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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Glenn Kenny  |  May 18, 2009  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie •½ Disc ••••
Robert Wise's original 1951 film of The Day the Earth Stood Still may be an acknowledged classi
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Neil Young: Archives Vol. 1 (1963–1972)
Mike Mettler  |  May 31, 2009  | 
Reprise (10 Blu-ray Discs)
Archives ••••• Picture •••• Sound ••••• Extras •••••
"FUCK THE AUDIENCE." So say
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More financial wrongdoing!
Rad Bennett  |  Jul 09, 2009  | 
Sony
Movie •••• Picture ••••½ Sound •••• Extras •••½
Money might not be the root of all evil, b
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"Life on Mars: Series 1" DVD Review
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 27, 2009  | 
Movie ••••½ Picture ••••½ Sound •••• Extras ••••½

Is he or isn't

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"Life on Mars: Series 1" DVD Review
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 27, 2009  | 

Is he or isn't he? That's the question at the heart of Series 1 (2006-07) of the highly stylized British cop drama Life on Mars (later adapted for a 17-episode U.S. run). Is Detective Sam Tyler (John Simm) mad, bad, or dangerous to know - which is to say, is he delusional, disjointed, or actually in a coma imaging Manchester circa 1973?

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Blu-ray Disc Review: "The Seventh Seal"
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 05, 2009  | 
Criterion's 1999 DVD edition of The Seventh Seal is a favorite partly because of its wonderfully substantial extras. Now the company has upped the ante by releasing Ingmar Bergman's 1957 black-and-white classic on a stunning Blu-ray Disc and adding to those extras, all now in high-def.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: "Watchmen Director's Cut"
Marc Horowitz  |  Oct 05, 2009  | 
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture •••• Sound ••••½ Extras ••••½

If you don't know the

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Blu-ray Disc Review: "Coraline"
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 11, 2009  | 
Call me crazy, but I couldn't help seeing Coraline as an indictment of capitalism. I'm referring to the part of capitalism that, with its eye-popping advertising, promises everything you thought would make you happy but actually offers a mostly gray, overworked existence in which you're a slave to the computer, you have no time for your family, and your soul is not your own.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Sunshine Cleaning
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 11, 2009  | 
You might think that a film about two young women who clean up the bodily fluids of dead people could be depressing - and you'd be right.
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Wireless Blu-ray Player Face-off
Al Griffin  |  Nov 16, 2009  | 

No longer content to be tethered to A/V systems alone, many new Bluray Disc players augment their basic BD-Live online capability with streaming services like Netflix, Pandora, Vudu, YouTube, and CinemaNow.

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Life on Mars: Combo DVD Review
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 02, 2009  | 
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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Wizard of Oz (Warner)
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 17, 2009  | 
I'll spare you my memories of when I first saw The Wizard of Oz - you'll hear plenty of that malarkey in the many documentaries here - and just cut to the chase by saying that this is a stupendous-looking transfer on Blu-ray Disc, in honor of the Hollywood classic's 70th anniversary.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: The National Parks
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Dec 28, 2009  | 
(Acorn Media)
Series 2 (U.K.) Series ••••½ Picture ••••½ Sound •••• Extras •••½

PBS/Paramount

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 28, 2009  | 
••• Extras •••••

Created from a scan of the original 1937 negative and given a digital restoration, the image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray Disc is stunning.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Gone With The Wind
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
I do declare, doesn't this 1939 film look dashing wrapped up in its new set of Blu-ray Discs - its 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition, to be precise.
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