Thursday 28th December 2000

Terminator : Special Edition Review

CTHE February 2001 Releases
It's a good thing the Columbians haven't turned evil on us with their DVD releases and so Still offer DVDs on Sellthru with the VHS Rental.  And what better way to celebrate Valentines Day than to give your loved one a copy of American Psycho [uncut] on DVD as a Valentine's Gift!!!  I think it's safe to say we've finally seen an end to Flowers and Chocolate once and for all!!!!  :)

BAD BOYS :Special Edition is also another Columbia DVD coming February 2001, in the long line of their Special Edition Reissues.  DVD File wrote a great article a short while ago on the making of the multi-angle featurette : Damage Control.   definitely worth a read.

Though made well nearly 40 years ago To Kill a Mockingbird also comes as a Special Edition with an audio commentary contributed by director Robert Mulligan and Producer Alan J Pakula (who was sadly killed in a car accident not long after doing the comm track), as well as a ninety minute doco made especially for the film's 35th Anniverary.  pity Univeral only bothered with giving us a 4x3 letterbox transfer of this terrific film.

And Just like region 4 has done with Friends and Buffy, comes another DVD NOTreleased in the US of A yet!!. 
Krull Comes as a feature packed Special Edition, with 2 comm tracks, doco, isolated soundtrack remastered 5.1 audio and more. 

See below for plenty more DVD releases and Specs from CTHE for Feb 2001.

Release Date: February 14th 2001

American Psycho
Simultaneous VHS Rental Release
R18+ (Medium Level Violence, Medium Level Sex Scene)
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, Bulgarian
Widescreen (16:9 enhanced)
DD5.1 English, Spanish
Single Sided, Single Layer
Horror
98 minutes

• Isolated Soundtrack
• ‘Making of American Psycho’ Featurette
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailers
• Picture Disc

To Kill A Mockingbird Collector’s Edition
PG (Adult Themes)
Subtitles : English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Danish, Bulgarian
Wide Screen (Letterboxed)
DD1.0 English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Single Sided, Dual Layer
Drama
124 minutes

• Audio Commentary with Director and Producer
• 90 minute ‘Making of To Kill A Mockingbird’
• Production Notes
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer

Krull Collector’s Edition
G (general)
Subtitles : English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Bulgarian
WideScreen (16:9 enhanced)
5.1 (English, German), Surround (French)
Single Sided, Dual Layer
Sci-Fi
116 minutes

• Audio Commentary with Cast and Crew
• Audio Commentary: Cinefastatique Article
• 22 minute Documentary ‘Journey to Krull’
• Isolated Soundtrack
• Marvel Comic with Dialogue and Sound Effects from the film
• 4 Photo Galleries
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

Day of the Jackal
PG (Medium Level Violence)
Subtitles : English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Danish, Bulgarian
Wide Screen (letterboxed)
DD1.0 English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Single Sided, Dual Layer
Thriller
137 minutes

• Production Notes
• Movie Trailer

Cruel Intentions 2
Simultaneous VHS Rental Release
MA15+ (Medium Level Sex Scenes, Sexual References)
Subtitles : English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, French, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic
Wide Screen (16:9 enhanced)
DD5.1 English, French
Single Sided, Single Layer
Drama
84 minutes

• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

Bad Boys Collector’s Edition
DVD Re-release
MA15+ (Medium Level Violence, Medium Level Coarse Language)
Subtitles : English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew
WideScreen (16:9 enhanced)
DD5.1 English, French, German
Single Sided, Dual Layer
Action
114 minutes

• Audio Commentary with Director
• 24 minute Documentary ‘Putting The Boom & Bang In Bad Boys’
• Isolated Soundtrack
• 3 Music Videos
• Photo Gallery
• 'Multi-angle Special Effects' Featurette
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

Circus Collector's Edition
Simultaneous VHS Rental Release
MA15+ (Medium Level Violence, Medium Level Sex Scenes)
Subtitles : English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic
WideScreen (16:9 enhanced)
DD5.1 English
Single Sided,Dual Layer
Action/Thriller
92 minutes

• Audio Commentary with Producer and Writer
• 11 minute Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
• 25 minutes of Deleted Scenes
• 21 minutes of Sound Bites
• Featurette
• Movie Trailer

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Wednesday 27th December 2000

Click HERE for the Press Release

Stuart Little's still Cuttin' the Cheese
Stuart Little has also done quite nicely on DVD, and CTHE issued a Press Release for it also.

New Cinemas in Bris- Vegas
Though a slight deviation from DVD News, I thought a few of you may be interested to know that the Palace Cinema Chain have opened their new cinema-plex, called the Centro, on James Street New Farm, Bris-Vegas.
I dropped by to see a moofy or two there this past holiday season and they're very nice little cinemas (4 in total, each seats some 200 people).  All feature Dolby Digital Sound (a major plus for bris-vegas cinema going, AND being more you're not so mainstream cinema chain..yucko to dolby Stereo and crap sound to boot), and have stadium style seating!!. 
Sound is pretty good (nice bass), and the seats are very comfy {are very similar to the Chermside BCC chairs..though are a fraction narrower).
My only real complaint is when sitting half way down and closer in any of these 4 cinemas, the screen is a bit in-ya-face, though are no way near as bad as being up front in one of the 6 Balmoral cinemas!!! (Which I love just the same, simply because the Balmoral advertise [in the paper] what sound format a movie is in, AND have the only bris-vegas cinema to offer Dolby-EX, in addition to plain 'ol Dolby Digital, DTS AND SDDS 5.1 & 8 channel!!!! )

Anyhoo, Til mid January "Palace Centro" have a special offer when you see a movie (for only $7.50 during the opening) you get FREE membership to their Cinema Club for a year.(this membership gives you discount moofies all year around).  sweet deal.

BTW Stock is getting low on the Dolby Digital Plaques, and we're not sure when We'll next stock up, so if you want one  get in quick before we run out!

PS X-men hits DVD on 17th January...and is Rental Only... thanks Fox!!
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Wednesday 13th December 2000

The only drawback with anyone wanting to get Amaray cases from OZ for their Warner DVDs is the high price for International postage. Even though we're only a hop skup and jump away the price is pretty hefty.  (the DVD slicks by themselves shouldn't cost all that much though).
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Tuesday 12th December 2000

DVD Slicks   //  DVD Menus

Scream Screen Saga DVD Box Set
Set for Release any day is the $100 retail box set of the 3 Scream Movies and a 4th Disc loaded with Special features.
The movies are the same DVDs as previously released in OZ (with the original being released here by Magna in a dreaded 4x3 Pan-Scan version WITH 2 Channel sound...arrgh!), while 2 and 3 both being Anamorphic Widescreen with Dolby 5.1 sound.
The Forth disc, mislabelled as Deluxe Widescreen, is actually 4x3 fullframe (as originally videotaped, etc).
Extras on Scream 4 as it's become known around the place include.

- Behind the Screams - 30 minute doco on the making of the scream trilogy,
- Screen tests from Neve, Skeet and Jamie.
- Sunrise Studios Trailers (this is the studio in the Scream movies which makes the STAB films.),,these trailers are spoofs of real movies like Blair Witch Project (their trailer is for Scared Bitch Projectz), and my favourite, Ice Scream Truck.   These are the most pathetic trailers you are ever likely to see....you just gotta love 'em!! and there's 12 in total!  
- Scream 2 Featurette (which is here 'cause it wasn't on the Scream 2 DVD).
- Crew bios
- Scream Music Video by Master P, and a hidden movie trailer.

Several other scream 4 extras on the region 1 version have actually been included on OUR Scream 3 DVD (like the scream 1 outtakes)

On the DVD-Rom content side of things..which comes in at about 1.3 gig!.   you get:
- Screamsaver.  this is a whopping 220meg and contains seqences from the scream movies.  Iif you leave the Scream 4 DVD in your PC, the screen saver will access much higher quality versions of these seqences on the Disc, and i have to say the quality even at fullscream..err i mean screen, sorry :) is pretty damn good.
- Scream Scripts.  Scripts from all 3 moofies with piccys and shooting schedules to boot.
- Scream Game.  test your knowledge of the scream moofies
- Character Web. Shows every main trilogy character and how who links to who!
- Web Archive - for scream 3
- Scream Online takes you to the scream site on the web

The only thing our version is missing over the region 1 4th DVD is the "cutting room" feature which allows you to create a few of your own seqences from scream 3's opening seqence, as you can with the Men In Black Collector's Ed DVD.  a bit of a pity that.  BTW the USA retail price for Their Box set is $US90 (or about $185 australian...hmmmmm)

Ripley Reviewed
Sometimes you just get a DVD you can never get motivated to review.  I'm not saying The Talented Mr Ripley is a bad movie, in fact i thought it was pretty good, just one of those things i guess :)
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Wednesday 6th December 2000

Goto the DOLBY STUFF page

We've included a few screen shots of this groovy little demo DVD on our DVD Slicks page. 
Just as a matter of interest, the entire DVD has been Dolby Digital 5.1 encoded at 448kbps.   There's the intro to dolby featurette, the Dolby Digital Story (with some kick ass effects), the 7 Dolby Digitial Trailers (aurora, rain, city, train, canyon, Egypt and their latest "game"), as well as some additional music.

From the looks of it, Game is for the PC world of computer games and it's an excellent 5.1 trailer to boot...(check out the DVD Slicks page  for some screen shots from it.

The "Additional music" includes 3 versions of Allegro, in D major.   this track has 3 audio versions, one in 5.1, one in 2.0 surround and the last in Stereo.  Each of these has been encoded at 448kbps and the difference in detail between the 5.1 and stereo tracks is incredibile (with the stereo track having sooo much more detail, but I guess with there only being 2 tracks taking up 448bps instead of 5.1 tracks, this is expected, but still..WOW).
The other music track is San Fernando Valley, which only comes with a 5.1 mix.

For Anyone who preordered any of the above Dolby Products, we'll be shipping these to you within the week, (upon final payment of order). 

Cass's Latest Reviews
Between PC Viruses Cass has managed a few reviews.  She Hated Pokemon : The First Movie (god let there NOT be anymore :) but Loved Magnolia & Singin' in the Rain, and didn't think Detroit Rock City was too bad either. 
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Tuesday 5th December 2000

Latest Review
Paul emailed his review of American History X the other day and well i kinda forgot to post it (sorry jamesy :), but here tis, American History X
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