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Blu Ray Film Reviews – Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The Jedi Knights have all been eliminated and the Empire now rules the galaxy, a small group of resistance fighters known as the rebel alliance have stolen secret plans to the ultimate weapon. the Death Star, a battle station that can destroy whole planets, in attempting to escape with the plans, Princess Leia is captured by Sith Lord, Darth Vader, she sends a distress signal via droid R2-D2 who along with C-3PO is sold to the farm which young Luke Skywalker calls home, upon finding the hidden message for help, Luke seeks out Ben “Obi-Wan” Kenobi.

Blu Ray Film Reviews – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith. A massive space battle takes place over the skies of Coruscant as the war between the Republic and Separatists continues, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, lead a rescue mission to free Chancellor Palpatine who has been kidnapped by the cyborg, General Grievous, and is now held prisoner on his command vessel. The clone wars are nearly at an end and soon a new galactic empire will be formed and order 66 will be invoked, the Jedi will fight for their existence and the Sith shall have their revenge.

Blu Ray Film Reviews – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones. An assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala’s life leads to Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, investigating and discovering the creation of a clone army and a bounty hunter called Jango Fett, elsewhere his apprentice young Anakin Skywalker is protecting Padmé but he is troubled by his forbidden love for her and visions of his dying mother. On Coruscant the senate debates wider powers for Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi council led by Yoda fear the Sith have returned and that the dark side is clouding their powers of vision.

Blu Ray Film Reviews – Rio Bravo. A powerful rancher’s brother thinks he can kill a man and get away with it but he reckoned wrong, Sheriff John T. Chance arrests him and vows to hold him until the Marshal arrives but its going to be a long wait and the rancher’s hired guns are only too willing to shoot a man in the back for a gold coin. The Sheriff must hold his prisoner and all he has for help are a crippled old man, a drunk and a young gunfighter, he also has more than just a little interest coming his way from a woman called Feathers. Can Chance hold out or will he die trying.

Blu Ray Film Reviews – Charade. There is wonderful use of lighting in this film, you can see an example in the image to the right, the director of photography was Charles Lang, he had worked with Audrey Hepburn before on the film Sabrina and would work with her again on Paris When It Sizzles, How To Steal A Million and Wait Until Dark, Lang had been in the industry many years and was an experienced DP, his work on Charade is not his best but it is very good.

HD Comparisons – Legend. This is an HD comparison between the theatrical and directors cut editions of Legend. Let the images load in your browser and then hover your mouse on and off the image to see the differences between each version of the film, the directors cut edition loads first, you must hover your mouse onto the image to see the theatrical edition and off again to see the directors cut.

Blu ray high definition screencaps of the German edition of Face/Off. You will find my feelings on the film and my impressions of the quality of the BD release in my film review, this page gives you movie screencaps and BD info regarding average bitrates.

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.

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.

Jason and the Argonauts dates from 1963, it was filmed in an age when CGI was unheard of and stop motion technology was used to create elaborate effects. The cast are likeable and the music score by Bernard Herrmann is fantasic.

Blu Ray film review of Jason and the Argonauts. Jason and the Argonauts has everything you could possibly want in a fantasy movie, the plot is interesting and it has a beginning, a middle and almost an end, getting Bernard Herrmann to do the music score was also a stroke of genius, Herrmann’s score is very satisfying and really makes the film special. Ray Harryhausen considers Jason and the Argonauts his best film work.

Blu Ray Film Review of Gone With The Wind. The sound quality on Gone With The Wind is good, speech was clear and easy to understand and the music score sounds fabulous, the pops and crackles and hiss that old age brings on these films is gone. An epic love story that spans 12 years in the life of Scarlett O’ Hara, from the American Civil War to the forging of a new union and the rebuilding of Tara and the bonds in life that can never be broken, the end of the story is only the beginning, after all, tomorrow is another day.

Drag Me To Hell is not as effective as Night Of The Demon but does share similarities with a demon in both films and the button in Drag Me To Hell is a stand in for the parchment from the earlier film.

A giant asteroid is going to hit Earth, NASA devises a plan to drill a deep hole inside the asteroid and place a nuclear device to blow it off the collision course, enter Harry Stamper and his team of oil drillers who are our only hope of averting armageddon.

Blu Ray Film Review of Avatar. On the far off world of Pandora lies a precious metal called Unobtainium, humankind has come to Pandora to mine the planets precious metal and the company is being helped by the military but the local alien inhabitants, the Na’vi, find their culture and homes under threat of extinction. The Na’vi were brilliantly designed, you felt for these people and their way of life and i was engrossed in the movie from start to finish.