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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.