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DVD REVIEW: Wedding Crashers
- By Marc Horowitz
- Posted January 15, 2006
Warner Series ••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••• If you're in the mood to check your brains at the door and just laugh a
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DVD REVIEW: Fantastic Four
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted January 15, 2006
20th Century Fox Series •• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •½ Fantastic Four struggles to bring to l
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DVD REVIEW: Mysterious Skin

Original Theatrical Director's Cut
- By Marc Horowitz
- Posted January 15, 2006
TLA Series •••½ Picture/Sound ••½ Extras •••½ Formerly immature filmmaker Gregg Arak
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DVDs: Road Movies

5x2 and Two for the Road
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted January 15, 2006
5x2 TH!NKFilm Movie ••½ Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras •
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DVD REVIEW: The Big Lebowski

Achiever's Edition
- By Ken Korman
- Posted January 15, 2006
Universal Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••• The Coen Brothers' hilarious but initial
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DVDs: Detective Movies

Hammett and Detective Story
- By Ken Korman
- Posted January 15, 2006
Hammett Paramount Movie •••• Picture/Sound •• Extras None
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DVDs: French Classics

The Wages of Fear and Le Samourai
- By Sol Louis Siegel
- Posted January 15, 2006
The Wages of Fear The Criterion Collection Movie ••••½ Picture/Sound ••••
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DVDs: Worlds Apart
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted January 15, 2006
It's amazing how many ways a story can be told. Byron Haskin's 1953 version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (Warner; Movie ••••, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) has a completely different focus and tone than Steven Spielberg's gloomy take on the H. G. Wells fantasy.

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DVDs: Reference Disc

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- By Al Griffin
- Posted January 15, 2006
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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DVD REVIEWS: Batman Begins
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted December 15, 2005
Warner Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½ Director Christopher Nolan has reinve
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DVDs: Boxer Shorts

Nothing quite says "Happy Holidays" like a set of 15 (or 40) DVDs
- Posted December 10, 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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DVD REVIEWS: Wallace & Gromit

Three Amazing Adventures
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted December 10, 2005
DreamWorks Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••• To coincide with the theatrical release of Wallace & Gromit's first feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<
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