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Laura Evenson | Feb 18, 2002 |

No wonder people have fallen in love with DVD extras. Increasingly, releases have a little something for everybody, going beyond the usual deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and "behind the scenes" documentaries to include games, Web links, and elaborate featurettes on things like costume design and special effects.

The Spider’s Web

Peter Pachal | May 15, 2002 |

Given that Spider-Man has been spinning

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his webs in comic books for almost 40 years, it's about time the wall-crawler made the leap to the big screen. Besides starring in his own flick this spring, Spidey has his sticky fingers into - appropriately enough - the World Wide Web.

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Easter Egg Hunter John Devore | Jul 09, 2002 |

What do pastel-colored eggs have to do with Easter? And what exactly do Easter eggs have to do with DVDs? To answer the first question: I have no idea. Maybe it's just another greeting-card industry conspiracy.

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Marvelous Monsters Laura Evenson | Sep 09, 2002 |

Photos by Terry Schmitt; Character images courtesy of Disney Enterprises

Also see: Measuring up Monsters

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DVD Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Josef Krebs | Oct 07, 2002 |

The Ratings: Movie: 4.5 stars out of 5 DVD: 4.5 stars out of 5

Accept it. If you buy this set, containing a film that is three hours long and a whole separate disc of extras, you will be compelled to get one of the four-disc extended editions.

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The King of Swing

Jamie Sorcher | Nov 03, 2002 |

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"This, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl," Peter Parker tells us at the beginning of Spider-Man-not what you'd expect to hear from a superhero. But, as delighted audiences soon discovered, Spider-Man doesn't play by the rules.

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Making the Cut

Michael Antonoff | Feb 23, 2003 |

To address concerns over violence, sex, and profanity in popular films, a number of companies have emerged that create "sanitized" versions of VHS tapes or DVDs for a fee.

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A Night at the Movies

Jamie Sorcher | Mar 25, 2003 |

If you consider today's monstrous megaplexes and their too-salty popcorn to be cinematic sacrilege, take heart.

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Copy Rights

Brian C. Fenton | Apr 09, 2003 |

I finally began to trust my 8-year-old son with my electronic equipment and software-he understands my warnings about disc care now that one of his favorite PlayStation titles got scratched so that it crashes at the same point every time. But now a DVD from my three-disc set of The Simpsons' first season has disappeared.

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Big Sci

Steve Simels | Apr 21, 2003 |

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DVDs: French Kisses

Josef Krebs | Jun 01, 2003 |

Are movies more important than life? Are women magic? These two questions, repeatedly posed in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973), often seem to be at the heart of French cinema, especially in a big batch of recent DVD releases.

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Home Theater Workout

Al Griffin | Jun 29, 2003 |

The following reviews appeared as "Reference DVD" features in the Movies section of Sound & Vision. Out of the 22 discs chosen for their exceptional audio and video from September 2000 through July/August 2003, I consider these five the standouts. BLUE CRUSH Universal

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Crime & Punishment (Web exclusive!)

Steve Simels | Jul 28, 2003 |

Ah, crime and punishment. They go together like . . . Leopold and Loeb, Donny and Marie, Rimsky and Korsakov. Except, of course, in the movies or on TV, when folks sometimes get away with murder (think Body Heat or The Player).

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The Lion King's New Roar

Ken C. Pohlmann | Nov 02, 2003 |

Photos by Michelle Hood Disney has always stood above every other studio when it comes to animation.

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DVDs: Sci-Fi Sequels

Steve Simels | Dec 01, 2003 |

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