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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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DVD Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted October 8, 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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Marvelous Monsters

How the digital masters at Disney and Pixar turned /Monsters Inc./ into a frighteningly good DVD.
- By Laura Evenson
- Posted September 10, 2002
Photos by Terry Schmitt; Character images courtesy of Disney Enterprises
Also see: Measuring up Monsters

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Easter Egg Hunter

Crack open your DVDs to find the Top 10 hidden treasures
- By John Devore
- Posted July 10, 2002
What do pastel-colored eggs have to do with Easter? And what exactly do Easter eggs have to do with DVDs? To answer the first question: I have no idea. Maybe it's just another greeting-card industry conspiracy.

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The Spider’s Web
- By Peter Pachal
- Posted May 16, 2002
Given that Spider-Man has been spinning his webs in comic books for almost 40 years, it's about time the wall-crawler made the leap to the big screen. Besides starring in his own flick this spring, Spidey has his sticky fingers into - appropriately enough - the World Wide Web.

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Living with DVD Extras

For every DVD that pushes the extras envelope, there are a dozen that fill the available space with fluff.
- By Laura Evenson
- Posted February 19, 2002
No wonder people have fallen in love with DVD extras. Increasingly, releases have a little something for everybody, going beyond the usual deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and "behind the scenes" documentaries to include games, Web links, and elaborate featurettes on things like costume design and special effects.

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DVDs: Apocalypse Now Redux

Paramount
- By Steve Simels
- Posted February 4, 2002
Movie DVD

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The Godfather DVD Collection
- By Ken Korman
- Posted December 26, 2001
Paramount Movies DVDs

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Snow White Lives

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Disney turned the classic film into a deluxe DVD
- By Laura Evenson
- Posted October 30, 2001
"The one that started it all" - that's how Disney Studios describes its first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the film that proved the naysayers wrong back in 1937 by drawing millions of people into theaters to watch an 83-minute cartoon.

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/The Phantom Menace/ Hits DVD
- By Laura Evenson Edited By Brian C. Fenton
- Posted October 4, 2001
There's Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn, watching helplessly as his trusty lightsaber flies out of his hand and over his shoulder. On Corus cant, we see two pieces of toast pop out of the dual seating pods of an air taxi.
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DVD REVIEW: Unbreakable
- By Marc Horowitz
- Posted September 15, 2001
Buena Vista Movie •••• DVD ••••½ Like its predecessor, The Sixth Sense, writer/director M.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Columbia TriStar Movie
- By Ken Korman
- Posted August 6, 2001
It's hardly the kind of story that drives a classic Steven Spielberg adventure: boy meets spaceship, boy struggles to make a second date, boy lives happily ever after in space. No sharks, no dinosaurs, no Nazis to subdue. But Close Encounters of the Third Kind has endured thanks to its irresistible portrayal of human-alien contact and the sheer spectacle of its special effects.

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