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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW: Young Mr. Lincoln
Sol Louis Siegel  |  May 09, 2006
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
John Ford's fanciful tale of Abraham Lincoln as a young
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rad Bennett  |  May 09, 2006
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½
One of the many extras on this two-disc set provides a
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW: Lady and the Tramp
Rad Bennett  |  May 09, 2006
Platinum Edition Disney
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras ••••
Walt Disney's c
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW: Traffic
Brandon Grafius  |  May 09, 2006
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
Steven Soderbergh's magnum opus - a taut, u
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Blood Brothers
Ken Korman  |  May 09, 2006

The most surprising Oscar winner for Best Picture in decades, Crash (Lionsgate; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras ••½) has a couple of secret weapons that quietly recommended it to members of the Academy. First, it captures the true look and feel of Los Angeles, where the majority of Oscar voters live.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Tapped Out
Mel Neuhaus  |  May 09, 2006

The greatest kaleidoscopic experience without the benefit of hallucinogens, the terrific six-disc Busby Berkeley Collection (Warner; Movies ••••½, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras ••••) has five of the choreography genius's best-known works: Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934), Gold Diggers of 1935

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  May 09, 2006

David Lean's 1970 epic Ryan's Daughter (Warner; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) gets the grand treatment in this two-disc special edition. Sourced from restored 65mm picture elements, the 2.2:1 transfer is consistently crisp, revealing every crag in stone houses.

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Music Reviews
MUSIC REVIEW: Rye Coalition
Jeff Perlah  |  May 09, 2006

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Fred Manteghian Blog
The Player Formerly Known As Universal
Fred Manteghian  |  May 09, 2006

My month-old laserdisc player blog ( <a href="http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/fredmanteghian/things040806/" target=new> Things To Do with Your Laser Disc Player When You're Dead </a>) is still generating traffic as recently as yesterday. Thanks for your comments. It's nice to know I'm not alone in the Ether(net).

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Geoffrey Morrison Blog
PS3 Pricing
Geoffrey Morrison  |  May 09, 2006
For $500 is can be yours. As was expected, Sony announced pricing on the PS3 yesterday. For $500 you get the console with a 20GB hard drive. For $600 you can get it with a 60GB hard drive. Interesting, isn’t it, that this is suspiciously close to the price of an HD DVD player that doesn’t have a hard drive or, you know, play games. They’re also claiming an early November release. The release also says that it won’t be the silver that they’ve been showing for (forever?) months, but in black. I’m sure I’ll see it at the show tomorrow, so I’ll snap a pic. Speaking of that, check back all week, as a bunch of us are going to E3, and I’ll be posting daily updates.
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