Category: BluRay Review

Okay, get the obvious out of the way first. There’s a film called Battleship, it’s directed by Peter Berg, and it’s truly one of the most horrible films you’ll ever see – at least as far as little things like story, character and logic go. However, if you enjoy special effects and a thunderous soundtrack, then this is probably the film for you.

Alongside Twister, Dragonheart remains a pivotal film for my cinematic experiences: I remember sitting in the cinema, watching it in bowel-trembling dts, and it seemed to me that somebody up in the projection booth had upped the bass quite a bit. The rumbling and sheer power of the soundtrack to Dragonheart was, and still is, seared into my memory.

Earlier this year, the majority of film critics and audiences were blown away with director Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to The Dark Knight, Inception. Inception is a film we’ve already reviewed here at fernbyfilms.com, and you can follow this link to read it, but we thought we’d have a shot at giving you our thoughts on the BluRay presentation of the film, released back in December. Whether you like the film (or are among the twelve people on planet Earth who did not…. fools!) is irrelevant to your enjoyment of this BluRay version of the film, for it represents one of the formats most impressive visual and aural presentations to date.

One of the true delights of my day here at fernbyfilms.com is the arrival of a new BluRay disc. While I don’t normally do reviews on the discs my films come on, I thought a quick word or three about the recent acquisition of Moulin Rouge on BluRay was appropriate considering the quality on offer here. Regular readers would be aware that Moulin Rouge is one of my Top Ten films, alongside Armageddon and Transformers. I loved it when it was released in 2001, and saw it a number of…

Taking into account the somewhat dismal presentation of the Fellowship video quality, and the superficial bonus material (on a DVD9), it’s fair to say that this BluRay release will appeal only to those who cannot wait for the eventual HD release of these films in their Extended format, or newcomers to the franchise.