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Man on Fire
• Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota
Fanning, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell
• Director: Tony Scott
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen,
Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
• Aspect Ratio(s): 2.40:1
• Audio Encoding: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital
5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age
18.
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Summary: Oscar winner Denzel Washington
stars as a government operative / soldier of fortune, who has pretty
much given up on life. In Mexico City, he reluctantly agrees to
take a job to protect a child (Dakota Fanning) whose parents are
threatened by a wave of kidnappings. He eventually becomes close
to the child and their relationship reawakens and rekindles his
spirit. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those
he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her.
• Interview:
Denzel Washington
• Review
by Julian Roman
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Home on the Range
• Starring: Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Randy Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Roseanne
• Director: John Sanford
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned
• Aspect Ratio(s): 1.66:1
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Rated:
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Summary: Set in the wild west, this is
the story of a herd of cows who band together to save their farm.
The widow owes $1000 mortgage on the farm and has no way to pay
for it, and the cows get wind of the trouble. Fearing that they'll
be sold to the local meat-packing plant, the cows, led by Dame Judi
Dench, seek to find a way to earn the money. Enter the family horse,
played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. He used to belong to a bounty hunter,
and knows a great way to save the farm. He's heard that in the nearby
town, there's a bandit afoot (Randy Quaid), with a $1000 bounty
on his head.
• Interview:
Roseanne
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Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed
• Starring:Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle
Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Freddie Prinze Jr., Alicia Silverstone
• Director: Raja Gosnell
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Rated:
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Summary: The sequel to the 2002 hit that
translated the lives of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby to
the big screen as a live-action comic adventure.
• Review
by Julian Roman
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Baadasssss
• Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Ossie Davis,
David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez
• Director: Mario Van Peebles
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen,
Dolby
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age
18.
• Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Summary: After his comedy WATERMELON MAN,
Melvin Van Peebles was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries
with the even more controversial, SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG.
Turned down by every major Studio, Melvin was forced to self-finance.
Risking everything he had, Melvin delivered to the world the first
Black Ghetto hero on the big screen. Despite the fact that initially
two theatres in the whole United States would play his film, SWEETBACK
became the top grossing independent hit of 1971 ' Melvin had brought
the hood to Hollywood. More than 30 years later, Mario Van Peebles,
Melvin's son, directs a revealing portrait of his pioneering father.
Following in his dad's footsteps, and documenting his exceptional
journey towards political defiance through cinema, Mario directs
and stars as Melvin in BAADASSSSS based on his father's best selling
book Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a current standard in University
film classes internationally.
• Interview:
Mario Van Peebles
• Review
by Wilson Morales
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THX 1138 (1971)
• Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence,
Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Forrest, Gary Alan
Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Raymond Walsh, Mark Lawhead,
Robert Feero, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe
• Director: George Lucas
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen,
THX
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age
18.
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Summary: THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241
attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the
surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used
to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets
LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet
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Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen
Edition)
• Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil, Carrie
Fisher
• Director: George Lucas
• Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby
• Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Dolby
Digital 2.0 Surround
• Rated:
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Run Time: 387
• DVD Features:
- Number of discs: 4 |
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Mean Girls
• Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams,
Tina Fey, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler
• Director: Mark Waters
• Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby
• Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby
Digital 2.0 Surround
• Rated:
• Studio: Paramount Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Summary: A girl from overseas enrolls in
a public high school in Illinois. She finds out just how cruel American
girls can be when she falls in love with the most popular guy in
school.
• Interview: Tina Fey - http://www.blackfilm.com/20040423/features/tinafey.shtml
• Review
by Tonisha Johnson
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Coffee and Cigarettes
• Starring: Roberto Benigni, Cate Blanchett,
Steve Buscemi, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina
• Director: Jim Jarmusch
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned
• Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age
18.
• Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Summary: A comic series of short vignettes
that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters
discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties
and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting
around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes. As Jarmusch delves
into the normal pace of our world from an extraordinary angle, he
shows just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of
life can be.
• Interview: Rza - http://www.blackfilm.com/20040514/features/rza.shtml
• Review
by Julian Roman
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