DVD Talk: March 23, 2003 - March 29, 2003 Archives

We're excited to bring you an early look at the DVD Release for Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets! Read our Review and see how the DVD release for Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets stacks up against the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and how good the 16-minute interview with novelist JK Rowling is. Also be sure to check out DVD Talk's Reviews for the remake of the prequel to the Hannibal Lector Series Red Dragon: Director's Edition, the indie S&M love story Secretary, an indie answer to The Hours and Sundance champ Personal Velocity, the Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart and one of the funniest movies on DVD this year Jackass: The Movie.

Literally YEARS in the making and definitely worth the wait! Troma drops one of its biggest loads yet with a staggering two-disc Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV that steams with extras such as the feature-length Apocalypse Soon "making of" documentary -- enter to win one of five copies in this exclusive giveaway! Real men don't eat quiche, but they do watch the giggly mayhem of The Best of Trading Spaces. Ready all hedge clippers for Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy. Dark Castle's FX-crazed creepmeisters set sail with Ghost Ship. Plus, responses to reader emails and Combat Academy joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

This week The Aisle View takes a look at Basic, the re-teaming of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in a thriller with surprise ending upon surprise ending. In case you missed them also be sure to check out The Aisle View's take on Dreamcatcher, The Hunted and Tears of the Sun as well as DVD Talk's latest Theatrical Reviews including: Irreversible .

This week The DVD Savant takes a look at The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a Philip Dunne-Joseph Mankiewicz masterpiece of romance, drama and unerring good taste, Anchor Bay's Winter Kills a great transfer of a hard-to-see film, Columbia's noir classic In a Lonely Place, Fox's Journey to the Center of the Earth an adventure with class, humor and inventive solutions to every impossible aspect of its plot and Paramount's Fear Strikes Out an intense true-life drama about mental illness, extremely well-acted by Anthony Perkins in a performance every bit the equal of his later career-killer turn in Psycho. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Rudy Giuliani was crowned Time's Man of the Year after his response to September 11th and has been a big hit across the country, whether campaigning for local candidates or selling his book. But was his reign always roses and cuddles or were his eight years as mayor of New York City more complex than that? Cinema Gotham takes a look at the USA Network's new TV movie, Rudy. Read Cinema Gotham's look at Rudy and discuss this show and other's in DVD Talk TV Talk Forum Area

This week we've got a very special giveaway for the Vista Series DVD release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. If you're a fan of Roger Rabbit you'll LOVE the Vista Series DVD with audio commentary by director Robert Zemeckis and Frank Marshall, "Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit" new documentary a Deleted scene, "The Pig Head Sequence" and much more! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Who Framed Roger Rabbit Vista Series DVD

A good mix of DVD releases this week including two notable TV series: C.S.I. - Season 1 from Paramount and Futurama Volume 1 [Review] from Fox. This week Palm Pictures releases the erotically charged Sex and Lucia, Docurama has the uncensored Porn Star: Legend of Ron Jeremy and Seduction Cinema has Lord of The G-Strings [Review]. If gross out humor is your thing, you'll find none better than Paramount's Jackass The Movie [Review] or if you're at the complete other end of the spectrum then Columbia Tri-Star has Maid in Manhattan [Review]. Finally the best DVD released this week (hands down) comes from Buena Vista whose Vista Series release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit [Review] is simply superb!

There's been a lot of buzz over the next breed of High-Resolution 5.1 Surround audio and with DVD-A and SACD both jockeying for a position it's hard to figure out what exactly will be next. DVD Talk Reviewer Aaron Beierle takes a look at The State of DVD Audio and helps demystify the next generation of music. Which format will come out on top? What's the difference between the two? Find out all this and more in his complete report on the next generation of music

If you're looking for the Oscar winners on DVD, you don't have to look far, many of the winning films are already up for pre-order including: Chicago, Adaptation, Bowling for Columbine, Frida, 8 Mile Spirited Away , Road to Perdition and Talk to Her. Also if you're interested in seeing the winner for best animated short film The Chubbchubbs you can find it on the Men in Black 2 DVD. Other films nominated (but not taking home Oscar gold) which are also up for pre-order include: Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Crime of Padre Amaro, Far From Heaven, The Quiet American and Treasure Planet.

With a background in stand-up comedy, actor/comedian Charles Fleischer brought a unique personality to the voice of Roger Rabbit and can be partially credited for the immense success of the character. On the film’s 20th Anniversary, Disney has given this modern day classic the release it deserves in a special 2-disc Vista Series edition. DVDTalk writer Phillip Duncan had the chance to talk with Fleischer about the film’s success and what exactly it takes to be one of the most popular cartoon characters of the past decade. Read The Complete Interview with Charles Fleischer