Repeat customers may have noted an interesting phenomenon when purchasing DVDs at Amazon.com: fluctuating prices. The online retailing giant apparently has been performing random testing with customers, resulting in variable prices that affected more than [...]
Following the recent announcement by DTS® of a discrete-rear-channel variant of its DTS-ES surround sound format, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, the Onkyo Corporation announced plans for upgrade software that would allow several of its products to process music [...]
For some reason, Mafia movies have a magnetic attraction on audiences around the world. But exactly where does this attraction come from? Is it the fact that this organized mob seems to live in a world of its own, governed by their own rules and laws? Is [...]
As we had pointed out in our review of the DVD, there is an error on the upcoming release of MGM Home Entertainment’s Special Edition of This Is Spinal Tap. The film contains hard-burned titles that introduce characters and locations to the viewer and [...]
20th Century Fox has announced the release of the Martin Lawrence comedy, Big Momma’s House in November. Disguise the limit. Martin Lawrence is the crafty FBI agent Malcom Turner, who’s willing to go through thick and thin in order to catch an excaped [...]
We’ve just received notice that MGM will be releasing the hysterical La Cage Aux Folles as well as its sequel, La Cage Aux Folles II to DVD this October. The film stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as two men who live together and work at a drag [...]
Our friends at Anchor Bay Entertainment…those purveyors of things esoteric and cult…have disclosed some new information regarding some of the extra features in some of their upcoming titles, so we thought we’d pass it along to whet your [...]
Before going on to make one of the most influential films of all time in King Kong, directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack collaborated on another jungle film, Chang (1927). Until it was released a couple of years ago to VHS with a new score, [...]
Toshiba has announced that it will ship its SD2300 DVD-Video player, the company’s first DVD player to include NUON®-enhanced functionality, in September 2000. The heart of the NUON system is an advanced media processor that permits new feature sets, [...]
There is a small hidden feature on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s 2-disc special edition of “Titus.” On the second disc of the set bring up the main menu and highlight the “Making Of Titus” menu entry. Then press the right arrow key on [...]
