Entertainment

E3 2013 Highlights
In pictures I took and videos I didn’t
Primus: Sailing the Seas of Surround
Give a hand to Primus’s Les Claypool, who dives into the 5.1 arena and emerges as a captain of all channels.
Steely Dan’s Planet D’Sound Quality
SQ Logic: Our favorite audiophile-centric recording duo wax poetically on the necessary elements of great recordings.

What's New

DVD REVIEWS: Coach Carter
- By Ken Korman
- Posted September 15, 2005
Paramount Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••• The true story of California high-school basketball
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DVD REVIEWS: Sam Fuller Films

House of Bamboo and Forty Guns
- By Mel Neuhaus
- Posted September 15, 2005
House of Bamboo 20th Century Fox Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
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DVD REVIEWS: Assault on Precinct 13 [2005]
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted September 15, 2005
Universal Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••½ In this remake of John Carpenter's suspenseful l
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DVD REVIEWS: Rescue Me: Season 1
- By Marc Horowitz
- Posted September 15, 2005
Sony Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½ This post-9/11 series is as compelling as any network T
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DVD REVIEWS - Moonlighting: Seasons 1 & 2
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted September 15, 2005
Lions Gate Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••• When glamorous but broke ex-model Maddie Hayes and
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DVD REVIEWS: The Films of Marcello Mastroianni

Le Notti Bianche and Divorce Italian Style
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted September 15, 2005
Le Notti Bianche (white Nights) The Criterion Collection Movie •••½ Picture/Sound
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DVDs: Goofy Good Guys
- By Brandon Grafius
- Posted September 15, 2005
These days, it seems like all the bad guys in the world have it in for America. Thankfully, someone is always looking out for us, whether they're dynamic marionettes or top-secret teenagers. Both these films have lots of fun with the spy movie genre. D.E.B.S. (Sony; Movie •••, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras ••) is aimed squarely at family audiences.

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DVD REVIEWS: Comparison: Rebel vs. Rebel

Steve McQueen vs. James Dean
- Posted September 15, 2005
The Essential Steve McQueen Collection Warner, 7 discs Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½ The Complete James Dean Collection W
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DVDs: Faces of Superman

Lois & Clark Season 1 and Smallville Season 4
- By Rad Bennett
- Posted September 15, 2005
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season 1 Warner Series •••½ Picture/Sound
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Tracking Surround: Bristling at Stereo with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson

Mike Mettler talks with the progressive rocker about the very-much-alive multichannel mix of /Deadwing,/ the future of surround, the lost art of album-making, and his iPod disdain.
- Posted September 8, 2005
Wilson (far right) with Porcupine Tree Photo by Lasse Hoile, courtesy Atlantic Your most recent albums, 2002's In Absentia and the new Deadwing (Lava/Atlantic), are both available in DVD-Audio editions from DTS. When you were mixing the last one, you said you didn't want to be influenced by any other surround mixes.
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DVDs: Disney Animation (then and now)

The Incredibles and Bambi
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted April 15, 2005
THE INCREDIBLES Disney/Pixar Movie ••••½ DVDs •••••½
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Does Multichannel Music Have a Future? (2005)
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted February 16, 2005
Basking in surround mixes for my Elton John review last month, I got fired up by the London 2002 version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" from the Dream Ticket DVD-Video.

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