Big news this week in the world of HD, including the announcement of Star Wars coming to Blu-ray sometime in 2011.

It doesn’t have the draw, or the science, to really become absorbing.

After a week off, Seen in HD returns, beginning with a court ruling that has possibly made digital back-ups legal, and not against the DMCA

Darkman is filled with Raimi’s twisted humor, not to mention his odd sense of camera movement.

It is a wonderful intentionally campy early ’80s effort, the priceless segment being that of Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), quarterback of the New York Jets, using objects in the throne room to play a football game against this captors.

Predator bends the rules, changing it up so the title refers to the creature as much as Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Two Towers is allowed to astound audiences from the beginning, the fantastic brawl as Gandolf battles the flaming demon Balrog while falling down a pit a visual feast.

Fellowship is a film that is both too long and too short.

Mixed with actual newscasts, scenes of grieving wives, crying children, and stressed out mission controllers, Apollo 13 sets the period and the tone.

In the plethora of Jackie Chan stunt scenes to choose from, the bus disaster in New Police Story may be the most visually stunning…