North American Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 30th 2010.

United Kingdom Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 30th 2010.

Beautiful Kate – 15
Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown

Down Terrace – 15
Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin

Frontier Blues – 12A
Mahmoud Kalteh, Abolfazl Karimi, Khajeh Araz Dordi

Gainsbourg – 15
Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

Separado! – PG
Gruff Rhys, Rene Griffiths, Tony Da Gatorra

South of the Border – 15
Oliver Stone, Tariq Ali, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales

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North American Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 23rd 2010.

United Kingdom Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 23rd 2010.

Baaria – 15
Francesco Scianna, Margareth Made, Nicole Grimaudo, Angela Molina

City Island – 12A
Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer

Ivul – 15
Jacob Auzanneau, Jean-Luc Bideau, Adelaide Leroux

Jasper, Penguin Explorer – U
Rick Adams, Kate Rawlings, Rob Rackstram, Steve Hudson

The Rebound – 15
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Rob Kerkovich, Kate Jennings

Splice – 15
Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, Abigail Chu

The A-Team – 12A
Laim Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel

The Karate Kid – PG
Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith

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This is the original blu ray edition of Predator and takes up around 21GB of disc space, there are no extra features other than a trailer, it is enabled for D-Box motion control should you own it.

The plotline for Predator should be well known by now, an elite commando team mount a rescue mission in the central American jungle.

The team led by Dutch ( Arnold Schwarzenneger ) are highly skilled and soon find the guerrilla base, when one of the hostages is shot they storm the camp and make short work of the guerrilla forces.

Dutch finds his old friend Dillon was economical with the truth behind the mission and they pick up a prisoner, a young woman named Anna, the team make their way to the extraction point but find something is hunting them, they are being killed one by one, their foe is no ordinary human being but an extra terrestrial alien that loves to hunt it's prey, they must make a stand or die.

Predator is an exciting film, well paced with a fantastic music score that is memorable, the cast assembled for the film are just perfect and everyone gets a few lines that enhances their individual characters, the scene where they storm the guerrilla camp is well put together and is a textbook example of how to stage a large scale action sequence, it's a scene which had to be trimmed in order to get an R rating on it's original release but despite this it still works very well.

John McTiernan went on to direct Die Hard straight after this film and he deserves a lot of credit for how well this film turned out, i felt it brought something fresh to the genre by mixing horror, sci fi and action. Its a very enjoyable film which i never tire of watching.

This release originally had poor reviews with some complaining about the film grain being too heavy, the problem is that the people complaining had their television or projectors sharpness control set wrongly and too high, this would have made the grain look more prominent and unnatural, those who bothered to lower their sharpness would have seen a pretty decent image.

Note that film grain in blu ray screencaps as featured below will show grain that when viewed as a screencap looks different to when viewed in motion, you will find it more pleasing to the eye when in motion, high definition detail needs this grain, if you remove it you will remove the fine detail, grain in screencaps is captured in a frozen form, in motion it moves with the image and is very natural, high definition detail relies on it and film grain should never be removed.

Image quality on this release could be considered inconsistent at times, this is due to how the film was shot, some scenes have been zoomed in due to lack of coverage shots, these scenes have more grain and are slightly softer in detail, they make up a small percentage of the films running time, there are some compression artifacts due to the use of low bitrate MPEG2 on a 25GB disc but generally speaking you get what was filmed and the disc presents it warts and all.

This is a considerable step up from any DVD edition of the film, it could have been better if they had used the AVC codec and a 50GB disc but it's not nearly as bad as some of the reviews would have you believe. Indeed more reviewers need to understand how film is captured, maybe then the reviewers will understand what film grain is and why it should be preserved.

The sound mix is better than expected, it could be they have used the 70mm six track mix for this release, i don't know if thats the case but the music score benefits from the lossless dts master audio 5.1 track provided for the disc, i felt speech was clear and when the action starts and the bullets fly you get some directionality and the subwoofer kicks in appropriately and goes reasonably deep, it isn't anywhere near as dynamic as movies today but it gets the job done.

People should buy this disc and avoid the Predator Ultimate Hunter Edition which is a trainwreck of a transfer and has removed the film texture, see screencaps and read more about that here.

This is a classic film, it's one of Schwarzennegers best and features a cast of well known faces, you will recognize Carl Weathers who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky films.

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Also out just in time for the sequel is Cats & Dogs, an amusing fun film where the dog population battles against evil cats intent on world domination, the main cat looks a lot like the one Blofeld used to hold in all those old Bond movies.

Evil Aliens is also out, you get the unrated edition and theatrical all on one disc, extensions in the unrated include the anal probe scene which is gorier with more blood and a scene of an alien poking someones eyes out through the back of their head, the eyes then fly into someones mouth. There is also exploding heads and an alien/human sex scene and a whole bunch of small extensions featuring additional gore. It's a low budget horror/sci fi/comedy and i enjoyed it.

I Love You Phillip Morris has had difficulties getting distribution in the USA but it's now out on blu ray in the UK, it stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, this begs the question, why does every film that Ewan McGregor makes end up being a financial flop, is it that people dislike him or does he just pick terrible roles! Answers on a postcard please.

Week beginning July 19th 2010 – North American Blu Ray Release List.

Being Human – Series 1

Best of Europe – Italy, France, London and Beyond Combo Pack

Best of Europe – London and Beyond

Best of Europe – Music Lover's Europe

Best of Europe – The Great Cities

Best of Travel – San Francisco / Seattle / Vancouver

Black God (Kurokami): The Animation – Vol.2

Black Narcissus (1947) (Criterion Edition)

Bobby Dogs

Cats & Dogs (2001)

Cop Out (2010)

Evil Aliens – Unated and Theatrical editions

Forbidden World (1982)

Galaxy of Terror

Girls Gone Wild – Sexy Spinners

Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010)

Just Another Day

Last Chance to See

Legends of the Dark Kings – Fist of the North Star

The Losers (2010)

Margot (2009)

Michael Jackson: Secrets of a Legend

Most Dangerous Man in America, The: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Mother (2009) (Madeo) [English subtitles]

NHL- Stanley Cup Champions 2009-2010

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

The Red Shoes (1948) (Criterion edition)

Repo Men (2010)

Rin Daughter of Mnemosyne – The Complete Series

The Runaways (2010)

Samurai: The Last Warrior

Savage Land (1994)

Tin Man (2007)

UFC – Presents Wec: Aldo Vs Faber

Uncle Nino

Versus (2000/II)

Wicked Lake (Director's Cut) (Combo Blu-ray / DVD + soundtrack CD)

WWE – Royal Rumble 2010

IMAX-Must-See Places Collection

IMAX-Oceans Collection

Piotr Anderszewski – Unquiet Traveller (Euroarts)

Sci-Fi Movie Collection Box Set

Tchaikovsky – Symphonies No.5&6 (Art and Music Expressions Series)

Trondheimsolistene – In Folk Style (Blu-ray Audio)

Week beginning July 19th 2010 – International Blu Ray Release List.

Adventures in Architecture (Dan Cruickshanks) (UK)

Crocodile Alert (Zwei zum Fressen gern) (France)

Early Summer (1951) (UK)

Enemies Among Us (2010) (Very Bad Cop) [English language track] (France)

Eureka Seven: The Movie (UK)

European Gardens – Italy (UK)

Funny Games (reissue) (Region ABC) (UK)

I Love You Phillip Morris (UK)

Late Spring (1949) (UK)

Lourdes (UK)

Love Aaj Kal [English subtitles] (UK)

Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang (2010) (UK)

Race (2008/I) [English subtitles] (UK)

Storm Warriors, The (Fung wan II) [English subtitles] (UK)

Tokyo Story (1953) (UK)

Vlad (2003) [English language track] (France)

Weekend at Bernies (Region B) (UK)

World Natural Heritage – South America (UK)

City of God (Canada)

Last Chance To See (With Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine ) (Canada)

Strange Bedfellows  (Australia)

Brother's War (Region ABC) [English language track] (France)

Cop Out (2010) (A couple of dicks) [English language track] (France)

Everyman's War (Germany)

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi Mittsu 5 (Limited Edition with CD) (Region ABC) (Japan)

Mr. Nobody [English language track] (France)

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue [English language track] (German)

So Ra No Wo To 5 (Limited Release with CD) (Region ABC) (Japan) 

Strength and Honor (Australia)

Tiered Wedding Cake, A (2010) (Pièce montée) (France)

Bitch Slap [English language track] (Canada)

Blood and Bone [English language track] (Germany)

Hangtime – Kein leichtes Spiel (Germany)

Max Manus (Man of War) (Germany)

The Rebound (2009) [English language track] (Germany)

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North American Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 16th 2010.

United Kingdom Film Ratings for week ending Friday July 16th 2010.

The Concert – 12A
Alexei Guskov,  Melanie Laurent

Inception – 12A
Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard

Mega Piranha – 15
Paul Logan, Tiffany, Barry Williams

Rapt – 15
Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, Francoise Fabian

Toy Story 3 – PG
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack

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