A solid week for notable DVDs including:
Children of Men - one of DVD Talk's favorite films from 2006 is a stark and stunning view of the future, and one of the best sci-fi films since the Matrix;
The Pursuit of Happyness [
DVD Review |
Blu-Ray Review] - Will Smith gives a stellar performance in a film that is a cathartic emotional experience that gives you a character worth rooting for;
Happy Feet
[
Review] - sumptuous filmmaking likely to charm children and adults alike;
Shield: S5 [
Review] - after five consistent seasons, The Shield it has proven to better entertainment than most films, and has yet to disappoint. Other notable DVDs out this week include:
Color Me Kubrick,
Curse of the Golden Flower [
Review],
Early Bergman [
Review],
Errol Flynn Col 2 and
Sonic The Hedgehog [
Review]. Be sure to check out our
DVD Talk Review Database for all the
latest reviews including an entire section devoted to
reviews of DVDs out this week.
This week we have a special giveaway from
CD Wow for
The Masters of Cinema Collection.
The Masters of Cinema Collection is comprised of many landmark and classic films, presented on DVD with the highest caliber transfers and extra features. We've discovered a few of the
Masters of Cinema Collection that can play in any US DVD player. We have three special
The Masters of Cinema Collection prize packs that we're giving away including two titles not available in the US
Abhijan and
Fantastic Planet.
Enter now for your chance to one of 3
The Masters of Cinema Collection prize packs.
From Heretic Films comes
Numb on DVD. In the future mindless machines, created from the computer-scanned bodies of people so desperate for physical immortality they're willing to die to achieve it, maintain a failing civilization hopelessly addicted to a debilitating narcotic known as The Drip. Claire and her guide Miles, genetically modified to be immune to the "Drip" venture through this world. Miles dangerous charisma draws Claire to him and deeper into his corrupt realm of violence, sex and addiction...
Get more info on the Numb DVD here.
This week we have a number of steamy clips from Severin Film's
Black Emanuelle's Box. The breathtakingly beautiful Laura Gemser stars as the infamous sexual adventuress in these three erotic epics on DVD for the first time ever in America:
Emanuelle In Bangkok,
Sister Emanuelle and
Emanuelle Around The World. Check out these clips from
Black Emanuelle's Box Limited Edition Collection: [Warning, these clips are not safe for work]
Bangkok Massage,
Bangkok Opium,
Sister Stepmother,
All Tied Up,
Emanuelle Around The World,
Three's The Magic Number. (
Get more info on The Black Emanuelle's Box Here)
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A number of notable
TV on DVD releases reviewed recently including:
The Shield: The Complete Fifth Season - Detective Vic Mackey and company return with another balls out season featuring the best work from Forest Whitaker yet;
POV - 20th Anniversary Collection - a mammoth selection of some of the most provocative independent documentaries from the PBS series P.O.V.,
Entourage - Season Three, Part 1 - an insider's look at the current state of celebrity in Hollywood, it walks a dangerous line between satire and reality;
The Wild Wild West - The Complete Second Season - one of the most compelling, entertaining series to come out of the 1960s;
My Hero - Season 1 - a cute little cornball comedy from England that used the backdrop of a naive super hero figuring out human customs with lots of slips along the way;
Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season - The changes made in season two, which include a couple new characters and racier plotlines, make for pure excitement. Visit the
DVD Talk Review Database for all the
latest reviews including an entire section devoted
TV on DVD.
DVD Stalk is back at it and packed with tons of great
reviews (including a look at the latest DVD release of Stuart Gordon's genre classic
Re-Animator, Lucio Fulci's
Perversion Story, and a very early peek at Antonio Margheriti's
Naked You Die),
information on all of this week's horror
releases, and previews of some
upcoming scares. We also have our usual bag of evil goodies, including the
DVD Stalk Blog and an opportunity to load up on
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This week the
DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including:
My Sister Maria -
Actor-director Maximillian Schell gives us an intimate portrait of his famous sister in this fascinating part-docu about a weakening actress, "unwilling to grow old gracefully."
Hemingway Classics Collection -
Fox rounds up its features adapted from Ernest Hemingway novels and stories: Under My Skin, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man;
The Alfred Hitchcock Box Set -
Lionsgate gives us excellent restorations of five early Hitchcock titles, two silents and three talkies;
Animated Soviet Propaganda: From the October Revolution to Perestroika -
The history of Russian anti-Capitalist, anti-Fascist and anti-American propaganda is given the full treatment in this four-disc, six-hour overview.
Read all this and more in this week's
DVD Savant.
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