing, with generally dazzling colour, and the only extra is a promo for each episode.
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Thu
17.5.12
This Is Not a Film (In film nist) (2010)
Trevor D
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In 2010 Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested and faced with a 20 year ban from filmmaking as well as six years in prison due to his powerful, humanistic movies which questioned the oppression of individuals by the state. Unable to make a film for 20 years he instead has made This Is Not a Film a documentary/creative movie which catches the frustration of a bird with clipped wings. Essentially consisting of Panahi being filmed as he walks around his apartment under house arrest, pondering the small hopes for a successful appeal, this sounds like a dull experience however it becomes a sad and moving form of expression for an artist whose films always put the spotlight on the inhumanity of the state to its subjects. Smuggled to the Cannes Film Festival last year on a memory stick inside a cake this is one of the most interesting examinations of the need to create in recent memory.
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