Category Archives: Favorites

Coen Brothers Collection Blu-ray

Coen Brothers – Blu-ray Summer The catalog of quality films from the Coen Brothers has always been somewhat slow to appease it’s fan-base in the non-theatrical sense. Slow to make it to DVD and in-turn slow to finally make it to HD on Blu-ray. Part of this has to do with the brothers unwillingness to visit old films and their need to control the presentation of them as well. They are very particular and given the quality and variety of … Continue reading

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Uncharted 3 Pre-orders Rolling Out with Collector’s Edition

Just Finished my Platinum run-through of L.A.Noire and I’m waiting for all of the DLC to download.  Either my connection is bad tonight, which is quite possible, or the Playstation Store is again getting slammed after re-opening late last night. While perusing the usual news, information, gaming and media sites, I discovered today’s press release regarding Uncharted 3 (the things you miss while at work!). Uncharted 1 and 2 are the only other games I’ve achieved platinum on outside of … Continue reading

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Christian Bale Treasure Island to see 2011 Release

*Update* Sept 27, Treasure Island DVD review here! Update June 26, Check out the newest update article. Treasure Island 1990 DVD pre-orders are beginning to pop-up and cover art has been revealed!!!! Update June 6th, check out this screencap from the Warner Archive Facebook Page: Original article below: I recently was asked about an update for the DVD release of Treasure Island with Christian Bale and Charlton Heston.  I’ve been looking into it a bit over the last few weeks … Continue reading

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Sherlock BBC Season One Review – Blu-ray Preview

The brilliant re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes on the BBC this past year, simply titled Sherlock will be making it’s American debut shortly. The Sherlock Blu-ray release seems to have gotten a rapid release due to the huge buzz in it’s native UK, and will be released on November 9th, 2010. It is getting some time on PBS in late October via their Masterpiece (I assume this is the former Masterpiece Theatre) online, and possibly broadcast as well. The first “season” … Continue reading

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The Lewis Black Story – Basic Black on EpixHD

I was sent an invite code in my e-mail for EpixHD from Verizon which apparently is a new channel for Verizon cable services. Whether my household has the channel I don’t know… I don’t really watch TV these days…. not on TV anyway. EpixHD has an online component which offers the movies and specials that they show in streaming form. My initial sign-up tells me that it lasts for seven days, and there are some higher bandwidth HD options grayed … Continue reading

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The Last Starfighter Blu-ray Review

I have heard a lot of people talk about the The Last Starfighter as a “guilty pleasure”. I definitely won’t call it that. I have very few guilty pleasure in life as I feel no guilt for the things I have liked in my lifetime (well in film and music anyway…). The Last Starfighter is one of my favorite films from the 1980s and I still enjoy watching it to this day, perhaps 25 years after the first time I … Continue reading

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Christian Bale – Treasure Island DVD – Soon?

*Update* Treasure Island DVD review here! Update Treasure Island 1990 DVD Pre-orders now available!! Update information on the DVD Release here. A few of you know that I really enjoy the 1990 made for Turner Television movie Treasure Island. It stars a young Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins and Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. Treasure Island 1990 also features Oliver Reed as Captain Billy Bones and Christoper Lee as Blind Pew (and boy is he creepy!). Some other faces … Continue reading

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Oregon Coast Photos – Oregon Coast North – Summer 2010

Hey all, I published a small set of Photos from my recent coast trip finally. Didn’t get as many shots as I would have liked, but used a lot of duplicates to composite a few high-res images. The published gallery is here Oregon Coast Photography – 2010 . If it would be great if you started there to have a look. But if you do or not, come back to this post and you can check out the Oregon Coast … Continue reading

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Mafia 2 Pre-order – Preview of Mafia II

Check out the Mafia 2 Demo Review. Mafia 2 Preview Fresh off my Mafia City of Lost Heaven short review comes the Mafia 2 Pre-order / Preview. You can read the full Mafia 2 Preview at my usual publishing spot on Associated Content, so please read it and leave some comments/feedback when you get a chance. The link is in the header of this section and at the bottom of the post.  The original Mafia is one of my favorite … Continue reading

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Mafia Game Review | Mafia 2 Pre-Order – Preview Coming soon

***UPDATED*** Check out the Mafia 2 Pre-Order / Preview. With Pre-Order difference and an link article previewing the game. This is an update of a previous post Mafia Game Review – City of Lost Heaven, one of my favorite games. I have been prepping a Mafia 2 Preview and hope to post that shortly. You’ll notice in the original Mafia game review post I said Mafia II would be coming out at the “end of the year”; this was in … Continue reading

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