Watch an Up In The Air Deleted Scene
Embedded below is a deleted scene from the Blu-Ray/DVD of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, released in the US on March 9th.
The deleted scene is a montage that focuses on the period in the film when Ryan (George Clooney) is grounded in Omaha following the implementation of Natalie’s (Anna Kendrick) new system which facilitates [...]
DVD Preview: Kurosawa 100th Birthday Criterion Box Set
My first introduction to Kurosawa and also to Japanese cinema in general was one rainy Sunday afternoon when I was around ten years old and I watched Rashomon. This film was a revelation and the experience remains a defining film memory.
This led me to get more and more interested in cinema and in particular foreign [...]
DVD Review: Ninja
The constant remake-a-thon that Hollywood is engaged in currently is a clear indication that the past is in fashion, and while there the remake process inevitably involves a fair bit of tongue in cheek self parody there are some films which play the nostalgia game with no irony at all.
Isaac Florentine’s Ninja is one such [...]
Blu-ray Review: Sin Nombre
Cary Fukunaga’s film Sin Nombre can sit comfortably alongside City of God as a powerful and bleakly artistic take on the compact chaos of street gangs and the moral erosion of poverty and the violence which ensues.
Two stories clash in a hopeless and violent world as Casper, a member of a brutal Mexican street gang, [...]
Competition: Win the Soloist on DVD
THE SOLOIST, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx, is an emotionally soaring drama available to own on DVD from February 1.
Directed by the Golden Globe® winner Joe Wright, THE SOLOIST follows the story of journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) as he discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a [...]
DVD Review: Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball
When I’m sent DVD’s to review, I feel I have a a sense of responsibility to make sure that I bring you the best and well rounded view that I possibly can. When straight-to-DVD sequel, Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball came through my letter box from Universal Pictures, I thought to myself…. I want to [...]
DVD Review: Creation
I was looking forward to watching Creation as I hoped it would illuminate the facts and enable me to examine my views on Evolution. As a Religious Studies teacher I get many
questions about how the universe came into being, and I was hoping that as a film lover, (and understanding that many of my students [...]
Would you Watch a District 9 Prequel?
In a recent interview with The L.A. Times Neill Blomkamp talked all things District 9, including video game adaptations, a potential TV series and the prospect of returning to the hell of District 9 for another film.
While there’s no movement on the video game front, despite Blomkamp being linked to the touted Halo movie and [...]
Win a District 9 Blu-Ray
District 9 was one of our films of 2010, and to celebrate the DVD and Blu-Ray release HeyUGuys are giving you the chance to win a Blu-ray copy of Neill Blomkamp’s outstanding debut film.
You can read our review of the Blu-Ray here and it’s an excellent disc with special features giving a thorough account of [...]
Blu-Ray Review: District 9
When the trailers appeared and we got our first look at Neill Blomkamp’s alternative reality film, the apartheid with aliens narrative was glimpsed in a series of extraordinary images, not least the enormous alien mothership hanging dead in the skies over Joburg. When we had our chance to walk in Blomkamp’s world it was clear [...]
