Articles by Guido Henkel

ECW: Extreme Evolution

July 16, 2001 // 0 Comments

On Pioneer Entertainment’s wrestling release “ECW: Extreme Evolution” you can find some unexpected hidden material if you know where to look. From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Biographies” menu and highlight the entry for “Cactus [...]

Akira

July 16, 2001 // 0 Comments

"Akira" is a landmark in Japanese animation. A milestone that has made history and redefined the genre and animation films in general. Its mature theme, the epic animation, the futuristic world, the action and violence depicted and the explosive [...]

VSDA Convention on shaky ground

July 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

Next year’s Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) convention probably won’t be held in January as scheduled, because holding the show in Las Vegas concurrent with the Consumer Electronics Show didn’t turn out to be as advantageous as initially [...]

Circuitry Man comes to DVD

July 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

A beautiful smuggler joins forces with a human appliance to deliver a cache of illicit computer chips, the narcotics of the future. The superhero android is out to save what’s left of the world from the evil, mind-jacking Plughead. So goes the story of [...]

Dracula vs Frankenstein

July 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

There’s at least one hidden feature in Al Adamson’s cult-trash exploitation “Dracula vs Frankenstein, ” as released on the Troma DVD. From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Special Features.” Once you get there, choose “Deleted Scenes,” [...]

The Wedding Planner

July 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

Jennifer Lopez seems to have trouble deciding what she wants to do, dance, sing or act. While she used to be a great dancer, the latter two areas are just not her strength. Neither the limitations of her vocal abilities nor the poor range of acting skills [...]

Sonic Solutions now sold one million desktop DVD authoring apps

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC) announced today that sales of Sonic’s desktop DVD publishing applications DVDit! and MyDVD have topped the one million unit mark, coming less than three months after they reached the 500,000 mark. The latest million-unit [...]

Final specs are in on The Simpsons

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

The announcement that televisions longest running sitcom, The Simpsons was coming to DVD, included a long but somewhat vague list of special features. Now Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released detailed information on the upcoming Season [...]

Andrew Lloyd Webber comes to DVD

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Fans of the works of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will be pleased when Universal Studios Home Video releases the live concert Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Royal Albert Hall Celebration and a new Ultimate Edition DVD of the celebrated musical Cats. The Royal [...]
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