Recent content by Ross Gowland

It’s as relevant as ever, I’d have thought. Skim through the terrorist attacks of the past few years and it’s done in the name of Islam 80%+ of the time. Surely that makes it fair game for fiction. You could make the terrorists Hindus or Buddhists, but it wouldn’t ring true, would it...

I enjoyed this a lot. It’s not in the same league as the original, but then none of the sequels have come close in my opinion. It’s two hours of colourful fun that zips along and has many good sequences. It has a few flaws and had a few too many characters, but I was never bored. As before...

Yes, to steal a phrase from Marshall McLuhan, the medium is the message. For me, the film stock is indivisible from the film. It’s all part of the experience. I want an Eighties film to have the graininess that was a feature of the image at the time in the same way I want Technicolor to look...

Personally, my ideal for a film on disc is for it to look as close as possible to how the best quality film print at the time would’ve looked. As for Cameron and his new AI toys, I’m not surprised he’s done this as there were plenty of previous warnings, but I’d still say to him…

Top one is a zoom of the old Blu-ray. Bottom is the new 4K UHD. source: https://x.com/highdefwatch/status/1769785261678817549?s=61

The word I’d use is revisionism.

I bet they called him guv’nor.

Bit harsh considering it’s a British film.

The Boob should make a good double feature.

Hell is a City Zabriskie Point The Ghost of St Michaels Olivier Olivier Au Yeux du Monde She (Hammer) O Lucky Man Le Depart (Skolimowski) Raising the Wind Ripoux Contre Ripoux/Le Cop 2

Assuming that people who work for these studios know what they’re doing.

Also the Super-8 version from c.1995.