Articles by Guido Henkel

Columbia logs back onto The Net

January 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

Many of Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment’s early DVDs were perfectly acceptable first attempts from the studio. Now that DVD has matured as a format, the studio has revisited many of these early releases as special edition DVDs. The latest film to [...]

Seems Like Old Times with Columbia

January 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is revisiting the Neil Simon comedy Seems Like Old Times. The 1980 film is coming to DVD this March. Writer Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a [...]

Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, we call it DVD

January 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

Before the 1996 Best Picture nominee “Sling Blade”, Billy Bob Thornton starred in the original independent short that inspired it. Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, once released in an issue of Short Cinema Journal is being given a DVD release of its [...]

DVD players add support for Microsoft audio

January 8, 2002 // 0 Comments

Despite controversy over the format, support for the MP3 format has grown steadily over the last year. Many DVD players currently play CD-Rs filled with MP3s. Now four companies have announced additional support for Microsoft?s competing WMA format as [...]

Fox lets out the Sexy Beast

January 8, 2002 // 0 Comments

No one can question actor Ben Kingsley’s versatility. The Academy Award winner who won praise for his roles in “Gandhi” and “Schindler’s List” took a drastic turn towards the bizarre in the black comedy Sexy Beast. The film is coming to DVD in [...]

Columbia TriStar is Riding in Cars with Boys

January 7, 2002 // 0 Comments

After a few high action blockbusters, Drew Barrymore returns to simpler things with the film based on a true story, Riding in Cars with Boys. Coming as a new special edition DVD from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment this March, “Riding” will make a [...]

Warner Brothers invites you to Training Day

January 7, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Video is set to release this summer’s cop thriller Training Day. The film grossed over $76 million is coming to DVD in March. Denzel Washington is Alonzo, a senior cop who’s found himself in trouble with the Russian mafia. Ethan [...]

Warner plans a Heist

January 7, 2002 // 0 Comments

David Mamet pens another tightly woven screenplay for the high tension crime drama Heist. The story is coming home to DVD in March from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. Gene Hackman plays a master thief forced into one last questionable job by a greedy [...]

The Elephant Man

January 7, 2002 // 0 Comments

Featuring an all-star cast that consists of Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Hurt, John Gielgud and many others, ’The Elephant Man’ is the highly acclaimed telling of an impressively touching and sensible story. It is about a man who is extremely [...]

More Dr. Who is on the way

January 4, 2002 // 0 Comments

Dr. Who fans have been graced with several releases from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. Now the studio is releasing two more adventures from the long running British series. Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani and Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks [...]
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