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No. Standard edition. Can't abide steelbooks. Digibooks are a different matter but I just don't buy into the whole steelbook thing. Sorry.

Well, the UK edition of the Blu-ray landed on my doormat with a thud this morning and I've spent a decent part of the day acquainting (acquinting?) myself with an old friend. The transfer is, as promised, stellar. I cannot fault it at all. As with many HD transfers I've seen, I've spotted...

Isn't that Spielberg's Double Whammy - like the reveal of the Phantom in the 1925 Phantom of the Opera? The first shock is the reveal to the audience, the second is her reaction as he turns to face her. With Ben Gardner, there's the shock of the head bobbing into camera (Oh my God it's the...

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing Jaws again next week when the UK gets its release, and I don't care how old the shark was, what hand Mrs Kintner slapped Chief Brody with, or whether it was a cuttlefish bone Quint was munching on at the town meeting. So there. :P

Ah, but doesn't Universal have to walk a tightrope between pleasing cinephiles and casual viewers who presumably expect a restored movie to be as "clean" as a contemporary movie. A pain in the neck I know, but the Studio needs to attract the largest audience to make the restoration and the...

I think there are dozens of nicknames for a Dolly Zoom - "Trombone Shot", "JAWS Zoom", "Zolly", etc. The Wikipedia entry includes most of them.

Idly Googling around the internet, I happened across a "25 years later" article at People.com by Kyle Smith dated June 19, 2000. The article mentions Lee Fierro and Jeff Voorhees who played sharkbait Alex. It states Ms Fierro's age as 71, which gives her a birth year of 1929. It gives Mr...

Another ditto for me. Chrissie's demise freaks me out completely. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the most chilling deaths in the movies. It's got everything - the unsuspecting victim doing something they've done a thousand times. The incomprehension as the strike takes place, dissolving...