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DVD REVIEW: 2046
- By Sol Louis Siegel
- Posted April 4, 2006
Sony Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••½ In director Wong Kar-Wai's sumptuous and melancholy f
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DVD REVIEW: Lust For Life
- By Sol Louis Siegel
- Posted April 4, 2006
Warner Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••½ Fifty years after its release, Vincente Minnelli's
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DVDs: Edge-of-your-seat Thrillers!

Flightplan and Red Eye
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted April 4, 2006
FlightPlan Touchstone Movie ••½ Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••
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DVDs: French Cinema

Cet amour-là and Ma Mère
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted April 4, 2006
Cet amour-là New Yorker Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••½
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DVD REVIEW: Toy Story 2

Special Edition
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted April 4, 2006
Disney Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras •••• In this 1999 sequel, Woody is kidnapped, plunging him and his lo
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DVD REVIEW: Into the Blue
- By Brandon Grafius
- Posted April 4, 2006
Sony Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••½ In case you missed Jessica Alba's latest ph
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DVD REVIEW: The Brothers Grimm
- By Ken Korman
- Posted April 4, 2006
Dimension Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••• Madcap director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam wou
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Z-Riffic: Liza with a "Z"

Showtime revives and restores a classic Minnelli TV special.
- Posted March 28, 2006
When Showtime airs a lovingly restored and digitally remastered version of Liza with a "Z" on Sunday, April 1 at 10 p.m. ET (the DVD will go on sale three days later), it will be the first time the show has been seen in more than 30 years.

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Bada Boom!

Catching up with /The Sopranos/ on DVD got me perfectly primed to watch the series' triumphant Sixth Season return to HBO.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted March 13, 2006
I have a ritual when it comes to watching The Sopranos. Before the debut of each season, I rewatch every prior season on DVD so that I'm immersed in all the nuances that remind me why it's one of the best TV shows ever.

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DVD REVIEW: The Deer Hunter

Legacy Series
- By Marc Horowitz
- Posted February 4, 2006
Universal Series •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••• Michael Cimino's seminal 1978 film about the Vietna
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DVDs: Reference Disc

The Island
- By Al Griffin
- Posted February 4, 2006
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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DVDs: Rehashed Horror

House of Wax, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and Land of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut
- By Brandon Grafius
- Posted February 4, 2006
If something scared an audience the first time, it should work again, right? And the third, fourth, and fifth times, yes? Well, House of Wax (Warner; Movie •½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••) steals its title from a Vincent Price vehicle, but it's little more than an amateurish excuse to slice and dice attractive teens.

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