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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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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

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- By Steve Simels
- Posted February 4, 2002
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