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

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

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

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
Beyond the Fringe Acorn
Show ••• Picture/Sound •• Extras ••
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DVDs: Cracked Actors
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Dec 06, 2005

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
GLADIATOR Extended Edition DreamWorks
Movie •••½Picture/Sound ••••½
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DVD REVIEWS: Crash
Marc Horowitz  |  Nov 09, 2005
Lions Gate
Movie •••½Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••½
Co-writer/director Paul Haggis'
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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Nov 06, 2005

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

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
Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s Kino
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••½Extras None
This
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DVD REVIEWS: Melinda and Melinda
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 06, 2005
20th Century Fox
Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½Extras None
Woody Allen's Melinda and Melin
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DVD REVIEWS: The Longest Yard
Ken Korman  |  Nov 06, 2005
Paramount
Movie ••½Picture/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
Universal
Movie •••½Picture/Sound •••½Extras •••½
In this sleek and stylish crime thriller
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DVD REVIEWS: Preston Sturges
Ken Korman  |  Nov 06, 2005
PALM BEACH STORY Universal
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••½Extras
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