Posts by Paul Markey

Ive been watching "The Shield" over these last months picking up the box sets one at a time. I live in Region 2, and all the sets from 1 to 4 are 1.78:1 Anamorphic, filling up the screen of my Widescreen TV nicely. Ive just picked up...

There seems to be much confusion at the moment about the release date of SUNSHINE. Dark Horizons is now saying the release in the US has been put back till December. Fox UK site still lists it as coming out April 9th in Ireland &...

One has to draw a line is the sand SOMEWHERE when it comes to bad movies. Snakes On A Plane was for me what we call in Dublin, "A pile of shite", and I mark the sand thus. I have more respect for myself and my film collection to go...

One of my all time personal favourites is "Mr. Vampire" (Geung si sin sang) HK 1985. Vampirisim, eastern style. Fresh, original and funny, starring the Peter Cushing of HK, the late great Lam Ching. Essentially a horror comedy, but...

I dont have an ipod and dont burn the files to DVD, but have my PC connected to my widescreen LCD television, on which I watch downloaded TV shows - hence my complaint in launching this thread. I would much prefer to pay and download...

Not sure if I'm posting this in the right section, but thought I'd vent my great disappointment in this service. I was delighted when I read that both LOST and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA would be available to download the day after broadcast...

I was very disappointed with HOUSE OF FURY. Despite the presance of Antony Wong (the Gene Hackman of HK)this is pretty much a samey shallow gloss fest with very dodgy acting in English from the lead villian. I loved THE TWINS EFFECT,...

EVITA Now that is one nutty movie!

Ive tried various DVD making software over the past few days to see which I prefer. And today Ive discovered that my WXP now doesnt recognize my DVD burner drive properly. When its empty is says its a DVD-RW drive in My computer, but...

I have an AVI file at 23 fps in PAL. When I use NERO to make an SVCD or DVD from this file, it automatically ups the frame rate to 25 fps (the correct PAL rate) resulting in a jarring in the picture, where I gather two frames have been...