10 quick thoughts on District 9

I finally got a chance to watch District 9 at the early show yesterday morning. Would have posted something about it then but I had to go straight to work and spent that whole shift attempting to talk everyone into watching it. [gap][/gap] 1- The documentary style is fantastic. It effectively creates a very lived …

Dare to be Stupid: Is Blu-ray the next Laserdisc?

Growing up during the Eighties I was a first hand witness to the bitter battle between VHS and Betamax for supremacy of the budding home video market. My family carefully avoided this format war for years, predominantly because of my father’s educated unease with buying anything during the early adoption phase. You see my father …