Articles by Guido Henkel

3-2-1 Penguins: Trouble On Planet Wait-Your-Turn

October 21, 2002 // 0 Comments

Too often children’s programming is being released to DVD in a quality that is sub-par with feature film releases – fact that is inexcusable, especially considering that most of those releases are typically much shorter in length. Warner Home Video [...]

The Good Girl and One Hour Photo lead the Indie front

October 18, 2002 // 0 Comments

In a year that has been pretty slow in the way of major studio releases, the indie films have had to pick up the slack. Two of the year’s front runners The Good Girl and One Hour Photo are both coming to DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home [...]

Elie Wiesel Goes Home with Choices Select

October 18, 2002 // 0 Comments

Choices Select will be releasing the recent documentary Elie Wiesel Goes Home on DVD this November. Elie Wiesel Goes Home follows Wiesel as he returns some 50 years later to Sighet Romania the village of his birth. The cameras then follow as Wiesel makes [...]

Encouraging news on Roger Rabbit

October 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

As badly as the titular character of the 1988 animated noir comedy (how often do you hear that) was treated, it doesn’t compare to how badly the film has been treated in years hence. Touchstone and Buena Vista Home Entertainment may finally be doing at [...]

Universal reveals The Bourne Identity

October 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

The recent thriller remake The Bourne Identity failed to spark at the box office, but now the film is given new life on DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Based loosely on the Robert Ludlum novel, a man washes onto the beach, bullet ridden and [...]

Singing In The Rain

October 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video has hidden some additional material on their 50th Anniversary 2-disc release of “Singing In The Rain.” Insert the first disc of the set and from the Main Menu select “Special Features.” Once there, select the text feature “Reel [...]

Frankenthumb

October 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

And, the thumb-saga continues… Steve Oedekerk and his friends are now taking on another movie classic with their Thumbation technology and their sharp, witty humor. This time it is the horror classic ’Frankenstein’ that serves as the template for [...]

Disney gets direct to video sequel fever

October 16, 2002 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista Home Entertainment is readying two more direct-to-video sequels for the DVD lineup. 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure and Inspector Gadget 2 will both make appearances in early 2003. Disney’s irresistible classic 101 Dalmatians [...]

X-Men gets re-released with extra goodies

October 16, 2002 // 0 Comments

Although director Brian Singer’s original intent was to revisit his action hero film X-Men as a longer edition, he instead settled on the upcoming feature-laden disc X-Men Collector’s Edition coming from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Of [...]
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