Dreamworks latest animated picture is a real bluray treat. The picture is extremely sharp and detailed with lustrous colours. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack is very powerful and making good use of all channels. And of course the movie in itself is both funny, sharp and an overall great family adventure.

The cast is doing a brilliant job in bringing the characters to life, most notably Jack Black as the main character Po the chubby noodle selling Kung Fu Master-wannabe, that eventually saves the day. The story is quite bog standard about the underdog that makes it in the end, but that doesn’t really matter as it’s very pleasantly delivered with lots of punch!

Kung Fu Panda Bluray is a highly recommended view, and a great addition to any bluray library.

The Wrestler is a beautifully sad story about life after the glory days of a pro American wrestler. Mickey Rourke is brilliant in the role of Randy ‘the Ram’ Robinson and so is his love interest Marisa Tomei as the big hearted stripper who’s also over her peak and struggle to earn a few dollars doing lap dances.

Rourke’s character  is complex yet simple, a real one trick pony, that only find comfort in the ring fighting sweaty spandex clad muscle men and surrounded by shouting fans. Until watching this movie I have to admit I’ve never understood the thrill of American show wrestling, but watching the frenzied yet skillfully choreographed fights and the electric atmosphere you can’t avoid but getting sucked right into the world of Randy. Rourke is definitely the highlight of this movie and once you’ve watched the movie you won’t be surprised to hear that as an amateur boxer, he put together a knockout streak of 12 straight.

The Wrestler BluRay release is masterfully transferred, with a razor sharp picture and intense DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 or Dolby Digital 5.1. A highly recommended view.

Tarantino’s homage to old school action horror flicks is a brilliant watch if you like hot girls, fast cars, action and a bit of gore. Death proof is the second film from the Grind house project with fellow director friend Robert Rodriguez.

In Death Proof we’ll get acquainted with Stuntman Mike, played by Kurt Russell, who cruises around in his black old Dodge. He’s path is crossed by a gang of girlfriend out for a good time, and in one special scene Russell seem to enjoy the company quite well. I’ll better leave it at that to not spoil the plot.

The first part of the movie I found quite slow, but the one action scene makes it all worth it. The second part is a much faster and furious chapter with some brilliant car chases and wicked stunts.

The movie is presented in excellent  1080p with an aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and the soundtrack is brilliantly delivered in either Dolby TrueHD 5.1 or Dolby Digital 5.1.

Easter is here. Now, what to watch… Here are three ideas with some (although very minor) connection to Easter:

1. The house bunny – ridicuolous comedy about a playboy bunny
2. Easter promises – hard boiled drama, let’s hope this is not what your Easter will be like
3. Chicken little – sweet family comedy about a little chick

Comicbook hero Daredevil enters the blu-ray arena on April 20. Ben Affleck plays the blind hero with super senses. Haven’t seen this movie yet, but hopefully it will be better than his later performance in Hollywood land as  the original superman.

Daredevil Blu-ray comes with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Fancy watching Kiera Knightly as fierce bounty hunter beauty Domino in full hd? Well now you can; Domino blu-ray was released today so should be in a store near you already. Other noteworthy cast are Mickey Rourke as old-school bounty hunter and Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green from 90210 fame as hilarious tv hosts.

The blu-ray feature come with Dolby TrueHD so all those shoot outs should sound even more glorious than the original DVD release.

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Three stars that deserves five stars

The combination of Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro is simply unbeatable. And if you top it up with Joe Pesci as the uncontrollable violent tug, Sharon Stone as the  beautiful hustler, and James Woods as the sleazy pimp ex boyfriend, you’ve got yourself a piece of blu-ray movie history.

 Casino is based on the true story of the rise and fall of the Las Vegas casino Tangier, which was funded by mobsters and run by gambling genius Frank Rosenthal (De Niro). Everyone in the cast is absolute stellar in ther performances, and the story makes the movie feel very epic. It’s quite a long movie, but because of the many different twists and turns of the movie it always keep you on your toes.

The Blu-ray transfer is great with very fine detail and rich colours. There’s minimal noise and the blu-ray gives a much more cinematic experience than previous DVD releases.

The soundtrack is in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and although mostly dialogue, it is very well mixed with powerful music at certain scenes.

Casino is a must-have Blu-ray as it’s a total cracking package.

As a keen white-collar boxer I’ve been looking forward to watch Tyson’s irons fists in high def on April 6.

The Movie is 96 minutes long and depicts the life and career of Mike Tyson, both in and outside of the ring.

Whatever you might think of Tyson as a person, he was a brilliant boxer (sure he still is) and extremely controversial (remember that ear-chewing moment…) so should be a very entertaining watch as long as you can stand some blood.

Yesterday I went to my local boxing clubs fight night, which was sponsored by Tyson The Movie.Although I didn’t manage to catch one of the free Tyson the Movie DVD’s that were thrown out to the spectators, I wasn’t too sad as I’ve already pre-ordered my Blu-Ray copy, so look out for a review shortly after release.

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In the wait for the latest chapter of the Terminator story to hit the silver screen, it’s a great time to revise your Terminator knowledge.

The third Terminator movie will be available on Blu-ray by 25th of May. Having seen the movie a couple of years ago I feel that it’s definitely the weakest of them all so far, and with Bale being the leading man for the fourth flick I’m sure the third one will keep that title. There’s currently no further details available about the Blu-ray specifications, but seeing that T2 blu-ray got DTS-HD I would suspect the same.

Already the first two movies plus the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, are readily available on Blu-ray.

With the 4th film in the series hitting theatres next week Universal are finally releasing the first 3 onto Blu-Ray though only the original is really worthy of a mention. Starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in a tale of undercover cops and street racing its the film that pimped a thousand rides! Seriously though it comes remastered with a DTS-HD master audio soundtrack and more extras than you can shake a dipstick at! 1 & 2 out 30/03/09 with 3 out a week later.
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