Oct 13, 2004
Ken Burns'
America Collection
The Day After Tomorrow
The Five Obstructions
I'm Not Scared
That's Entertainment
Shawshank Redemption
Valentin

Oct 6, 2004
Aladdin
Fahrenheit 9/11
Jesus of Montreal
Untouchables
Get Ready of Halloween

Sept 28, 2004
The Alamo
American Pimp
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fly Jefferson Airplane
The Hunting of a President
Maxim Presents:
The Real Swimsuit
Super Size Me

Sept 21, 2004
Coffee & Cigarettes
How To Draw A Bunny
La Dolce Vita
MADtv First Season
Mean Girls
Rounders

Sept 14, 2004
Angels In America
Home On The Range
Man On Fire
THX-1138
50 Years Of Playmates
Young Adam

Sept 7 , 2004
American Dreams
Bullwinkle & Rocky Show
Clerks
Darby O'Gill & The Little People
Dogville
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Ladykillers
Magnum P.I.
The Passion of the Christ
The Punisher
Shaolin Soccer
Wattstax

August 23, 2004
Dallas
Duel
Ella Enchanted
Goodfellas
Grafitti Bridge
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Laws of Attraction
Martin Scorsese Collection
The Munsters
New York Minute
Show Boy
Sugarland Express

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

Control Room | Ed Wood: Special Edition | Eden | SCTV: Volume 2 | Tom & Jerry
Van Helsing | Waiting For Fidel

Trailer | News & Reviews	Van Helsing US/Canada Gross: $120.25 million In one way, at least, it’s sort of too bad for creative team behind Van Helsing that Universal has decided to release its special-effects-laden thriller at the same time as compilations of The Mummy, Creature From the Black Lagoon and Invisible Man series (the second installment in Universal’s Monster Legacy collection). Even though Stephen Sommers’ monster mash is filled with appreciative homage to those classics -- and almost certainly will rock the best-seller charts -- it will pale in comparison to the originals, if only from an artistic point of view. As easy on the eyes as Kate Beckinsale and Hugh Jackman may be, they’re no match for Sommers’ blitzkrieg of over-the-top CGI action, which will be of primary interest to teenage boys. The extras package includes commentary by Sommers, editor/producer Bob Duscay and actors Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley and Will Kemp; a tour of Dracula's Castle; the obligatory making-of featurette; and an introduction to the Van Helsing Xbox game. The originals, of course, can stand on their own as fully self-contained entertainments. -- Gary Dretzka The Hot Button Review: For me, Van Helsing became a lost cause in the first two scenes and most surely within the first 25 minutes. We open on a black & white scene of Dracula at Frankenstein's castle that has all the dramatic panache of a supervillain gathering in an old episode of Batman or perhaps Scooby-Doo. MCN Review: Bram Stroker’s Abraham Van Helsing was sixty and, perhaps, a distant relative of Jackman’s Gabriel Van H. One can recognize the allure of transforming him into a superhero but in so doing it seriously unbalances the stakes between the incarnation of evil and a mere mortal.
Trailer	Control Room US/Canada Gross: $2.5 million There's a pre-election flood of politically-oriented DVDs, including Jehane Noujaim's Control Room (Lions Gate), the talented filmmaker's vivid, necessary verite eavesdropping behind the scenes on Al-Jazeera satellite television during the onset of the war in Iraq. Greg Palast's Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, collates his dogged, exceptional investigative reporting for the BBC on the shenanigans behind the 2000 election and the history of the Bush dynasty, marred, unfortunately, by Palast's "gumshoe" shtick with trenchcoat and floppy hats. - Ray Pride THB Review: Noujaim's film covers a surprising range of subjects, getting more complex as the American invasion of Iraq progresses. The film is being headlined as being about Al Jazeera, but it is more about the media and the mechanics of dealing with the smoke and mirrors and dangers of war. Pride, Unprejudiced: Where several colleagues and I found delicate balance, a handful of others have scorned Jehane Noujaim's verite stunner The Control Room, such as City Pages' Rob Nelson, who wrote in the Village Voice, "Some viewers would beg to differ with my reading of Control Room as a highly effective recruiting film for Al Jazeera. (Where do I send my resume?)" It seemed representative of the sort of weary, glib writing out of 2004 Sundance.
Trailer	Ed Wood: Special Edition US/Canada Gross: $5.89 million Over the span of a quarter-century, Edward D. Wood Jr. contributed to more than three-dozen films that helped define “cult classic” for a generation of international film buffs. His magnum opus, Plan 9 From Outer Space, which featured a post-humous appearance by Bela Lugosi, was so ineptly constructed that it received the inaugural Golden Turkey Award as "The Worst Movie of All Time." Today, of course, the same could be said for any one of a dozen pictures inspired by characters on Saturday Night Live. Ten years ago, however, in the delightfully offbeat biopic Ed Wood, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp not only were able to make sense of the legendary cross-dresser’s bizarre Hollywood career, but also capably demonstrate how even the shlockiest of bad movies can possess some redeeming value. Its DVD incarnation, Ed Wood: Special Edition, rewards fans of Wood and Burton with commentaries by the director and actor Martin Landau (who won an Oscar for his portrayal of the dissipated Lugosi); deleted scenes, including one with Bill Murray singing "Que Sera Sera" with a mariachi band in a meat locker; and behind-the-scenes footage, hosted by Johnny Depp. If the bonus material on the DVD fails to quell one’s appetite for Woodiana, though, its worth remembering that Image Entertainment recently unleashed its “The Ed Wood Box” ($39.99), which includes several of his greatest flops. -- Gary Dretzka Edward D. Wood, Jr. : Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. Editor on Studio Lot : You forgot the octopus. Edward D. Wood, Jr. : No, no, I'm saving that for my big underwater climax.
	Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection Like the late, great Rodney Dangerfield, feuding cartoon critters Tom and Jerry never got any respect … especially from those purists who favored the animated antics of characters in the Looney Tune and Disney shorts. Ever since they were introduced in 1940 (as Jasper and Jerry), though, audiences have delighted in the MGM duo’s long-running game of cat-and-mouse. While clearly the creation of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the shorts also were informed by the talents of Friz Freleng, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. The Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection two-disc set includes 40 restored and re-mastered cartoons, including those nominated for Academy Awards; commentary by historian Jerry Beck; a look at the MGM Orchestra’s contributions to the franchise; scenes from their live-action collaborations with Gene Kelly and Esther Williams. -- Gary Dretzka
	Eden Even in its inaugural run on the Playboy Channel, back in 1992, Eden barely caused a ripple of excitement outside the rather restricted universe of squishy soft-core porn. A wish-fulfillment series lifted from the same mold that informed Fantasy Island, Eden was most noteworthy for its occasional glimpses of actual T&A … and, of course, some impossibly hunky guys. The acting and dialogue were laughable, even by cable standards of the period, and the sex wasn’t all that convincing, either (no pubies, please). Looking at it 12 years later, though, via Image’s three-disc Eden: The Complete Series, it’s entirely possible to foresee a time in the not-too-distant future when the broadcast networks might be desperate enough for ratings to experiment with some soft-core trysts of their own, if only on a separate child-proof digital stream. To compete more effectively with HBO, Showtime and FX, network brass might elect to strip a few more inches of fabric from the bikinis and cocktail dresses worn on such steamy prime-time soaps as Las Vegas, The OC and North Shore, and give American males what they really want to see: nipples. Uncensored versions of Jerry Springer, Blind Date and The 5th Wheel already are being offered by cable providers, so it would only be a very short leap to do the same with such deliberately naughty series as Desperate Housewives, The Bachelor and The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Ironically, Barbara Alyn Woods, who plays the Ricardo Montalban part in Eden, may have made TV history in 1997 by effectively making the transition from the soft-core strip-a-thons, into which she was most often thrown, to Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. Good for her. -- Gary Dretzka
	SCTV, Volume 2 Following hard on the heels of its essential SCTV, Volume 1: Network 90, Shout! Factory’s SCTV, Volume 2 offers more of the same irreverent hilarity from the Canadian troupe’s tenure on NBC. In addition to nine 90-minute episodes from the show’s fourth season, the five-disc set includes an hour-and-a-half of unreleased material; commentaries by Dave Thomas, Dick Blasucci, writer John McAndrew, Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara; and a 24-page booklet with lots of photos and an essay by television critic Howard Rosenberg. Among the many highlights are the program-length Godfather parody, in which Don Caballero (Joe Flahrety) launches an all-out network war; several editions of television’s first talk-and-slurp show, “The Great White North”; the ritual blowing up of celebrities, on “The Farm Film Report”; and Eugene Levy’s inspired take on The Jazz Singer. If the good Lord has a sense of humor, a third set will arrive soon and include the half-hour shows from Second City TV, which originated in Canada from 1976-81, and installments of Cinemax’s SCTV Channel from 1983-84.. -- Gary Dretzka
	Waiting For Fidel A long unseen, very funny predecessor to the comic, self-centered documentary essays of Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore is out on DVD, Australian-Canadian filmmaker Michael Rubbo's very funny Waiting for Fidel (Facets). In 1974, Rubbo set out with Joey Smallwood, the septuagenarian socialist former premier of Newfoundland and Geoff Stirling, a broadcasting millionaire-""he's not coming down here to swallow this Communism"-- to get a day to interview Fidel Castro on his own turf. Castro leaves them waiting… and waiting… They take the sun, drink, prepare lists of questions at the beach or around the pool. The seemingly informal give-and-take on politics in Cuba and Canada, as well as their perceptions of the contrasts between socialism and capitalism, are digressive but telling. (Extras include the now-older Rubbo and Stirling's amusing reminiscences.) - Ray Pride