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Jamie Ewbank
01 December 2008 12:33
After a year in which we’ve been inundated with superhero movies, all of which have been, to a greater or lesser extent, better than expected, we finally come to Hancock . On paper, it has the edge over all its rivals - it isn’t hampered by an original
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Hancock
Jamie Ewbank
19 November 2008 15:16
If Batman Begins was a surprisingly dark and serious take on the Batman mythos, then its all-conquering sequel, The Dark Knight , sees director Christopher Nolan heading into even grimmer territory to produce an excellent and unpredictable blockbuster
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight, The Joker, Batman
Jamie Ewbank
07 November 2008 12:11
Age may have caught up with Harrison Ford, but in this fourth Indiana Jones movie he turns his advancing years into a virtue. Sadly, the same can’t be said for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, who direct and produce this rather disappointing sequel.
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, film reviews, reviews, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford
Jamie Ewbank
30 October 2008 11:48
It's been a week of extremes on The Leisure Lab, where we’ve discovered that a lossless 5.1 DTS-HD soundtrack isn’t enough to save the The Happening , a film where the scariest noise is that of Mark Wahlberg staring down the camera and explaining the
Filed under: Blu-ray, DTS-HD MA, Blu-ray Disc, movies, Samsung, film reviews, games, reviews, Playstation, LittleBigPlanet, The Eyehe Happening
Jamie Ewbank
17 October 2008 12:13
If you’ve ever lamented the fact that blockbuster movies just don’t grab you the way they used to, then Iron Man is the film to restore your faith in the genre. For starters, the special effects are genuinely special. The titular armour is all gloss and
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, film reviews, reviews, Iron Man
Jamie Ewbank
10 October 2008 15:40
The grumpy green shape of The Incredible Hulk is the first of the summer comic book blockbusters to make the jump to DVD and Blu-ray on October 13th. After Ang Lee’s thoughtful but surprisingly placid Hulk in 2003, Director Louis Leterrier clearly wants
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, The Eyehe Incredible Hulk
Jamie Ewbank
29 September 2008 14:42
Hollywood remakes of successful Asian horror films all tend to hit the same snag: when stripped of the subtitles and cultural differences present in the original, the audience no longer have the added thrill of unfamiliarity to enhance the chills, and
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, The Leisure Lab, film reviews, The Eye, Jessica Alba, The Eye Review
Jamie Ewbank
23 September 2008 11:38
It’s been a long wait for Kimberley Pierce to follow up 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry, but with Stop Loss she succeeds in tackling another serious subject with the same sort of power and poise her last film displayed. Stop Loss is the name of the US army program
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, movies, film reviews, reviews, Channing Tatum, Ryan Phillippe, Stop Loss, Kimberley Pierce
Jamie Ewbank
07 August 2008 16:10
The Leisure Lab , our software reviewing sister site, is growing up fast. We've just added a new music review channel and we're moving from weekly to daily updates. Among the goodies going up this week are Brian DePalma's controversial Iraq movie, Redacted
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Audio, Stuff.TV, CD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, whathifi.com, MP3, movies, Samsung, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, film reviews, music reviews