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Transcendence Directed by Wally Pfister. Written by Jack Paglen. Starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman. Value for money:  $$ if it is crap like I suspect $$$$ if it is a genius look at AI and morality. Which went over my head. Transcendence is either a ham-fisted thriller with clunky characters and […]

Tonight’s episode of Fringe (TV2, 10.30) is the subject of two extras on next month’s Blu-ray release of season three. Entitled Lysergic Acid Diethylamidet, it revolves around LSD experimentation and includes 16 minutes of stylised, dreamscape animation. Wikipedia has a great analysis of the episode, from its influences (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Waltz […]

The Bourne Ultimatum: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday.  Part three at last resolves questions about the amnesiac spy’s past, from who he is and why the CIA wants him dead to whether he’s a natural born killer. But such is the intricacy and rush of the suspenseful storytelling – director Paul Greengrass cranks up the […]

The sci-fi sensation, Inception, tops next month’s HD premieres on Sky TV. It opens a month that offers 12 HD debuts on Sky Movies and nine on Sky Movies Greats. Other highlights include The Ghost Writer, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Forrest Gump, The Bourne Ultimatum, Mission: Impossible and The Last Seduction. Screening in order […]

On the eve of this week’s worldwide Blu-ray release of Inception comes the news that it’s the month’s second most illegally downloaded movie. It’s due Wednesday on a four-disc set that includes two Blu-ray discs (with the movie on one and most of the extras on the other), a DVD of the movie and a […]

The box office juggernaut about hi-tech dream theft, Inception, will be released on a four-disc Blu-ray combo pack on December 8. It will include the Blu-ray of the movie, a DVD and a digital copy for $49.95. Among the exclusive extras will be Extraction Mode – Infiltrate the Dreamscape of Inception, an in-movie experience where […]

This month’s “combo pack” release of the Ancient Greek gods dust-up, Clash of the Titans, represents the future of Blu-ray from Warner Home Video. Nearly a year after the initiative to boost sales was launched in the US, it’s being rolled out in NZ and Australia, with Titans being the first title. As well as […]