Articles by Guido Henkel

Columbia TriStar trusts in Shadow Magic

July 2, 2001 // 0 Comments

In their line of Hong Kong film releases, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has now scheduled Ann Hu’s enchanting drama Shadow Magic (aka: Xi yang jing) for release in September. Inspired by the life of Liu Jing Lun, “Shadow Magic” is an [...]

Columbia TriStar brings us The Forsaken for Halloween

July 2, 2001 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has just unveiled plans to release the horror film The Forsaken this fall, just in time for Halloween. Driving cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes, Sean (Kerr Smith) does the one thing he wasn’t supposed to do [...]

More great news on Citizen Kane!

June 29, 2001 // 0 Comments

Since our announcement of Citizen Kane’s impending DVD release, more good information has come in concerning the disc’s content. Still scheduled for a September release, Warner Home Video will be releasing the movie as a two-disc special edition. The [...]

The Tailor of Panama is coming to DVD

June 29, 2001 // 0 Comments

The world has come to know Pierce Brosnan as the superspy James Bond, but Brosnan takes on the role of a very different kind of spy as he plays against Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush in the arthouse thriller The Tailor of Panama. Everyone who missed the [...]

The Great Muppet Caper

June 29, 2001 // 0 Comments

Another Muppet movie has finally made its DVD debut through Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, adding to the growing library of great Muppet feature films. ’The Great Muppet Caper’ is the latest entry, colorful, fun-filled and exciting as ever. It [...]

Run for your Lives – The Blob is coming

June 28, 2001 // 0 Comments

The classic 1958 Steve McQueen sci-fi flick, The Blob has been released on DVD, but the less celebrated 1988 remake has been virtually ignored since its release. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has rectified that situation with a shiny new DVD release [...]

Here comes The Bride

June 28, 2001 // 0 Comments

In 1985, Director Franc Roddam decided to put his own twist on the classic Frankenstein story with his pseudo-remake of James Whales’ “Bride of Frankenstein”, aptly titled The Bride his newer, sleeker, sexier version is getting new life on DVD [...]

DVD Recording: New format wars are on the horizon

June 28, 2001 // 0 Comments

DVD-ROM’s recording technology has been growing for some time on three formats; DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. The formats, while incompatible have not caused real problems in the past. But as home entertainment recorders are nearing public consumption, [...]

DVD now begins to visible eclipse VHS

June 28, 2001 // 0 Comments

According to the latest study by Digital Futures at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence, DVD owners purchased more than 20 movie disks during 2000. The average VCR owner purchased fewer than 10 that year. U.S. DVD-video sales more than doubled in 2000, [...]

Armageddon (HK)

June 28, 2001 // 0 Comments

Unlike the Michael Bay blockbuster of the same name, Gordon Chan’s "Armageddon, " also known under its original title "Tian di xiong xin," does not predict an end of the world by forces from outer space, but from force much more [...]
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