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DVDs: Little Black Dress
Rad Bennett  |  Dec 09, 2005  |  0 comments

One is blonde, the other brunette. One radiates as an earth mother, the other is everyone's favorite big sister. But when the chips are down, each babe is a trained killing machine who can kick terrorist ass.

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DVDs: Boxer Shorts
 |  Dec 09, 2005  |  0 comments

Alfred Hitchcock The Masterpiece Collection (Universal, 15 DVDs, $120) Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family P

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DVDs: Last Minute Shopping!
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 07, 2005  |  0 comments

Film Special Editions

Ben-Hur Collector's Edition (Warner, 4 discs)

Sin City Recut & Extended Edition (Dimension, 2 discs)

The Sound of Music 40th Anniversary Edition (20th Century Fox, 2 discs)

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DVD REVIEWS: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Ken Korman  |  Dec 06, 2005  |  0 comments
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DVDs: Cracked Actors
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Dec 06, 2005  |  0 comments

Nicolas Roeg's 1976 film THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (The Criterion Collection; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••, Extras ••) is a poetic, visually resplendent work that gains resonance with repeat viewings. David Bowie (below) is the alien on a mission to save his dying race.

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DVD REVIEWS: Extended Editions
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Nov 19, 2005  |  0 comments
Beyond the Fringe Acorn
Show ••• Picture/Sound •• Extras ••
GLADIATOR Extended Edition DreamWorks
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••••½
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DVD REVIEWS: Crash
Marc Horowitz  |  Nov 09, 2005  |  0 comments
Lions Gate
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••½
Co-writer/director Paul Haggis'
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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments

Badly dubbed dialogue and exaggerated acting make martial-arts movies unintentionally funny (to Westerners, at least). But in Kung Fu Hustle (Sony; Movie ••••, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras •••• ), director Stephen Chow sets out to grab laughs by mining the genre's clichés.

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DVD REVIEWS: Desperate Housewives
Brandon Grafius  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
Season 1 Touchstone
Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••½
Wisteria Lane
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DVD REVIEWS: Family Business
Brandon Grafius  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments

Family Guy was canceled after its third season, but phenomenal DVD sales and a successful afterlife in reruns have brought the series back to prime time again. To celebrate, creator Seth MacFarlane picks his Top 5 episodes for Family Guy: The Freakin' Sweet Collection (20th Century Fox; Series •••, Picture/Sound ••½, Extras ••).

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DVD REVIEWS: Avant-Garde
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s Kino
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••½ Extras None
This
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DVD REVIEWS: Melinda and Melinda
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
20th Century Fox
Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras None
Woody Allen's Melinda and Melin
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DVD REVIEWS: The Longest Yard
Ken Korman  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
Paramount
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
Hollywood remakes don't always fall short of the mark, but the new take on The Longest Yard
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DVD REVIEWS: Layer Cake
Ken Korman  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
Universal
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••½
In this sleek and stylish crime thriller
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DVD REVIEWS: Preston Sturges
Ken Korman  |  Nov 06, 2005  |  0 comments
PALM BEACH STORY Universal
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••½ Extras
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