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Introducing Bill O’Byrne — With All the Stuff That You Don’t Get in the Movie The Social Network may not be a great film, but it is a compelling one. And it’s got as much cleverness packed into it to make most clever things look very dull indeed. It mainly tells the story of the [...]

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE The cinematic animation is breathtakingly detailed but still can’t transcend a muddled, semi-mystical screenplay that will have adults and older children cringing at its anthropomorphic awfulness. Still, the startling high definition will have you wide-eyed while the kid-driven extras include an in-depth, picture-in-picture commentary and a new [...]

Cast: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Mary Steenburgen. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale. Score: Alan Silvestri. Cinematography: Dean Cundey. It’s back to the franchise vault for the time-travelling trilogy that’s been dusted off and polished up on Blu-ray like a shiny new DeLorean. To paraphrase Doc Brown (Christopher [...]

Cast: Shane Jacobson, Eve Von Bibra, Ronald Jacobson, Ian Dryden, Chris Davis. Director: Clayton Jacobson. Screenplay: Clayton Jacobson, Shane Jacobson. Score: Richard Pleasance. Cinematography: Sean Lander, Clayton Jacobson. This month more than 1000 Australians voted The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan as the Aussie battler that most represents them as a nation. But giving him a run(s) [...]

Cast: Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron, Mark Salling. Creators: Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy. Score: James S Levine. Cinematography: Christopher Baffa. It’s tempting to dub Glee a quirky High School Musical spin on Freaks and Geeks. But the series has its own, unique voice that’s fresh, funny and moving. Co-creator [...]

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John McIntire. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano. Score: Bernard Hermann. Cinematography: John L Russell. The clarity of the 50-year-old, black-and-white footage in this Blu-ray edition of the slasher-trash prototype, starring ‘80s scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis’ mum, Janet Leigh, is more startling than the [...]

Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin. Director: Antoine Fuqua. Screenplay: Michael C Martin. Score: Marcelo Zarvos. Cinematography: Patrick Murgia. From the director of Training Day comes a dense, suspenseful, atmospheric police drama about three NYPD veterans struggling with the demands of duty: one’s been in too [...]

Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic. Director: Martin Campbell. Screenplay: William Monohan, Andrew Bovell. Score: Howard Shore. Cinematography: Phil Meheux. Like last year’s State of Play, Edge of Darkness is a Hollywood re-make of an iconic British miniseries, in this case a nuclear weapons conspiracy that grief-stricken cop Mel Gibson investigates after his daughter, [...]

Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, James Rasone, Lee Tregesen, Jon Huertas. Directors: Susanna White, Simon Cellan Jones. Screenplay: Ed Burns, David Simon, Evan Wright. Cinematography: Ivan Strasburg. This shockingly raw, seven-part drama was co-written by The Wire’s David Simon, stars True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard, and is the alpha male, anti-hero flipside of its HBO stablemates, Band of Brothers [...]

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. Director: Sergio Leone. Screenplay: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone. Score: Ennio Morricone. Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli. The spaghetti western that completed Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy with epic panache has Clint Eastwood’s enigmatic gunslinger on the trail of buried Civil War booty. All three movies have just been released on Blu-ray [...]