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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Magic Marmalade 7th Feb 2016		DVD Box Set The Omen Trilogy - 20th Century Fox (2001)	Checked these Discs through on a Large screen (40" - With Up-scaling DVD Player), and they look great.... really impressive quality. (Scanning this bloomin' thing was fun let me tell you... working out how to scan each panel as I unfolded it!)
Magic Marmalade 18th Jan 2016		DVD The Exorcist - Warner Home Video (1999)	Just played the special features on this double sided disc... and the Mark Kermode documentary is the hour long Fear Of God feature on this disc.
Magic Marmalade 15th Jan 2016		DVD The Exorcist - Warner Home Video (1999)	Ah, here you go... a back cover detail with legible text. (Good old Microsoft Image Gallery, allows you to revert to original scan, even after you've edited it).
Magic Marmalade 15th Jan 2016		DVD The Exorcist - Warner Home Video (1999)	I'll dig this out later and have a gander. (Perfect excuse to watch it again too!) ...I'll get some separate image scans of front and back cover up too, so they can be viewed in greater detail.
Magic Marmalade 10th Jan 2016		DVD The Princess Bride - 20th Century Fox (2012)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 2nd Jan 2016		DVD Empire Records - Warner Home Video (2003)	I love this film. I have it on my PVR, and watch it at least once every month or so. It's not a guilty pleasure... because I'm not sorry! [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 23rd Dec 2015		DVD Yellow Submarine - MGM (1999)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 23rd Dec 2015		DVD The Sword In The Stone - Walt Disney (2002)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 22nd Dec 2015		DVD The Beastmaster (Directors Cut) - Anchor Bay Entertainment	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 22nd Dec 2015		VHS Hawk The Slayer - Channel 5 (1986)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 14th Dec 2015		VHS Communion [1989] - First Independent	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 12th Dec 2015		DVD Excalibur - Warner Home Video (2000)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 9th Dec 2015		DVD RoboCop - MGM (2004)	Why this trailer has the Terminator theme over it I do not know. [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 8th Dec 2015		DVD Box Set Bewitched : Complete Box - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009)	Strewth dude... ...Well done! You must be feeling a little tranced out after all that... You know, erm, -what's the word? - um... oh yeah... enchanted! (Speaking of which, doesn't Amy Adams (Man of Steel, The Fighter) look a lot like Elizabeth Montgomery?!)
Magic Marmalade 8th Dec 2015		DVD Benny & Joon - MGM (2004)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 7th Dec 2015		DVD The Princess And The Warrior - Pathé (2002)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 7th Dec 2015		VHS The City Of Lost Children (Widescreen) - Entertainment In Video	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 4th Dec 2015		DVD Pleasantville - Entertainment In Video (1999)	In colour? :)
Magic Marmalade 4th Dec 2015		DVD Pleasantville - Entertainment In Video (1999)	This is another stonker from the nineties, with a great idea behind it... and probably one of the highlights of the careers of anyone involved in it. (Never show it on tv though!) [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 11th Nov 2015		DVD Mad Max - Warner Home Video (2001)	Indeed Greg, it seems they are most often referred to as: "Snapper Cases" In fact, it occurs to me that these are prime candidates for the kind of thing that might be the object of someone's collection habit... as they look good together on a shelf, are probably getting quite scarce, and the card cases probably not surviving in any kind of great condition now for the most part... like a pre-cursor to the digipak, they were the initial packaging for the first run of established classics on DVD. But at the moment, it seems not.
Magic Marmalade 22nd Sep 2015		DVD Metropolis - Eureka! (1999)	I found this in a charity shop earlier this year... one that I'd always meant to get around to watching, so was very pleased to find it. Absolutely right Greg... ahead of it's time, and yet timeless themes. It makes you smile when you begin to watch it because of the old silent movie vibe, but petty soon makes any modern audience shift uncomfortably in their seats, as it's almost prophetic, and polemic (Ooh, get me and the words today!). It's a difficult one to buy though... not because it's hard to find a copy on DVD or Blu-Ray especially, but because there are apparently many versions to chose from. This is because, this being as old as it is (and as long!) was missing a lot of bits for many years, with some of those pieces considered lost for a while, and the print quality etc. on some releases were un-restored and the like... not to mention a more recent release with a brand new soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder (!). This is a more complete version, and with a straight silent movie-era organ type score, and the picture is a largely un-restored, but OK-ish (They've kept the black and white graininess you're probably familiar with from other films of the era) - there are others with a more lately added brownish- sepia colourisation I believe. This DVD is a little more scarce than others, and seems quite a popular one, and so tends to go for a little more sometimes, but not overly so (£10-£15, occasionally £20). But any version of the film is worth a watch, even if silent movies aren't your thing, or sci-fi for that matter, as it is more social and technological philosophy than anything else (heavy socialist stream running through - robots, workers etc.) Metropolis - Wiki
Magic Marmalade 10th Sep 2015		DVD Dune - Castle Home Video (1999)	I never understood Hollywood thinking in this respect, as a film of this genre, and subject matter will mostly appeal to people who want the whole thing, and are willing to sit for extended periods of time watching it... ... but they want it to appeal to the general masses, who only want a light show for an hour, so they cut it to ribbons, and it appeals to nobody. And, as more recently, Christopher Nolan films have proved, if you let the filmmaker make the film for the audience he (or she) intends, and tailors it accordingly, others will be willing to give it a go. (After all, they don't mind showing Ben Hur or Cleopatra every other bank holiday!).
Magic Marmalade 6th Jun 2015		VCD Star Trek: Generations - Philips Interactive Media International (1995)	I think so... Paramount is the studio, but Philips is prevalent on the back, the label and spines, so that seems to be the publisher (As well as manufacturer). I don't think the rest of the philips name is necessary.
Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		DVD Box Set Black Adder: Remastered - BBC (2009)	I've been meaning to fish out my old DVD box set (the yellow box), as I'm interested toknow if this edition is widescreen adapted or not (Fairly sure mine is the standard 4:3 - but will check).
Magic Marmalade 2nd Jun 2015		DVD Judge Dredd - Pathé	The newest one is much more like it... with Carl Urban in the role. (Of course, they essentially lifted the plot from "The Raid", but has a lot of it's own going for it). This one is poo :)
Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2015		DVD Highlander - Studio Canal (2000)	Not good, but I believe it built quite a following in it's own right... just not for me. I think you have a different disc to me too monolith, I don't think mine has a picture... I'll have to dig it out and have a look later. (Guess what I'm watching this evening then!).
Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2015		DVD Gladiator - Universal (2000)	This would have been good if it was named: Gladioli, and starred Morrisey in the lead: "I used to be a centurion, but heaven knows I'm miserable now!"
Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2015		DVD Highlander - Studio Canal (2000)	"and this movie is bloomin' awesome!" (Shame there was not only one! - bad sequels and rubbish TV series syndrome strikes again, oh, and as if that wasn't enough, they're remaking (rebooting) it... NNooooooooo!!!!!)
Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2015		DVD The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - MGM (2004)	You mean he rode off on Tuesday, and returned on Monday? :)
Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2015		DVD The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - MGM (2004)	:) ....You Really Got Me!

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