Go Gets A Green Light From Reviewers
It may not have been universally positive coverage, but the combination of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston proved irresistible to most reviewers over the weekend, with their romcom Just Go With It being among the best reviewed films of the past seven days, as our weekly round-up of DVD and Blu-ray coverage proves. Also scoring [...]
Click here for more >The Eyes Have It…
As soon as we saw this trailer, for the forthcoming Eyeborgs, we knew Momentum was on to a winner with this release. It’s got all the perfect ingredients for a DTV release: a cracking title that reduces the idea of a high concept pitch to one word – eyeborgs, natch; a commercial sleeve, pictured left, [...]
Click here for more >Let’s Make This Pure…
A Monday night in the West End. The Raygun is sat in one of the plush screening rooms at London’s swish Soho Hotel. On the screen, dominating the room, is Malcolm McDowell’s face, complete with false eyelashes on one side and topped off by a bowler hat, one of the iconic images from A Clockwork Orange. In [...]
Click here for more >Gnome News Is Good News
BVA award-winning agency Premier PR is among the best when it comes to organising stunts around releases it is looking after and its latest ruse aimed at attracting the media’s attention was among its best. Organised to mark eOne’s impending release of homegrown animated hit Gnomeo And Juliet, it targeted the Chelsea Flower Show, which [...]
Click here for more >Seconds Out…
With David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko doing the rounds, drumming up publicity for their forthcoming world heavywight unification fight due to take place early in July, boxing seems to be enjoying something of a resurgence. After Haye effectively killed off the hardly-inspiring Olympic medal winner Audley Harrison, the stage has been set for the unification [...]
Click here for more >Tangled Up In Blu
Black Swan continued its strong run of coverage into another week, as did Gulliver’s Travels and The Next Three Days. But the real winner of the week was probably Disney’s Tangled, which got plenty of coverage as highlighted in our weekly round-up of home entertainment coverage in the national press and elsewhere. What’s more most [...]
Click here for more >Silence Is Golden
We’ve oft extolled the virtues of the BFI’s June 20 release The Great White Silence. It’s just had a theatrical release ahead of its dual format release. It really is an outstanding title. Originally released in 1924, but filmed more than 10 years prior to that by Herbert Ponting, it follows Captain Scott’s ill-fated, doomed [...]
Click here for more >Down To The Lake I Fear
The mock documentary and found footage genre is a relatively recent one, but, in horror film terms, has proved to be fruitful, in terms of not just originality, but also profitability. And it seems as if it’s far from over yet. As long as titles such as the Paranormal Activity franchise is proving to be [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Screenings Part X
The latest missive from our regular correspondent at Soho’s darkened screening rooms and London’s multiplexes, Alex Kidd, reviewing his past week’s cinematic exploits with a home entertainment friendly slant… Monday night and after a very hectic weekend I really wanted to catch up with Attack The Block. I’ve been hearing about the debut film from [...]
Click here for more >Charlie Don’t Surf
It’s been out in assorted forms before, but Optimum’s forthcoming Apocalypse Now release, its first time on Blu-ray, really promises to be the definitive version of the film. Due on May 27 for a brief theatrical bow ahead of the June 13 BD release, the film has been cleaned up, both in terms of the [...]
Click here for more >Gladiators… Ready!
Shoppers along London’s Oxford Street and elsewhere in the busy West End were somewhat shocked on Monday to see this lot carousing about on the streets of London. This hardy bunch of gladiators and wenches were pounding the pavements to mark the release this week of Anchor Bay’s Spartacus: Blood And Sand. Their appearance outside [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Screenings Part IX
In which our regular correspondent, Alex Kidd, formerly at HMV, takes us on a tour of his assorted screenings, films and other events he’s been off to over the past seven days… How much you enjoy Bridesmaids will really depend on how funny you find Kristen Wiig, sadly for me I just don’t find her [...]
Click here for more >The Swan’s Way
After dominating the proceedings last week, Momentum’s The King’s Speech had another outstanding week in terms of reviews and coverage, as our weekly round-up of press coverage for home entertainment shows. Chief among Monday’s releases receiving coverage were Fox’s Black Swan and Lionsgate’s The Next Three Days both scoring well. On the television side, there [...]
Click here for more >Death Star Nears Completion
As the Star Wars Blu-ray bow nears, more and more details are emerging about the content. The Raygun was among those revealing further news about the Fox release of the Lucasfilm classics, due on September 12, in three SKUs, one, pictured left, pulling all six Star Wars films together and another two featuring the first [...]
Click here for more >Top 10 Box Office Data Charts
While we wait for our BVA Yearbook to turn up, and were idly twiddling our thumbs, this year’s FDA Yearbook plopped on to our desks and we picked up some interesting material from the BVA’s theatrical equivalent (it stands for Film Distributors’ Association. We’re already fans of the FDA anyway, as its launchingfilms website is [...]
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