November 7, 2014
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Introduction The BDP-S1200 is Sony’s most basic Blu-ray player for 2014, and that says a lot about how smart these machines have become in the past few years, with playback of HD discs just one of its many skills. It upscales DVD, it plays CDs and – crucially – the BDP-S1200 has apps a-plenty.
Just like “Maleficent” we look for other Disney villains we would love to see in their own movie.
Gravity (12) Alfonso Cuaron DVD/Blu-ray (91mins) Â Â Â Â
PUBLIC Service Broadcasting were always intending to bring out a DVD version of their debut album Inform Educate Entertain.
The English-language debut of Niels Arden Oplev (director of the original, Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), this thriller can never quite decide what it wants to be: brooding, European neo-noir or mindless, Hollywood action schlockbuster. Â Â Â Â
Audrey Tautou stars as the title character in Claude Miller’s adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel of bourgeois entrapment. In 1920s Bordeaux, Thérèse is a free-spirited young woman who knows she must marry stolid Bernard (Gilles Lellouche) and thus unite their land-owning families
JJ Abrams’s second Star Trek outing (a third is in the pipeline) is fine as long as you’re not too fond of Star Trek . Â Â Â Â
Mike Nichols’s excellent rite-of-passage drama channels Whistle Down The Wind, Stand By Me and, mainly, Huckleberry Finn. Two 14-year-olds, Ellis and Neckbone, unearth a charismatic fugitive, Mud (Matthew McConaughey), hiding out near the Mississippi river.
Tobias Lindholm’s claustrophobic, gripping hostage drama centres on a ship’s chef (Pilou Asbaek, the spin doctor in Borgen) and a control-freak CEO (Soren Maling), who negotiates from a sterile office in Copenhagen.