Negative Space: DVD
- All Mimsy movie reviews
- These are all of the DVDs I’ve reviewed, in alphabetical order.
- All the President’s Men
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Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- Almost Famous
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This is the best DVD I’ve seen yet. It has not one, not two, but three discs: the third disc is a CD with music by Stillwater, including the Led Zeppelin-like “Fever Dogs”. Thought the snippets of that song was cool, it was too bad they didn’t write the whole thing? Fret no more, they did write the whole thing, and at least five other songs, all on the CD.
- The Dresden Files
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A fun TV show about a wizard named Harry who carries a sports stick with him at all times?
- Movie and DVD Reviews
- The best and not-so-best movies available on DVD, and whatever else catches my eye.
- Obligatory Anti-DIVX Editorial
- While researching the purchase of a DVD player, I also researched the usefulness or lack thereof of the DIVX format.
- Remington Steele
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I watched this show pretty much only in reruns back in the eighties. It started the year I went off to college, so I only watched it during Christmas break (we had a long one) and summer break. While I loved the show at the time, I wasn’t sure what to expect watching it again twenty years later. Watched in order for the first time, the show holds up very well.
- Top Twenty DVDs
- The best DVDs I’ve reviewed in order. These DVDs combine great movies with great features.
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- Almost Famous•
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Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical story about a teenager on a seventies rock tour is a beautiful movie. This is one of my favorite movies.
- Bewitched—The Complete First Season•
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Watching this was the first time I watched the series in order. It was amazing watching the first season from their marriage through their first year together. Samantha was a god learning to walk on earth; she really treated humans as if they were pets.
- Carnival of Souls•
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This is an awesome DVD package. It goes in-depth not only into Herk Harvey’s influential Carnival of Souls, but also the other kinds of movies he and his colleagues did. There is a great old construction safety short on here, for example.
- Casablanca•
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Ah, Play it, Sam! If this isn’t the most-quoted movie outside of Macbeth, you’re in the wrong country. This is a beautiful DVD. The movie is presented in the original full-screen format. Languages are French and English, both spoken and subtitled. It also includes a nice documentary hosted by Lauren Bacall.
- South Park Season 1•
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I was first introduced to South Park through the movie (which also kicks ass). The television shows are amazing. Variety, of all things, calls it “gloriously subversive art”. Yeah, whatever. It’s great shit that you must eat.
- Superman Returns Special Edition• (DVD)
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The two-disc special edition adds some interesting deleted scenes among about three hours of documentaries and other special features. There’s an amazing scene where he reads through all of the disasters that happened while he was gone—train crashes, climate problems, epidemics, massacres, burning buildings, even locusts—but no mention of September 11. Lois’s “Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman” is juxtaposed with “Train crash kills 127”. (Bryan Singer)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert•
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Wild outfits, ping-pong balls, ABBA, and not a single kangaroo in sight. Priscilla involves three drag queens from Sydney driving a huge bus across some great Australian desert to a three-week gig at a tourist trap. Beautiful views of the desert. Wonderful costuming.
- The Blues Brothers•
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The Blues Brothers is a brilliant comedy slash musical with great blues music. Director John Landis set out to include musical numbers covering all the possible musical number types. The DVD includes longer footage from some of the performances, as well as previously deleted scenes. This is a collector’s edition, not a director’s cut, and at least one of the scenes that is restored is also ridiculed by the director in the making of feature.
- The Philadelphia Story•
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Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn. Suave at its best. James Stewart runs away with it. The movie was originally a play, and Katherine Hepburn got the movie rights and got George Cukor to direct. What’s to tell about the story? Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn play an upper-crust ex-couple, and James Stewart and Ruth Hussey play the working class reporters covering their story.
- The Ruling Class•
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When Jack’s aunt asks him how he knows he’s God, Jack replies, “Simple. When I pray I find I’m talking to myself.”
