The Night HE Came Home.. Halloween 2000

Click HERE for the Press Release

Click HERE for a looksee at the DVD Slick

The Night HE Came Home
While today would have been the perfect release date for these DVDs, the press release announcing the 27th November Street date for Halloween 1 thru 3 was also a good call.   All Three DVDs sport remastered Widescreen Transfers and audio.   Though at Press time, as to whether any or all DVDs carry Anamorphic Widscreen Transfers and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is uncertain.  We're on the case don't worry!   :)

Click HERE for the Press Release

More Press Releases
Today's the day of press Releases.  Go to the Press Release Page for all the announcements in DVD Land

PS Those Interactive DVD Games mentioned yesterday are both 4x3 Widescreen with DD5.1 sound, being
Choose Your Own Nightmare : The Curse of the Mummy, and Ace Ventura - Pet Detective : The Case of the Serial Shaver.
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Monday 30th October 2000

If you're replacing your Snappers with Slicks How Many are you going to replace?  

Click HERE to Vote

Let the Games Begin
DVD Australia have released a few more interactive DVD games to the market.  Similar in a way to the very popular Dragon's Lair Arcade based games, are Choose Your Own Nightmare : The Curse of the Mummy, and Ace Ventura - Pet Detective : The Case of the Serial Shaver. 
Using your DVD Remote Control you can run these DVDs thru your Stand alone DVD Player by choosing from the on-screen options (which lead to a few hundred possible gaming paths to go down). There's over 50,000 frames of animation, you're looking at alomost 30 minutes of footage.
These DVD games have just been released to OZ and are currently available from EZY DVD carrying a price of $32.95
See below for some piccys.


Latest DVD Slicks and Menus
A few new covers have been added to the Slicks & Menus page today.
Looking for Alibrandi, Magnolia, Barney's Night before Christmas, Ace Ventura (game), Curse of the Mummy (game), What a Blast, and a few menu shots from the upcoming GLADIATOR DVD.

Roadshow DVDetails
Due for DVD Release tomorrow (on old hallow's day) are Looking for Alibrandi, and Magnolia. 

Looking for Alibrandi, this year Aussie gem, leading up to The Dish, comes to us with an Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1, Director's Commentary, photo gallery, storyboards & working script excerpts, music videos, and a deleted scene with commentary....nice

Magnolia is Roadshow's First Movie to come in a 2 disc set, mainly due to the 180 minute running time of the feature, which is Anamorphic Widescreen and is Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 encoded. 
On the second Mag. disc we get the Frank t.j mackay seminar, mackey info, trailers, tv sopts, music video, magnolia diary, making of doco, and ..errr colour bars??...   Being a two disc set, the Suggested retail price is a slightly higher $39.95 ($5 up from Roadshow's Standard DVD Price)

Apparently, P.T. Anderson (writer/director) had FULL control over this region 4 DVD release (as he did for EVERY DVD release of Magnolia), so i gotta wonder why the bloody hell there are only 12 chapters for a friggin' three hour movie!  oy!
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Thursday 26th October 2000

Chris Till over at DVD Plaza tells me that he also received word from Warner about this and also plans to distribute the Warner DVD Slicks from his site (so that's 2 :).  From what i've heard, the DVD Plaza Forum aka the Discussion Cafe' had a lot to do with this happening in Australia, seeing as so many Aussie DVDer's frequent his site and Cafe'. 

No date was specified as to when any of the sites involved will receive these slicks for distribution, but rest assured, you'll know as soon as we do!

Nice going Warner Australia...

CTHV/Universal January 2001 Release Specs
My god they're right up on it!  It wasn't long ago we didn't get release info until a few weeks before the actual release, now we're looking at some three months warning!  (hang on while i go check for pigs flying past my window!! :)

Toplining their 4th January Releases is the Mel Gibson civil war vehicle The Patriot (or as i like to call it, The Independence Day version of Braveheart! :).  It'll be interesting to see, if like the region 1 version of the Patriot, as to whether ours also includes this "new" Regional Code Enhancement feature (RCE).  Apparently RCE is causing a few problems across the board with only some multizoned players rejecting the disc.  (toshy's have faired the worse, some Panasonics don't like it one bit, the pioneer 626 is supposedly a-okay whereas their previous model, the DV717 spews it out!  )

Anyhoo, in addition to the Patriot is Loser, Flintstones :Viva Rock Vegas, Stand By ME : Collector's Edition, Black & White, and Papillion

Click HERE for the CTHV DVD Release Schedule

Click HERE for the Universal DVD Release Schedule
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Wednesday 25th October 2000

Anyhoo, after receiving the latest specs on the FOX DVDs (posted Yesterday) I received an e-mail from a chap by the name of "Brendan" asking if our Fight Club DVD was to be the UK cut version or not!
Now I'm wishing he didn't e-mail as I popped on over to the BBFC On-line database and nearly died when Fight Club, The Abyss, Braveheart AND Edward Scissorhands, ALL came up as being cut for UK Cinema AND VIDEO!

Now before you get all pissed off like I did and start smashing your computer telly!   (PCs have feeling to you know!..though they suffer from short term memory :), FOX Author more than 1 DVD version for PAL regions, as I soon discovered doing some net searching.  

Even so, we're not sure if the Australian releases of the above mentioned films will be the exact same UK versions, OR European Uncut versions.  We're waiting for confirmation on this from 20th Century Fox.

OH and get this!!  On the Very recently released Region 2/4 Lost World DVD a SUPPLEMENTAL WAS CENSORED!
Click here for a direct link to the Lost World BBFC Page 
(2 deleted scenes on the 2nd disc of Fight Club are also MIA, though this is more likely from PAL taking up more disc space..I mean they let through the "extra" )

Ever noticed on a WARNER DVD the digits 'D1', 'D2' or 'D3'.  Turns out that these are to do with differing areas where Warner release their DVDs and pretty much determine if they're cut or uncut versions of a particular movie on DVD.

If you pop over to an excellent site called UK DVD CUTS you can get all the skinny on exactly what DVDs have been cut and by how much (though they are really aimed at the region 2 UK market), upcoming cut DVDs and all about these DVD disc zones.

I have to say, not all cuts are bad, some are in fact very well done like the gun-to-the-head sequence in the MA15+ theatrical Aussie cut of Three Kings (Roadshow released the UNCUT version to DVD..see!  they understand!).
I still disagree with Censoring movies, especially IF they are carry the 18+ rating to begin with, whether that being in Australia, the UK or anywhere.
Quite frankly if this is happens to a DVD released in Australia, nine times out of ten I'll be buying the USA version! (unless of course that movie is Scream in which case I'll just suffer and dream about that anamorphic Widescreen uncut German version that I'll never be able to get as you can't buy 18+ German moofies over the Internet :) 

BTW you know the recent controversial release in OZ of the NTSC formatted Region 4 DVD version of ROMEO MUST DIE?
The BBFC On-line database revealed that this movie was cut by 30 seconds to get the UK15 rating, and I'm thinking that Warner might have thought, hmmmm, let's release the UNCUT version in Australia, which is why ours was NTSC.  (please note that is pure speculation at this time, but we have asked Warner if this is the case and are waiting for a reply, though the quote below is also kinda convincing)

Quoted from UK DVD CUTS
New Warner release 'Romeo Must Die' is cut by 30 seconds at the studio's request, to bring the rating down to '15' instead of '18'. Uncut R2 versions will be available in all other countries next year, R1 disc is already available! (Added 01/08/00, updated 08/10/00)

.......More to come on the issue of movie censorship
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Tuesday 24th October 2000

FOX DVD Releases
It seems FOX are going out with all guns blazing this November with one hell of a DVD lineup!!!

This November sees the release of the long waited James Cameron [semi-Epic] The Abyss in BOTH theatrical and Extended cuts, with amples of goodies, Independence Day also gets the special edition treatment with a 2 disc release!.  Fight Club (the DVD that WAS RELEASED in OZ 6 months ago as ...gasp...RENTAL ONLY gets the 2 disc treatment also (though we're only getting the 1 comm track whereas the USA got a whopping FOUR commentary tracks!!...).(check out the final segment of the "behind the Scenes listed on this DVD"!!...oooh-mah!)
And Mel Gibson's Oscar Winning Braveheart comes to us with a commentary and a 2nd special features Disc.

Sadly, Only Fightclub is listed as being Anamorphic Widescreen.  The screen format information supplied for The Abyss and ID4 was a little vague and we're waiting for a reply from FOX as to whether these DVDs are in fact Anamorphic Widescreen (seeing as everything else FOX has been releasing is! )

On the comedy side of things, Mel Brook's excruciatingly funny Young Frankenstein comes as a Special Edition AND is listed as being Anamorphic Widescreen.   Edward Scissorhands and Planet of the Apes say the same thing!!! 

Click HERE for the FOX DVD Release Schedule

MGM DVD Releases
Thru FOX, MGM are set to release 4 Special Edition Anamorphic Widescreen JAMES BOND DVDs this November.
Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me are all loaded to the hilt with featurettes and commentaries.   

Click HERE for the MGM DVD Release Schedule
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Thursday 19th October 2000

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There's a New Kid in Town

Click HERE for the INFOGRAMES PRESS RELEASE

With the exception of ...grrr. Paramount, all the major Studios will have started releasing DVDs to OZ before the end of 2000.  Along the way though have been a few "smaller" players in the DVD Stakes, like DVD Australia who offer and incredibly broad range of DVDs, to Queensland based Magna Pacific who have only really just started to up the ante' on their DVDs with the likes of the upcoming release of the chocka-block filled Man on the Moon DVD. 

The latest player in the DVD stakes is software company INFOGRAMES, who I had never heard of until receiving the press release, but turn out to be a pretty big player in the arena of interactive software.

Horror fans of DVD-Land will no doubt drool when they see some the Classic titles mentioned in the Press Release.
Though little information regarding these titles was mentioned in this press release, I decided to follow up on this and dropped a few e-mails to the Infogrames Promotions Manager in Australia, Rebecca Simpson who had this to say. 

"We'll be primarily releasing region 4 titles, but some of the products we have are open region. Our focus is to release genuine PAL products for the region 4 market."

"Great to hear that you're excited about the Halloween movies we'll be releasing, being such cult slasher films we want to do them justice and release the best versions we can get our hands on. At this stage I don't have final confirmation of the specs, so I'm afraid I can't pass on many details."

"Where it's financially viable and available we're looking to release Widescreen versions as well as 5.1 sound. Obviously not all titles we release will warrant such extensive remastering, but we're doing our best to source as much added value for our products as we can.

"We'd be planning to release 16:9 Widescreen if we can source that version."

Universal to Distribute DVDreamworks!!

Click HERE for the DREAMWORKS PRESS RELEASE

From the way things were going, I was thinking Columbia or The NEW Universal!.  The New Universal won out! 
Though no actual date was announced, fingers crossed it'll be late this year that we'll start to see a few Dreamworks titles hit the shelves.  Dreamworks DVDs will be authored to cater for the Australian, NZ and European territories.  so please please please, let's hope NONE go under the censors knife!

 
CLOCKING UP some 30 years
For nearly 30 years the only way to see Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange in Australia and the UK, was to see it at the moofies, usually as part of a midnight screening the very occasional "limited release" OR import it from Overseas on..gasp VHS, or more recently on DVD, all because it was DENIED Video release at the hands of Kubrick himself (at least that is what I believe is the deal with this moofy)!
HOWEVER, I am assuming because the poor fellow is dead, Warner are set to release this curiously unusual film to DVD in Australia, on 6th November.  No Specs are available just yet, but in usual Kubrick fashion this film was shot in the 1.66:1 format (the USA DVD version is 1.66:1 4x3 matted!)  Check out the DVDFile Region 1 Review which mentions a few things about this.

Warner Release Update
Here's what's coming from the Warner/Buena Vista Clan over the Next 2 months

18th October
Toy Story 2 (BV)

25th Oct
Bringing out the Dead (BV), Jimi Hendrix, Memphis Belle

1st Nov
Little Mermaid 2 (BV), The Insider (BV)

6th Nov
A Clockwork Orange, Black Beauty, Gone with teh Wind, Police Academy, Bonfire of the Vanities, The Towering Inferno, Lethal Weapon box set, Beauty and the Beast - Belle's Enchanted Christmas (BV), Friends series 4 & 5, 2010 - the Year We Made Contact,

15th Nov - all BV
Toy Story, Tarzan, Toy Story - box set,

29th Nov
The Next Best Thing (BV), Fantasia - The Original (BV), Fantasia - 2000 (BV), Deuce Bigalow (BV), An Extremely Goofy Movie (BV), Tom & Jerry's Greatest Chases, Mission to Mars (BV)

PS.  We've added a few of the Film Censor web sites to out Links page
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Friday the 13th....October 2000

Special Features for Final Destination DVD:

• 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 English tracks
• English Subtitles
• Directors Commentary
• Theatrical Trailer
• Deleted Scenes (9 mins)
• Interviews
• Featurette on Premonitions
• Cast and Crew Bios
• 2 games:Psychic Test & Death Clock !

More Reviews
Paul has come out from hiding and has whipped up a couple of reviews.
Luc Besson's followup film to the excellent Fifth Element, in Joan of Arc (what is it with husbands casting their wives in the lead role!!  :) and Arnie having a devil of a time in End of Days
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Tuesday 10th October 2000

FULL GLADIATOR DVD Specs
Set for release on 6th December, Ridley Scott's new Roman Epic, Gladiator, is going to be Region 4's biggest DVD Release Ever. 
Those Columbians are obviously feeling very confident with this as a DVD and are planning on shipping a whopping 100,000 DVD copies to Australia alone! 
Not only with Gladiator be the movie released in OZ on a PAL DVD with a DTS 5.1 audio track (along with a Dolby Digital 5.1 track), but it's coming on 2 dual layered DVDs 'cause it's got sooooo many extras! 

Read it and Drooooooool baby!!!

• 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer
• Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 English only Audio mixes
• Audio Commentary with Director and Crew
• 50 minute Documentary ‘The Bloodsport of a Gladiator’
• 25 minute ‘Making of Gladiator’
• ‘The Treasure Chest’ – a Video Montage of Deleted Footage
• 25 minute Interview with Hans Zimmer - ‘Scoring a Feature’
• 20 minutes of Deleted Scenes with Commentary
• Spencer Treat Clark (Lucius) Production Journal: 100 pages of photos and journal entries
• Storyboard Comparisons
• Photo Gallery
• Production Notes
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailers
• Picture Disc

Click here for Part 2 of the Gladiator Press Release

CTHV/Universal December Lineup
Also out on the 6th December from Columbia and Universal will be The Guns of Navarone : CE, Bats! : CE, Whatever it Takes : CE, An Earlier Ridley Scott film in Someone to Watch Over Me, and FINALLY Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus  (and yes it IS the FULL LENGTH Cut....bath scene and all! ). 
Unfortunately Universal are only going with a Letterboxed Transfer for this great film!  Very Sad indeed.  It really deserves better treatment than this!  

THEN, on the 13th December, is Heavy Metal 2000 (a DVD Exclusive it seems), American Graffiti, 28 Days & I Dream of Africa. 

Click HERE for The CTHV's Decemeber Press Release

Here's the Specs for all of the above

The Guns of Navarone

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English, French and German)
• Audio Commentary with Director
• 30 minute Documentary "Memories of Navarone"
• Five Featurettes "Two Girls on the Town", "Great Guns", "No Visitors", "Honeymoon on Rhodes", "A Message from Carl Foreman"
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

BATS

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English,German)
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE
• Audio Commentary with Director and Cast
• Isolated Music Score
• Special Effects and Storyboard Comparison
• Photo Galleries
• Making of Featurette "Bats Abound"
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

Whatever it Takes

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English,German)
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE
• Audio Commentary with Director and Cast
• Deleted Scenes
• Isolated Soundtrack
• Behind-the-scenes Featurette
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

Someone to Watch Over Me

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Audio (English,French,German,Italian,Spanish)
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer

Spartacus

• NOT-ANAMORPHIC WIDECREEN!!!!
• Dolby Digital 5.1 English , DD 2.0 Surround Audio (French,German,Italian,Spanish)
• Movie Trailer
• Production Notes
• Talent Profiles

Heavy Metal 2000

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English,French, German)
• Five Animatics "Eden Air Flight", "Lizard Fight", "Love Scene", "Julie Bathes", "Final Flight"
• 14 minute Featurette "Super Goddess"
• Animation Tests
• ‘Voice Over’
• Behind-the-scenes Featurette
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

28 Days

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English,German)
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE
• Audio Commentary with Director and Crew
• 24 minutes of Additional Footage
• 10 minutes of Deleted Scenes
• 15 minute ‘Making of’ Featurette
• ‘How to Build A Gum Wrapper Chain’ Instructions
• Isolated Soundtrack
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

I Dream of Africa

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (English,German)
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE
• Audio Commentary with Director
• 15 minute ‘Making of’ Featurette
• Isolated Soundtrack
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

American Graffiti

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround English, DD1.0 (French, German, Italian Spanish)
• 78 minute ‘Making of’ American Graffiti
• Production Notes
• Weblinks
• Talent Profiles
• Movie Trailer
• Picture Disc

POLYGRAM are Back ...but as Universal Pictures Video
After being on Hiatis for Far too long, thanks in part to the Universal buyout of Seagrams, Polygram are back with a new name and all new DVDs.  Now releasing DVDs as Universal Pictures Video, here's what's on the slate for this coming the 8th November.

Click HERE for the Press Release

And specs for each DVD are as Follows

• Anamorphic Widescreen, and 4:3
• Biographies
• Production Notes

Beethoven’s 3rd

• No Picture Format Specified
• Trailers
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE

K-911

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Trailers
• Universal Web Link

Tremors 2

• Widescreen (not Anamorphic)
• Trailers
• Universal Web Link

Darkman 2

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Trailers
• Universal Web Link

Darkman 3

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Biographies
• Universal Web Link

Quadrophenia

• 4x3 Full Frame
• FIRST TIME AVAILABLE ON ANY FORMAT FOR OVER 10 YEARS
• Featurette

Turbulence 2

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• SIMULTANEOUS VHS RELEASE
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Movie Trailer

What Dreams May Come

• Anamorphic Widescreen
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Movie Trailer

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Friday 6th October 2000

So it'll be a another good 5 month til we see any paramount DVDs in OZ :(

Warner's The Perfect Storm DVD should sound EX-cellent
With a release set just in time for Christmas (19th December) The box office smash hit/George Clooney Vehicle The Perfect Storm comes to us with label of the first Aussie OFFICIAL Dolby-EX 5.1 Mix!  Upon speaking to Warner, the only info they had at this time was that Warner O/S told them it's coming in 6.1 baby!   Caught up in the moment I immediately asked if they meant it was to be a Discrete DTS 6.1 mix, but no, it's in Dolby Digital-EX 5.1 :(  It's gonna sound great though.   Unfortunately there are no other specs available for this DVD at press time, but rest assured we'll find out soon.  As is trend with a majority of the WARNER DVDs, "Storm" should be presented on DVD in a very similar manor to its USA Cousin.


Warner/BV Big Releases til Feb 20001
As for the Rest of Warners/BV's  Big DVDs Cass will be jumping jumping jumping with the news that The Tigger Movie (that's spelt T-I-G-G-rrrrrr:) is set for a 1st of November Release.
  
Fantasia 2000 and the Original Fantasia are coming at the end of November, along with the Little Mermaid 2
Oliver Stone's overlooked football movie Any Given Sunday is being given the Deluxe treatment with a 2 box DVD set, and is due out in January 2001.
And one of my favourite leave your brain at the door films for 2000, Gone in 60 Seconds races its way to DVD in February 2001. (please note these dates may change! :)


EXORCIST get's Pulled off the Shelves....Spew'n!
Have you heard that William Friedkin was given the chance to go back and re-tweak his Oscar winning film "The Exorcist" ?
Well THIS MONTH sees the Theatrical Release of this new version in OZ and is being Distributed here by Roadshow's  Theatrical Department (they actually release ALL of Warner's and BV's movies to theatres),
Expect to see a biiig push for this movie.  I saw the New trailer in Sydney the other week and it looked awesome, BUT I have heard that this new version may have been a bit "overdone" to bring it up to the "naughties"  (one scene reportedly has blood completely splattering the screen!) as well as quite a few other CGI added sequences! 

Anyhoo, the original Warner DVD of the Exorcist had been put on Moratorium, as they're doing a Lucas and will be releasing the NEW version to DVD sometime next year.  So if you're a purist get in QUICK to buy up one the last remaining copies of the original before it's too late!

Magna Set to Release a few Anamorphic Widescreen DVDs
After a few lacklustre titles from Magna, I was thrilled to bits to see that at least a couple of their pre-Xmas DVDs will not only have quite a few goodies added, BUT will the Video side of it will be sources from Anamorphic Widescreen Masters.!!! 
While there are still a few too many 4x3 framed DVDs coming from Magna, they have at least recognised the wants and needs of Aussie DVDs and are willing to give us what many of us want n a few of their great titles.

Sadly, Scream is NOT one of these titles and is coming only 4x3 Panned and Scanned.  As Wes Craven's first foray into shooting films in SCOPE (2.35:1) the VHS version of SCREAM that I have seen suffers greatly from cropping and the DVD will be the same with a loss of some 43 percent of the overall image!!!
BTW the RELEASE DATE for SCREAM had been bumped back a few days to 10th November.

So which DVDs will Magna release in all their Anamorphic Widescreen Glory? 
One is the excellent and severely underrated Andy Kaufman bio "Man on the Moon" (click HERE for even more specs)
and the other (which I must say was a tad surprising, but I understand to be an excellent film-ish) The Buena Vista Social Club.   Like Moon, BVSC comes with a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and as extras materials has "special footage",  whatever that means.

More Magna DVDetails
I have to say the it's been difficult to get much info out of some of our Aussie Studios, even after several years of releasing DVDs in this country.  Granted Most have ties with the bigger overseas studios and so even the Aussie divisions have some difficulty finding out what each DVD contains from mum and dad!  So when Magna sent us a very detailed spreadsheet of their DVDs being released til the end of November, it was quite a shock. 
With a slight release Date Delay, SCREAM, Human Traffic, Buena Vista Social Club, Dirty Dancing, and Man on the Moon are all now coming out on the 10th November, so we're only talking about a few days more.

Human Traffic comes to us with a 4x3 transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track, Cast Interviews, Bios, Theatrical Trailer, Music Video, and what's called a "random music selector"  hmmmmm.  OH and it has listed that the menus are moving!

While you will find a majority of the specs by clicking HERE, Below is a list of each DVDs menu formats (just in case you're interested)

- Scream - Moving Menus
- Virus  - Still Menus
- Man on the Moon - Moving Menus
- Dirty Dancing : CE - Moving Menus
- Human Traffic - Moving
- Buena Vista SC - Moving
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Tuesday 3rd October 2000

After a loooooong delay, Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera comes to DVD in OZ (NTSC format). 
Surprisingly, this one is in the dual ratio format.  So one side is Panned & Scanned and the other 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen.  Audio format is Dolby Digital 5.1, and in the extras department we get a photo gallery, Filmograhpies, Trailers, Fangoria Article, interview with the Phantom (Julian 'warlock' Sands), and behind the scenes featurette.  Priced at around $35, Dario's version of phantom should be out next week, AND it's the uncut version!  sweeeeeet.

Latest Reviews
I finally got of my but and did some more reviews.  So here's Dick : Collector's Edition, and eXistenZ (looove that film!)
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