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Blu Ray Film Review of The Silence Of The Lambs – A serial killer known as Buffalo Bill is abducting young women and skinning their bodies, the FBI’s hunt to catch the killer has reached a dead end and the only hope lies in the mind of the brilliant but psychotic Dr Hannibal Lecter. Jodie Foster was aided in her research for the role by FBI agent Mary Ann Krause, Krause told Foster that sometimes the work is so overbearing that a good cry can help with the stress the job brings. They show this in one scene where Starling cries while standing by her car.

Neve was the first choice for the role of Grace Stamper in Armageddon but had to turn the part down due to scheduling conflicts with filming Party Of Five, Liv Tyler then got the part, she has British citizenship and speaks French.

Godzilla is one of the longest running movie franchises and has been entertaining Japanese audiences since 1954 when the original movie called Gojira was released, now Hollywood tries again with Godzilla in a new film planned for release in 2012.

In 1942 John Wayne made a movie called Flying Tigers about the exploits of the 1st American Volunteer Group who helped China fight the Japanese, now John Woo is directing a remake called Flying Tiger Heroes.

Mad Max 2 was known in America as The Road Warrior and the disc cover artwork even calls it this although in the UK and Australia and on the films actual credits it is still known as Mad Max 2. This is the full uncut edition of the movie.

The film remake of The Mechanic see’s Jason Statham taking on the Bronson role and Ben Foster playing McKenna, it appears to be following the plot of the original closely and the director is Simon West who has previously directed Con Air.

It’s been a long wait but finally all four Alien films are being released on blu ray in a special Alien Anthology boxset, they will incorporate a new feature exclusive to blu ray called MU-TH-UR Mode. Alien Anthology hits blu ray on October 25 in the UK and October 26 in the U.S.!

In Scream 4 Sidney Prescott has written a book called “Out of the Darkness” which tells of her ordeal in the original movies, she goes on a book tour which visits Woodsboro the town in which she was terrorised by ghostface.

Ghostbusters was originally written as a vehicle for Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, after Belushi died they brought in Bill Murray and the rest is history.

Ghostbusters was a box office smash and spawned one sequel to date with a possible third film coming out within the next few years.

Sigourney Weaver also stars in Ghostbusters and you can see a clip of her from the movie to your left of this text

Click the picture to view some blu ray screencaps and read my thoughts on the film transfer.