Digital 5.1 sound has been the territory of movies and the occasional novelty remix CD designed to test speakers. But Meat Beat Manifesto, best known for their contributions to recent films including the Matrix, have recorded an album exclusively for 5.1 [...]
It is truly sad to witness and speaks volumes for the state of the studio, but Universal Home Video is once again making headlines of the bad sort. After releasing bad DVDs of Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life into the market earlier this year, the [...]
Following in the footsteps of the Monty Python box set, the fairy tale Labyrinth will be coming with a new DVD and other supplements. Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the [...]
Don’t let the poorly done, nerdy cover of ’God, Sex & Apple Pie’ ‘mislead you. This is actually a very funny and smart film with great performances and truly poignant dialogues. The story revolves around a group of friends getting together [...]
AOD gets the greenlight Advanced Optical Disc the proposed high definition disc format created by Toshiba and NEC has been given the go ahead by the DVD Forum to be accepted as the new HD-DVD standard. This is not good news for the Blu-Ray and EVD [...]
On their 2-disc Collector’s Edition release of “finding Nemo, ” as expected Pixar has hidden a variety of additional materials, some of which are not trivial to find. Here is how to get to them all. Insert the first disc of the set. From the Main [...]
I had ’Cronos’ sitting on my desk for some time and eventually got around to taking a closer look at this Mexican Guillermo Del Toro film. It turned out to be a nice surprise. An atmospheric horror film with style, good characters and an intriguing [...]
While every studio finds a pace for their television releases, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has chosen slow and steady for their animated superhero fare. The success of the Batman animated releases has led to the announcement of Superman The [...]
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment has hidden two surprises on its Special Edition DVD of “Whale Rider” that are not immediately obvious. Here’s how to locate them. From the DVD’s Main Menu go to the “Special Features” and there select the [...]
Australian films are not a common commodity here in the US for some reason and when ’Dirty Deeds’ showed up on my desk I was eager to check it out. What I found was a thriller with a dark humor that almost reminded me of Coen Brothers film. Think [...]
