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Van Helsing HD DVD
Tom Norton  |  Jun 17, 2006  | 

Stephen Sommers, director of a fun ride in <I>The Mummy</I> and an unnecessary, overblown sequel in <I>The Mummy Returns</I>, brings us a whole bevy of uglies in <I>Van Helsing</I>. It's a monster mash, with Dracula getting together with his vampire brides, the Frankenstein monster, Mr. Hyde, wherewolves, and various other hangers on.

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DVDs: Brokeback Mountain
Al Griffin  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 

So much fuss has been made about Brokeback Mountain (Lionsgate; Movie ••••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••), especially after it was nominated for eight Oscars (winning three), that it's not worth rehashing the details here.

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DVD REVIEW: Deadwood
Brandon Grafius  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Universal
Series •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
This six-disc set brings us 12 more one-hour episodes of dust, grime, an
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DVD REVIEW: King Kong
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Universal
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
The first thing I noticed after picking up this two-disc set was that the
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DVDs: Match Point
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 

In Match Point (DreamWorks; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras: None), Woody Allen creates a Shakespearean tale of ambition, passion, and madness that can only end in tears, and he does so in a uniquely cinematic way. By usual DVD standards, the quality of the picture and sound might seem lacking.

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DVD REVIEW: Pride & Prejudice
Ken Korman  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Universal
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Jane Austen has been done to death on film, but that doesn'
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DVD REVIEW: Delicatessen
Ken Korman  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Miramax
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Now known for the vivid, otherworldly look of movies like The City of Lo
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DVD REVIEW: Breakfast on Pluto
Marc Horowitz  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Unlike The Crying Game, writer/director Neil Jordan's other film a
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Top 10 Superhero DVDs
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 

With a slew of superheroes in theaters this summer - X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, My Super Ex-Girlfriend - we feel a musclebound DVD assessment is in order. Batman Begins, a benchmark title, ascended beyond this list to the pantheon of torture test discs and will be revered in a future issue.

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DVD REVIEW: The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Rad Bennett  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Disney
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
Cowritten and directed by Andrew Adamson (who also brought us
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DVD REVIEW: Star Trek Fan Collectives
Rad Bennett  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Time Travel Borg Paramount
Collectives •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Paramount has already released all of the original Star Trek shows and
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DVD REVIEW: The Passenger
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Michelangelo Antonioni took the premise for an intrigue-filled thriller - burne
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U-571 HD DVD
Tom Norton  |  May 30, 2006  |  First Published: May 31, 2006  | 

As submarine movies go, <I>U-571</I> is far from a classic. It includes scenes we've seen in countless other submarine films, and its history is warped (implying that the U.S. Navy and not the Royal Navy captured the Nazi Enigma machine and broke the German naval codes&mdash;though the end titles do correct the record).

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The Greatest Game Ever Played
Tom Norton  |  May 30, 2006  |  First Published: May 31, 2006  | 

As noted in another blog, I've been having fun lately with unexpectedly good movies that fell through the critical and audience cracks during their theatrical releases. And <I> The Greatest Game Ever Played</I> certainly surprised me as much as any of them.

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The Bourne Supremacy
Tom Norton  |  May 30, 2006  |  First Published: May 31, 2006  | 

I have mixed feeling about the Bourne films. This one is the sequel to the first, <I>The Bourne Identity</I>. The two movies feature a rogue, on-the-run, amnesiac CIA hit man trying to discover who he really is, and in the process discovering "talents" that he didn't know he had.

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