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Home Theater News 12/8/2006

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Sony STR-DA5200ES – CNET Reviews

7 Dec 2006 at 5:27pm

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CNET Reviews? – Dec 7, 2006
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8 Dec 2006 at 6:03am

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5 Dec 2006 at 3:03am

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Boy is that time already here is today’s pick of the bunch of new releases and reviews starting with everybodies favorite lawyer Perry Mason (if you can? infact say favorite and lawyer in the same breath? > )…

Then we best of the Match Game not my personal choice but it’s nearly Christmas so what the heck ! Then? we have Japanese Horror movie from 1995 Naked Blood , again from Japan another in the TenchiMuyo Ryo-Ohki series and then to end todays offerings we have Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) you will either love it or hate it depending in which camp you are sat. Enjoy todays reviews?
Perry Mason – Season 1, Vol. 2
7 Dec 2006 at 1:39am
Highly Recommended With a show as well-produced and flat-out fun as Perry Mason, the hard part of working one’s way through these boxed sets is restraint. Sometimes you want to gorge yourself on at least one show a day (a tempting indulgence for many right now with another CBS/Paramount title, Mission: Impossible), instead of pacing yourself at about one a week, so that by the time you’ve finished one boxed set the next season or half-season is hitting store shelves. Perry Mason: Season 1, Volume 2 offers another 20 episodes from the latter-half of the program’s first (1957-58) year, and they’re just as enjoyable as the first 19. That they’re as good a they are is surprising: current hour dramas like ER and C.S.I. now shoot just twenty-two to twenty-four episodes per year (each running less than 45-minutes), but the cast and crew on Perry Mason and other ’50s dramas shot thirty-n…Read the entire review

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Best of Match Game DVD Collection
7 Dec 2006 at 1:39am
Recommended In 10 Words or Less
Forgotten celebrities, [tag-ice]sexual innuendo[/tag-ice], Richard Dawson…enough said

Reviewer’s Bias*
Loves: Old game shows
Likes: Match Game, Gene Rayburn, Richard Dawson
Dislikes: That sixth celeb who seemed to have wandered into the studio
Hates: How dramatic game shows have gotten

The Show
Once upon a time, [tag-ice]celebrities[/tag-ice] took time out from their busy schedule offornicating and cashing checks to gather together on game shows,allowing them to promote their projects, let down their hair and have abit of fun. Though plenty of shows used the star panel format, no gameshow utilized the celebrity guest to better effect than “Match Game.”

Six celebrities of varying relevance sit on a uniquely ’70s-style set,playing …Read the entire review

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Splatter: Naked Blood
6 Dec 2006 at 9:47pm
Recommended Director Hisayasu Sato has spent most this career on the Japanese direct to video market, specializing mainly in pink (softcore) films. Unlike the US direct to video/softcore flick market, in Japan it has proven to be fertile ground for imaginative [tag-ice]film makers[/tag-ice] like Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Takashi Miike, and Takashi Ishii just to name a few. Hard to imagine the guys doing your average Skinemax or late night Showtime silicone-packed, flesh barer eventually delivering something of high artistic regard. Hisayasu Sato has proven himself to be among that pack of distinctive directors working on the smaller circuit. His most infamous film Splatter: Naked Blood, a direct to video horror from 1995, delivers the goods as a dark, thoughtful piece of nasty, gut-wrenching (literally, no pun intended), horror exploitation.

Eiji is a young experimenter, the son of two doctors including an ambi…Read the entire review

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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki : Final Confrontations v.3 w/Tin
6 Dec 2006 at 9:47pm
Rent It FUNimation released the third Tenchi OVA series, TenchiMuyo Ryo-Ohki, over two volumes. It was only six episodes, sothat seemed appropriate. So just what the heck is this third volume?? This is a “+1″ episode, an extra OVA episode that comes after the seriesis wrapped up in episode six. Unfortunately this single show doesn’tadd much to this already mediocre series and just makes the show more convoluted,but not more interesting. Add to that the fact that for a retailprice of nearly $30 buyers are getting only a single episode (though thereis over an hour’s worth of bonus material) and you have a weak release.

Series Background:

A simple average high school student, Tenchi Masaki had lived a quietlife until he accidentally revived the space pirate Ryoko who was trappedin a cave by his grandfather’s temple. Searching for the pirate,the princess Ayeka ca…Read the entire review

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Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Series
6 Dec 2006 at 4:14pm
Recommended The Show:

When you talk about Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) a person’s interest immediately sways one way or the other. Either you’ve played the game and are understanding of what it entails or you label anybody that has ever thrown dice a geek. Whichever side of the fence you fall on it’s hard to deny that D&D has become a powerful entity ever since its humble beginnings back in 1974.

With a subject that polarizes the audience right away it’s surprising that D&D could ever mold itself to media other than that of the game. Books, movies, and an animated series have all been shown to the public with different degrees of success but for the sake of this review let’s just forget about the novels and horrific film for a moment. Instead let’s talk about the cartoon that was released in 1983.

Dungeons & Dragons was an animated show from a time period where…Read the entire review

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WWE – Unforgiven 2006
29 Nov 2006 at 7:50am
Highly RecommendedThis year’s Unforgiven took place on September 17, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre. In addition to Umaga’s first PPV appearance, we also see newly introduced tag team “the Highlanders” taking on the male cheerleaders for the championship belt. We’re also subjected to (what will hopefully be thefinal) match between DX and Vince McMahon. However, the best (and saddest) match out of them all is Trish Stratus’ final match.

Here’s the card:

Intercontinental Championship [Johnny Nitro vs. Jeff Hardy] - Johnny and Jeff put on a pretty good match with a lot of high-flying by Jeff and some good spot…Read the entire review

New Legend of Shaolin
29 Nov 2006 at 1:47am
Rent ItThe Film:
Jet Li’s Fearless, which was released theatrically in the United States earlier this year, is the crowning achievement in the career of the martial artist-turned-actor. Despite the fact that American audiences know him best for his more recent work in American and European productions like Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon, it has been Li’s work in Chinese and Hong Kong films — over 30 in total — that has made him one of the leading action stars in world cinema. Li was a child prodigy in the world of martial arts, winning his first championship at the age of 11. By the time he left the sport at 17, he was an international superstar, having spent five years as the All-Around National [tag-ice]Wushu[/tag-ice] Champion of China. His first starring role came in the 1982’s Shaolin Temple, a huge hit that catapulted Li even further into the role of international star.

Between 1…Read the entire review

Avenger
28 Nov 2006 at 11:43pm
RecommendedAny chance to see Sam Elliott be a badass for ninety minutes is fine by me.

The movie is “Avenger,” adapted from the novel by Frederick Forsyth for the TNT cable network. Its plot is merely an afterthought – aging mercenary tracks down Bosnian warlord, eluding CIA agents along the way – and is but a thread on which we hang the coolness that is Sam Elliott. Here he is in all his Sam Elliottness: craggy, leathery, his bass voice booming, ready to kick ass and take names, and never mind the names. We are asked to believe that this Vietnam vet can overtake a room full of thugs and outwit an army of government agents and cause many things to be exploding, and we cheerfully say, “why, yes, of course, it is Sam Elliott, he can do that.”

And when that is not enough, the screenplay (from Alan Sharp, scripter of “Rob Roy” and “The Osterman Weekend”) is kind enough to ask Sam Elliott to say somethin…Read the entire review

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Discoclub Layla
28 Nov 2006 at 11:43pm
Skip ItIf you’re anything like me – and I apologize if you are – then there’s no way you can see a title like “Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla” and entertain the slightest thought of passing it up. That’s a movie that begs, pleads, demands to be seen. The idea of a Disco Club Layla, where something called a “robokill” takes place beneath it? You have my attention.

Unfortunately, “Mikadroid” is the latest in a very long line of horror films that consists of an interesting title and little else. The film itself is generic slasher blandness in which the only notable feature is the use of what appears to be the Michelin Man as the killer. Which is not nearly as fun as it sounds.

We open in 1945, at the end of the war, where a crazed Japanese scientist has been creating genetically-enhanced super-soldiers. The project has been abandoned and the bunker ordered destroyed, but not before Dr…Read the entire review

Robin Hood – Most Wanted Edition
28 Nov 2006 at 7:54pm
RecommendedIt’s fantastic to see Disney cleaning up and re-issuing some of their classics. In a world of double and triple upgrades for DVDs, these animated gems always seem to be the most enjoyable and worth the pennies forked over. Packed in an embossed, puffy slipcover and adorned with the big grinning fox bearing the name, the Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition DVD is another example of a spruced-up Disney classic. Even though Robin Hood is different from most other [tag-tec]Disney[/tag-tec] films in tone, it still bears a sense of charm and delight with each arrow shot and each coin jingled.

The Film:

From the narration of a good ole’ rooster minstrel comes the story of Robin Hood and burly bear Little John. With a familiar whistle and the strutting of the two protagonists, the film sets a laid back, friendly mood. Even though Robin Hood is the head thief in town, fear never stri…Read the entire review

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Hi guys back again with some more DVD reviews today I am bringing you The Suspended Step of The Stork a Greek film which if you could get hold of it you might quite enjoy?

Next we have the animated series of Sabrina (need I say more ?) , plus also on the cartoon or animation front if you prefer we have the classic Mickey Mouse where Mickey saves Santa well he always such a nice guy so why should that suprise us. Guess these are not for you? action movie fans but the kids might enjoy them for the holidays.

If you have not had your weekly fill of CSI with now three highly succesful series running CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas and CSI New York. You will be pleased to know that the 6th Series of CSI (the original one) is relea\sed if you programmed the VCR or set up the TIVO chances are you didn’t miss any but again a nice stocking filler.

Finally today we have Little Britain if you are on the US side of the Atlantic some of the humor might go over your head as it is very english but David Walliams and Matt Lucas have a multi award winning? comdey series which has just lauched again so if you can get a copy give it whirl and tell me what you think??

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The Suspended Step of the Stork (Greek Release)
11 Nov 2006 at 3:39pm
Highly Recommended The Film:

Somewhere on the Greek-Albanian border Alexandre (Gregory Karr) is shooting a documentary about a group of immigrants willing to enter the European Union. Without legal papers or savings the men are desperately trying to survive. But there are hardly any jobs.

While shooting with his camera Alexandre sees a man who reminds him about a famous Greek politician (Marcello Mastroianni, La Dolce Vita) who has been missing for years. Convinced that he has found what no one else has been able to see Alexandre contacts the Greek politician’s widow (Jeanne Moreau, Elevator to the Gallows). Unsure what to make of Alexandre’s discovery the widow arrives at the border town where the first snow has already fallen.

A gritty tale about a group of people forgotten by the Greek authorities in no-man’s land To Μετέ&…Read the entire review?

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The Very Best Of Sabrina – The Animated Series
11 Nov 2006 at 1:31pm
Recommended The Movie:

One of the fairly small number of successful animated TV shows in recent years, “Sabrina: The Animated Series” ran from 1999-2001. While a lacking in originality, the series remains pleasant viewing that: kids can relate to, isn’t edited in a blender, actually tells a story and offers a message or two without being heavy-handed.

The animated series essentially offers a “reboot” of the popular live-action series starring Melissa Joan Hart. This time around, Sabrina (voiced by Emily Hart, Melissa’s sister)’s a 12-year-old dealing with all of the familiar problems that a teen deals with (trying to be popular, friends, homework) while managing to try and keep her witch status a secret.

The series has Sabrina living with (now a little *too* much younger, one of the show’s issues) aunts Zelda and Hilda (both voiced by Melissa Joan Hart), as well as her uncle Quigley (Ja…Read the entire review

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Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse – Mickey Saves Santa and Other Mouseketales
11 Nov 2006 at 1:13pm
Highly Recommended
2006 / 73 min.
Starring: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Daisy Duck, Pluto
Director: Rob LaDuca
Producer/Screenwriter: Leslie Valdes
Voice Talents: Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Dee Bradley Baker, Corey Burton, Bill Farmer, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor
Exectutive Producer: Bobs Gannaway