Home Theater News 12/29/2006
Microsoft's Laptop Giveaway… – mobility Today
29 Dec 2006 at 8:40am
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THE BEST OF 2006 (DVD) – Cinematic Happenings Under Development
26 Dec 2006 at 8:05am
Cinematic Happenings Under Development THE BEST OF 2006 ( DVD )
Cinematic Happenings Under Development, NY - Dec 26, 2006
…. has been an excellent year for the home theater crowd thanks …. Keep an eye out for reviews of the competing high …. A really handsome DVD set bouyed by a nice array ….
Panasonic DMP-BD10 – CNET Reviews
14 Dec 2006 at 5:52pm
Panasonic DMP-BD10
CNET Reviews - Dec 14, 2006
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In the early years of the Walt Disney animation studios, while part of the company was focusing on building up the iconic characters that would earn Disney his reputation, another part of the studio was cranking out the Silly Symphonies series. These are short cartoons (generally about six minutes, but sometimes nearing ten) that are exactly what they sound like: humorous narratives set to music. Though these cartoons did not focus on recurring characters, some of the more famous Disney institutions sprang from them. Donald Duck got his start here, and the Silly Symphonies version of the Three Little Pigs still endures in the public consciousness as one of the more dominant renditions of the story.
There were seventy-five Silly Symphonies in all. This is …Read the entire review
Walt Disney Treasures – More Silly Symphonies
28 Dec 2006 at 3:05am
Highly Recommended
The Slaughter of the Vampires The Slaughter of the Vampires (La Strage dei vampire, 1962) is a handsomely-made Italian vampire film whose first two-thirds is closely modeled after Hammer Films’ seminal Gothic, Horror of Dracula (1958). Energetically directed by screenwriter Roberto Mauri (The Invincible Gladiators, King of Kong Island), it adds little to the genre but is entertaining nonetheless. Dark Sky’s all-region presentation is excellent, and includes an “Interview with the Vampire” himself, German actor Dieter Eppler, featured in many krimi films, including Hand of the Gallows, The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse).
Walter Brandi stars as Wolfgang, a happily married man living with wife Louise (Graziella Granata) in a renovated castle, where the unnamed vampire-on-the-lam (Eppler) is hiding out in a wine cellar. Soon after the film begins, Louise falls under the vampire’s sexu…Read the entire review
28 Dec 2006 at 3:05am
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The Illusionist
27 Dec 2006 at 7:45pm
Highly Recommended
It was the year of magic at the movies, and not just the on screen, cinematic kind. Hollywood reconnected with prestidigitation in a big way, releasing two competing looks at slight of hand and the fine art of fooling an audience. One was Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed and wildly popular take on the Batman mythos, the other was an under the radar effort by an unknown filmmaker responsible for a well received docu-drama on the JFK assassination. When the box office figures were finalized, and all the journalistic opinions were tallied, one effort clearly came out on top. And it’s not the one you’d think. Indeed, while The Prestige raked in $52 million in receipts, it was offset by a $40 million budget. The Illusionist, on the other hand, seemed to get better notices (the Rotten Tomato ranking difference between the two is negligible however…Read the entire review
The Film:
Determined to put an end to the misery that has been tormenting the Parondi family in the Sourthern village of Lucania Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) and her sons Rocco (Alain Delon), Simone (Renato Salvatori), Ciro (Max Cartier), Luca (Rocco Vidollazi) pack their belongings and head to Milan. There they will meet the only Parondi who has been living away from the family: Vincenzo (Spiros Focas).
Upon arrival in Milan, however, the Parondis quickly discover that making ends meet will be just as difficult. There are no jobs, housing is expensive, cold winter has seized the North. But Milan is a big city, a rich city! Someone, somewhere, must need an extra pair of hands!
Simone is the fist one to land a job. A local scammer offers the southerner a deal he can not resist: boxing for cash. Without thinking much the proud Parondi accepts and soon money start coming his way. And…Read the entire review
Rocco and His Brothers (Remastered Italian Release)
27 Dec 2006 at 7:45pm
Highly Recommended
I For India The Movie I realize I’m probably setting myself up for a fair amount of crap by opening a review with a quote from Garden State, but for all of the not-so-transparent emotional manipulation director Zach Braff indulges in, there was one line of dialogue that’s stuck with me ever since I saw the film two years ago and not so coincidentally spoken by Braff’s character, Andrew Largeman: “You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore … all of a sudden, even though you have some place to put your shit, that idea of home is gone … or maybe it’s like this rite of passage … you will never have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, for your kids, for the family you start; it’s like a cycle or something … maybe that’s what family really is … a group of people that miss the same imagin…Read the entire review
27 Dec 2006 at 12:41pm
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Home Theater News 12/26/2006
THE BEST OF 2006 (DVD) – Cinematic Happenings Under Development
26 Dec 2006 at 8:05am
Cinematic Happenings Under Development THE BEST OF 2006 ( DVD )
Cinematic Happenings Under Development, NY - 14 hours ago
…. has been an excellent year for the home theater crowd thanks …. Keep an eye out for reviews of the competing high …. A really handsome DVD set bouyed by a nice array ….
Beatles ?Love? Brings Hi-Fi To a New Generation – GizmoCafe
20 Dec 2006 at 1:02pm
Beatles ?Love? Brings Hi-Fi To a New Generation
GizmoCafe, Canada - Dec 20, 2006
We?re seeing mass migration to Home Theater In a Box …. given the full high resolution 5.1 DVD Audio treatment. …. Early reviews indicate many are sitting back and ….
Panasonic DMP-BD10 – CNET Reviews
14 Dec 2006 at 5:52pm
Panasonic DMP-BD10
CNET Reviews - Dec 14, 2006
…. While most people are plenty satisfied with DVD , home theater enthusiasts are getting geared up for the next generation of disc-based video formats, Blu-ray ….
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Get The Latest Movies To Rent From Blockbuster Video Unlimited DVD Rentals delivered to your door first month is only $9.99. The Games
Philadelphia’s pretty well-known as a town that loves its sports teams. Those fans are also known to be pretty raving, rabid and raucous on occasion, but hey, who goes to a football game and pretends it’s a ballet? Growing up the son on a Philadelphia firefighter, my youth was fairly coated with a non-stop deluge of Phillies, Flyers, 76ers and Flyers. I grew up to focus more on the football/baseball side of the equation, but for most Philadelphia sports families, the Flyers are like a religion. Seriously.
So it was with much enthusiasm that I sat down with WB’s new Philadelphia Flyers: 10 Greatest Games collection, a 10-disc set that’ll bring a tear to the eye of any old-school Orange & Black fan. No frills, no extras, just one classic hockey game per disc. Here’s what we get:
05/09/74 – Bobby Clarke scores an overtime goal to win a playoff game in Boston. (Flyers at B…Read the entire review
NHL: Philadelphia Flyers Greatest Games Set
26 Dec 2006 at 7:41pm
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Dane Cook’s Tourgasm The Series
“Reality TV” always seems to find a fresh “bottom of the barrel” whenever a new season rolls around, and if Dane Cook’s Tourgasm isn’t one of the very worst — it surely is one of the most disappointing. It’s as if HBO found themselves with the rights to the whole of Dane Cook, and instead of simply delivering a rock-solid comedy concert, they decided to stretch a generally worthless concept into a 9-episode series. They really, really shouldn’t have.
Full disclosure: I think Dane Cook is a pretty damn hilarious comedian. Based only on his comedy CDs and a handful of TV appearances, I definitely consider myself a fan of the guy’s work. So when I got a hold of the 3-disc Tourgasm set, I figured I was in for a pretty good time. Yikes.
Here’s what Tourgasm is: Dane Cook brings three old pals (all of whom fancy themselves professional comedians) on a tour of col…Read the entire review
26 Dec 2006 at 7:41pm
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Altered The Movie
It’s been about six years since the “love it or hate it” sensation that is The Blair Witch Project hit the scene, but we haven’t seen a whole lot of directors Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez since that time. Myrick’s follow-up (The Strand) hit video shelves last year, and he has a pair of horror flicks (Solstice and Believers) in the works. Sanchez’s second feature has taken equally long to get off the ground. It’s a sci-fi / horror indie called Altered and it’s kind of a mixed bag: Half chintzy and raw, half interesting and semi-creepy.
The flick opens with a decidedly different approach to the “alien abduction” idea: A pair of guys are seen high-tailing it out of the woods with lump buried inside a blanket. When they arrive at the house of an unhappy old friend, we learn what the blanket contains: an unconscious alien creature! One of the bastards who…Read the entire review
26 Dec 2006 at 7:41pm
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American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile The Movie
It really is amazing how terrible a movie can be and yet still earn a big enthusiastic DVD release as if it were an actual piece of filmed entertainment that’s worthy of your time, money and effort.
Trust me on this one, people, and this is coming from a guy who lived through/survived the Wretched Teen-Sex Comedy Flood of the Mid-’80s: The Naked Mile is one of the lamest, laziest and most shockingly amateurish comedies I’ve ever seen. The fact that Universal wants to keep riding the “American Pie” gravy train is no big shock; that they put so little effort or creativity into these video sequels, well, it’s kind of a slap in the face. Just because someone’s looking for a mindless college comedy, that doesn’t mean that person is a mentally-deficient moron — but that’s precisely what The Naked Mile (and its equally pathetic predecessor, Band Camp) is: witless, wo…Read the entire review
26 Dec 2006 at 3:42pm
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Gunbuster Background: Fans of anime are often grouped into a limited number of sub-categories based on their favorite shows and viewing habits. I tend to like a lot of different types of anime so my own tastes are difficult to define (having been raised on Americanized versions until the 1980’s; with Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Star Blazers, and Force Five, being among the titles I enjoyed over the years until then). Still, as the market expands, marketing niches make it easy for companies and reviewers alike to describe some of the tenants of a particular title in an easier form, noting that your mileage may vary considerably. One of my favorite mech-robot titles from the mid-1990’s was Neon Genesis Evangelion, a series that explored a darker version of anime, one where not only were things not as they seemed but even the good guys had serious inst…Read the entire review
26 Dec 2006 at 11:33am
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Home Theater News 12/25/2006
DVD Review: Superman Returns – Blogcritics.org
22 Dec 2006 at 4:32pm
DVD Review: Superman Returns
Blogcritics.org, OH - Dec 22, 2006
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Beatles ?Love? Brings Hi-Fi To a New Generation – GizmoCafe
20 Dec 2006 at 1:02pm
Beatles ?Love? Brings Hi-Fi To a New Generation
GizmoCafe, Canada - Dec 20, 2006
We?re seeing mass migration to Home Theater In a Box …. given the full high resolution 5.1 DVD Audio treatment. …. Early reviews indicate many are sitting back and ….
Blu-ray on PS3, Automatic Fees, Free Antivirus – PC World
22 Dec 2006 at 3:07am
Blu-ray on PS3, Automatic Fees, Free Antivirus
PC World - Dec 22, 2006
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Low budget films truly are the backbone of the movie industry. Each year indie features are released that are greeted with one degree of success or another. 2005’s Searching for Bobby D is an example of one that connects with moderate success in what it attempts to do but for all intense and purposes falls short in the end.
The movie features a plot about an aspiring filmmaker getting his name out there and attempting to put together his opus. It’s supposed to be a comedy that showcases the plight of a struggling script writer with the backdrop of a mob-like atmosphere. It’s fun, sometimes witty, and entertains in spurts but ultimately the script feels shallow and the acting, even more so.
Johnny Argano (William DeMeo) spends his days and nights dreaming about starring in a film with Robert DeNiro. He wrote a script but hasn’t been able to make any conn…Read the entire review
Searching for Bobby D
24 Dec 2006 at 11:01pm
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The Black Dahlia The Movie:
Brian De Palma is proof that being a great moviemaker doesn’t necessarily entail being a great storyteller. Ever since his ascent in the Seventies as a kind of Hitchcock Lite, De Palma consistently does his best work when he isn’t expected to make too much sense. But give the guy a big, juicy story to tell, and he winds up charred in a bonfire of his own bravado. The Black Dahlia, adapted from James Ellroy’s acclaimed crime novel and involving perhaps the most infamous unsolved murder in California history, ought to thrill and amaze. Sadly, it mainly just disappoints. Set in post-World War II Los Angeles, the saga follows straight-arrow police officer Dwight “Bucky” Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), an ex-prizefighter who is paired up with another boxer-turned-cop, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart). The two become friends after an exhibition match to benefit the polic…Read the entire review
24 Dec 2006 at 4:34pm
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The Descent: Original Unrated Cut
24 Dec 2006 at 2:27pm
Highly Recommended
It happens so rarely that, when it actually does, it is definitely worth noting. Critics rarely change their mind at least not a mere four months after their initial contact with an entertainment. No, it usually takes decades of differing opinions and considered scholarship before a hated movie becomes acceptable, or visa versa. But in this case, there is something about The Descent that rubbed this reviewer the wrong way back in August. Maybe it was the loud and obnoxious teens in the audience who were too busy text messaging each other to pay attention to the film. Perhaps it was the lousy projection levels, which rendering most of the movie’s cave scenes dark and indistinguishable. It could have been the unbearable hype, a machine that made the film out to be the second coming of horror. Whatever the circumstance, he came out unimpressed and angry at those who would p…Read the entire review
The movie World Cycling Productions’ 2006Spring Classics series of professional bicycle racing kicks off withthe two-race set of Ghent-Wevelgem and Het Volk. These early-seasonraces are interesting not just for their own sake, but also as aglimpse of what the field looks like after the winter season oftrades, training, and team reorganization. The 2006 edition of theseraces turns out to be quite interesting, with some surprises in storefor riders and viewers alike. While Ghent-Wevelgem gets topbilling in the set, it makes more sense to watch the Het Volk discfirst, as Het Volk is the earliest of the races on the calendar. This”semi-classic” race gets started in the chilly Belgianweather on February 25, with all the riders eyeing each other to seewho looks strongest. It’s not the first race of the year, but it’sthe first big …Read the entire review
2006 Ghent-Wevelgem & Het Volk
23 Dec 2006 at 6:54pm
Highly Recommended
The Mini-Series
The 2004 Seoul Broadcasting System television series Stained Glass is a love story about three individuals who were connected on an emotional level at a very young age. Over the course of eighteen hour long episodes, their story is told. It has dramatic, romantic, and somber elements. It is a true K-drama and delivers an engaging story that is slow at times but nonetheless hard to put down. The characters are all likeable and their melodramatic situation will have you on the edge of your sit wanting more.
Stained Glass’s main plotline deals with three individuals and the sordid love triangle that ensues as two best friends pine over the same girl, who also feels conflicted about her relationship with each of them. Han Dong-Joo (Lee Dong-G…Read the entire review
Stained Glass (SBS TV Series)
23 Dec 2006 at 6:53pm
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