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We first wrote about Green Zone a couple of weeks ago, but that was mainly to complain about the crapulosity of the Empire Leicester Square.

It finally came out of embargo yesterday, but we thought we’d wait until the Oscar dust had cleared to give it a proper assessment. And here it is:

20 WORD REVIEW
Greengrass directs with Bourne-like kineticism and Damon will fuck your shit up,
but the politics at heart are unbearably heavy-handed.

10 WORD REVIEW
Resembles previous Iraq War films, but with more shaky cam.

5 WORD REVIEW
6/10 for the shouting alone.

Monday has come and after three hours sleep, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards are but a faint memory. Here’s our (very) brief rundown of last night’s festivities:

1	RED CARPET It was pretty banal.
2	MARTIN / BALDWIN They weren’t terrible.
3	LONG It seemed to go on LITERALLY FOREVER.
4	FUNNY This was as close as anyone came to matching the brilliance of the Brendan Fraser clap.
5	SURPRISE As rumoured, Michael Haneke was robbed by that Argentinean film that no-one’s seen.
6	TECHNICAL AWARDS We didn’t pay attention.
7	CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN ON SKY MOVIES She was absolutely torturous.
8	AVATAR It won as much as it deserved.
9	THE HURT LOCKER It wasn’t the best film of the year but it wasn’t the worst either.
10	LONG It really was.

I’m still asleep after all that mad Oscar fun last night, but here’s something I wrote earlier: it’s this week’s exciting Blu-ray releases. Don’t forget, you can also get them on DVD if you’re some kind of time traveller from the past.

JULIE & JULIA
Film – I’d have never imagined I could dislike a movie about blogging, but Julie & Julia is unbearable shit. The ‘Julia’ half of the film is actually quite good (if a little inconsequential) but the ‘Julie’ bits are so bad they made me forget that I ever liked Amy Adams in anything ever. Ever.
Blu-ray – Weirdly, it’s the same story here. Julia’s life is full of incredible colour and definition, whereas Julie’s stuff is all washed out and blurry.
Extras – Didn’t bother.
Packaging – Not a terrible effort cover-wise, but Sony’s releases are starting to all look exactly the same.

TOY STORY 1 & TOY STORY 2
Films – Nothing / more / needs / to be / said.
Blu-ray – Having spent about five years of my life watching the same VHS copy of Toy Story over and over again, it’s nothing short of a revelation seeing it on Blu.
Absolutely. Crystal.
Extras – A few nice ‘featurettes’ but faaaaarrrr too many trailers for crap old Disney shit.
Packaging – If anyone on Earth has the slightest idea what the point of those cardboard outer sleeves is, let me know at the usual address.

THAT WAS THIS WEEK’S BLU-RAY ROUND-UP. MORE OF THE SAME NEXT WEEK.

This is going to make me mind less when she wins Best Actress tonight.