This is the first post of Club Columbia DVD!  Let me spread some background over this site and what it’s about.  Life can be difficult.  Frustrating.  Ugh.

Whatever your philosophy on film, they make a great way to just get away from it all.  Some of my best memories are of sitting around on a sofa watching a film with friends.  Seeing Martin Sheen drop with a huge splat of blood in front of Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Departed’ will always be imprinted on my mind.

Even the more annoying movies have a place in my life.  Every girlfriend I’ve ever had as tried to get me to watch ‘The Notebook’.  None have succeeded.

One of the first things I’m interested in when I meet a person is what films they like.  You can tell a lot about a person from what they choose to watch when they want to take their mind off things.  You can get a feel for their humour, their personality, their values- ask someone if they laughed throughout ‘American Psycho’ and you’ll see what I mean.

Now while I love films, today is a strange place in the industry.  With Blu-Ray, DVD, piracy, Blockbuster and Netflix all over the place it’s hard to know what’s the best way to get a movie.  Going to the cinema is getting expensive as well as annoying.  I’m one of those people who can’t watch a film with the backlight of a mobile phone shining in my face as I laugh about how Jess said that to Brian and then she was like all pissed and whatever and then oh my God you won’t believe what happened next.

I just want to watch movies.  With Club Columbia DVD I’ll lay out what has worked in my experience.  What films to see.  Which to miss.  The where, how, when and why of the DVD world.

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