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What's the world's most controversial TV news provider? It's not Fox or CBS. It's al-Jazeera, the subject of the award-winning documentary Control Room, now out on DVD. The disc adds interviews with both critics and employees of the Arabic television network. Director Jehane Noujaim spoke with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda...
Considering Del Toro’s deft exposition of the backstory, deepening Hellboy’s craggy recesses is probably unnecessary; but, in an era when films are shot with the DVD in mind, necessity takes a back-seat to the three disc special edition, complete with collector’s booklet of arcane diagrams and vulgar Latin. Character bios, conceptual art and hours of behind-the-scenes commentary abound; one feature even allows the viewer to jump from the movie into comic book expositions at crucial moments. The trigger-happy viewer will quickly dissolve into Hellboy nerd-dom, muttering...
...world as sick of reading about the escapades of the social elite as it is of the Yankees, the Wayans brothers—director Keenan Ivory, and actors Shawn and Marlon—bring this ridiculous premise to life in their unrated and uncut DVD edition of White Chicks. It’s debatable which is meant to be scarier, the Wayans’ successful Scary Movie franchise, or Shawn Wayans strutting down a catwalk wearing what looks like an ostrich...
Special features on the DVD include an audio commentary by the Wayans Brothers, a behind-the-scenes look at the make-up transformation and two behind-the-scenes-making-of featurettes. While it’s interesting to find that their make-up took a total of five hours of preparation, the features are mostly repetitive and reuse interviews...
...remember, the election is Tuesday. This should be a year of change, newness, non-George-Bushness, freshness, etc. So on October 31, 2004, mix it up a bit. Below are a few alternative choices for Halloween 2004. You may not think it from glancing at the DVD jackets for these titles, but I can assure you—these could be among the most frightening films ever made...