Archive for September, 2007


A Short Movie Preview

Wes Anderson (or someone) has an interesting idea for drumming up interest in a new film: make a short, related file to whet people’s appetites and make it available for free. It’ll either work or backfire. At 13-minutes it does mean that you get a chance to see …


DVD Menus

Is it just me or do auto-starting DVDs annoy everyone? Often I put a DVD in and start it then go off and make something to eat or drink and come back, the aim being that we’ll have got through the piracy warnings (I bought it!) and copyright statutes …


The Dangers of Dubbing

I can understand dubbing a movie to give it a broader market appeal. I have a copy of Hard Boiled, which was shot in Hong Kong, which is, understandably, in Cantonese, so they have dubbed it to English to help widen the market appeal (some people will not watch …


Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The title of the new Indiana Jones movie has been announced, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.