Reaching A Broad Audience
It takes a special TV programme to dominate the weekend’s press coverage. And generally, the kind of programme that will get reviewed everywhere, is either a moody Scandinavian detective series, or an epic HBO tale. Broadchurch is neither of those, and yet it still managed to get reviewed everywhere, as our weekly round up of [...]
Click here for more >Les Is More
After its barnstorming theatrical performance, the arrival of Les Miserables on DVD was bound to be an all-singing all-dancing affair and, as our weekly round up of home entertainment coverage in the press indicates, it was warmly greeted by newspapers everywhere. The musical adaptation was not only everywhere, but it also earned good notices almost [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XXVII
Another week and another hefty seven days’ worth of viewing for us at The Raygun. Here’s our round up of our recent viewing… Most of our time viewing at home (while putting our newsletter and musings for this site, naturally) is spent watching horror flicks at the lower budget end of the scale, although every [...]
Click here for more >Mission: The Impossible
Two wildly contrasting titles were the best reviewed in the weekend’s national newspapers, as our weekly round up of press coverage for home entertainment releases shows. One was an effects-laden disaster tale set in foreign climes, the other a black and white kitchen sink drama celebrating its 50th anniversary. And yet as different as The [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XXVI
The latest update as to our recent viewing at home, with a particular eye on its trade sales potential… Anyone who regularly reads this column, or is familiar with The Raygun, will know that we watch a ridiculous amount of films. As we’ve noted here oft before, it’s part of the reason we write this [...]
Click here for more >A Big Slice Of Pi
With Oscar plaudits still ringing in its ears, The Life Of Pi arrived on DVD, Blu-ray and other formats this week (Monday April 29) and the release dominated the weekend’s newspapers, as our regular round up of home entertainment coverage shows. Ang Lee’s epic tale had a lot to live up to on home entertainment [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XXV
Our regular update on recent viewing, with a particular bent towards trade potential… We’ve been on an Artificial Eye binge over the past week or so, catching up with viewing from the independent. And, as you’d expect from a company with one of the most diverse release schedules around, it was a suitably eclectic range [...]
Click here for more >All Paths Lead To McDonagh
There’s nothing a film or DVD reviewer likes more than an in-joke, better still a film about Hollywood positively bristling with them. Seven Psychopaths is such a film and, unsurprisingly, the film was the best reviewed of the weekend according to our regular round up of DVD and Blu-ray coverage across national newspapers. Director and [...]
Click here for more >Excess Baggins
The arrival of the latest Peter Jackson take on JRR Tolkein, the first in a trilogy of films based on The Hobbit, on home entertainment formats is nothing short of a major event, a fact proved by the wealth of coverage the film got across national newspapers and magazines, as our weekly round up of [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XXIII
Our regular look at our past seven days’ worth of viewing on DVD and Blu-ray, keeping a close eye on a title’s commercial potential… We’ll start our regular look at current and forthcoming releases by finishing off one of a batch of titles we hadn’t got around to having a look at last week. We [...]
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With some unashamedly mainstream releases in recent weeks, from the award-winning Argo through to The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2 (both picking up more coverage again this week) it was good to see some more esoteric titles returning to the reviews pages of national newspapers and magazines, as our regular round up of home [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XXII
Right, another week, another batch of titles and, in keeping with the recent way we’ve worked our columns here, we’ve been taking a look at the collective output from a few labels. This week it’s the turn of High Fliers to come under the spotlight. It’s one of the longest standing independents in the business [...]
Click here for more >Breaking News
Another week, another big event release, and the pages of the weekend’s newspapers were dominated by the final instalment of The Twilight Saga, as our regular round-up of press coverage for home entertainment releases highlights. Breaking Dawn Part 2 saw vampires and werewolves taking over column inches of newspapers between Friday and Sunday with reviews [...]
Click here for more >Dawn Breaks, Franchise Closes
The Twilight Saga bandwagon is now up and rolling in earnest as eOne prepares for the release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the final part in the five-film series. And as the by now well-oiled machine swings into action, with TV spots appearing and, as we’ve noticed this week, outdoor ads aplenty, including bus sides [...]
Click here for more >Throne’s Sitting Pretty
It was a tale of two titles this week when it came to press coverage for home entertainment releases, as our regular roundup of reviews for DVDs and Blu-rays shows. On the one hand there was the second series of HBO’s epic saga Game Of Thrones to contend with, as the press’ obsession with TV [...]
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