Format wars are not pleasant, but, unfortunately, they seem to happen with startling frequency. In the realm of high definition video there has been an ongoing “war” between Blu Ray and HD DVD. While a couple of hardware vendors have made available dual format players the cost associated with them is prohibitive. In the last […]
The Oscars will be held next month in Los Angeles and the nominees are due to be announced in the coming weeks. So which films do you expect to see take awards? Will 300 sweep the boards or is Transformers likely to pick up the lion’s share? What of smaller budget productions like The Wind […]
The second instalment of the Narnia stories by CS Lewis, Prince Caspian, will be hitting our screens in May of this year. The trailer was released a couple of weeks ago and looks fantastic, though the last film wasn’t as good as the book it was based on, as is often the case … Here […]
I am always very wary of films that seem to have excessive PR budgets. Of the films of 2007 American Gangster seemed to have attracted a lot of media attention. As happens when a film gets that much attention you are generally left wondering if it can possibly live up to all the hype. In […]
