DVD Talk: August 25, 2002 - August 31, 2002 Archives

This week The DVD Savant takes a look at MGM's Special Edition of The Fog a good ghost story that becomes an absorbing experience, thanks to the fine extras in MGM's Special Edition. The Long Goodbye - one of those pictures that gets better with age, especially when it can be enjoyed in such a fine-looking DVD presentation and Miramax's prestige offering Iris, an intelligent and un-hyped account of the last times of Iris Murdoch, a celebrated author who succumbed to Alzheimer's disease Read all this an more in this week's DVD Savant.

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You can now Pre-Order the 2 DVD Special Edition of this summer's lackluster sequel Men In Black II. Set for release on November 26th, MIB II will be available in both Widescreen and full-frame versions and feature: Audio Commentary by Director Barry Sonnenfeld (with option Telestrator Diagrams), Alternate Ending, Blooper Reel, Production Featurettes including a featurette on the Alien Creatures, a Multi-Angle Scene Deconstruction and more. Pre-Order MIB II

Broadway has often taken inspiration from Hollywood and vice versa. If you'd have made a list of stage-ready filmmakers, however, it seems unlikely that shock auteur John Waters would have been near the top. Somehow his 1988 film Hairspray has become the brand-new hottest ticket in town. Cinema Gotham got a chance to check Hairspray out recently and found it to be extremely funny, colorful and completely entertaining.

This week we're giving away 5 copies of the wonderful family film The Rookie: Widescreen starring Dennis Quaid. The Rookie is one of those great films that can be enjoyed by both kids and adults and the DVD has a number of really well done features including: Audio Commentary by Dennis Quaid and Director John Lee Hancock, Deleted Scenes Introduced by John Lee Hancock, and "The Inspirational Story of Jim Morris" - the real life story this film was based on. Enter Now for your chance to win a copy of The Rookie

Out this week are the much anticipated Sopranos The Complete Third Season, out just in time to watch before 'Season Four' starts on HBO mid-September and Reservoir Dogs 10th Anniversary Edition which has been getting a lot of ink over its less than great video transfer . Three notable horror movies from MGM are also worth checking out including Wes Craven's The Last House on The Left [Review] and John Carpenter's The Fog: Special Edition [Review] and legendary Return of the Living Dead [Review]. From Buena Vista comes two family DVDs The Rookie and School House Rock: Special 30th Anniversary Edition both great DVDs.

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Warner Bros. has announced the DVD release for Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Set for release on November 5th Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood will be available in both a widescreen and a full frame release and feature: Audio Commentary by Director Callie Khouri, Executive Producer Lisa Stewart, Producer Bonnie Bruckheimer, Editor Andrew Marcus, Music T-Bone Burnett and Producer Hunt Lowry, Second Commentary track with Ashley Judd and Callie Khour, Deleted Scenes, HBO First Look and More. Pre-Order Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood at 30% off

This week The Aisle View takes a look at Robin Williams who stars as a creepy photo-guy in One Hour Photo . Also in case you missed it, check out The Aisle View's take on Read My Lips, Possession, xXx Spy Kids 2 on Signs and Full Frontal. Also be sure to SIGN UP and get The Aisle View delivered to your e-mail box as SOON as it's published!