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Friday Night Lights Are Bright
Friday Night Lights was the most acclaimed TV series of last year’s season. Recently released on DVD in the last week of August - nearly 16 hours worth - you can catch up with the critics to by checking out the entire season in one shiny three-disc package.
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Hollywood director Daniel Petrie's, The Neptune Factor, On DVD
The first of three Nova Scotia-shot films by legendary Hollywood director Daniel Petrie, Sr. has finally resurfaced on DVD. The undersea adventure The Neptune Factor is now available through 20th Century Fox.
And while it’s by no measure Petrie’s best film,...
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Thieves Like Us A Classic
One of Robert Altman’s lost 1970s classics has finally resurfaced on DVD.
Thieves Like Us, the Kansas-born filmmaker’s depression-era set love story starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall, is now out on a low-budget, no-frills home video version from 2...
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Bava Box A Horror Gem
Anchor Bay has done horror film fans a big favour by collecting up five cleaned up versions of the Italian master filmmaker and special effects wizard Mario Bava’s most important films.
Dating from the early and mid-1960s, these are some of the most influen...
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Re-Animator Re-Animated
Renowned horror film director Stuart Gordon has received the deluxe DVD reissue treatment from Anchor Bay for his 1985 camp gore-fest Re-Animator. Gordon is known to Maritimers for shooting a film with Irish actor Stephen Rea in Saint John, New Brunswick, enti...
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Dylan's Verite Revisited
Just how much Bob is too much Dylan is one of those questions that comes up whenever the famous minstrel gets another CD or DVD release. In the case of a new docurama version of his 1965 cinema verite masterpiece Don’t Look Back, I can safely state that fanati...
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Oh! What A Lovely War
Oh! What A Lovely War has finally arrived on DVD. One of the most unique films about war ever made - adapted from a vastly unconventional stage show conceived by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in Britain during the ‘Angry Young Man’ days - the epic movie b...
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Goth-lite, prep-school junior warlock flick not so bad
By any measure, a film like The Covenant should be terrible. Thrown away on the youth market in first release last September during all that Film Festival Frenzy, and one of the sorry flicks to come out on DVD January 2nd (along with the tragically over-hyped ...
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When the Levees Broke: Spike Lee's Documentary Masterpiece
Spike Lee’s monumental 4-hour HBO documentary When the Levees Broke comes to DVD with an exra 105 minute disc of out-takes, making for nearly six hours of heart-breaking non-fiction footage on the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
It’s an extraordinary, essential...
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The Fountainhead an essential ingredient of Signature Collection
There are already a couple of Gary Cooper DVD collections out, but there’s no question that Warner Home Video’s Signature set is the most significant.
Not only does it include his 1941 Howard Hawks-directed 1941 box-office hit Sergeant York - for which he w...
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MacGillivray's Classic Resurfaces
It’s not that much of a leap to say that William D. MacGillivray’s 1987 feature film Lifeclasses is one of the most important Canadian Films ever made.
The Newfoundland-born, Nova Scotia-based writer/director has made other films - in 2005 he premiered two ...
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Four Oscar Winners Out of Five
That the Frank Capra Collection should come out so close to the Christmas season when his 1946 classic It’s A Wonderful Life will be playing on millions of small screens across North American adds some irony to these frenzied festive holidays.
It’s A Wonder...
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This Nova Scotia Story is One of the All Time Great Musicals
Question: What Nova Scotia story has been filmed four times, piling up a total of six Oscars?
The answer is Anna and the King Of Siam, the story of Haligonian (and NSCAD - Art College founder) Anna Leonowens’ journey to Thailand in 1862 to tutor the Siamese...
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Humphrey Bogart In Halifax! Twice!
The new Humphrey Bogart DVD set from Warners puts the legendary tough-guy film anti-hero in Nova Scotia. Not once but two times.
Well, okay, it was only a back lot in Burbank dressed up as Halifax. (Did you think that that Warner Brothers actually shot Casa...
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Five Key Films with Marlon Brando at his Best
Five Marlon Brando flicks have recently emerged in a single Warners Home Video package of 6 DVDs. They include three of his classics, Mutiny On the Bounty, Julius Caesar, and The Teahouse Of the August Moon, along with the wonderfully bizarre Reflections In A ...
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Miss Piggy Meets Psycho In Calvaire
Saturday was a quiet night for your neighborhood wildlife correspondent, as I was left indoors to watch a movie with friends. The film, Calvaire: The Ordeal is best described as a French horror/thriller that combines generic horror cliches (bloodthirsty backwo...
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The Three Great Flicks of a Busty Blond Star of the 50s
The Jane Mansfield Collection gathers together three of the busty platinum blonde actress’s best films in one comely package. Add an hour-long biography of the screen star and you have just about everything you’ll ever want to know about Jane Mansfield.
Luc...
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Canadian animation master Norman McLaren's collected works
The National Film Board has given Canada’s most important animator the deluxe treatment on their new DVD release Norman McLaren: The Master’s Edition.
The 7-volume package gathers together the late Scottish-born filmmaker’s collected works, which are mostl...
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One of toughest films ever to come out of Hollywood
Billy Wilder’s 1944 classic film noir Double Indemnity has finally come to DVD.
Just released by Universal Home Video as a special 2-disc set, the film can boast of America’s most hard-boiled Pulp Fiction authors on board: original story writer James M. Ca...
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State Of the Union
Frank Capra’s last truly great film was the oddly overshadowed political morality tale State Of the Union.
Released in 1948 and sporting his most impressive cast ever (Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Van Johnson,
Angela Lansbury, Adolf Menjou, Tor John...
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Five Cool Film Noir Flicks Plus a Documentary
Warner’s third Film Noir Box DVD set might just be its best yet. Five classic titles with a sixth disc made up of a punchy new documentary on Film Noir plus some vintage shorts to fill out the package. This is el primo cinematic stuff.
With major directors ...
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Brick: A vision of hard-boiled adolescence
Winner of an 'originality' award at last year's Sundance Festival, Brick is one of those once-in-a-lifetime indie features that miraculously mixes familiar genres -- teen dramas and the hard-boiled whodunnit -- to come up with a shocking blast of the freshest ...
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Nova Scotia's connection to The Man Who Came To Dinner
Buried in Warner Brothers’ Bette Davis Video Collection Box #2 (just released in Canada) is the classic 1942 comedy The Man Who Came To Dinner.
A rare, humorous ensemble piece for the legendary Oscar-Winning actress, the film version of The Man Who Came To ...
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Dan Petrie's Television Masterpiece Restored
Glace Bay-born film director Daniel Petrie ranks as one of the most successful cinema artists ever to emerge from Canada. Yet with so few of his works available on DVD, he’s one of those names that causes many movie fans to ask just what films did this guy dir...
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A Headbanger's Journey Makes Heavy Music Easy
Sam Dunn’s feature length music documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey was one of the more pleasant surprises of last year’s festival season.
Now available on Warner home DVD, 17 of the film’s interviews have been expanded to fill out the extra digital ...
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Trannie Flick Transcends The Flat Look
Duncan Tucker's first foray into directing has yielded one of the all-time great gender-bending flicks. Transamerica tells the tale of a man who is in the last stages of becoming a woman (played with frumpy panache by Felicity Huffman).
She/He must make a...
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Tennessee’s Waltz
May 2nd saw the late American playwright Tennessee Williams get the deluxe treatment.
Warner Brothers Home Video released a six-film box of the great Southern dramatist’s most important work, loaded with some surprising and quite substantial extras.
With...
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Inside Man
Like the late comic Rodney Dangerfield, American maverick director Spike Lee can't seem to get any respect. His latest big-screen feature, Inside Man, kicked off a Hollywood Box-Office revival three weeks ago that has been sustained by the subsequent releas...
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Breakfast On Pluto
Irish writer and director Neil Jordan's latest made a brief appearance at this year's Atlantic Film Festival before it slipped off the theatrical distribution radar in Atlantic Canada. For those who missed this gender-bending magic realist tale, Breakfast O...
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The Marlene Dietrich Collection
Five films from one of the great icons of the screen, The Marlene Dietrich Collection puts together three films with her Svengali-like director Joseph von Sternberg (1930's Morocco, 1932's Blonde Venus, and 1935's The Devil Is A Woman) along with one by lig...
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Anglophiles lined up at Halifax's Park Lane Cinemas in February to check out this veddy English based-on-a-true-story WWII costume drama starring the occasional Halifax visitor Dame Judy Dench along with enduring tough guy Bob Hoskins. Directed by veteran S...
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Terrence Malick's Fluid Fourth Flick
Visionary writer/director Terrence Malick has kept his output low and his quality high through his long and strange career. With only his fourth feature since 1973, The New World, the Waco, Texas-born filmmaker confounded everyone by cutting the film down from...
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Spielberg On Revenge And Violence
While Canadian Press ran a story about how the deluxe 2-DVD version was not available north of the border, it turns out that it's not obtainable in the States either.
One might surmise that some of the bonus material couldn't get cleared in time. Considerin...
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I Wake Up Screaming
One of the very first Hollywood Film Noir flicks has finally emerged on video.
I Wake Up Screaming was made the same year as John Huston’s landmark Humphrey Bogart thriller The Maltese Falcon. And while director H. Bruce Humberstone’s reputation has fallen ...
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