Articles by Guido Henkel
Universal celebrates The Jerk
Currently available only as a fullscreen featureless release, The Jerk is finally getting respect with the upcoming The Jerk: 26th Anniversary Edition from Universal Home Entertainment. The DVD releases will present the film in anamorphic widescreen with [...]
Star Wars gets uber-boxed
George Lucas announced over the weekend that not surprisingly, a box set of all six Star Wars films will be coming out next year. Although the supplements are far from complete, the films will be the versions currently available on DVD, and supplemental [...]
Sony goes Stone Cold
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings more of its catalog to disc with the DVD release of Stone Cold this summer. Tom Selleck is Jess Stone, the terse and tenacious chief of police in the cold, gray seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. When a serial [...]
National Treasure
Judging from its trailers, ’National Treasure’ looked quite bit like and ’Indiana Jones’-style of film, but upon viewing Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s DVD of the film, it turned out that it has actually a lot more in common with ’The [...]
Warner shows its Racing Stripes
Warner Home Entertainment has sounded the starting shot for a special edition DVD for the family friendly Racing Stripes coming later this year. A zebra raised on a farm in Kentucky dreams of becoming a racehorse in this heartwarming tale that combines [...]
AMC explores DVD censorship
One of the many uncomfortable trends growing in DVD retail is post-theatrical release editing of DVDs to make them more family or politically palatable. AMC explores the trend in Bleep! Censoring Hollywood, a new documentary airing this month. [...]
Back for a bite, Universal revisits Jaws
A new Special Edition of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is on the way for release in June. Called the “30th Anniversay Edition” – can you believe it’s been that long already? – will contain a number of new bonus features that were not part of the [...]
Manga Entertainment brings you Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Manga Entertainment and Bandai Entertainment are excited to release the sixth volume of the ground-breaking Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex DVD series in May. Volume 6 will contain three exciting new half-hour episodes from the anime series, [...]
It’s game time for Scooby-Doo
It’s game time for Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred and Velma with the DVD release of What’s New Scooby-Doo? Vol. 5: Sports Spooktacular from Warner Home Video. The latest installment in the “What’s New Scooby-Doo?” series will be available this [...]