Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on November 4th, 2004
Lion Gate Home Entertainment will release The Crying Game: Collector's Edition on January 25th. This disc will be presented in a remastered anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary (with director Neil Jordan), an alternate ending (with optional commentary), a making-of featurette, and a featurette examining the war in Northern Ireland as seen through the eyes of a Catholic cabbie from Belfast and a Protestant paramilitary cons...ruction worker.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 4th, 2004
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Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on November 3rd, 2004
Touchstone Home Entertainment will release the Bernie Mac comedy Mr. 3000 on February 1st. This disc will be presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with both English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 audio tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary (with director Charles Stone), deleted scenes )with director commentary_, extended scenes, four featurettes ("The Tonight Show", "Spring Training: The Extras Journey", "Everybody Loves Stan", & "Making of Mr. 3000"), and outtakes.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 3rd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 3rd, 2004
For four seasons, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, along with a group of writers and comedians, served up comedy skits, parodies, and more, in the underrated but hilarious HBO late-night sketch comedy series Mr. Show.
Mr. Show is a smart comedy show, at least from what I can gather from the fourth season. The first thing to point out is every skit is somehow related to the next one by way of introducing a certain product, idea, or interstitial video. It's as if each skit is part of one big narra...ive structure. I guess it's the editing that makes the transition seamless, and if it is then it works great. There's not much else I can say here except to say anyone who likes to laugh should check out Mr. Show. Before the funny Chappelle's Show and other sketch comedy series of late, there was Mr. Show, where the writing was inventive and original, and the performances were dead on, and then some! This show is not to be missed.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 3rd, 2004
Hot on the heels of spring 2004’s Monster Legacy Collections, Universal is at it again. This time The Invisible Man, Mummy, and Creature films get the special treatment. The Creature set is the most obvious standout from the latest releases. Just in time for Halloween, The Creature walks among us again. All 3 Creature films are included along with all of the bonus materials from Universal’s release of the original film.
The synopsis of these films goes something like this... when a strange new type of fossil is discovered deep in the jungles of the Amazon River a scientist (Carlson) and his assistant (Adams) track down a living “Gillman”. When attempts to capture the creature fail, it becomes enraged.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 3rd, 2004
This really was “The Big One”. Season 5 was probably my favorite year of Sanford and Son. Episodes like the Dickens-inspired Ebenezer Sanford, The classic Sanford and Rising Son and The Oddfather leave me laughing just to think about them. I can’t look at George C. Scott as Patton and not be reminded of the intrepid Sergeant Gork. George Foreman took a break from his fight schedule to appear as himself. Even the clip-loaded Camping Trip is a constant riot. In Season 5 the Sanfords discover NBC is making a TV show abo...t their lives. This is the year Lamont gets engaged and Fred meets Della Reese. If you can’t find something to laugh about in this collection, you’re dead.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 3rd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 3rd, 2004
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Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on November 2nd, 2004
Columbia-Tristar will release the Deluxe Edition of Luc Besson's Leon: The Professional on January 11th. Along with the unrated international Superbit audio & video presentation, this set will include three featurettes ("Ten year reunion", "Trial by Fire: Natalie Portman As Mathilda", & "Birth of a Star: Jean Reno As Leon"), a full length Leon fact track, and more.
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