Articles by Guido Henkel

D-VHS arrives amid controversy

January 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, DreamWorks Home Video and Artisan Entertainment have announced plans to join hardware manufacturer JVC in the release of several films on the new Digital-VHS format. The [...]

The Soultaker: The Monster Within

January 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

’The Soultaker’ is an Anime series filled with elements of gothic horror, science fiction, mutants and modern Anime themes. It is a good mix as the series’ main character Kyosuke tries to find out more about his real past as he discovers his mutant [...]

Columbia TriStar presents Husbands and Wives

January 30, 2002 // 0 Comments

Marriage and divorce are the themes Woody Allen plays with in the comical story of Husbands and Wives. The Allen classic is coming to DVD from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own [...]

The X-Files goes to season 5 on DVD

January 30, 2002 // 0 Comments

Twentieth Century Fox’s season box sets of The X-Files DVDs have become the standard by which other TV series box sets are measured against; presenting complete seasons with a respectable amount of supplements. Now the studio has set a date for the [...]

Mark Twain

January 30, 2002 // 0 Comments

Like Halley’s comet, Mark Twain was a shining light in the sky that is mankind. The comparison may appear weird, but as many other weird aspects of Mark Twain’s life, the two do seem to be intertwined. Twain was born under the Halley comet and he [...]

Fox adopts fullscreen DVDs

January 29, 2002 // 0 Comments

While Warner Brothers, Columbia TriStar and Universal have been making an effort to release many of their titles in both widescreen and fullscreen, Twentieth Century Fox is now jumping in the wagon. Although the studio has not announced any upcoming dual [...]

The 6th Day: Special Edition

January 29, 2002 // 0 Comments

After first releasing a bare-bones version of the film on DVD in March of last year – please see our review of the disc here – Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is finally delivering the DVD that should have been in the first place – a 2-disc [...]

The lost View Askew film comes to DVD

January 28, 2002 // 0 Comments

In 1995, between the production of “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy”, the cast and characters from those films took a side trip to make a small independent film relatively unknown to fans of the View Askew Universe. Although not directed by Smith [...]

Klute

January 28, 2002 // 0 Comments

Alan J. Pakula is at home in the genre of heartfelt character drama, like ’Sophie’s Choice,’ as much as in intense thrillers. ’Klute’ is his 1971 thriller debut starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland in a film that was at its time quite [...]

Strictly Ballroom is coming

January 25, 2002 // 0 Comments

Now that Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” has brought home the Golden Globe, his first film is making its debut on DVD. Strictly Ballroom is getting the special edition treatment this spring from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. “Strictly Ballroom” [...]
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