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DVD REVIEW: Spider-Man 2
- By Ken Korman
- Posted January 15, 2005
Columbia TriStar Movie •••• DVD •••• Like its illustrious predecessor, Spider-Man 2 begs the question: Why aren't more big-budget,
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S&V Picks: Drive-In Delights

Five drive-ins that are well worth a look
- By Jamie Sorcher
- Posted July 13, 2004
It all began with a film projector on the hood of a car showing images on a bed sheet hung between two trees. Richard Hollingshead went on to perfect this apparatus, and the world's first drive-in cinema under the stars opened to the public in Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933. By the late 1950s, there were more than 4,000 drive-ins - and why not?

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DVDs: Sci-Fi Sequels
- By Steve Simels
- Posted December 2, 2003
THE MATRIX RELOADED Warner Movie •• DVDs •••••
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The Lion King's New Roar

The special-edition DVD features a surround mix created just for your home theater
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted November 3, 2003
Photos by Michelle Hood Disney has always stood above every other studio when it comes to animation.
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Crime & Punishment (Web exclusive!)

A roundup of some unusual suspects on DVD
- By Steve Simels
- Posted July 29, 2003
Ah, crime and punishment. They go together like . . . Leopold and Loeb, Donny and Marie, Rimsky and Korsakov. Except, of course, in the movies or on TV, when folks sometimes get away with murder (think Body Heat or The Player).

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Home Theater Workout

DVDs that push your system to its limits
- By Al Griffin
- Posted June 30, 2003
The following reviews appeared as "Reference DVD" features in the Movies section of Sound & Vision. Out of the 22 discs chosen for their exceptional audio and video from September 2000 through July/August 2003, I consider these five the standouts. BLUE CRUSH Universal

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DVDs: French Kisses

From classic romance to buddy movies, DVDs with the French touch
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted June 2, 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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Big Sci

New DVD offerings for sci-fi fanatics
- By Steve Simels
- Posted April 22, 2003
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Copy Rights

DVD X Copy is backing it up.
- By Brian C. Fenton
- Posted April 10, 2003
I finally began to trust my 8-year-old son with my electronic equipment and software-he understands my warnings about disc care now that one of his favorite PlayStation titles got scratched so that it crashes at the same point every time. But now a DVD from my three-disc set of The Simpsons' first season has disappeared.
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A Night at the Movies

S&V picks our favorite theaters.
- By Jamie Sorcher
- Posted March 26, 2003
If you consider today's monstrous megaplexes and their too-salty popcorn to be cinematic sacrilege, take heart.
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Making the Cut

MovieMask and the Directors Guild square off over who should have the right to alter movies.
- By Michael Antonoff
- Posted February 24, 2003
To address concerns over violence, sex, and profanity in popular films, a number of companies have emerged that create "sanitized" versions of VHS tapes or DVDs for a fee.
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The King of Swing

He's already ruled the box office—now go behind the scenes as Spider-Man swings to your home on DVD.
- By Jamie Sorcher
- Posted November 4, 2002
(Movie Images Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.)
"This, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl," Peter Parker tells us at the beginning of Spider-Man-not what you'd expect to hear from a superhero. But, as delighted audiences soon discovered, Spider-Man doesn't play by the rules.

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