Recent content by Matthew Clayton

The 09 movie was released domestically in theaters (and on home video) by Warner Brothers through their New Line Cinema arm, but Paramount have international distribution rights. It was the exact opposite with the original movie. I have to say, I enjoyed it (due to the opening day crowd...

Maybe Warners finally paid attention to all the complaints about their recent spat of poorly-compressed and encoded discs for their recent fare (perhaps it was the complaints about TDK's PQ that Warners finally started taking the complaints seriously). My interest perked up when I heard about...

Disney's done cost-cutting measures like this before -- in 2003, they got rid of chapter inserts for quite a few titles (Gangs of New York and The Jungle Book 2 for one) but reinstated them after customers complained. Disney didn't include any chapter inserts for their Wall-E or Prince...

I think Nolan just supervised the Blu-ray transfer, from the looks of it. Unless an interview with Nolan says otherwise that he did supervise both transfers of TDK for DVD and Blu, I think the studio is to blame for not investing more time to make the DVD transfer for TDK as good as BB's was.

You forgot Superman Returns. The PQ on that DVD also left a lot to be desired... the picture was too soft and only the brighter-lit scenes looked good. It's a shame that Warners has dropped the ball on the PQ for The Dark Knight in a similar way. Perhaps if they get enough complaints about...

So is this extended cut a carryover from NL that they didn't get to release on DVD themselves? Maybe they were waiting to get some good bonus content before they were folded into WB. And does the disc open with a NL logo or the WHV logo after the FBI warning?

When Nolan and editor Lee Smith were supervising the crop lines for the 2.40:1 theatrical showings, I have a feeling they didn't just position the crop lines at the top and bottom of the IMAX footage but altered the positions of the crop lines for the more problematic shots to make sure no...

Not necessarily. There's an article on IGN.com with an interview with Christopher Nolan about the Batman Begins DVD release, and Nolan specifically stated that he worked with the home video department to make sure BB looked and sounded good as possible on DVD. There's no reason he didn't do...

K-mart's online store has the 2001 anamorphic DTS version of FtF in stock for $9.98. Or you can check Walmart's bargain bins and find it cheaper.

True, but eventually it'll go HD someday and it won't be pretty. And while I know you're referring to the first two seasons, I think the seasons shot on 35mm film onwards were edited on Avid equipment. If Fox weren't the money-pinchers that they are, I'd love to see a serious remastering of...

Does Iron Man have any color artwork, or is it Paramount's standard silver-gray color? I know they re-released the Indy films separately with color artwork (and the fourth one will probably follow suit), or whether that was due to a mandate by Spielberg.

If Fox ever decides to release Buffy on BD, they really need to remaster the first two seasons from scratch. The amount of grain present... ugh, and the less said about the second season's PQ on standard DVD the better. And a lossless audio remix would be even better. (Even though the first two...

I really didn't get the hate directed at this flick. Disappointment maybe, after all those years of anticipation, but I thought this film was far from bad. Indy 4 is a damn sight more entertaining than the uninspired and clunky "Last Crusade" (and need I say Episode I?). It was the standard...

Shouldn't the DD 5.1 track be EX-encoded? I remember that the one-sheet for Doomsday had the "Dolby Digital Surround EX" logo at the bottom, below the cast and crew listing. Is it EX-encoded but doesn't say it on the DVD?