Features: Leanne Rimes "I Need You" Music Video, Behind the Music segment.

The Movie: The movie revolves around a very human/down-to-earth version of Jesus, the savior of Christianity. It follows from the death of his father to his death and resurrection. The movie is very interesting as it puts a very modern twist on the story. For instance, when the devil is tempting Jesus into letting him stop his death, he shows him everything that happens in Jesus' name (the crusades, etc.), something that (to my knowledge) wasn't in past versions. Also, Jesus seems much friendlier and less "removed" than the Jesus in other films. Overall an enjoyable movie, whether you are a Christian or not.

The Picture: The picture is presented in it's original full screen. Some of the colors in this film are extremely clear and impressive, and the entire film is free of defect, which is why I gave it such a high rating.<...Read the entire review

Features: Animated Menus, Studio Trailers

The Movie: The movie revolves around Shuranosuke Sakaki, a master swordsman, as he fights a group of bandit Ninjas in order to rescue the Princess who he has been hired to save. Much sex, bloodshed and fighting ensues.

The Picture: The picture is fine, with few artifacts, although it is a bit dark at times. It is presented in full screen.

The Sound: 2 Channel Stereo. It is clear, but not as impressive as it might be in 5.1 surround.

Extras: Studio Trailers for other Manga movies, and animated menus

Conclusion: If you are a fan of anime as I am, you will like this movie, if you aren't then you probably will not enjoy it. If you've never seen anime, I'd suggest start with another Manga movie, Ninja Scroll....Read the entire review

Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen Print.

The Movie: I'm asking myself why. Why did they make a second sequel when the first sequel was pretty bad? Then I remember little kids like anything (well, most of them). So of course they would make another one. Anyway. This movie isn't good for adults, however, children seem to like this movie, and that's who it is targeted at. The movie revolves around the same dog from the first two Beethovens, and the plot is also the same. Beethoven (now in the possesion of the original owners brother) is going on a roadtrip with the Newtons to a family reunion, where he will be delivered to his family. On the way, they encounter thieves, and Beethoven thwarts them. Amazing. It's just like the first two.

The Picture: The picture is 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen. The transfer is excellent and free of artifacts and such. Very clear print...Read the entire review

Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Remastered Soundtrack, Widescreen, Original Theatrical Trailer

The Movie: Guys and Dolls is a musical, set in New York in 1938. It revolves around a gambler, Nathan Detroit, and his bit that he can seduce a local missionary, who he eventually falls in love with. While enjoyable if you like musicals, for others it won't be very entertaining.

Picture: The picture is amazingly good for a movie that is 62 years old, and is free (for the most part) of defects. It is a very sharp print, certainly better than the VHS of it.

Sound: While remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, the sound doesn't take advantage of the surround sound, not even during the musical numbers, where it could really add something. It is, however, quite audible, and is again better than the VHS versions that have previously been available.

Extras: The only extra is the Original Theatrical Trailer.

Conc...Read the entire review

Features: Widescreen and Full Screen Versions. English Dolby Digital 5.1 Soundtrack. Mono Spanish Soundtrack. Original Theatrical Trailer.

The Movie: The Princess Bride is an 80s fantasy movie based on William Goldman's novel of the same name. As it happens, it is also one of my favorite movies of all time. The Princess Bride is a story of true love, revenge and bravery, set in Medieval Times in the fictional country of Florin. The story follows two people, Wesley and Buttercup, as Wesley fights his way to find her, his true love. She thinks him dead by the dread Pirate Roberts, but he survived only to be captured and tortured by her soon-to-be husband, Prince Humperdink. The Princess Bride is a great love story, and a great comedy as well, with excellent casting, such as the unrecognizeable Billy Crystal as Miracle Max. Picture: The picture is excellent, however, there were s...Read the entire review

Features: Widescreen and Fullscreen versions, Audio Commentary, Original Theatrical Trailer, Animated Menus. DVD-ROM: Screenplay, Trivia Game, Cast, Crew and Trivia Information.

The Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first installment in the long Nightmare series. In the movie, former Child Molester Fred Krueger, killed burned to death by neighborhood parents, returns in the dreams of the children of those parents. He starts killing off their children through their dreams, one by one, in fairly gruesome ways. The movie is good for those interested in a "shock thriller" movie. If you're looking for "traditional" horror look elsewhere.

Picture: The digitally remastered transfer, while having some artifacts, was done well overall, and is much clearer than a video copy I viewed. The movie is presented in either widescreen or fullscreen aspect ratios.

Sound: The...Read the entire review

The Shows
: South Park Volume 6 includes the episode's "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls" (an episode that spoofs the Sundance Film Festival and pits the "Hollywood Elite" versus Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo), "Chicken Pox" (an episode where the parents of the town try to get all of their kids to have chicken pox early by having them sleepover Kenny's house, who has them), "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods" (An inappropriately titled episode that parodies the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Dagger of the Mind") and "Clubhouses" (an Episode that chronicles the efforts of the boys to build a clubhouse so they can get chicks). These episodes were all ok, but I didn't find them exceptionally funny, like I did the first season of South Park.

Picture Quality
: The pictures were really good on this DVD, as you might expect since it's not exactly the most detailed animatio...Read the entire review

Features:
Dolby Stereo Sound, Chris Rock Bio, Best of the Chris Rock Show Trailers.

The Show:
Chris Rock, in case you've never seen him, puts on some of the most energetic, interesting and funny stand-up shows you could ever see. Some people, due to his profanity-laced language, write him off as "unintelligent". I would however choose a different word, "realistic". Rock spends much of the 65-minute disc talking about current American Society - from youth violence to who should get the biggest piece of the chicken. It is Chris Rock's unique views on these important topics that makes his stand-up some of the best around.
Picture:
The picture on the disc is excellent, with no visible artifacts and good clarity. The show is presented in fullscreen, as it was originally filmed.
Sound:
Tho the back of the case lists the audio as Dolby Surround, even when...Read the entire review

Features: Widescreen and Full Screen versions, Unrated and R-Rated versions of the film, Cast and Crew Biographys and Filmographys, Dolby Digital 5.1 English soundtrack, Dolby Surround Soundtrack.

The Movie: Embrace of a Vampire is, as you might expect, a movie about a vampire. This particular vampire was a rather normal fellow a few hundred years ago. He was in love with a girl, and one day after meeting with her in the woods, several female vampires attacked him. He lost her, until one day he found a girl who had the same soul as his first love. He, however, was growing weak, and needed to make her break up with her boyfriend and fall in love with him before he died. Overall, the plot to this movie isn't too strong, and at times it's just plain stupid.

Picture: The picture had some artifacts, although it was otherwise pretty clear. A fairly good transfer overall.

S...Read the entire review

Features: Production Notes, Complete History, Over 100 Production Stills, Vintage Articles, Poster Art. Original Untouched Mono Soundtrack, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1

The Movie: Gulliver's Travels is the story of a man who lands on the shores of the new world. He is discovered by a group of tiny men. These men are divided into two kingdoms which are meant to be united by the princess of one marrying the prince of the other. However, the marriage plans fall apart due to differences in the opinions of the kings in what song should be played. A war ensues, and Gulliver is forced to get involved. Also included are two shorter cartoons featuring some of the same characters.

Picture: The restoration of this 60 year old film is excellent. The film is presented in the original full-screen version. There is a demonstration of the restoration process, and I have to say they di...Read the entire review

Features: Widescreen and Fullscreen versions, Audio Commentary, Original Theatrical Trailer, Animated Menus. DVD-ROM: Screenplay, Trivia Game, Cast, Crew and Trivia Information.

The Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first installment in the long Nightmare series. In the movie, former Child Molester Fred Krueger, killed burned to death by neighborhood parents, returns in the dreams of the children of those parents. He starts killing off their children through their dreams, one by one, in fairly gruesome ways. The movie is good for those interested in a "shock thriller" movie. If you're looking for "traditional" horror look elsewhere.

Picture: The digitally remastered transfer, while having some artifacts, was done well overall, and is much clearer than a video copy I viewed. The movie is presented in either widescreen or fullscreen aspect ratios.

Sound: The...Read the entire review

Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround, "Making Of" Featurette, Cast and Crew Bios, Television Spots, Original Theatrical Trailer.

The Movie: Lake Placid, despite what it may seem like, is not a "monster movie" in the traditional sense. It is different that, in theory, this particular monster could very well exist. The monster in question is a 30 foot long Crocodile that migrates into a lake in Maine. After an incident where a research diver is bitten in half, a team is sent to investigate the incident, and figure out what to do. To me, the highlight of the entire movie was Betty White's character, "Mrs. Bickerman", who is hilarious.

Picture: The picture quality of this disc is good. It's not an anamorphic transfer, but none the less, the widescreen transfer is quite clear. Sound: The sound on this disc is nice, it "shows off" my...Read the entire review

Features:
Disc 1: New Widescreen 142 Minute Director's Cut, Audio Commentary by Terry Gilliam, English Subtitles, Dolby Surround.
Disc 2: What is Brazil? 30 Minute on-set Documentary, The Battle of Brazil, a 60 Minute Video History, Featurettes with the Writers, Production designers, and costume designers, Story Boards for Gilliam's original Dream sequences, Michael Kamen on his score for Brazil, a Study of the Effects, including unfinished effects, Theatrical Trailers and publicity stills.
Disc 3: 94 Minute "Love Conquers All" version done by the studio with all the changes Gilliam refused, from a different beginning to a happy ending. Commentary by Gilliam expert David Morgan.

The Movie: Brazil is Terry Gilliam's Orwellian tale about Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a worker in the Ministry of Information. He inadvertently discovers a clerical error that...Read the entire review

Features: Theatrical Trailers, Bonus Trailers, Isolated MusicalScore, Talent Files, Dolby Digital 5.1 remastered soundtrack, ProductionNotes, Deleted Funeral Scenes, Anamorphic Widescreen transfer, Spanish andEnglish Subtitles, The World of the Dark Crystal "Making of" documentary,Original Language Work Print Scenes.

The Movie:
The Dark Crystal, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, is a fantasy/adventure done completely with puppets done by Jim Henson's Creature shop. There is not a single person visible throughout the entire movie. It is the story of the Dark Crystal - a magical crystal that had a piece broken off a thousand years ago. When that happened, it created the evil Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics. For a thousand years the Mystics have waited for the prophecy of the Gelfling child who would repair the Dark Crystal to come true. The Skeksis killed off most of the Gelfling...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Iron Giant (Vin Diesel) is an animated movie about a giant robot that falls from space and is discovered by Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal), a young boy in a rural area of the United States in the late 1950s. He saves the Robot from being caught in the wires of a power station. Hogarth befriends the robot, who is very friendly towards Hogarth. Next comes along Agent Kent Mansley (Christopher McDonald), the government agent assigned to investigate strange activity. In order to avoid detection, Hogarth hides the Iron Giant in a scrap yard owned by the "hip" Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.), an "artist" that makes abstract art from his scrap metal. The metal-eating robot makes himself at home. Overall, this movie is extremely well done, and the animation is excellent. One of the best movies I've seen.

Picture and Sound:
The transfer quality is excellent for Iron Gian...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes star in this "thriller" about a foreign liaison (Snipes) investigating the murder of a woman at a party full of high-ranking officials and business men held by a large Japanese corporation. He gets the help of a retired foreign liaison (Connery) to try to solve the case, and ends up risking his life to find the truth, and untangle the complex web of corruption involved.

Picture and Sound:
Picture and sound quality were good. The picture is clear, although there were a few "spots" here and there that I noticed. For the most part it's a pretty good transfer. The sound is also ok, nothing special but the sound transfer was done well.

The Extras:
This disc is a real disappointment as far as extras go, and this is the reason I can't recommend you buy it really - it's a good movie, but there isn't anything but cast filmographi...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Deliverance (1972) is about four normal guys traveling into the wilderness to go down an untamed river in Georgia in canoes. Based on the novel by Deliverance by James Dickey, with a script he wrote himself, it is a story about mans arrogance in the face of nature. The men think they can tame the river, but in the end, the river tames them. Sometimes disturbing, but altogether a good movie, Deliverance isn't for everyone.

Picture and Sound:
The picture quality is excellent for a movie this old. The studio really did quite a job in producing this DVD. The sound is also excellent, remastered into Dolby Digital 5.1. Hearing "Dueling Banjos" in surround is nice - that is also one of the best scenes from the movie.

The Extras:
While not amazing, it's good to see them at least put no-brainer things on there like production notes and a "Making of" Documenta...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Extreme Measures stars Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman in a conspiracy/mystery about Doctor Guy Luthan (Grant) whose patients start disappearing. After a body disappears on the way to the morgue, he starts to get suspicious. What follows is a conspiracy that aims to destroy Luthan to protect the secret research on the spinal cord by Doctor Lawrence Myrick (Hackman). Overall, it's a good story, but about an hour and fifteen minutes through the movie, you start wondering exactly where the plot is going. It soon gets back on track again, however. Overall it's an enjoyable movie, but I would recommend you rent it rather than buy it.

Picture and Sound:
The picture quality is good, nothing special. It is Anamorphic Widescreen, and the picture is clear. Can't ask for much more than that, really. The sound is Dolby Pro Logic. It's ok, again nothing really impressive, but the au...Read the entire review

Features:
DVD-Video: Interviews with the Artists, Trailers, Background information on the Phleig and an Artist's Gallery. Dolby Digital 5.1 Soundtrack. DVD-ROM: Bryce 4 Demo and 12 of the actual animated scenes. Movie Length: 40 Minutes

The Movie: Infinity's Child is the collaboration of 1 director and three artists. A CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) movie, it is about the finding of one of their exploration ships that had been thought lost, adrift with the crew missing. The log of the ship shows that the crew found the mythical "Gateway World", a planet believed to be the bridge to a "shift in consciousness", an entry point into realities beyond their own.

Picture and Sound:
The story is told not for words, except for the prologue and epilogue, but rather with images and sounds. The images and sounds of this movie do a good job at telling the story, as t...Read the entire review

Features: 5 Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by the Pythons, 2 Commentary Tracks (One with Palin and Cleese, one with Idle, Gilliam and Jones), 4 British Radio ads, Theatrical Trailer, "The Pythons" Documentary, Widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0 Soundtrack.

The Movie:
Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire, set in the time of Christ (Starting in the year 1, continuing in 33AD), of a man born in the manger next to Christ who's life parallel's that of Christ. Banned in many places, originally cancelled due to fears of protest and boycotts, Monty Python's Life of Brian is one of my favorite movies. You follow Brian as he gets mistaken for the Messiah, and in the end suffers the same fate as Jesus and many other people of that time. Surrounded by more controversy at the time than Dogma is today, out of the smoke rose one of the greatest comedies of our time.

The Pi...Read the entire review