Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) (Disney+) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
The concert epic that shook the blockbuster landscape to the tune of a quarter of a billion, Eras is a thoroughly grand and impressively choreographed celebration of the sheer star power of Taylor Swift.
LG 2024 TV line-up: From OLED to QNED – everything you need to know
by Ian Collen
A detailed round-up of all the major new additions and upgrades coming in 2024, from the flagship G4 OLED with Meta technology 2.0 to the C4, MiniLED, webOS 24, and more.
Continuing her run of Netflix starring vehicles, Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown takes on a competently designed CG dragon in a flabby, frivolous piece of perfectly tolerable night-in entertainment.
Starman (Columbia Classics Vol. 4) 4K Blu-ray Review
by Mark Costello
John Carpenter’s most emotional film still radiates charm and warmth despite its underlying tone of sadness and loss. And it's all the more beautiful on this stunning new 4K restoration from Sony as part of their ongoing Columbia Classics boxsets…
Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.
A loose adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel, Poor Things is a perfect confluence of art and message, idea and execution, writing and design, Yorgos Lanthimos follows up his Oscar winning film 'The Favourite' with a bona fide masterpiece. UPDATE - Now on Disney+ in 4KDV/DA
After a slew of defining 80s action classics, Schwarzenegger shifted to a decade of alternating action with comedy, with mixed results on both sides. But at least Arnie fans get to come one step closer to completing their 4K collection courtesy of Kino's US disc.
Want to know how to transport highly explosive nitro-glycerine over treacherous terrain safely? BFI's wonderful native 4K restoration of The Wages of Fear shows you how (not to).
Left to languish on Netflix’s shelves for three years after its completion, Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan’s trip to just a couple of clicks on past Solaris is an admirable failure that may find a second life as a cure for arachnophobia…
Francis Ford Coppola’s audacious musical failure still doesn’t right all of its wrongs after over 40 years… but there’s no failure like a Coppola failure, especially now in a dazzling 4K restoration from Studiocanal, complete with a huge number of extras to at least soften the blow somewhat… 4K COMPETITION LINK ADDED.
Disney+’s lavish and brutal new adaptation of the James Clavell novel hits our screens with its beautiful sense of blood-soaked intrigue and fog-shrouded mystery apparent from the very first frames…
A Holiday Special of a Marvel movie, it's unsurprising to find the 33rd MCU entry amidst the three lowest rated, and once again Disney display a complete disdain towards the very physical media that might help this flop break even, releasing it on 4K HDR after its streaming bow, and without the Disney+ trappings of Dolby Vision and IMAX Enhancement.
Indie director John Sayles' finest feature, the Neo-Western, Lone Star, is a richly crafted mystery drama, and a fine addition to the Criterion Collection.
Launching as a Gravity-esque space survival flick, this new Apple TV+ Noomi Rapace sci-fi vehicle soon flashes its mystery box teeth with heady notions of quantum physics and a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect.
Alligator & Alligator II: The Mutation 4K Blu-ray Review
by Mark Costello
Beloved creature feature with bite, John Sayles and Lewis Teague’s urban legend writ large and very bloody is a fun old time. Especially in this new 4K release from 101 Films that only makes one mistake…bundling its sequel in with it…
The bland and watered down sequel to its more grown-up predecessor, Conan the Destroyer delivers more effects driven set pieces, more humour and less of absolutely everything else. Including quality. It doesn’t stop Arrow from delivering another superb 4K presentation and solid roster of supplemental features for its new UHD release…
The brilliantly brutal sword and sorcery romp that kick started Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ruling of 1980s Hollywood is given a lavish and superb 4K presentation and release from the US arm of Arrow Video…
Ad-supported Amazon Prime Video loses Dolby Vision and Atmos
by Ian Collen
With numerous members reporting the loss since the additional ‘Prime Video Ad Free’ charge was introduced, it's looking like you'll now need to pay the premium price for that premium Dolby content.
Furiously late to the party, we tune in to discover that Culprits is a slick, brutal, and unbearably tense heist thriller that's a surprise choice for one of the best shows of the tail end of 2023.
With 11 channels of 140W amplification and the capacity to process
13.4-channel audio, the new AVR is set to jump to the top of the series, featuring support for 8K video, Dolby Atmos, and more.
One of the finest pure action movies of all time, Gareth Evans' 2011 breakthrough assaulted audiences upon release, but gets an utterly unexpected new lease of life courtesy of the kind of complete-makeover 4K remaster nobody ever expected it to get.
Charlie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Kaufman writes a Dreamworks animation for Netflix based on a kid's book about confronting your worst fears?
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Movies & TV Shows
Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Digging into what makes Netflix viewers click, we roll out on the Top 10 most viewed productions with one of their all-time most popular shows to see what the fuss is about.
Messrs Spielberg and Hanks return to the epic WWII mini-series twenty-three years after Band of Brothers ushered in a new era of event TV, only this time they take to the skies, following the 100th Bomb Group as they take the fight to Germany…
The new premium arrivals will feature the latest Meta Technology 2.0 upgrades, along with a new 8th Gen P5 AI processor and enhanced Ambilight tech, with the mid-range OLED809 also on the way.
John Woo's assault on Hollywood may not have quite delivered in the same way as his HK masterpieces, but damn if it didn't peak with the gleefully ridiculous and relentlessly entertaining Face/Off.
For All Mankind Season 4 (Apple TV+) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Apple's finest flagship show lands with another deep impact opener, affording a glimpse at what will undoubtedly be another memorable season of this tremendous alternate sci-fi series - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.
Marvel's new standalone "Spotlight" brand kick-starts with a show that absolutely requires you to have boatloads of previous knowledge, enjoying a decent anti-hero action lead and elevated no end by Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin - UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON.