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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 8th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Too Late For Tears - Eureka! (2016)	More pointless alternative artwork, commission work for useless people.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Big Knife - Arrow (2017)	Also includes a booklet. I'm not keen on those alternative artwork covers that plague UK releases on DVDs and Blu-rays, although this one is a better effort than most that I've seen. Is there anyone who liked the alternative artwork that was substituted on T.Rex LP album covers in the 1980s? No of course not, so why do we get alternative artwork for old films? Arrow if you are reading this comment then please stop the practice!!
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray On Dangerous Ground - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (2018)	The box does not indicate if there is a region code for the Blu-ray, however the UK is part of Region B.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1939] - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (2018)	Also includes the cartoon 'The Lone Stranger And Porky'. The box does not indicate if there is a region code for the Blu-ray, however the UK is within Region B.
albert 31st Jan 2021		Blu-ray The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (2020)	Special features pretty much ported over from those found on the earlier DVD editions like this one. When watching the special features you can see clips of how the film ought to have looked had they not messed around with the colours.
albert 31st Jan 2021		DVD The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - MGM (2004)	Great version. This DVD restores most of the cut scenes, and the colours and sound are just perfect...... unlike the 2020 'remastered' UK Blu-ray with it's shockingly bad saturated colours.
albert 28th Jan 2021		Blu-ray Box Set The Atom Egoyan Collection - Artificial Eye (2014)	There is an equivalent DVD box set, and I believe all of the discs were released individually in standard sized cases, utilising similar artwork. Calendar Blu-ray includes the short films Howard In Particular and Peep Show. Exotica Blu-ray includes the documentary Formulas For Seduction: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan. The Sweet Hereafter Blu-ray includes the short film Open House.
albert 28th Jan 2021		Blu-ray Night Of The Living Dead [1968] - Criterion (2018)	Finally a genuine official UK release with the full participation of the original creators, so throw away your old dodgy DVD / VHS copies. The special features include an early work print/edit titled Night Of The Anubis.
albert 28th Jan 2021		Blu-ray Richard III [1995] - BFI (2016)	Blu-ray region code B, DVD region code 2.
albert 28th Jan 2021		Blu-ray The Graduate - Studiocanal (2017)	I can't remember a leopard being in the movie, however I do note that the most synonymous/associated image - the one with the stocking'ed leg - has been relegated to a small trimmed picture on the back cover. I suppose this is to pacify the tedious uptight people who would never want to watch this movie at all.
albert 27th Jan 2021		Multi-Format The Driller Killer - Arrow (2016)	Clumsy addition of "The" to all of the artwork.
albert 27th Jan 2021		Multi-Format Blood Feast - Arrow (2017)	Blu-ray regions A,B,C. DVD region 0 (All).
albert 27th Jan 2021		Multi-Format Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - BFI (2011)	This Blu-ray in this set pretty much looks the same as the later BFI issue with a different cover. BFIB1004, barcode 5035673010044.
albert 27th Jan 2021		Multi-Format Cosh Boy - BFI (2020)	Includes Region 2 DVD, Region B Blu-ray, and 30 page booklet. Special features include: US title sequence "The Slasher" with extended opening shots cut from the UK film release. The Ten Year Plan (1945, 17m) - short information film about prefab housing in the post war years, by Lewis Gilbert featuring Charles Hawtrey. Johnny on the Run (1953, 68 mins): - film about a polish refugee trying to get back home, directed by Lewis Gilbert. Harmony Lane (1954, 24 mins) - a musical comedy directed by Lewis Gilbert. Teddy Boys (1956, 8 mins) - short film interviewing youths. Stranger in the City (1961, 22 mins) - a short film by Robert Hartford-Davis about Soho in the 1960s.
albert 16th Nov 2020		Blu-ray Dark Star - Fabulous Films (2012)	This Blu-ray includes 2 versions of the film: the 83m theatrical version and the 73m director's cut, however only the theatrical version has been remastered. The director's cut is definitely the better one for pace and sustaining interest as the extra minutes in the theatrical version are really just filler to make the film length acceptable for cinema distribution; however the image quality is way below that of the remastered theatrical version. The extras include a very good 2 hour documentary which mostly uses interviews from people involved in making the film. John Carpenter is represented by a muffled taped interview recorded by a researcher many years ago (thankfully subtitled), but Dan O'Bannon died in 2009 so his wife speaks on his behalf. The documentary reveals that once they had left college and got external financing, much of the acting in the original student version was ditched in favour of reshooting with better sets and scripting. The character of Talby seems to have been added later hence why he doesn't actually share the frame with another actor, likewise the dead captain. The experience was a big wake up call for John Carpenter, it did not open doors as he expected and consequently he is now dismissive of the whole thing. Still though I think it remains a good effort.
albert 25th Aug 2020		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video (2008)	The signature tune used on the DVD menus and most of the episodes is called "A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass" and is by The Mood Mosaic Featuring The Ladybirds. [YouTube Video]
albert 18th Aug 2020		DVD Box Set The Jess Franco Collection - Anchor Bay Entertainment (2004)	Quite a few cuts here, most severely in Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun where we find that lovely Susan Hemingway has had all of her nude scenes removed. See the BBFC page (6.15 mins of cuts). Barbed Wire Dolls (0.41 mins of cuts), Ilsa The Wicked Warden (2.31m) Love Camp (1.12m) Sexy Sisters (1.11m)
albert 22nd Apr 2020		DVD Blade Runner: The Final Cut - Warner Bros. (2007)	Just found some old notes that I wrote a few years ago in an email regarding this 'Final Cut': I eventually did get the DVD and had a side by side comparison of what the changes were, some were really geeky like he changed the serial number on the snakeskin when looking through the microscope. The dove flying off at the end, now has a completely different backdrop instead of looking like a factory wall in an industrial estate, but the resolution has radically dropped so you see a pixelated dove instead. Generally I don't care much for the new dark & contrast look of the final cut, massive amounts of detail are lost, oh and the one sweary f-word has been replaced by "father". I also noticed that the editing has been done in blocks of approx. 10 mins each so looking at the two versions side by side the new version gets out of step when additional scenes are added then judders back into step as scenes are trimmed down. The chase scene at the end has a lot of resequencing. The soundtrack is much improved. The much touted 'extra minutes' are rather disappointingly about 3 minutes of extra rolling credits at the end. I think I prefer the old directors cut, because it looks better and most of the additional scenes on the new 'final cut' don't really add anything or are just scenes that have their order sequenced differently. The dove flying off does look hokey though.
albert 25th Sep 2019		DVD Box Set Jean-Pierre Melville - Optimum World (2009)	Very good boxset, though I don't own it since I already had the individual titles. Somewhat annoying for me to see Le Cercle Rouge has the original French language with English subtitles since the separate DVD that I bought has a bad English dub.
albert 17th Aug 2019		DVD La Piscine - M6 Vidéo (2017)	Really disappointed that this 2017 DVD was listed on Amazon as having English language options - it does not; the only option is French language. The DVD producers don't even provide French subtitles for the English dialogue bits in the film. Typical French lousiness.
albert 14th Aug 2019		Multi-Format Il Bidone - Eureka! (2013)	I wish that Eureka would stop putting out DVDs in the crappy NTSC format.
albert 6th Aug 2019		DVD Tom And Jerry Golden Collection Volume Un - Warner Home Video (2011)	The uncensored Tom & Jerry Golden Collection has been available in USA for a few years and it doesn't look like it will ever get released in the UK, probably due to the PC brigade. Hurrah then for the French who did release it, and so far, from what I've seen, the cartoons are indeed uncensored. Now the thing about Tom & Jerry is that the extreme violence and the dangerous things the duo get up to (like with electrical sockets) are probably more objectionable than the racial sight gags and the smoking (which as examples are the scenes most often cut). Unfortunately it doesn't look like we will get any more volumes in the near future because objections about content have apparently been raised. The restoration on the cartoons does look great, there is a Blu-ray available in the USA and that should look amazing. The only problem I can see with the French DVD is that some of the titles are sized at 640x480 and some are sized at 480x360 and have a large black border (see screenshot of the 'Kitty Foiled' title) so I don't know what went wrong there. The French booklet gives the French titles (which true to form are some lazy and uninspired efforts) but the DVD menus will play entirely in English with the correct titles if your player is set accordingly.
albert 5th Aug 2019		DVD Tom And Jerry Golden Collection Volume Un - Warner Home Video (2011)	Titles on disc 1: Puss Gets The Boot The Midnight Snack The Night Before Christmas Fraidy Cat Dog Trouble Puss N’ Toots The Bowling Alley-Cat Fine Feathered Friend Sufferin’ Cats! The Lonesome Mouse The Yankee Doodle Mouse Baby Puss The Zoot Cat The Million Dollar Cat The Bodyguard Puttin’ On The Dog Mouse Trouble The Mouse Comes To Dinner Mouse In Manhattan Tee For Two Titles on disc 2: Flirty Birdy Quiet Please! Springtime For Thomas The Milky Waif Trap Happy Solid Serenade Cat Fishin’ Part Time Pal The Cat Concerto Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Mouse Salt Water Tabby A Mouse In The House The Invisible Mouse Kitty Foiled The Truce Hurts Old Rockin’ Chair Tom Professor Tom
albert 4th Aug 2019		DVD Box Set Meisterwerke Der Schwarzen Serie - Koch Media	German titles: Briefe Aus Dem Jenseits = The Lost Moment Die Blaue Dahlie = The Blue Dahlia Die Killer = The Killers [1946] Zeuge Gesucht = Phantom Lady Der Unheimliche Gast = The Uninvited [1944] Unter Verdacht = The Suspect [1944] Ministerium Der Angst = Ministry Of Fear Spiel Mit Dem Tode = The Big Clock Opfer Der Unterwelt = Dead On Arrival [1950] Der Mann Mit Der Narbe = The Scar [1948] (Hollow Triumph)
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format The Black Panther [1977] - BFI (2012)	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format Bronco Bullfrog - BFI (2010)	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format The Pleasure Girls - BFI (2010)	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - BFI (2010)	DVD later issued in a different packaging.
albert 18th Jul 2019		DVD The Silent Partner [1977] - Lions Gate (2007)	I wonder which idiot in Lions Gate's art department decided to add the Reservoir Dogs style suits to the front cover? - there is no such scene in the entire movie!
albert 18th Jul 2019		DVD Django Unchained - Anchor Bay Entertainment (2013)	Western hero with sunglasses!, photoshopped onto the cover image I note.

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