Over the weekend I watched two films on DVD which turned out to be variations on the same theme: revenge. Both are stories of somebody left for dead by a group of people, but who survives and returns to get their revenge. The films were I Spit On Your Grave and 22 Bullets. Both were [...]
Entries Tagged as 'DVD'
Only a few more hours
February 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Music
Only a little over three months after moving house, I finally got round to wiring up my amplifier to the DVD player. Been meaning to do it for ages, but so far I have put up with getting the sound from DVDs through the TV speakers and have not had the urge to listen to [...]
Tags: DVD
Dead Snow
November 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Life
This evening I grew impatient waiting for the snow that keeps getting predicted here and turned to the DVD for some guaranteed white stuff, in the form of the film Dead Snow. I picked this up a while ago on the strength of the cover. Not that it is a great cover but it had [...]
Fanboys
November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
This evening I watched a film called Fanboys on DVD. This was another film I got through Amazon’s Vine programme, so the least I can do is link to their product page for it. The film is about a group of total Star Wars fanatics so keen to see the Phantom Menace that they decide [...]
The Crazies
September 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
As I had to go into town anyway this afternoon to pay in a cheque, I decided to have a browse in HMV. I came out with a nifty DVD of The Crazies, which has the 1973 original on a second disc. Watched the film tonight and really enjoyed it. I suspected that I would [...]
Lock, Stock & Smoking Pipe
May 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Jayne bought the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film on DVD today in an attempt to wipe out the memory of the appalling mockbuster version we watched last week. The attempt was only partially successful, not through any great failing of the Ritchie film but because the other one was so memorably bad. Looking at the [...]
Tags: DVD·Films·Sherlock Holmes
Worst film ever?
May 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life
I thought it would never happen but I have finally found a film that is worse than Forrest Gump!  It is called Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, although on the DVD box the first part is in tiny letters so it looks like it is just called Sherlock Homes. I also learned a new [...]
Tags: DVD·Sherlock Holmes
The International
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Life
We watched The International on DVD this evening and it didn’t really do much for us. I picked up the DVD on one of those 3-for-£12 sort of deals, so at least didn’t waste too much money on it.  I didn’t know a lot about it but could remember Clive Owen being interviewed by Jonathan [...]
It’s in Belgium
March 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Jayne and I sat down to watch In Bruges this evening. What a fantastic film that is. Neither of us knew much about it: she didn’t know anything and I just knew it was about a couple of hit men hiding out in Bruges. It was violent in parts, but absolutely hilarious. Bit of a [...]
Français pour une nuit
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
My copy of Français pour une nuit, the new Metallica concert DVD arrived today. I haven’t watched it totally from beginning to end, but I have dipped into it and watched about half of it. While it is a great DVD I don’t think it really does them justice, and it certainly did not bring [...]
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