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DVDs: Bloody Sam
Mel Neuhaus  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 

Like John Ford, Sam Peckinpah was a rambunctious, self-destructive, cinematic poet who idolized the American West. His work is generally discussed in terms of graphic violence, sadism, and perversion, and these aberrant forms of human behavior do appear throughout his work.

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DVDs: Edge-of-your-seat Thrillers!
Rad Bennett  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
FlightPlan Touchstone
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••
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DVD REVIEW: Toy Story 2
Rad Bennett  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
Disney
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras ••••
In this 1999 sequel, Woody is kidnapped, plunging him and his lo
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DVDs: Cops on TV
Rad Bennett  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
Hill Street Blues Season 1 20th Century Fox
Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••
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DVD REVIEW: Lust For Life
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
Warner
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••½
Fifty years after its release, Vincente Minnelli's
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DVD REVIEW: 2046
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••½
In director Wong Kar-Wai's sumptuous and melancholy f
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DVDs: Joker's Wild
Marc Horowitz  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 

"A guy walks into a talent agent's office.... " From that humble beginning spring 100 or so different riffs on perhaps the most vile, grotesque joke ever told. And the tellers here include everyone from Don Rickles, George Carlin, and Martin Mull to Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jon Stewart.

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Z-Riffic: Liza with a "Z"
 |  Mar 27, 2006  | 

When Showtime airs a lovingly restored and digitally remastered version of Liza with a "Z" on Sunday, April 1 at 10 p.m. ET (the DVD will go on sale three days later), it will be the first time the show has been seen in more than 30 years.

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Bada Boom!
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 12, 2006  | 

I have a ritual when it comes to watching The Sopranos. Before the debut of each season, I rewatch every prior season on DVD so that I'm immersed in all the nuances that remind me why it's one of the best TV shows ever.

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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 

Do clones deserve the same rights as their human progenitors? That's the ethical dilemma that director Michael Bay grapples with in the sci-fi foray The Island (DreamWorks; Movie •••, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras ••).

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DVD REVIEW: Beavis and Butt-Head Vol. 1
Brandon Grafius  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 
Paramount
Series ••½ Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••½
More than a decade after they first appeared on late-
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DVDs: Rehashed Horror
Brandon Grafius  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 

If something scared an audience the first time, it should work again, right? And the third, fourth, and fifth times, yes? Well, House of Wax (Warner; Movie •½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••) steals its title from a Vincent Price vehicle, but it's little more than an amateurish excuse to slice and dice attractive teens.

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DVDs: Bird Land
Ken Korman  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 
March of the Penguins Warner/National Geographic
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras<
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DVD REVIEW: The Dukes of Hazzard
Ken Korman  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 
Warner
Movie •• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••
Before the movie, this DVD has a trailer for boxed sets of the origi
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DVD REVIEW: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Ken Korman  |  Feb 03, 2006  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Throughout this DVD's extras, the various participant
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