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Columbia TriStar is a Master of Disguise

November 5, 2002 // 0 Comments

Dana Carvey’s big comeback was less successful than planned, but Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is sticking by the film, with a new fairly packed DVD of the comedy Master of Disguise. Pistachio Disguisey, can’t understand why he is so easily able [...]

Corrrection: More details on Blood Work

November 4, 2002 // 0 Comments

The Clint Eastwood mystery Blood Work will be coming to DVD soon from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment as previously announced, but the DVD will actually include several extras not mentioned earlier. The DVD will be made available in both a fullscreen [...]

Death of a Salesman comes to DVD

November 4, 2002 // 0 Comments

When I purchased my first DVD player in the spring of 1997, I tried to explain how cool it was to everyone I knew. Oddly the first question anyone ever asked me was whether the 1985 filmed adaptation of Death of a Salesman was on the fledgling format and [...]

Criterion visits Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

November 4, 2002 // 0 Comments

Criterion just made the unexpected announcement that the Terry Gilliam classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will be getting the Criterion treatment in months to come. “We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold.” It is 1971, [...]

Reese Witherspoon comes to Sweet Home DVD

November 4, 2002 // 0 Comments

Current magazine cover favorite Reese Witherspoon is making good on her latest theatrical outing Sweet Home Alabama. The romantic comedy will make it to DVD in February from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Melanie Carmichael has tried hard to hide the [...]

Sirocco comes to DVD

November 1, 2002 // 0 Comments

One of the few Bogart films not available on DVD, Sirocco will come to disc in early 2003 from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Set in war-torn Syria, Bogart stars as gun smuggler Harry Smith, whose daring exploits earn him a ruthless reputation. But [...]

I ain’t got time to bleed… again

October 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

At long last Predator 2 will make it to DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The disc won’t be overly loaded with features, but at least it will finally be available. Out of the jungles and into the streets of Los Angeles, the Predator has [...]

DVD copy protection in danger

October 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

321 Studios will soon be shipping their newest product DVD Copy X, which will allow DVD owners to make backups of their DVDs, bypassing copy protection. Unfortunately, like all backup software, 321 president Robert Moore admits there is no way to prevent [...]

Columbia TriStar lathers up Shampoo

October 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

1975 was a great year for film, but an altogether far too serious year. The refreshing exception to that rule was the sexually charged comedy Shampoo which will finally be making its DVD debut in January from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Wicked [...]

Michael Caine is Educating Rita

October 31, 2002 // 0 Comments

In other news of classic comedies centering around the romances of hairdressers, the 1983 bitersweet comedy Educating Rita will make its debut on January 7th. A genre setting film, Julie Walters stars as a Cockney hairdresser who revitalizes the life of a [...]
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