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MORE DVD Slicks and Screen Shots
Drop by the DVD Slicks and Menu
page for a look see at the slicks and Screen Shots from upcoming DVDs from
Roadshow
Practical Magic and Savage Gardens first DVD of their Bris-Vegas Concert!.
Underworld have also released a chockfilled DVD with "everything everything"
Upcoming DVDetails
Due for release on 11th December from Roadshow is one of the many recent "chicks into
witchy things moofies", and also another vehicle for Sandra Bullock and Nicole
Kidman, Practical Magic. Sporting an Anamorphic Widescreen
Transfer AND a Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio mix (no 2.0 mix here), it also
includes for extras, an audio commentary, theatrical trailer, and 2 short featurettes.
Savage Garden have gotten into DVD in a big way with their Superstars
and Cannonballs DVD (to be releases 5th December from Roadshow). This is a
pretty damn good looking/sounding DVD of their Bris-Vegas Shot Concert. SG:SC was
shot in 16:9 Widescreen so is Anamorphic on DVD, AND has a Dolby
Digital 5.1 and 2.0 mix as well. For Extras you get video and audio
commentary on "selected songs" (picture in picture box for the video), and when
you select this option, ONLY those songs will play in seqence so there's no big audio
comment gaps (works well actually). There's also a few video music clips, bios and a
20 minute doco, OH and a couple of the songs from the concert use the Multi-angle
feature..very cool.
Another Music DVD coming out soon is Underworlds Everything Everything.
it to is Anamophic Widescreem with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio,
and has a music Clip workshop, doco and all sorts of goodies.
More Reviews From Cass
Cass's latest reviews are Hanging
Up, Virtual Sexuality,
and Curse of the Mummy.
"Mummy" is a Animated DVD Game from DVD Australia ('tis an NTSC import)
Press Releases
Savage
Garden Superstars....
Columbia
Has a NEW Name
Get
Bewitched
DOLBY PRE-ORDERS..Get in Quick!!!
If you haven't got your pre-order in for the DOLBY Wall Plaques, Demo DVD or Mouse Mats,
you may want to get in Quick as they're backordering pretty fast, and Our Pre-Christmas
shipment will be somewhat limited. We are planning on ordering more after Xmas but
if you'd like some Dolby Stuff for Xmas you best get pre-order now!
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LOTSA DVD Slicks and Screen Shots
Drop by the DVD Slicks and Menu
page for a look see at the slicks and Screen Shots from upcoming DVDs from
Roadshow
The Corruptor, Wiggly TV, A Night to Remember and U-571. The Corruptor and
U-571 menus [on the DVDs at least] are fully animated, U-5 in particular has some
VERY cool animation with kick-ass 5.1 sound attached to it.
PRE-ORDER your DOLBY Stuff NOW!
We're soon to Order and Sell DOLBY DIGITAL WALL PLAQUES, the Dolby Digital
DEMO DVD, and DOLBY MOUSE MATS.
Please Drop by the DOLBY STUFF page
for Details to Order these groovy new products coming soon to DVDown Under.
Check out our HORROR-IFIC new Page
After the recent review we did on Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera,
I got a craving for something more horror, and so came up with a new site feature, the Hall of Horror, it's nothing
too fancy but is a page dedicated to all the horror films we've reviewed on the site, and
instead of the pretty blue colours you see on most our pages of recent times, this page is
a nice gothic version of that, cobwebs and all! (good thing i know diddly about
Flash or god knows what would have happened to it!! ..so i drew the line at a creepy sound
effect, and it only plays once at it'd drive you nuts!!!!! ..doesn't seem to work in
netscape though :(
Oh, and if you know of any horror web sites out there NOT
listed in our horror links section (and i DO mean horror based web sites, not web sites
that look like crap! :) please email us at this HORROR-ific
address
Latest Reviews
Paul's taken a look at the wanna-be matrix/dark city cross-bread Roland
Emmerich produced The 13th Floor
(actually I didn't mind this film/dvd, but it came out a bit too late in whole
"living in another world" genre), and i've reviewed Jurassic Park and The Whole Nine Yards
WARNER SNAPPER REPLACEMENT
The other week we were informed the Warner replacement slicks would be on
their way shortly, but alas, they have not turned up as yet. We realise that many of you
are anxious to replace your snapper cases (many, MANY of you from the truckloads of emails
we've been getting :). We're just waiting on a reply from Warner on what's happening
as we're in the dark just like you... so again, stay tuned and don't build that
Snapper Case bonfire juuust yet :)
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DOLBY Digital Wall Plaques coming Downunder!!!
Woo-Hoo! we've been wanting to do this for some time now, and quite a
few dvd'ers have also made it quite clear they want one, so we're planning on selling the
Authentic Dolby Digital Wall Plaques (along with few other Dolby Products).
We're still working on the pricing, but will be taking pre-orders soon and are aiming for
a pre-Xmas arrival!...stay tuned
Oh and we're still trying for more DTS Plaques and hope to have more of
those soon also.
Dreamworks Welcome the New Year
It's taken some time, but Thru Universal Pictures Video, comes Dreamworks
DVDs!
On 24th January 2001, we'll see the first slate of Dreamworks DVDs to hit the Streets.
Dreamworks first batch of DVDs includes Deep Impact, Peacemaker, The Haunting,
Amistad and In Dreams.
All these DVDs are Anamorphic Widescreen and have a Dolby Digital
5.1 audio track, along with a few extras goodies.
At presstime it is unknown if future Dreamworks DVDs will carry DTS audio tracks,
though we can only hope the they follow the USA lead in this department (fingers crossed).
Oh and Galaxy Quest is due out in May 2001...sweeeet
Universal Video's January DVD Lineup
In addition to distributing the Dreamworks DVDs listed above, Universal
Pictures Home Video also have a few other goodies up their sleeves.
10th January 2001 releases include -
- Guest House Paradiso, a film MANY will find vile, [comes from the warped minds
of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson from "The Young Ones" infamy]. Cass and
I were perhaps 2 of about 4 people who saw this theatrically during its very short cinema
run back in August. (it's a film that grows on you...completely bloody stupid, but a
guilty pleasure for sure :).
Features : Anamorphic Widescreen, 3 channel Dolby Surround
Audio !?, Out-Takes, "Making Of" Featurette, Theatrical Trailers, Interactive
DVD-Rom Game. - Paperback Hero :
Starring : Hugh Jackman, Claudia Karvan, Angie Milliken
Features : Anamorphic Widescreen, DD2.0 Audio,
Theatrical Trailer, Cast & Crew Interviews, Biographies, "Making Of"
Featurette.
SIMULTANEOUS DVD & VHS RETAIL RELEASE
- X-Men - The Pheonix Saga Classic Animated Series – Movie Length Presentation featuring 5
Episodes Features: Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation, 5.0 Dolby Digital Sound
EXCLUSIVE TO DVD!!!
24th January 2001 releases include -
- Laurel & Hardy in Be Big / Laughing Gravy Way Out West Sons of the
Desert Music Box
THE CLASSIC COMEDY DUO IN 4 INDIVIDUAL DVD’s RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILMS Starring :
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
Features: 4x3 Full Frame, BONUS Short Films,
Black & White PLUS Colourised Versions
Click
HERE for the Press Release
Anchors Away
it wasn't until a few months back that i realised James Camerson's Titanic
was virtually an updated remake of the 1958 movie A Night To Remember.
This similarities are well, way too similiar!
Night is Due out on 4th December from Roadshow, and i must say that i was most surprised
how good this 40 year old + film looksin all it's Anamorphic Widescreen!
and to top it off, there's a 1 hour doco on the making of the film! Not bad hey, oh
yeah, it's also on of Roadshows "budget titles" ...retails for about $29.95,
instead of the usual $34.95
Speaking of Boat movies, U-571 is due to
submerge on 29th November. ( i hear the soundtrack is a killer)
Click
HERE for the "night" Press Release
Click
HERE for the "U-571" Press Release
Click
HERE for the "Corrupter" Press Release
Reviews all around
A few reviews added today. Paul's reviewd a few DVDs from a short while
ago Blue Streak (the
sequel is coming in 2001 apparently), and Three
Kings. Cass has whipped up The Green Mile, For Love of the Game, The Iron Giant, and End of the Affair.
And me, i've reviewed a DVD which goes against everything i beleive in....NOT.. Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera.
Oh and Phantom is our first DVD to incorporate DVD Screen Shots. something we intend
to incorporate in many more reviews from now on (now that we have the disc space :)
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Snapper Cases Replacement part 22
Okay, it's not far away now. Warner contacted us yesterday with the
good news that it's only about a week away before they post us the DVD Slicks, which will
essentially be for EVERY Warner DVD that came in a snapper case prior to April
2000!...yikes!
As mentioned earlier, we'll be offering a few specials and what not very soon, even before
we get the slicks, and we also have a few possible ideas for the distribution of the
Warner DVD Slicks....so stay tuned.
Bogie DVD Fest
Nearing the end of her Holidays in Bris-Vegas, Cass has managed to whip up a
heap of reviews (is it sad when ones feels the need to take their DVD player with them on
holidays.... no, i didn't see anything wrong with that either actually! :)
Anyhoo, a few of the reviews cass had the errr...pleasure of reviewing were the Humprey
Bogart DVDs. The Maltese Falcon,
Key Largo and The Big Sleep. More to be posted over
the next few days.
Info, use the Force
Yeah, i knew something was fishy when Infogrames announced some classic
horror DVD releases. They've joined forces [no pun intended] with Force Video.
A great move me thinks, with DVD'ing be still quite expensive.
Click
HERE for the Press Release
BTW Halloween comes to us
with an ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN transfer and a Dolby Digital encoded 5.1
track..
Universal Video's DVDecember Lineup
Click
HERE for the Press Release
Natural Born Killer's is certainly a film
which people have very mixed opinions about, even so, Universal Pictures Video is doing it
full justice with an Anamorphic Widescreen Director's Cut for DVD, to be unleashed 6th
December.
Also included is a director's Commentary (should be most interesting to hear what Mr Stone
has to say about this one!), as well as deleted scenes and cast/crew interviews, Trailer,
Alternate ending AND a Dolby Digital 5.1 track.
Also along for the ride on 6th December is :
- the aussie ganster flick Two hands, with an anamorphic widescreen
transfer, dolby 2.0 track, theatrical trailer, cast/crew interviews and Bios.
- Arlington Road with an anamorphic Widescreen Transfer, Dolby Digital
5.1 audio track, and err...no other extras according to the release specs....hmmmm
- Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan - Anamorphic Widescreen, (no Audio type
specified, though the USA version had a 5.1 mix), trailer, cast/crew interviews, bios. (is
also DATE and DAY with VHS sell-thru)
- Waking Ned Devine (what a great little film this was) Anamorphic
Widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0, trailer, Cast/Crew interviews, Making-of featurette, Bios (is
also DATE and DAY with VHS sell-thru)
- The Original Three Tenors , Dolby Digital 5.0 ( a re-release
DVD from Polygram days)
- Burn the Floor , Making of Featurette
20th December
- Diplomatic Seige anamorphic Widescreen Transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1
audio track, and a trailer (is also DATE and DAY with VHS sell-thru)
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