The other day we wrote a blog about streaming of movies, due to the Mail running an article that claimed the DVD format was facing the end. This was because a DVD rental by post service was putting its prices up! VHS died out previously, but I for one hope that DVD does not follow. I’ve said before that streaming has issues, such as lack of subtitle options, unable to … [Read more...]
Leave Streaming to Ghostbusters, we want a DVD
It has recently been announced that Amazon/Love Film service is to have an overhaul of all its disc by posts services. Link to story from the Daily Mail here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3298269/Amazon-customers-horrified-price-hike-customers-paying-FIVE-TIMES-films-delivered-post.html It saddens me that the Mail have heralded this as the death of DVD, I get the … [Read more...]
Trainspotting Poster! The idea that we love!
Trainspotting is probably one of our favourite British films, it took a topic of drug use and didn't glamorise it at all! It also had an amazing soundtrack that went with its time of release! Then there was the line-up Trainspotting poster. One of the things that it did outside of the film was breakdown it's 5 characters from its poster, down into individual posters, so … [Read more...]
Did we find Spectre to be Spectacular ?
James Bond, agent 007, has always given cinema goers a licence to thrill! We ourselves have been a 007 cinema regular since Licence to Kill! We had of course seen many of his previous outings on the Television prior. Daniel Craig has really made the part his own, being a more serious Bond, more like Timothy Dalton & Sean Connery than the more fun like turns of Roger Moore … [Read more...]
What Happens Next? Adding to the Film Experience
We have looked in a previous blog at how movies can sell products using everything from Minions to characters from Disney. But it doesn’t just have to be food they can put their name to, clothing, of course is an obvious one. I’ve many a film related T-shirt. Licensing can be a multi-million pound industry, all adding to our film experience! Star Wars is often praised as … [Read more...]