Blu-Ray Review Archive: September 2009

I Sell The Dead

Cockernee and Oirish graverobbing with zombies, aliens and a touch of pogue mahone. Sound like fun to you?...

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff's 1975 drama, part of the StudioCanal Collection, is an impassioned protest against the erosion of civil liberties by the activities of the press and actions of the secret police.

Ran

Akira Kurosawa's last great movie in high definition glory. John reviews the Optimum disc...

The Prisoner: The Complete Series

Keeping a nervous eye out for Rover, James returns to the Village and goes in search for information as he looks at Network's superb hi-def release of Patrick McGoohan's seminal series.

Beaufort

Noel Megahey takes a look at Trinity's Blu-ray release of Joseph Cedar's dramatically intense Oscar-nominated account of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

Import Export

Ulrich Seidl's brutally unflinching and uncompromising view of two enterprising individuals struggling to find their place in the new Europe comes to HD. Noel Megahey takes another look.

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore's film has launched many adverts, but it owes a lot to a past of Fellini and nostalgia. How does it measure up in the brave new world of high definition?

Le Mépris

Godard's brilliant and melancholic spin on the Odyssey as a marriage break-up on a movie set stars Fritz Lang, Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli and Jack Palance. Released in HD as part of Optimum's StudioCanal Collection.

Near Dark

Kathryn Bigelow's vampire movie is still her best film. High definition becomes it... ...

The Grifters

One of the absolute best films of the nineties gets the oranges from Optimum.

Braveheart

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our film grain!"

Crank 2: High Voltage

Slowly poisoned, dropped from a helicopter onto a car and then stolen so that a triad boss can harvest his heart, Chev Chelios is having a difficult time of it. More insane adrenaline driven gubbins from Neveldine and Taylor...

Gladiator

"At my signal, unleash DVNR!"