A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.
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The Mandalorian & Grogu (Teaser - Bootleg)
Here is a bootleg copy of the "The Mandalorian & Grogu" teaser that was shown today for the audience at Star Wars Celebration Tokyo. After approx twenty seconds, the video zooms in and fills the screen, its decent quality.
At long last, the Academy has announced a new Oscar category for stunts, something which filmmakers have wanted for years.
Because it's not a remake. Also, Tron: Legacy was a sequel to the original Tron.
Common practice for years now. I posted because I'm quite excited. š
Considering the reports are all rumours, I think some people are trying to start up a hate campaign early.
The OJ Simpson joke made me smile but otherwise, this looks terrible.
Lionsgate announced at CinemaCon that Reeves and Chad Stahelski are producing the feature from director Shannon Tindle.
Lionsgate announced at CinemaCon that Reeves and Chad Stahelski are producing the feature from director Shannon Tindle.
John Wick 5, an animated prequel and a spin-off film for the blind assassin Caine!
AI trailers have been pulling in serious views on YouTube as of late. So why aren't studios forcing them to be taken down?
In a nut shell, people are creating film trailers with AI and sharing on YouTube. Film studios are now asking Google for a slice of the profits as it's their intellectual property.
Pre-ordered the moment I got an email from Rarewaves. They have an offer until March 31st with the code Spring10. So Dark City 4K comes out at Ā£23.70. š
Arrow Video's June 2025 Releases
Dark City in 4K! Get in!
Meet the Parents 4 is in the works, with franchise screenwriter John Hamburg set to direct the long-belated sequel.
Really!?
Turned off halfway, I'm interested and don't want to see anymore. š
1989: Will People BUY Movies on VHS? | Film 89
I find this really interesting. Especially the views from several people who in hindsight are completly wrong. š
When I'm away from home, I watch blurays with my laptop, an external BD drive and PowerDVD. You can only change Blu-ray regions five times but there are a couple of PowerDVD system files to delete and this resets the counter.
After researching, it seems Blu-ray drives are all region free but it's the software/firmware of the device controlling it that determines the region settings.
This does not apply to DVDs where the region settings is in the drives firmware but can be bypassed with things like AnyDVD I think.
New āStarship Troopersā Movie in the Works from āDistrict 9ā Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)
Starship Troopers will live once again, with Neill Blomkamp directing a new adaptation of the book for Sony.
Columbia Pictures is plotting a new Starship Troopers movie, setting District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to write and direct an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel story by Robert A. Heinlein.
Accused DVD thief faces up to 15 years for online piracy if convicted.
Showing my age here, I thought they were talking about the Sam Raimin original from 2002!!
The headline refers to Spider-Man: No Way Home. š
I read elsewhere that they will replace the disc if they have any stock which is unlikely as most of the titles are out of print. Apparently you can pick another film instead. A like for like replacement.
Did you guys never get plastic cases for your VHS tapes? Were they always cardboard sleeves?
Here in the UK, they were always in plastic cases.
On a slightly different note here in the UK, TV studios back in the 1960s/70s had all their programs stored on magnetic tapes. When they desperately needed more tapes, they grabbed some off the shelf and wiped the contents. Whatever on that tape was then lost for all time!
Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now.
I'm a huge fan of old movies. Now, when I say old I don't mean movies from ten, twenty, or even thirty or forty years ago. I love movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, specifically the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. I've always loved this period, and given how hard it is to find many of these movies on streaming, I've made an effort to buy as many of these movies on physical media as possible. As such, I have thousands of old movies on DVD, and among my most treasured titles are a few dozen DVD box sets Warner Bros put out in the mid-2000s, as they control the best library of classic film.
A few months ago, I dug into an old Humphrey Bogart box set to watch a favorite of mine, Passage to Marseille. After about an hour, the disc simply stopped working. The same thing happened with another movie from the set, Across the Pacific. I actually thought my old Blu-ray player was to blame, and given that I was in need of an upgrade anyway, I bought a new UHD player and just forgot about it
It must be just me, but I can't see what's so different about this new Shrek?
In a perfect world, I'd like a hybrid version. I think that some jokes in the extended cut fall a bit flat. Ideally, I would like the theatrical cut of the film but with the full dance number of the extended cut.
In a way, I'm quite happy the majority seem to hate it. I picked up the 2 disc Blu-ray edition in a Poundland store for just Ā£2! When I got my PS5, it was one of the first 4K discs I purchased as it was only Ā£5.
Liking the unpopular film has its advantages. š
I remember watching Tenet for the first time and giving up because the sound mix is rather odd, and I find it hard to hear what the characters are saying. A year or so later, I stuck on a pair of decent headphones and tried again. Watched it all the way through and absolutely loved it.
I'm also one of the rare people to actually enjoy Ghostbusters (2016)! The trailers had me worried, and I expected the worst to be honest.
First official look at He-Man from the new "Masters of the Universe" film.
Taken from the official AmazonMGM Twitter account.
An infamous Jaws clone the producers had pulled from theaters in 1981 is coming to Blu-ray!
Here's a fun piece of Hollywood trivia for you. In 1981, a movie called Great White hit theaters, and made over $18 million domestically, before being yanked from theaters when Universal sued the filmmakers for ripping off Jaws. The movie, which was one of the many Jaws clones released in Italy in the wake of Jaws's success, was directed by Enzo G. Castellari and was seen as an even more blatant than usual rip-off, with it centring around a seaside community terrorized by a Great White shark, whose mayor refuses to take the threat seriously -- only for a crusty old shark hunter to team up with a nerdy landlubber to save the day. Sound familiar?
In the years since they blocked it, the film, which was called The Last Shark in Europe, has once again become available, and now it's getting a fully-loaded Blu-ray from British Label Treasured Films. One important thing to note though, is that while the artwork has a re
There's a guy who sometimes pops up on my Instagram feed who is collecting just copies on VHS. Here's an article from last year : Experience: I own nearly 3,000 VHS tapes of Titanic.
Henry Cavill screen tested for Casino Royale back in 2006 as mentioned in the article, but he is too old now.
And not just because these auditions were found on a VHS tape that was found in a dumpster last month š, at the same time, there were tests with Sam Worthington, Rupert Friend and Anthony Starr.
Amazon MGM Gains Creative Control of 007 Franchise
As Amazon MGM gains control of the James Bond franchise, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are stepping back to focus on other projects.
Amazon MGM Studios is set to take creative control of the James Bond franchise.
The shock announcement ā which is sure to shake and, indeed, stir the industry ā was made Thursday, alongside the news that long-time producers and custodians of 007, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, would be stepping back.
As per details of the arrangement, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights. The three parties will remain co-owners of the iconic franchise but Amazon MGM will have creative control.
The 1997 favourite Con Air has got a new 4K remaster, and director Simon West suggests a fresh 4K release is coming soon.
The director of Con Air is Simon West, and heās got a new movie on the way. Itās called Old Guy, and has Christoph Waltz in the lead role. As part of the promotion for that, heās been doing an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, and the question of a Con Air 4K disc came up right from the off.
Simon West confirmed that heād been involved last year in doing work on the film. āLast year we actually did a 4K upgrade of Con Airā, he wrote.
āWe went back to the original negative, we remixed the sound, and colour-corrected it, so thatās in the works, there should be a 4K release coming soon.ā
Presumably, that work is also whatās now available in the iTunes version of the film, but while thereās not been confirmation of a fresh physical media release, itās looking a little more likely. Not unrelated, a 4K remaster of Michael Bayās Armageddon, another Disney release, has also been completed. The Rock is another obvious candidate from the same era, and the hope and expectation now is
Did anyone try watching Gemini Man in 60fps?
That takes some getting used to. It's hard to describe, it's like watching someone's home video. It doesn't feel cinematic at all.
BIG shout out to Thunder, a great app for both Android and iOS.
It's really nice to use, lots of nice features, I'm really happy with it.
VLC is all you need for DVDs. You just need to download this file, unzip it, and put the DLL file into the same directory where VLC is installed.
This file will enable VLC to access the DVD in such a way to bypass the protection methods.