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...here to stay, but only recently have studios begun to tap into the format’s true potential. In the past two months, a bevy of releases, primed to exploit the Thanksgiving-Christmas shopping rush, have emerged, raising the bar for the format. Discs now feature deleted scenes, mini-documentaries, cast interviews and immersive environments to navigate through all the bonuses. Frequently, the supplementary material spills onto an extra disc. With so many titles released every week, it’s difficult to weed through and find the gems. Here is a little primer for the holiday season. Prices...
...behind the scenes” documentary is fairly disappointing, comprised of bland behind the scenes footage and painfully earnest testimonials; thankfully, Ewan MacGregor breaks up the monotony by gushing over his chance to become Obi-Wan Kenobi. A 12-part documentary originally featured on the web works with mini “featurettes” concerning costumes, fight sequences and design to fashion a wholly engrossing record of the process of crafting Episode I, even if the film itself did disappoint...
...Spice is the perfect enticement to brave the weather. Head to this Central Square hot spot when you are in the mood for a slice of the Caribbean. It’s just a mere four blocks from the T-stop to 315 Mass. Ave.; who know that a mini-vacation could be 10 minutes away...
TWISTED The Origami, a "concept" (read unfinished) device from National Semiconductor, combines a removable digital video and still camera, MP3 player, videoconferencing terminal, cell phone, mini-keyboard, Windows PC and wireless Internet browser in a single plastic case the size of a paperback novel. It changes function by twisting into seemingly endless positions and should be available late next fall...
Basements of other houses were stocked with antitank mines and machine guns. Students' notebooks were filled with descriptions of explosives and demolition techniques--including those for underwater attacks. One printout inserted into a notebook gave precise instructions for making a mini-mine "using common plastic soap dishes." More alarming documents, including a formula for ricin (a poisonous biological agent derived from castor seeds) and diagrams of nuclear bombs, were found by a Times of London reporter. But at least one item was a phony: a nuclear-bomb recipe taken from a parody website. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge insisted last...