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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Blu-ray Disc Review: "Coraline"
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 11, 2009
Call me crazy, but I couldn't help seeing Coraline as an indictment of capitalism. I'm referring to the part of capitalism that, with its eye-popping advertising, promises everything you thought would make you happy but actually offers a mostly gray, overworked existence in which you're a slave to the computer, you have no time for your family, and your soul is not your own.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Sunshine Cleaning
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 11, 2009
You might think that a film about two young women who clean up the bodily fluids of dead people could be depressing - and you'd be right.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Wizard of Oz (Warner)
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 17, 2009
I'll spare you my memories of when I first saw The Wizard of Oz - you'll hear plenty of that malarkey in the many documentaries here - and just cut to the chase by saying that this is a stupendous-looking transfer on Blu-ray Disc, in honor of the Hollywood classic's 70th anniversary.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 28, 2009
••• Extras •••••

Created from a scan of the original 1937 negative and given a digital restoration, the image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray Disc is stunning.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Gone With The Wind
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 13, 2010
I do declare, doesn't this 1939 film look dashing wrapped up in its new set of Blu-ray Discs - its 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition, to be precise.
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DVD Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 07, 2002
The Ratings: Movie: 4.5 stars out of 5 DVD: 4.5 stars out of 5
Accept it. If you buy this set, containing a film that is three hours long and a whole separate disc of extras, you will be compelled to get one of the four-disc extended editions.
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DVDs: French Kisses
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 01, 2003

Are movies more important than life? Are women magic? These two questions, repeatedly posed in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973), often seem to be at the heart of French cinema, especially in a big batch of recent DVD releases.

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Raters of the Box Sets
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 30, 2003

Hey, we're not making this up as we go. We're on a crusade to unearth the best box sets of the holiday season. And here they are - not in any particular order, but simply the ten coolest treasures on DVD and CD. Is your friend's home theater starting to seem like a temple of gloom? Do you and your girl keep going out on, shall we say, bad dates?

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Other Tech
The /Empire Strikes Back/ director: Irvin Kershner
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 30, 2004

[This is an extended version of the interview that appeared in the October 2004 Sound & Vision to accompany Carrie Fisher's exclusive interview with George Lucas.]

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Creating the Video Future
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 03, 2004

Photo illustration by Eric Yang Lowry photo by John Skalicky When George Lucas needed someone to restore the first three Star Wars films to their original glory for DVD, he turned to digital pioneer John Lowry. And when the James Bond film legacy needed to be rescued from the ravages of time, the studios called on Lowry as the best man for the job.

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