Al Griffin

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DVD In The Fast Lane
Al Griffin  |  Aug 26, 2001  |  0 comments

The DVD format advanced from a high concept to a hot commodity blindingly fast. Navigating the crowded aisles of their local video stores, DVD enthusiasts - who just yesterday felt like elite, high-tech trailblazers - today rub shoulders with increasingly large crowds of new converts. And as models of DVD players have multiplied in number, so have their features and capabilities.

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DVD Insider: Beastie Boys
Al Griffin  |  Jun 07, 2001  |  0 comments

Working at Sound & Vision, we sometimes wonder if the artists who make the music and movies we play on our tweaked-out systems have the same gear fetish we do. When we heard that the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch had asked the prestigious Criterion DVD label to work with him on a collection of the trio's music videos, we suspected he might be a kindred spirit.

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Other Tech
DVDO Edge video processor
Al Griffin  |  Jan 22, 2009  |  0 comments
The Short Form
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Brokeback Mountain
Al Griffin  |  Jun 09, 2006  |  0 comments

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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Jan 14, 2006  |  0 comments

An edgy update, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Warner; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) takes several liberties with Roald Dahl's classic book, but it also manages to convey the story's dark humor.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Feb 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  May 09, 2006  |  0 comments

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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  0 comments

The New World (New Line; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••), Terrence Malick's film about the fateful collision of English settlers with Native Americans in 1607, is short on dialogue and long on trippy shots of sunlight leaking through virgin forests.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

The original xXx achieved almost lyrical heights of excess through its digitally enhanced, over-the-top action sequences.

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