August 10, 2004
Freaks
Kill Bill Volume 2
The Lost Boys
The Real Olympics
Sada

August 3 , 2004
Hidalgo
13 Going on 30
Darby O'Gill
Sliders
Knight Rider
The Elvis Collection Gidget
Beaches

July 27, 2004
Hellboy
The Whole Ten Yards
Showgirls
Ned Kelly
Pennies From Heaven
V - The Complete Series
Sledge Hammer
Hells Angels 69
Greendale
You Bet Your Life
Hells Angels 69
Salaam Bombay Dreams
Greendale

July 21, 2004
Bus 174
The Big Bounce
Broken Wings
Confidence
Crimson Gold
The Human Stain
Outfoxed
Starsky & Hutch
Thunderbirds Are Go

July 13, 2004
Against the Ropes
Agent Cody Banks 2
The Barbarian Invasions
The Bourne Identity
The Dreamers
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Project Greenlight 2
Slasher
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Uncovered
Uzumaki
Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise

July 6, 2004
Butterfly Effect
Garage Days
The Line King
Monsieur Ibrahim
My Voyage to Italy
Playboy Presents Rita
Wonder Woman

June 29, 2004
Barbershop 2
Blazing Saddles
Cold Mountain
Independent's Day
A Perfect Score
Stray Cat Rock

June 21, 2004
Bad Santa
Bloody Territories
Elvis - Aloha Hawaii
The Holy Land
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Secret Window

June 15, 2004
50 First Dates
Spartan
The Station Agent
Stepford Wives '75
Touching The Void

Dallas | Duel | Ella Enchanted | Goodfellas | Grafitti Bridge | Happy Days: Season One | Laverne & Shirley | Laws of Attraction | Martin Scorsese Collection | The Munsters | New York Minute | Show Boy | Sugarland Express

Trailer	Laws of Attraction US/Canada Gross: $17.8 million Peter Howitt’s formulaic romance, Laws of Attraction, probably looked great on paper … just like the hundreds of other opposites-attract comedies that preceded it over the last 70 years. This time around, Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan played a pair of big-ticket divorce lawyers, who work opposite ends of the Manhattan marriage-go-round. Turmoil ensues after they get embroiled in the affairs of a celebrity couple (Parker Posey and Martin Sheen) feuding over custody of a castle. Naturally, the attorneys lives get even further complicated when they travel to Ireland to assess the property and -- surprise! --“accidentally” get married. Although this conceit failed to attract much of an audience last spring, the ensemble acting qualifies Laws of Attraction as a date-night DVD for couples who no longer can stomach the thought of going out on a real date. As usual, Posey, Nora Dunn and Frances Fisher contribute mightily in key supporting roles. -- Gary Dretzka
The Trailer	Ella Enchanted US/Canada Gross: $22.9 million In the delightfully fractured fairy tale, Ella Enchanted, Anne Hathaway played a young woman cursed by her fairy godmother to obey all orders, no matter how ridiculous or injurious to her social life. Based on a novel for young adults by Gail Carson Levine, the very offbeat romantic comedy should have found a much larger audience, when it was released in mid-April, especially among fans of Shrek, The Princess Bride and The Princess Diaries. Sadly, this tweener was swamped by the deluge of hype surrounding The Alamo, The Girl Next Door, Kill Bill 2 and The Punisher. It’s kooky charm makes it a perfect fit for the small screen, however, and audiences of all ages should find something to enjoy. Hathaway’s in-character rendition of Queen’s "Somebody to Love" is worth the price of rental, alone. -- Gary Dretzka THB Review: Ella Enchanted should have been Miramax's first major franchise. It has all the elements going in. It's not for everyone. But it is meant to be good kitschy fun and has just enough immaturity to be more easily sequel-able than Bill Goldman's The Princess Bride. But here is the biggest problem… you can't make this movie for less than $100 million unless your director understands what a $100 million idea on a $40 million budget means. It could have worked on the smaller budget. I guess the score stands at chivalry, two, and gratitude, zero.
	Grafitti Bridge US/Canada Gross: $4.6 million Twenty years ago, before he started changing his name and painting graffiti on his face, the Artist Once Again Known as Prince played a cocky Minneapolis-based musician in one of the best rock musicals of all time, Purple Rain. The story focused on “The Kid,” an amazingly charismatic musician struggling to move beyond the ice-fishing capital of the world, but not before he deals with some rather serious personal issues. The music was terrific, of course, as was the depiction of his rivalry with rocker Morris Day. The two-disc 20th anniversary package will thrill any fan of His Purple Highness. Not so swell -- cinematically, at least -- are Prince’s subsequent vanity projects, the truly bizarre Under the Cherry Moon and Purple Rain sequel, Graffiti Bridge. For some reason, Prince decided he was capable of writing, directing, scoring and starring in movies, while also touring, feuding with record companies and coming up with new identities. His recent tour proved he can still rock with the best of ’em, though, so the resurfacing of these DVDs likely will come as good news to a new generation of fans. -- Gary Dretzka
	The Munsters: Season One The Munsters didn’t enjoy nearly as long a tenure -- only two years -- on television as Dallas, but its memory lingers as if it had. The show’s first season is now available in a three-disc package. Even 40 years removed from the mock-Gothic-horror sitcom’s debut, seeing Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis and Butch Patrick posing as a family of mismatched Universal monsters still makes me laugh. -- Gary Dretzka Herman and Lilly Munster were the first married couple in a TV series to share the same bed. The Theme Song | The Little-Known And Never Broadcast Lyrics To The Munsters Theme Song
	Dallas: The Complete First & Second Seasons If any television show encapsulated all the glamour, greed and ethical depravity of America’s Me Decade, the ’80s, it was CBS’ ground-breaking prime-time soap opera, Dallas. Not only did this guilty pleasure spawn dozens of similar series -- and spoofs -- but Larry Hagman’s wicked Texas oilman, J.R. Ewing, also may have inspired such kindred spirits as Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Martha Stewart. The five-disc Dallas: The Complete First and Second Seasons includes the show’s first 29 episodes, interviews and a reunion special. Even after 25 years, the early Dallas episodes are probably better than 90 percent of the stuff you’ll see on the networks’ fall schedules. You’ll have to wait a while to be reminded who shot J.R., however, as that headline-making crime didn’t occur until Episode No. 54. -- Gary Dretzka Never Be Without Your Episode Guide
	New York Minute US/Canada Gross: $14.1 million MCN Review: The Olsens are mistaken a few times for Paris and Nicky Hilton. They're half-naked an awful lot, these two 17-year-old nubiles in peril. "Mild sensuality" is the ratings board's verdict. At least until it gets to a place where Levy-like and Richter-like characters have their fingers on the pause button. The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres.
	Duel & Sugarland Express Before Steve Spielberg a household name in Hollywood, two smallish films -- one made specifically for the small screen, both on a shoe-string budget -- helped convince Universal that this unknown director of television shows might be the perfect person to put in charge of its promising summer thriller, Jaws. Good decision. Spielberg’s innate ability to tell stories and sustain suspense made Duel and The Sugarland Express stand out from the pack. They were smart, commercial and, above all, entertaining. In Duel, Dennis Weaver engages in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the faceless driver of a hell-bent 18-wheeler. In The Sugarland Express, Goldie Hawn played it uncharacteristically straight as a manic ex-con desperate to free her husband from prison, and prevent Texas authorities from turning over their child to adoptive parents. Both films remain quite wonderful. -- Gary Dretzka
The Trailer	Goodfellas US/Canada Gross: $46.8 million I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? Tommy (Joe Pesci) kills Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) by beating him in Goodfellas. In Raging Bull, Pesci's character nearly beat Vincent's character to death. But Frank Vincent finally gets revenge in Casino where he kills Joe Pesci's character in a cornfield. The F-word- in various forms - is used 246 times.
	The Martin Scorsese Collection After Hours, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Who's That Knocking At My Door? Included in Warners’ The Martin Scorsese Collection are three new-to-DVD titles -- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, After Hours, and Who's That Knocking at My Door? -- that are noteworthy more as career landmarks than for their pure entertainment value. The other two contributions, Goodfellas and Mean Streets, both classics, are being presented as “special editions,” with fascinating commentary and other compelling extras. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and After Hours demonstrate Scorsese’s early ability to move nimbly between indie and mainstream camps, while also being able to drop in certain signatures touches. Who’s That Knocking …? not only represents the film debuts of both Scorsese and Harvey Keitel, but it also introduces such recurring Scorsese subtexts as the twin anchors of repressed sexuality and Catholic guilt; the seductive nature of thug life; and the enduring relevancy of vintage rock ’n’ roll. -- Gary Dretzka
	Showboy Lindy Heymann and Christian Taylor’s quirky mockumentary, Showboy, describes what might have happened after a key writer was fired from his gig on a hit HBO series, and, still in shock, became obsessed with the possibility of becoming a chorus boy in a Las Vegas revue. Not that he knew how to dance, mind you. It was just something he always wanted to do. Although a bit too sloppy around the edges, Showboy combines all the goofy pathos of a reality-based TV series with the understated humor of a Waiting for Guffman. In his earnest pursuit of the impossible dream, Taylor inadvertently comes much closer to dramatizing the real challenges faced by dancers of either gender, than 90 percent of documentaries that have purported to do the same thing. Whoopi Goldberg, Siegfried & Roy and “Six Feet Under” creator Alan Ball make cameo appearances. -- Gary Dretzka
	Happy Days : Season One Long before Wisconsin was known primarily as a refuge for people who wore slabs of cheese on their heads at sporting events, it was home to the characters in Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. The first seasons of both of those hugely popular sitcoms now are available on DVD, from Paramount, and are far more interesting for what they might have been than what they turned out to be … although, who can argue with success? The first season of Happy Days, especially, promised an edgy period humor that evaporated after in subsequent stanzas, as Henry Winkler’s Fonz devolved from an ominous grease ball (an echo of his character in The Lords of Flatbush) to the Bowzer-next-door with a D.A. haircut. -- Gary Dretzka Mrs. Cunningham was the only character to ever address Fonzie by his first name. Take The Happy Days Quiz
	Laverne & Shirley: Season One Laverne and Shirley inherited their apartment from Felix Unger and Oscar Madison when The Odd Couple was cancelled. The Fonz showed up, as well, to introduce Shotz brewery bottle-cappers Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in the Happy Days spinoff. The working-class vibe never felt terribly real, but the interplay with the girls’ goofball neighbors -- Lenny (Michael McKean) and Squiggy (David L. Lander) -- was consistently enjoyable. It would be interesting to see how HBO or Showtime would handle a grittier remake of either series, using less cartoonish characters. Not much in the way of extras. -- Gary Dretzka Are you Laverne or Shirley? Take the Quiz Get the Album: Laverne & Shirley SIng The Theme Song Lyrics | Sing Along With The Theme Song
	Babylon 5 Hidden in the depths of its sci fi universe, with aliens - both friendly and not - is an allegory to the futility of war, the destructive price it levies and the dangers of intolerance. Created from the beginning as a five year story, each episode moves towards the final showdowns in years four and five.
August 10, 2004
Freaks Kill Bill Volume 2 The Lost Boys The Real Olympics Sada