Hello!

Deputy Editor, Mike Carhart-Harris here – soon to be no-longer Deputy Editor. The longest-serving member of the editorial team by some way, after issue 119 I’ll be leaving DVD & Blu-ray Review for pastures new and, literally, greener (Dorset, if you must know...) for a life of actually having to buy the DVDs I want to watch like a normal person. Mad.

If you’ve read an issue of DVD (& Blu-ray) Review magazine over the past four and a bit years, there’s a good likelihood that you’ve been confronted by my fevered scrawlings (well, typings) on all manner of digital versatile discs littering the pages. (For your info, first one was the R1 of the eminently forgettable – and forgotten – Duplex in issue 64. Last was the brilliant Son Of Rambow, coming soon to issue 119. I call that progress.)

You may have wholeheartedly agreed with them. They may have had you spitting blood all over our lovingly put together pages. In both cases, I’m glad. If they made you go out and buy a DVD that’s brought you endless joy (or avoid one that could have spelled untold misery), even better.

Since joining the mag team in March 2004, I’ve had tons of fun, had the chance to interview lots of genuinely famous people and – best of all – been paid to sit and watch films and TV for a living. (Believe me, it becomes a chore after a while. No? You’re right, I’m a jammy git.) Oh, and put together the reviews section for the world’s greatest – and still the UK’s No 1 – DVD magazine. Erm... why am I going again?

Having now completely contradicted the title and intention of this blog post – about which you probably care not a jot – I wish you a fond farewell... and thank you for not sending me too many threatening letters!

Goodbye!