Serenity. Excellent. Just bought Firefly and will be working my way through them.

Just ordered Firefly also. Box set of all 14 episodes + 7hrs of extras for £15.99 at CDWow.com. That should keep me amused for a while.

Allan

Saw Serenity - throroughly enjoyed it. Mr Whedon's trademark dialogue, very funny.

Bought Firefly just before Xmas, 17.99. A good buy, but with some weak episodes. Still a shame it was cancelled.

Just ordered a whole bunch of films from Play inc:

Ruthless People. One of the funniest films I have ever seen.

The Third Man.

King Kong (1933).

Adams Rib. Classic stuff.

The Man From Laramie. My daughters, 15 & 11, really enjoy James Stewart.

King Rat. Can't remember seeing the film - but the book is very good.

Duck Soup & Marx Brothers box set. Be interested to see what the girls think of these.

Martin

Carnival Band/Maddy Prior 'An Evening Of Carols And Capers' (bought it mainly for 4 songs previously unrecorded)
- 2nd lively half of show quite good, almost as good as their recent performance in Bristol.
So far I have not bothered to listen in 5:1, as stereo sound and whomping double-bass quite moving enough.

Family forced me to get Shrek 2 films when they were released, and I agree that they are worth watching every now and then.

It is IMO worth getting hold of 'Shrek 2 1/2', the 15 minute stereovision (stick on your coloured goggles) short given away with some editions ...

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (DVD version) - brrrrrrrrr.

Oliver - ahh. Lovely.

Christmas presents:-
HHGTTG
Sahara
Terminator 3
Rush R30
War of the Worlds
SWMBO had The Beach book&DVD

Howard

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Have just finished watching Sympathy for Lady Vengence. If you liked Old Boy then you're going to enjoy this as well. The final film in the Park Chan Wook trilogy about vengence.

The Maltese Falcon.

Thought I had seen this....but I was wrong.

Black and white in marvellous mono.

Great film with a strong cast. According to the notes on the back this was John Huston's break through feature, and I can understand why.

Martin

Sin City.

Interesting.....

Films etc seem to be more important quite rightly IMO than 'Music' DVD material to people who have replied to this topic.

I confess to on the cheapest BBC site having just ordered all of funny 'Only Fools And Horses' 25 DVD - almost-complete (7 unreleased 'Lost Episodes' I watched from P2P download VCD yesterday), also to ordering the only £69 from amazon.co.uk 'Inspector Morse' 33 DVD collection. I arrived late to OFAH, and although I might have seen most Morse Oxford carnage on original TV broadcast, I want to:
a) Catalogue how many different record-turntable/systems are shown in his shows.
b) Check how many times others/he really had an alcoholic beverage.
c) How often his character was really rebuffed romantically by operatic Diva.

My favourite DVD purchase is usually TV (usually BBC apart from 'Father Ted') great comedy.

I admit to having bought all of 'Lovejoy' DVDs just to watch first 7 episodes I never saw/a couple of specials, and have not played all of episodes I last saw on UKTVGold in 2004.

Can anyone recommend please a good UK purchase of nice multiregion portable DVD player ...

Layer Cake. It's such a cool film. I can see Daniel Craig being a great Bond based on his performance in this. Michael Gambon brilliant as ever.

Yet to unwrap 'Lost in Translation' and 'War of the Worlds'.

2 movies I enjoyed this week :
"I heart huckabees" by David O. Russell : http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0356721/ strange interesting movie
"A Dirty Shame" by John Waters : http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0365125/ I loved it.

Melinda and Melinda - higly recommended Woody Allen film.

Jay

The first 3/4 of Coen Bros "Blood Simple"....their 1st and I think probably their best ...ace

Cheers, Steve

25 Only Fools And Horses DVDs/package were/are IMO excellent, althought to complete there are 8 'little unreleased thingies' downloadable from e.g. Shareaza/WinMX.

Have just started on 33 Inspector Morse DVDs, and am just about to check that record-deck ('Richards Research') all over 1st episode about murdering hifi company partner is probably a Logic DM101 with Rega RB300. Naim amps/Sennheiser headphones/Vivaldi Gloria/portable radios/beer everywhere too.

I see that someone might have been enjoying Mark Bros films - excellent - ditto Maltese Falcon/piles of great old mono movies which I seem to have on videotape.

My oldest DVD is now 5 years old, and I hope that the digital media lasts (at least) as long as the old tapes.

steveinxs,

Blood Simple.....agreed, even though Fargo is also very good.

Martin

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Originally posted by Hammerhead:
Layer Cake. It's such a cool film. I can see Daniel Craig being a great Bond based on his performance in this. Michael Gambon brilliant as ever.

Yet to unwrap 'Lost in Translation' and 'War of the Worlds'.

Have to agree. Layer Cake is a superb film. A bit like the Usual Suspects in that you have to concentrate on what's going on.

Also , check out 'The Way of the Gun'. Another cracking film by the director of the aforementioned Usual Suspects.

Italian Job 2005 ...darned good and showcase the BMW red,white and blue mini's and Charlize Theron rather well.

Italian Job 1969 ... a classic re-release with awesome audio and video production that I have been looking out for about 20 years now. Showcases classic red,white and blue mini's of the kind that JV tuned and raced...and Michael Caine.

War of the Worlds '53 ... with full glory 3-strip technicolor and features that I want to watch again. A Sci-Fi classic for the ages and includes the infamous Orson Welles Radio show...

Battle of Britain '69 ... awesome movie, cast, true story, sound, video, added features...showcases the spitfire and Michael Caine again.

Pink Floyd concert in Pompeii

Starry night DVD that came with the telescope I bought for one of my daughters...and an eyeful of Mars! (my first random pick in the nights sky on our first starry night here in Chicago since xmas) and the moon in all it's glory.

...and I was going to pickup layer cake as I have rented it before.

also can recommend:

Cinderella man
Garden State ...music and the whole enchilada
Poltergeist re-release!
Close Encounters of the 3rd kind - Bloody awesome sound when the aliens communicate using the universal language of music.

Star Wars Episode III on Saturday night. I hadn't bothered going to the movies to watch it and I had to have the DVD just to complete the set (sad I know). Not a bad movie if you forgive the crap acting. Fabulous DVD, very well put together.

Had real fun playing it through a Sim C3X (yes, the £12000 jobbie) onto an 8 foot screen with sound by a full Arcam FMJ and M&K speaker system. Of course, the best system in the world won't get around the poor acting, but it certainly helped.

Poor old Windu...

Quite enjoyed Layer Cake too. Sienna Miller certainly makes it easier on the eye!

Just watched The Island. A poor copy of Logan's Run but passably entertaining, I suppose.

Inspector Morse 33 Episodes/DVDS &£69 from amazon.co.uk were surprisingly excellent watched over 5 days.

Having started off at beginning of 1987 Episode 1 with Rega RB300 on (?Logic? DM101 deck?- Episode about 'Richards Research Audio') he tended to favour cassettes (car use) before eventually in final 33rd 2000 episode showing us for the first time a CD - he had in between seemed to have JVC system then Yamaha stack.

Stereo sound on DVDs commenced in 23rd Episode/DVD. I won't mention the women/alcohol, although he favoured Wagner and thought Vivaldi is just for enjoyment. The sound/picture-quality/presentation of the DVDs is IMO fine/excellent apart from in the final 33rd Episode comical consultant surgeon badly miming church solo to a Faure Requiem piece.

... 'Richards Research' record deck in 1987 Inspector Morse DVD 01 'Jericho...' looks like a Heybrook with RB300 arm ...

Just finished Episode 25 of Lost. Awaiting delivery os 1-5 of season 2.

Howard