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New DVD’s This Week: Oct.
21

The Adventures of Indiana Jones –
The Complete DVD Movie Collection

After years of waiting, this blockbusting trilogy is finally being released on DVD. The four-disc set includes all three movies starring Harrison Ford as the legendary adventure hero Indiana Jones, a two-fisted, floppy hat-wearing, WWII-era archaeologist and occult expert who fights off the bad guys as he embarks on one quest after another.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indy and his feisty, independent ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) (try to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant before it can fall into the hands of the Nazis.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Indy crash-lands into the wilds of India, where he teams up with a nightclub singer (Kate Capshaw) and a young boy to retrieve a sacred stone stolen by a sinister cult that has also enslaved a remote village’s children.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(1989)

In this prequel to the previous films, Sean Connery costars as a young Indy’s father, who has been kidnapped by the Nazis. Indy battles his way through the rat-filled catacombs of Venice and airborne biplane dogfights to rescue his dad and track down the Holy Grail before the Nazis do.

What’s
Cool:

Featurettes:

More than two dozen new interviews with the cast and crew, some of whom were
interviewed for the first time
Never-before-seen footage, outtakes, screen tests, production drawings and
photographs from the Lucasfilm archives
Visual effects explained: ILM technicians reveal the use of miniatures, matte
paintings, morphing and more to create realistic effects in a pre-CGI era
Original theatrical teasers and trailers
Digitally remastered in full-screen and widescreen format; Dolby Digital
5.1 Surround

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

In the high-octane sequel, fun-lovin’ Angels Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore), and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) are back in all their cleavage-baring, butt kicking glory. Assigned to retrieve two stolen titanium rings which contain valuable encrypted information revealing the new identities of every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program, the girls, along with their trusted colleague, Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac), must find the rings before the thief sells the information to the top mob families around the world. The Angels eventually discover the main perpetrator is ex-Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore).

What’s
Cool:

Special widescreen “unrated” edition
Featurettes: “XXX-Theme Angels,” “Full Throttle: The Cars
of Charlie’s Angels,” “Dream Duds: Costuming
an Angel,” “Designing Angels” The Look of Charlie’s
Angels: Full Throttle,” more
Commentary by director McG
Music video: “Feel Good Time” by Pink

	From Our Review:
	Undeniably, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle is an enjoyably crazy ride –just make sure to leave your disbelief suspended at the door. More. . .

28 Days Later

When a team of animal rights activists frees a group of chimps in a Britain medical facility only to find that they have been ravaged by a strange blood infection, terror quickly escalates. Twenty-eight days later, Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma in a London hospital and finds himself alone in a seemingly deserted city. Seems the virus has spread mysteriously over the country, plunging its victims into a state of murderous rage and leaving few uninfected. With fellow survivors Selena (Naomie Harris) and Frank (Brendan Gleeson), Jim must struggle find the answer to the outbreak that could threaten the security of all life on Earth.

What’s
Cool:

Audio commentaries by director Danny Boyle and writer
Alex Garland
Three alternate endings
Deleted scenes
Featurette: “Pure Rage: The Making of 28
Days Later”

	From Our Review:
	Danny Boyle injects his contemporary horror flick 28 Days Later, a harsh parable of a paranoid society, with an interesting twist that, in a fearful post-9/11, anthrax and smallpox era, seems strangely fitting. More. . .

It Runs in the Family

Three generations of the Gromberg family have had years of difficulty communicating. Trying to avoid the mistakes made by his father, Mitchell (Kirk Douglas), Alex Gromberg (Michael Douglas) balances the roles of son, husband and father to Asher (Cameron Douglas), a rebellious college student, and Eli (Rory Culkin), an 11-year-old with maturity beyond his years. Though they all have very separate lives, the Gromberg family still somehow has time to come together to laugh, cry, fight, and celebrate with one another, occasionally all at once.

What’s
Cool:

Audio commentary with director Fred Schepisi
Featurette: “Making of It Runs in
the Family”
Kirk Douglas documentary
Deleted scenes

	From Our Review:
	Four Douglases, three generations of dysfunctional family angst and two decent performances add up to one lukewarm movie. More. . .

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The Matrix Reloaded

Part II of the Matrix trilogy sees D-Day approaching for the human race, as a massive machine onslaught intended to destroy the remnants of humanity once and for all closes in on Zion. The citizens of Zion rally behind Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and his belief that mankind’s salvation lies in the destiny of “The One”–Neo (Keanu Reeves). With Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) by his side, Neo enters The Matrix and finds there are many more obstacles than were anticipated, including the renegade program Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who is determined to exact revenge on Neo.

What’s
Cool:

Featurettes:

“Preload: Behind-the-Scenes with the Cast and Crew”
“The Freeway Chase: Anatomy of a Mind-Blowing Scene”
“Enter The Matrix: Making of the Ground-Breaking Video Game”
“What is The Animatrix?”
“The Matrix Unfolds: A Look at the Matrix Phenomenon”
“Get Me an Exit: Matrix-Inspired Design Advertising”
“The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded”

	From Our Review:
	Some eye-popping special effects and high stylization aside, The Matrix Reloaded is overwrought, over-philosophized, overindulgent and overlong. It’ll be great on DVD, when you can skip through the nonsense to the parts worth seeing. More. . .

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