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August 13th :Oh, to be sure to be sure, it’s the Westlife Story on DVD…
Five boys, five No.1 hits, six videos and an hour-long documentary about12 months in the life of.
The Westlife Storyis online and out on DVD now.
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August 12th :Mad Max-it with Red Dog on Sega Dreamcast…
Flashy graphics, loud gunfire, but where’s the gameplay?
Red Dogis online and out on Sega Dreamcast now.
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August 11th :Grunt along with the WWF Summerslam 99 on DVD…
Hard working sportsmen and women… or overpaid actors? You decide.
WWF Summerslam 99is online and out on DVD now.
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David Gray climbs the White Ladder on CD…
Regular DVDfever reviewer Jason Maloney returns with a review of thenew album from a man who’s only just come to the fore, but he’s long sincebeen at the three…
David Gray: White Ladderis online and out on CD now.
Updated cinema listings…
Stuck for something to do this weekend? Live in the Manchester area? The listof the films showing at Manchester Showcase Cinemacan be found on this page.
This week’s new films are : Rules of Engagement, My Dog Skip, Wedding Tackleand a review of bothM:I-2andGone in 60 Secondsare online now.
August 10th :Ewan McGregor is the Rogue Trader on DVD…
Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel are the new happily-married couplefor whom life goes seriously wrong when Ewan, as Nick Leeson, bets the farmon the wrong horse.
Rogue Traderis online and out on DVD now.
Check out the COMPETITION page to win a copy of this DVD.
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August 9th :Take a trip with the Dinosaurs on DVD…
Kenneth Branagh narrates the ground-breaking TV series in fullcomplete with a ‘making of’ programme and if you enjoyed this, check outDavid Attenborough‘s Living with Dinosaurs which startstonight on BBC1 at 8pm.
Walking with Dinosaursis online and out on DVD now.
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All change on the Universal DVD front…
Thanks to Marcus Harben from Media Group for the phone update I receivedyesterday regarding the forthcoming DVD releases as stated on Sunday.
It appears that many of these titles are subject to change and we shouldhave full details shortly of those changes. However, two new additions whichare destined to make it are The Best of Elton John (20 tracks, £17.99)and The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl (11 track, £17.99), theironly live recording. The latter in their original line-up is one band I’dreally like to see play live, but it’s a bit difficult since their lead singer,one Jim Morrison, died the year before I was born…
More news on the other discs as I receive it.
August 8th :Shh… It’s the Silence of the Se7en Bone Collectors on DVD…
Released this week :
Denzel Washington‘s a cripple but a duff plot device won’t stop himfrom cracking the case of madman murderer with a penchant for stealing bitsof bone from his victims, as long as Angelina Jolie joins him.
The Bone Collectoris online and out on DVD now.
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Granada Media DVDs coming soon…
Thanks to theR2 Projectfor the following info which I’m due to receive shortly and after hearingabout it I’m trying to get confirmation whether Cold Feet will bein 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (I sincerely hope so!)
The majority of the titles just announced contain extras including is somecases commentaries from cast, crew and authors. Here’s what they have planned,all are in their original 4:3 ratio except where noted:
- Cold Feet The complete series 1 11th September. 2*DVD9, running time 355 minutes. The sound is Dolby Surround and the DVD also features the original ITV pilot episode. Price is £24.99
- Cold Feet The complete series 2 23rd October. 2*DVD9, running time 321 minutes. The sound is Dolby Surround and the DVD also features a behind the scenes featurette and a photo gallery. Price is £24.99
- The Best of the Darling Buds of May 1 11th September. Featuring 3 of the best feature length episodes. DVD9 + DVD5, running time 140 minutes. The sound is Stereo and the DVD also features a photo gallery. Price is £24.99
- Jeeves & Wooster The Complete 1st series 23rd October. DVD9 + DVD5, running time 250 minutes. The sound is Stereo and the DVD also features a photo gallery and a commentary from the editor of Wooster Sauce. Price is £19.99
- The Best of Rising Damp 23rd October. Five episodes of theclassic 70s series including 2 that have never before been available on videoor DVD. Running time 140 minutes. The sound is mono and the DVD alsofeatures a photo gallery and a commentary from the UK’s leading RisingDamp author. Price is £19.99
- The Royle Family The Complete 2nd series 6th November. DVD9 , running time 175 minutes. The sound is Stereo and the DVD also features a photo gallery and the 1999 Christmas Special episode. Price is £19.99
- An Audience with Tom Jones 23rd October. DVD5 , running time 73minutes. The sound is Stereo and the DVD also features a photo gallery. This disk is presented with a 16:9 anamorphic picture. The performersinclude Mick Hucknall, Cerys Matthews and Tommy Scott from Space. Price is£19.99
- An Audience with Billy Connolly 20th November. DVD5 , running time 55 minutes. The sound is Stereo. This was his legendary 1985 performance in front of a celebrity audience for London Weekend Television Price is £19.99
August 7th :Nicolas Cage is Gone in 60 Seconds at the cinema…
Out now :
Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie and Vinnie Jones are amongst thecar thieves attempting to steal 50 cars within 24 hours. Will they make it?What do you think…
Gone in 60 Secondsis online and out at the cinema now.
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KISS Psycho Circus – the band get their own game on PC…
New DVDfever reviewer Nathan Rose from the other side of the pondtakes an in-depth look at a game that hasn’t been released in the UK yetbut sounds like another good first-person-shooter.
KISS Psycho Circusis online now.
COMPETITION: Rogue Trader & Sleepy Hollow on DVD…
Click on the COMPETITION heading on the left for a chance to wina copy on DVD of this film which is out on DVD now and a review will be postedonline later in the week.
The winner of the Sleepy Hollow competition was Pat Griffinand I shall pass their details to Fox’s PR dept. immediately.
Will Robbie’s striptease gain him the No.1 spot…?
To find out the answer – and to see last week’s chart – visit mymusic chart analysis page
What do you think of the state of the charts? Why not discuss it onthe newTalk Talk Forum forum.
Alec Guinness dies at 86…
Veteran actor Alec Guinness has died in hospital, aged 86.
He was taken to King Edward VII hospital in West Sussex on Thursday and diedon Saturday. He was one of the last surviving members of Britain’s greatestgeneration of actors, which included Laurence Olivier and RalphRichardson.
Alec Guinness (right) married playwright Merula Salaman in 1938and they lived near Petersfield, Hampshire. They had one son, Matthew.
Of the many films he appeared in during his career spanning over 60 years,they included Ealing comedies, Bridge on the River Kwai (1959) – forwhich he won an Oscar, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and, of course, asObi Wan Kenobi, first in Star Wars (1979).
He was born on April 2nd, 1914.
Alec Guinness, 1914-2000 R.I.P.
New DVDs and widescreen videos out this week
DVDs out this week include :
- ABBA: Forever Gold (19.99, Universal)
- Beethoven (19.99, Columbia TriStar)
- Body Shots (19.99, Entertainment in Video)
- Bone Collector (19.99, Columbia TriStar)
- K-911 (15.99, Universal)
- The Land Before Time (19.99, Universal)
- The Land Before Time 2 (19.99, Universal)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (19.99, Columbia TriStar)
- Shania Twain Live (19.99, Universal)
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (19.99, Buena Vista)
Widescreen videos out this week include :
- Boys on the Beach (15.99, Tartan)
- Last Hurrah for Chivalry (13.99, dub, MIA)
August 6th :Go, Go, Inspector Gadget on DVD…
Special effects galore, but lasting not much longer than an hour, MatthewBroderick is the eponymous hero and Rupert Everett is the evilDr. Claw.
Inspect Gadgetis online and out on DVD now.
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Universal DVD releases for September/October…
Thanks to Media Group for the DVD Press Pack I’ve received detailing theirreleases for September and October.
- September 4th :
- High Noon: The classic western starring Gary Cooper,in mono with English subtitles and presented in 4:3 fullscreen. Extraswill include a 24-minute featurette, photo gallery, original film posterand a trailer.
- The Quiet Man: John Ford directs John Wayne inthis Oscar-winning classic, in 4:3 fullscreen, mono sound and Englishsubtitles. Extras include a booklet, a photo gallery and other extras TBA.
- September 18th :
- Blood Simple: One of the early Coen brothers films starringFrances McDormand, with English subtitles and in 16:9 widescreen.
- I.D.: A superb and hard-hitting drama about football violenceand what happens when policeman Reece Dinsdale gets way too involved.Also starring Warren Clarke, Sean Pertwee and Saskia Reeves,the only info given is that it’s in 4:3 fullscreen. We have been promised”extra features” when it’s out though.
- Mulholland Falls: Gangster film starring Nick Nolte, JohnMalkovich and Michael Madsen, but in 4:3 fullscreen surprisinglyand a Dolby Stereo soundtrack. Extras will include a photo gallery andbiographies.
- September 25th :
- Southern Comfort: Gritty thriller directed by Walter Hilland with a score by Ry Cooder, the disc contains a trailer, is inDolby Digital 5.1 sound, 16:9 widescreen and contains English subtitles.
- October 23rd :
- Dragonheart: A New Beginning: TV sequel to the Sean Connery-voicedoriginal, but the only big star here is the return of Pete Postlethwaitewho isn’t mentioned in the press release. No extras are mentioned, nor is aprice but it runs for 81 mins.
August 5th :Gormengreat or Gormenghastly? It’s out now on DVD…
With a wealth of talent onscreen and lots of money ploughed into the set-design,can this over-ambitious BBC drama go the distance?
Gormenghastis online and out on DVD now.
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PS2 delayed until November 24th…
Thanks to theR2 Projectfor the following info which I’ve been trying to get out of Sony but haven’theard back from them yet.
Sony Computer Entertainment Announces Price and New Launch Date for PlayStation®2
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe yesterday announcedthat it would be releasing its PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systemat recommended retail prices of £299 in the United Kingdom, FF2990 inFrance and DM869 in Germany. All other European prices are aligned with thevarying trade margins and VAT rates across the European markets.
SCEE also confirmed that due to unprecedented consumer demand forPlayStation 2 in Japan, it would be realigning the launch date in Europe toNovember 24th. Since its Japanese debut on March 4th 2000, a staggering 3million PlayStation 2 units have been shipped, making it one of the mostsuccessful electronic entertainment product launches ever.
A total of 10 million PlayStation 2 units are forecast to be shippedworld-wide this financial year, with three million of those expected to beshipped to SCEE territories. With over 40 PlayStation 2 titles due forrelease before Christmas, both retail and consumers can look forward to avery exciting period in the history of computer entertainment.
In announcing the price and adjusted release date, Chris Deering, Presidentof SCEE, said: “PlayStation 2s performance continues to exceed even themost optimistic forecasts in Japan. This revised launch date allows us toprovide increased quantities to retail day one. In fact, we will beshipping many times the number of PlayStation units when it was released inSeptember 1995. We believe that our recommended retail price pointrepresents great value for money for consumers offering interactiveentertainment, DVD-video and future-proof technology poised to lead thebroadband revolution.
In commenting on the move, Ken Kutaragi, President and CEO of Sony ComputerEntertainment Inc. said: ‘SCEI has shipped it’s 3 millionth unit ofPlayStation 2 in Japan. This record-breaking strong demand allows us tolook to the future with great confidence. Just as PlayStation broughtinteractive gaming to an unprecedented mass market, PlayStation 2s fusionof games, music and video will open the doors to new entertainmentexperiences in the home.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is responsible for the marketing,sales and distribution of the PlayStation video games console and thePlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. SCEE also develops, publishes,markets and distributes software and manages the third party licensingprogrammes for these two platforms in the PAL territory markets of Europe,Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. SCEE is a subsidiarydivision of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
No other system has created as much excitement and support amongst thesoftware development community as the PlayStation 2 computer entertainmentsystem. Currently over 480 publishers and developers have signedPlayStation 2 license agreements and more than 400 software titles arecurrently in development world-wide. Backing has also been strong amongtool and middleware developers, whose products ensure an environment inwhich software developers can create the very best entertainment contentfor PlayStation2.
To date a record-breaking 74 million PlayStation units have been shippedworld-wide and over 3 million PlayStation 2 units have shipped in Japansince 4th March 2000, making it one of the most successful consumerelectronic product launches of all time.
BBC videos released in September…
Tinsel Town leads the charge for BBC’s videos next month – the nameof a club that’s central to the search for weekend pleasure for a group ofyoung-twentysomethings trying to balance love, work and relationships inGlasgow.
It comes on three videos for £14.99 each, or a boxset for £29.99,totalling 6½hours and you can check it out on BBC2 from this Monday(Aug 7th) from 11.20pm each week.
September 4th sees BBC release :
Holy Smoke and the Sex Pistols coming sooner…
Thanks to VCI for the info that both Holy Smoke and The Filth andThe Fury have been brought forward to September 11th.
The date applies to the DVD and rental VHS of the former, plus the DVDand rental/retail VHS of the latter.
August 4th :Way down deep in the middle of the Congo on DVD…
Released this week :
If you go down to the woods today, you’ll get a big surprise in the form ofgorillas hell-bent on killing humans when… oh, to hell with the explanationjust read the review…
Congois online and out on DVD from this week.
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Wallace and Gromit and more BBC DVDs…
Thanks to theR2 Projectfor the following info. I presume my copy of the press release is stuck in the post.
“We have had official confirmation from BBC Worldwide’s Children’s unit of it’s planned out put for the Christmas market. Most of these titles have been reported elsewhere before but there is one surprise to me:
- Wallace and Gromit Available in the UK for the first time , all three Wallace and Gromit films will make there appearance on one BBC DVD on November 6th.
The disk will feature A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave with a total running tiome of 96 minutes, the PR statesthis will be straight lay of the films althoughthe BBC’s PR people tell me it will have additional footage “The Amazing Worldof Wallace and Gromit” although we don’t know the length.
The price will be £19.99.
- There will be 2 Teletubbies disks for Autumn both priced at £16.99. Dance with the Teletubbies + Here come the Teletubbies will be releasedon the 18th of September. Teletubbies in the Snow + Happy Christmas fromthe Teletubbies will be released 30th of October.
- For slightly older children there will be two Tweenies disks. On the 9th of October there will be Animal friends + Party games, Giggleand Laughs running to over 100 minutes and featuring animated menus. On the 30th ofOctober there will be Merry Tweenie Christmas a complete Christmaspackage. Both disks will be priced at £16.99
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Friends Series 6 on DVD…
Thanks to theR2 Projectfor the following info :
“Warner’s PR have finally confirmed a long standing rumour on the net that Friends Series 6 will be released on DVD in October. The likely date will be the 16th. From dealers sheets we believe there will be 3 diskspriced at £24.99. Disk 1 will have eps, 1-8, disk 2 will be 9-16 and disk 3eps 17-24.”
August 3rd :Huh-huh… Beavis and Butthead Do America on DVD…
Released this week :
MTV’s Beavis and Butthead get up to all manner of idiotic thingsin their plan for world domination, or something like that. The questionis, does anyone still remember them?
Beavis and Butthead Do Americais online and out on DVD from this week.
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Miami Vice heads for video next month…
THE HEAT IS STILL ON WITH MIAMI VICE NOW ON VIDEO
Under the hot pink neon lights where guns and tough street action meet withglamour and fast cars, ‘Miami Vice’ captured a look and a lifestyle that wasemulated across the globe but that could only belong to the 80’s.
Whether you were an eighties guy or girl, the chances are that you wanted apiece of perma-tanned Don Johnson and his Ferrari Daytona Spider.(DVDfever Ed: I thought it was a Ferrari Testarossa?)And now you can have it as the world of ‘Miami Vice’ becomes available tobuy on two sizzling videos from 4th September.
In what was undoubtedly the definitive 80’s cop show, Don Johnson starred astough but cool Detective Sonny Crockett with his vice squad sidekick, thebold and bad Detective Ricardo Tubbs and, of course, his pet crocodileElvis.
Riding high on a Miami wave of 80’s nostalgia, Volume 1 introduces viewersto the world of the vice squad in the original feature-length two-hour pilotshow where the two cops first meet in difficult circumstances on the trailof a Colombian drug baron.
Volume 2 contains two classic first series episodes, ‘No Exit’ and ‘Give ALittle, Take A Little’. Produced by Starsky & Hutch’s David Soul, ‘No Exit’sees Fed agents join Crockett and Tubbs to stop an arms dealer (played byBruce Willis complete with hair and baggy white 80’s trousers) from sellingstingers.
In ‘Give A Little, Take A Little’ Crockett goes downhill as he gets jailedfor refusing to name an informant tied to a crime boss.
So what are you waiting for… book a course of 10 at your local Costa DelSolarium, dust-off the lilac suit, rev-up the motor and head off to Petworldfor something less tame than a terrapin. Miami Vice is back and the heat ismost definitely still on…
Both videos released on 4th September 2000 by Playback,RRP £9.99 each, Certificate 15.
Updated cinema listings…
Stuck for something to do this weekend? Live in the Manchester area? The listof the films showing at Manchester Showcase Cinemacan be found on this page.
This week’s new films are : Gone in 60 Seconds, The Road to El Doradoand a review of M:I-2is online now.
August 2nd :Bjorn-Free: Picard engages the Borg in Star Trek First Contact on DVD…
Released this week :
Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Alfre Woodard and JamesCromwell reinvent the wheel and go back in time with the Borg queenAlice Krige in one of the better films from the Trek stable.
Star Trek First Contactis online and out on DVD from this week.
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Robin Williams stars in Jakob the Liar on DVD…
Regular DVDfever reviewer Jason Maloney takes a look at this dramastarring Robin Williams, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Alan Arkin.
Jakob The Liaris online and out on DVD now.
Want those Kinowelt DVDs in the UK…?
After reading the news piece for Sunday and Monday, do you want those 240beauties winging their way to us in the fullness of time? Then pay a visitto theR2 Projectwhere Andy C has a full press release from Momentum Pictures whowill be the UK arm of the operation.
August 1st :Do it all in a day with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on DVD…
Released this week :
Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Jeffrey Jones and the delectableMia Sara star in one of my favourite comedies, in which the principalcharacter does exactly what we’d all like to have done in his shoes – skipschool for the day and make it count.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Offis online and out on DVD from this week.
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