Now’s your chance to listen to Richard and Al pontificate and babble while watching the first ever STAR WARS movie made.

Once you’ve downloaded the podcast to your iPod/MP3 player/Gramophone set up the DVD to pause at the “A Long Time Ago,In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…” screen.

Then just hit play on the DVD and MP3 at the same time. Don’t worry if it’s a fraction of a secondout of sync, that’s our normal state of conciousness anyway….

(This commentary is for the NTSCversion of the Special Edition of Star Wars: A New Hope).

Now’s your chance to listen to Richard and Al pontificate and babble while watching the first ever STAR WARS movie made.

Once you’ve downloaded the podcast to your iPod/MP3 player/Gramophone set up the DVD to pause at the “A Long Time Ago,In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…” screen.

Then just hit play on the DVD and MP3 at the same time. Don’t worry if it’s a fraction of a second out of sync, that’s our normal state of conciousness anyway….

(This commentary is for the PAL version of the Special Edition of Star Wars: A New Hope).

We hit our Lucky 7th episode with brand new reviews for Baz Luhrman’s AUSTRALIA, DEATHCHEATERS, DEATH RACE, YES MAN, ROCKNROLLA, THE WAVE, SURFER DUDE, THE WACKNESS, MAD MONEY, MONKEY PUZZLE, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE and the BANK JOB.

We also announce the WINNERS to our BLUE MURDER COMPETITION, and find out what the most banned film in the world is!

There’s also a special announcement about an exciting new direction for Bitscast over the coming weeks. You can’t miss this one!

NB: We are aware of some issues with playback speed in Internet Explorer. If you find you are listening to us at chipmunk speed, please try using another browser (e.g. Firefox, Chrome); download the podcast as an mp3 or get it from iTunes. It has to do with Flash and the bitrate of the last few files. We’ll get it right by Episode 8!

In this show, we review BODY OF LIES, IN BRUGES, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, MAX PAYNE and RENAISSANCE.

We’ve been to the cinema and seen WATCHMEN and DEAN SPANLEY. Plus, we take a look back at an Oz cinema classic on DVD - HOWLING III!

Thanks to Reel, we are also giving away a copy of Blue Murder: The Ultimate Edition (3 Disc - All Regions PAL) . To enter all you have to do is LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST, hear the question and send your answer to bitscastcompetitions@gmail.com. It’s that simple. We’ll read out the winner on the next Bitcast. NB: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR ALL WHO ENTERED. WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN BITSCAST EPISODE 7.

Don’t delay - listen now…and win!

We kick it off with an EXCLUSIVE* interview with CHRISTIAN BALE, before getting straight into some new DVD reviews for TAKEN, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, SON OF RAMBOW, 88 MINUTES and EAGLE EYE.

Then we turn our square eyes to the cinema, where we’ve bought tickets for RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, THE CHANGELING, THE CLASS, HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, MY BLOODY VALENTINE (3D!), ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO and UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS.

If that’s not enough, we’ve got three doses of trivia and a whole lot of random conversation! You can’t miss this one!

Sorry about the delay, the first attempt to record Episode 4 crashed and we had to redo the whole thing a week later!

This week (well, two or three weeks….)

Al and Richard take the obligatory look at the Oscar announcments.

Fox vs Warner: Will Watchmen see the light of day? In DVD’s:

Hellboy II

Batman: Gotham Knight

Tropic Thunder

Wall-E

Happy Go Lucky

You Kill Me

The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emporer

In Cinema:

The Wrestler Doubt Revolutionary Road Gran Torino Milk Plus Trivia and all the other nonsense that you’ve come to expect!

Bitscast is back for 2009. This episode, Richard and Al talk about the downfall of one of Australia’s biggest retailers, Richard watches movie after movie on an airplane and we kick off the Bitscast Trivia Segment!

We do some reviews too….

Wanted

Dark Knight

Clone Wars

Not Quite Hollywood

And much more!

You KNOW we’re serious now, ‘cos we’ve done TWO of them!

Richard and Al talk, this week, about MONGOL, Spics and Specs, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Big Man Japan, INSIDE PARIS (Dans Paris), Camp Rock and Prince Caspian on DVD.

We take a look at an advance screening of Woody Allen’s new flick VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA.

We flash back to take a nostaligic view of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Tokyo Story, Ong Bak and Neo Evangelical Jellybean.

Plus upcoming DVDs, Movie Releases at the cinema for the next two weeks and a sprinkling of sleigh bells over all!

From all of us here at DVDBits.com, Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year!

Thanks for dropping by and taking a look at Bitscast!, the new DVD, Blu-ray and Cinema podcast from the folks at DVDBits.com.

In this Episode, Richard and Al talk about some new releases from Madman, bemoan the fate of dogs in Oz Films, look at a new series on Australian ABC 2 just out on DVD and get ready for some serious Christmas viewing….

We’re looking at updating on a weekly to fortnightly basis, so drop by regularly, or subscribe using one of the buttons on the right hand side!

All the best….

Richard and Al