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DVD REVIEW: Unbreakable
Marc Horowitz  |  Sep 14, 2001  | 
Buena Vista
Movie •••• DVD ••••½
Like its predecessor, The Sixth Sense, writer/director M.
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/The Phantom Menace/ Hits DVD
Brian C. Fenton  |  Oct 03, 2001  | 
There's Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn, watching helplessly as his trusty lightsaber flies out of his hand and over his shoulder. On Corus cant, we see two pieces of toast pop out of the dual seating pods of an air taxi.
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Snow White Lives
Laura Evenson  |  Oct 29, 2001  | 

"The one that started it all" - that's how Disney Studios describes its first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the film that proved the naysayers wrong back in 1937 by drawing millions of people into theaters to watch an 83-minute cartoon.

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The Godfather DVD Collection
Ken Korman  |  Dec 25, 2001  | 

Paramount Movies DVDs

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DVDs: Apocalypse Now Redux
Steve Simels  |  Feb 03, 2002  | 

Movie DVD

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Living with DVD Extras
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.

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The Spider’s Web
Peter Pachal  |  May 15, 2002  | 

Given that Spider-Man has been spinning 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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