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DVDs: The Rest Of The Year

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, The Wire, Murnau, Dvds, TV Shows, Movies, Animation, Holiday Season Commentary, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Here are the top releases from December. Most of them are in the stores now but a few hit shelves in the next week. They saved some great stuff for the end of the year.

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DVDs: Ron Howard Vs. Ron Howard

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Steve Martin, TV Shows, Ron Howard, Wong Kar-Wai, Morgan Freeman, Paul Simon, Documentaries, Saturday Night Live, Dvds, Movies, Bill Murray, Animation, Arrested Development, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

With Frost/Nixon opening today in select cities, Universal has found the right time to celebrate director Ron Howard by releasing The Ron Howard Spotlight Collection. Which four movies of Ron Howard's do you think are his best?

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DVDs: Werner Herzog's Peripatetic Career

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Otis Redding, Werner Herzog, Antarctica, Soul, Griffith, TV Shows, Dvds, Movies, Rock and Roll, Rod Serling, Stax, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Werner Herzog is well into one of the most eclectic, odd and engaging movie careers, one that jumps from personal epics to quixotic documentary films, and now even Hollywood spectacles.

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DVD Sales, Hollywood's Main Profit Source, Are Sagging

New York Times | BROOKS BARNES | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Movie Industry Profits, Movie Industry, DVD Sales, Hollywood, Dvds, Business News

Conventional wisdom holds that Hollywood's fortunes go up when the economy goes down. People still crave entertainment, particularly of the escapist v...

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DVDs: Wall-E Vs. Panda Death Match!

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tropic Thunder, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Lee Marvin, Star Wars, Tv, Sal Mineo, Pixar, Disney, Movies, Dvds, Monty Python, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The animation in Kung Fu Panda is slyly amusing, the storyline witty and sweet and -- here's the kicker -- the action set pieces are probably the best I've seen all year.

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Hollywood Under Siege

Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Movie Industry, Dvds, Film Industry, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Why is traditional content losing its vigor? Everyone focuses on the culture of piracy, but there are other reasons as well. One is supply and demand.

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DVDs: Hello "Fraggle Rock!"

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Sports, Football, The Beatles, Westerns, Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson, Planet of the Apes, Dvds, Movies, Randolph Scott, Rod Serling, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

We're in a golden age for documentaries. More of them are shown in theaters and on TV than ever before and more people now have access to video cameras so they can make their own.

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DVD Review -- Batman: The Complete Animated Series

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Television, Dvds, Batman, Movies, Batman: The Animated Series, TV on DVD, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Batman: The Complete Animated Series 2008 originally aired September 1992 - September 1999 17 discs 109 episodes TV-Y7 1.33:1, English 2.0 For many...

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Life Cycle: Pop vs. Soda? Either Way It's Made with (GMO) Corn.

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspartame, Cans, Genetically-Modified Organisms, Popcorn, Weight Gain, Fake Sweeteners, Artificial, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aluminum, Green Living, Memory Loss, Obesity, Dvds, Movies, Recycling, Leukemia, Health, Soda, Plastic, Sarah Smarsh, Blockbuster Night, Fibromyalgia, Ani DiFranco, Pop, Simran Sethi, Saccharin, All-American, Gmos, Green News
Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the environmental impacts of everyday things. Last week we talked about popcorn. Chemically flavored...

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DVDs -- Even George Clooney's Flops Are Cool

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Movies, Dvds, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

George Clooney is such a savvy, old school Hollywood star that even the movies he makes that don't quite work just seem to add to his stature.

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Life Cycle: Kernels of Wisdom about Popcorn

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Popcorn, Blockbuster, Corn, Butter, Green, Grains, Movies, Dvds, Cinema, Green Living, Kevin Bacon, Salt, Night, Kernels, Diacetyl, Bag, Microwave, Health, Environment, Popping, Orville Redenbacher, Sarah Smarsh, Pop, Simran Sethi, Footlose, Green News
Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the environmental impacts of everyday things. Fall is upon us, and you've decided to make it a movie...

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Life Cycle: The Birth and Death of Your Bootleg DVDs

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Muggles, Banned, Polycarbonate, Bootleg, Green, Titanic, Aluminum, Co2, Dvds, Lord Voldemort, Dvd, Green Living, #7, Rihanna, Fda, Bisphenol-A, Mother Earth, Environment, Waste, Bpa, Plastic, Carbon Dioxide, Sarah Smarsh, Netflix, Harry Potter, Mia, Simran Sethi, Green News
Simran Sethi

Your cinematic experience leaves its mark not only on your heart, but on the planet.

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The Promise of On-Demand Viewing: From "What's Out" to "What's Great"

John Farr | Posted 10.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hannah and Her Sisters, Renoir, Annie Hall, Picasso, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Movies, Dvds, The Beatles, On-Demand Movies, Great Films, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Foreign Films, Ella Fitzgerald, Pay TV, Robert Altman, Entertainment News
John Farr

With on-demand in full flower, consumers will confront a vastly larger universe of choice, representing the entire breadth of this century-old medium, not just the most recent theatrical releases.

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The Return of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Alex Remington | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Dvds, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Comedy Central, Comedy, Movies, Media News
Alex Remington

Mystery Science Theater 3000 just sounds like something nerds would like. It elevated low-budget to high-concept: a couple of guys cracking jokes at b...

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DVDs: Leave Star Trek Alone!

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John Hughes, TV Shows, Lonesome Dove, Westerns, Dvds, Movies, Molly Ringwald, Star Trek, Foyle's War, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Cruise, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The TV series Star Trek is being released on DVD in a new and "improved" version that cleans up and removes old special effects and inserts brand new ones that never existed.

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DVDs: Scorsese Falls Short Of Scorsese

Michael Giltz | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Martin Scorsese, Tv, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, The Band, Dvds, Movies, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Martin Scorsese has directed one of the best concert films of all time. Unfortunately, it's most definitely NOT Rolling Stones: Shine A Light.

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SAG DVD Residuals Increase: RIP

Jonathan Handel | Posted 08.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Dvds, DVD Residuals, Blu-Ray, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Three years from now, when the SAG agreement and WGA agreement expire a month apart, the unions may decide to try once again to increase DVD residuals.

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TV Shows and Films May or May Not Be in Jeopardy: Nonetheless, Studios Won't Have it So Easy Screwing the Talent

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Detlef Behr, Sag, Dga, Andreas Stenschke, Movies, Dvds, Doug Allen, Writers Guild of America, Aftra, Directors Guild, Residuals, Royalties, Screen Actors Guild, Alan Rosenberg, Wga, Michael Russnow, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Thanks to the WGA strike, management now takes the artistic community seriously, but it couldn't have been accomplished without the support provided by the Screen Actors Guild.

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DVDs: A Stop-Loss on Iraq War Movies

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sheryl Crow, TV Shows, The X-Files, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Phillippe, Iraq War, Channing Tatum, Brendan Fraser, Batman, Dvds, Movies, Kimberly Pierce, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Director Kimberly Pierce's follow-up to her brilliant Boys Don't Cry squanders a fine cast on a timid story about soldiers upset over being forcibly re-enlisted via a backdoor draft.

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DVDs: TV Show Boxed Set Rip-Offs

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, TV Shows, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, John Sayles, Monk, Derek Jarman, Westerns, Movies, Dvds, Honeydripper, Gunsmoke, Xanadu, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

A spreading practice needs to be stopped right now. A number of studios -- led by Paramount/CBS -- are releasing old TV shows in half-season sets.

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DVDs: Can Shia LaBeouf Play Indy?

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Clint Eastwood, Indiana Jones, Westerns, Control, Elizabeth Gaskell, John Wayne, Dvds, Movies, Muppets, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

I've been away for a few weeks so let's play catch up on some of the top DVD releases of the past four weeks.

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Microsoft Pulls Plug on HD DVD Players

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: HD DVD, Microsoft, HD DVD Players, Blu-Ray, Blair Westlake, Xbox 360, Bill Gates, Toshiba, Sony Corp, Dvds, Atsutoshi Nishida, Business News

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definiti...

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Blu-Ray's Big Triumph At Gadget Show

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Dvds, Gadgets, Hd-Dvd, Blu-Ray, Business News

The International Consumer Electronics Show is turning out to be a celebration party for Blu-ray, the high-definition format that Sony Corp. backed, a...

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WB To Use Blu-Ray Exclusively For DVDs

AP | Alex Veiga | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Warner Brothers, Barry Meyer, HD DVD, WB, Warner Bros Blu-Ray, Dvds, Blu-Ray, Business News

Warner Bros. Entertainment said Friday it will release high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format, becoming the latest studio to reje...

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