Sugar Is Sweeter
It was a case of mixed fortunes when it came to home entertainment coverage in the national press over the Christmas period, as our regular round up of DVD and Blu-ray coverage shows. For while December 26 (and Christmas Eve this year, too) is a big release date, with more than a smattering of bloke [...]
Click here for more >That Lundy Feeling
Even if the release schedule is slowing down somewhat, there’s no let-up in coverage for home entertainment titles in national newspapers and magazines, as our weekly round-up of coverage for DVD and Blu-ray releases illustrates perfectly. As well as the standard reviews, plenty of journalists took the time to carry on writing assorted gift guides [...]
Click here for more >Knight For Days
Given the barnstorming theatrical performance of The Dark Knight Rises, the final part of Christopher Nolan’s stylish trilogy was always going to dominate home entertainment coverage in newspapers and magazines, and, as our weekly round-up of reviews shows, Batman conquered all on its way to release. The Warner release garnered coverage aplenty across the print [...]
Click here for more >Ted Bears All For Press
Many of the Q4 big guns came out to play this week, with a slew of big, big movies hitting the stores, taking in the likes of Magic Mike, The Amazing Spider-Man, Ted and a raft of stand-up comedy and special interest titles. The winners? According to our regular round-up of press coverage for DVD [...]
Click here for more >Christmas Comes Early For Arthur
A Christmas-themed film released at cinemas in the run up to December 25 always poses a problem for distributors – do you wait almost a year for home entertainment release, or bring it to the market out of season, but closer to its theatrical bow? Do the former and you may have the seasonal timing, [...]
Click here for more >Don’t Bash The Bishop
It was a week when all the big comedy guns came out to play. As well as taking up review slots, they proved their pulling power by commandeering front page features and acres of coverage in glossy weekend supplements. BBC Worldwide’s John Bishop was everywhere – an interview with him was even converted in to [...]
Click here for more >Some Blunt Talking
It was some week for Emily Blunt, the Brit actress appeared in not one but two high profile releases on the same date and got double the coverage in the weekend’s DVD and Blu-ray reviews, according to our weekly round-up of press coverage for home entertainment titles. Of the two, The Five-Year Engagement got probably [...]
Click here for more >What To Expect When You’re Reviewing
Another week of decent-sized if not blockbuster releases saw decent-sized coverage, with a trio of titles leading the way, as our latest weekly round-up of coverage for home entertainment titles shows. None of them were stellar performers in terms of the quality of the reviews, but Red Lights, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and What To [...]
Click here for more >Dark Comes Out Of The Shadows
Monday October 8 didn’t offer up as many blockbusters as recent weeks and that meant, as our regular round-up of press coverage for home entertainment titles shows, no one title stuck out as being the weekend’s most reviewed. In terms of studio offerings, both Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and Wrath Of The Titans led the [...]
Click here for more >ill Wind Blows Good For Revolver
As the releases pile up as things get busier and busier for Q4, so the pressure to get column inches increases. There may also be a few more column inches and a bit more space to be had too – our weekly round-up of press coverage for DVD and Blu-ray releases is longer than normal [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Video Part XII
Another varied week for us at The Raygun, as we round up our home viewing of current and forthcoming home entertainment releases from the past seven days… Working at home, as we do at The Raygun, dividing the time between our home office and the front room (the former has an old DVD player, one [...]
Click here for more >All Down In Black And Snow White
With the Q4 season now officially started, there’s more and more strong releases coming through, it’s just a shame that in a week when there were more than enough strong titles to write about, from Snow White And The Huntsman down, that some DVD coverage in the national newspapers was trimmed back. Our regular round [...]
Click here for more >A Share Of The Spoils
With a clutch of equally strong but wildly diverse titles out on Monday September 24, the honours were split bwtween a quartet of titles when it came to garnering the most coverage, as our weekly round-up of press activity for DVD and Blu-rays shows. All the four titles that got the most reviews had in [...]
Click here for more >Cast-Iron Coverage
“Let’s drop the clumsy UK title,” said one of our favourite DVD reviewers, The Guardian Guide’s Phelim O’Neill, this week while referring to what is now known in the UK as Marvel Avengers Assemble, but over in the States is merely The Avengers. He was one of the few reviewers who did mention the thorny [...]
Click here for more >Pirates Flies The Flag
Some weeks while compiling our weekly round-up of home entertainment coverage in national newspapers and beyond, one title will dominate the proceedings, other times there will be no clear winner, with reviews spread across a wealth of different titles. And some weeks, there are two clear winners that it’s near-impossible to separate, as a brace [...]
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