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Anton van Beek  |  Aug 08, 2013  |  0 comments

Donald Westlake's series of 24 books about career criminal Parker have proved particularly popular with filmmakers over the past five decades. The likes of Lee Marvin (Point Blank), Mel Gibson (Payback), Jim Brown (The Split) and even Anna Karina (Made in the USA) have all starred as variations on Westlake's antihero over the decades – although, curiously, this latest adaptation is the first to keep the character's name from the books.

Mark Craven  |  Aug 08, 2013  |  0 comments

British audio brand Monitor Audio has today announced details of its new Radius speaker range, due for release in September.

Steve May  |  Aug 08, 2013  |  0 comments

The STR-DA5800ES is an AV receiver unlike any other. With it Sony has avoided the obvious – there’s no AirPlay or Bluetooth streaming – but pushed the envelope when it comes to leading-edge signal processing and usability. It’s remarkably forgiving of your living space but offers uncompromised audio quality. For many AV enthusiasts this will sound like very good news indeed.

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

Romeo and Juliet gets yet another makeover in this teen flick about a zombie that rediscovers his sense of identity when he falls in love with a living girl. As unpromising as this sounds, Warm Bodies is a smarter and wittier film than you might expect – although the filmmakers have held back from giving it the full satirical bite the concept is capable of delivering. The Blu-ray itself is absolutely first-rate, thanks to a crystal-clear AVC 1.78:1 1080p encode and a nimble DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix. Copious extras include a chat-track and seven behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

No matter how many times you've sat through it on TV on Boxing Day afternoons, The Great Escape's combination of an unbeatable ensemble cast, inspirational true-story origin and that motorbike stunt ensure its place as one of the greatest WWII adventures ever filmed. Don't argue.

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

Butterkist has joined forces with Universal to launch it's first-ever on-pack promotion promising consumers the chance to win 'a series of money-can't-buy experiences and movie related prizes' with a combined value of £1million.

Ed Shelley  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

I first encountered the ForceField3 as part of a complete GoldenEar system last year and it left quite an impression. With 1,000W on tap, the ForceField3 has over twice as much grunt as many of its mid-priced competitors.

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

It may have been little more than a belated cash-in on Pixar's aquatic smash Finding Nemo, but the 2010 Belgian animated feature A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures clearly did well enough to justify the bankrolling of this equally lacklustre sequel. This time around Sammy and Ray are snatched up by human poachers, along with a couple of new hatchlings, and deposited in a high end aquarium in Dubai. In other words, it's basically the Nemo portions of Finding Nemo, stretched out to feature-length and on a much grander scale. Yawn...

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 06, 2013  |  0 comments

James Patterson's Alex Cross novels regularly top the bestseller lists around the world – and now Hollywood wants a piece of the action. Ignoring the two earlier Morgan Freeman adaptations (Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider), Alex Cross reboots the franchise with a story every bit as generic as the film's title and a with a woefully miscast Tyler Perry in the lead role.

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