Articles by Guido Henkel

Die Hard With A Vengeance

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

If you know where to look, you can find some exciting hidden features on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Special Edition release of the “Die Hard With A Vengeance” Special Edition. Insert the second disc from the set and from the main menu, go [...]

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

On 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Special Edition release of the action blockbuster “Die Hard 2: Die Harder” a small hidden feature can be found. Insert the second disc from the set and from the main menu, highlight the “Visual Effects” [...]

Columbia TriStar presents Memento

July 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Director Christopher Nolan weaves an intricate and unique story in Memento. The director’s sophomore outing unravels the story in short segments shown in reverse order. The resulting mystery keeps not only the hero, but the audience searching for [...]

New information on Disney’s Oliver & Company

July 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Originally announced as part of the Disney Gold Collection and then placed on indefinite postponement, the 1988 animated feature has been waiting for a new release date from Disney. Although no new street date has been announced yet, new updates are [...]

Monkeybone

July 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Apart from the film and regular extras, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s release of the wicked Henry Selick comedy “Monkeybone” also contains a hidden feature. From the disc’s main menu go to “Language Selection.” Once on that new screen, [...]

Kodak and LSI Logic bring digital photography to DVD

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

Eastman Kodak Company and LSI Logic Corporation today announced an agreement to promote new capabilities that will enable photo-sharing through television sets using DVD players. Together, Kodak and LSI Logic will offer consumers another way to further [...]

Artisan re-examines Basic Instinct

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

The national rollout of DVD in September of 1997 included Paul Verhoeven’s dark thriller Basic Instinct. Like many of the early DVD releases, the disc was lacking in extras and video quality, but Artisan Entertainment has decided to spruce up the film [...]

James Bond gets an interesting new look

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

The Special Editions of the James Bond films are arguably the most successful DVD from MGM Home Entertainment. Now Baker & Taylor, a distributor of MGM discs has penned a deal with the collectible toy company Corgi Classics to repackage the DVDs in [...]

Die Hard: Five Star Collection

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has included some hidden material on their 2-disc Five Star Collection release of “Die Hard.” Insert the first disc from the set and from the main menu go to the “Language Selection” submenu. Here, highlight the [...]

The Cotton Club

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

Francis Ford Coppola’s 30’s period piece ’The Cotton Club’ is another one of his stylish films that are full of hauntingly beautiful images and an almost poetic visual style, underscoring the filmmaker’s rather artistic take on movies as opposed [...]
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