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Moon Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Nov 18, 2009

One of the very best films of the year arrives on Blu-ray. It's Duncan Jones' Moon...

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Nov 11, 2009

The most important movie that Disney ever created comes to Blu-ray. Has it been worth the 72 year wait?

Up review

Mark Pickavance Review Oct 5, 2009

Mark had been eagerly looking forward to Pixar's Up. And right now, he feels like the lone voice of dissent...

20 more questions nobody asks about the movies

Mark Pickavance Odd List Oct 1, 2009

Wouldn't it be easier if Martin Lawrence just put on 250lbs in weight? These questions and more lie within...

27 questions nobody ever asks about the movies

Mark Pickavance Odd List Oct 1, 2009

We ask lots of questions every day about the movies. But why do this lot never seem to make the list?

Nikita Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Sep 29, 2009

Mark smokes an entire box of Gauloises before reviewing the Luc Besson classic, Nikita, on Blu-ray...

Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Sep 6, 2009

20 discs of high definition science fiction genius: Battlestar Galactica arrives, in its entirety, on Blu-ray...

The Dark Crystal Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Aug 20, 2009

A long awaited planetary alignment finally brings The Dark Crystal to Blu-ray…

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Aug 12, 2009

A film with a fair share of highs and lows, but how does The Search For Spock fare in high definition?

Blue Thunder Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Aug 11, 2009

Mark goes purple with rage and green with envy over Blue Thunder on Blu-ray...

Monsters, Inc. Blu-ray review

Mark Pickavance Review Aug 3, 2009

It’s strangely appropriate that Mark reviews Monsters, Inc. on Blu-ray...

Original Battlestar Galactica: Saga Of A Star World review

Mark Pickavance Review Jul 26, 2009

Mark begins a series covering the original Battlestar Galactica. A journey that he hopes will bring him eventually to a distant world called Earth…

10 things I never want to see again in movies

Paint Your Wagon
Mark Pickavance Odd List Jul 13, 2009

Some things are just plain wrong. Mark’s created a list of the worst cinematic faux pas that should never be repeated…

Avatar: too much teasing

Mark Pickavance News Jul 8, 2009

Mark’s already fed up with James Cameron's Avatar, and he’s not talking about the movie itself...

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan Blu-ray review

Wrath Of Khan
Mark Pickavance Review Jul 3, 2009

Mark looks at the Blu-ray Trek movie releases as presented in the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection…

10 things we want from the next Star Trek film

Mark Pickavance Top 10 Jun 25, 2009

As Paramount gears up for its next Star Trek film, here's our wishlist of what we'd like to see...

The 6 best race movies ever

Best racing movies ever
Mark Pickavance Odd List Jun 24, 2009

Mark Pickavance gets behind the wheel and burns rubber for those movies that raced to the chequered flag...

12 minutes of Ronald D. Moore's Virtuality online

Virtuality begins to emerge from eclipse...
Mark Pickavance News Jun 17, 2009

Tense relationships on board a spacecraft trying to save humanity - haven’t we been here before...?

Have modern visual effects robbed us of reality?

Mark Pickavance News Jun 11, 2009

Mark bemoans the loss of genuine spectacle from modern film...

Looking back at Disney's The Black Hole

The Black Hole
Mark Pickavance News Jun 9, 2009

Through a connecting wormhole in time-space, Mark travels back to 1979, and an encounter with the definitive power of the universe...

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