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Timber Falls Weird In All The Wrong Ways

Rifkin Eberts' 'Timber Falls' dvd box art
Rifkin Eberts

In what has to be one of the stranger what-were-they-thinking films I've seen lately, a young, good-looking couple is on a hiking trip in West Virginia when they fall prey to deep-woods hillbillies who kidnap them for their own twisted agenda.

Think you've seen it before? Well, yeah, kinda. TimberContinued

On DVD: Mad Money and Women on Film

Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton and Katie Holmes in Overture Films' 'Mad Money'
Overture Films

So I wrote the other day about why there are so few women at the multiplex this summer -- a riff on a similar complaint by The New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis -- but then along this week comes Mad Money on DVD, which had its theatrical release just this past January. It's not summer… Continued

TV on DVD: The Adams Chronicles, DNA (Complete Series One and Two)

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Acorn Media

Our TV-on-DVD picks of the week both come from Acorn Media, our fave distributor of first-rate British and Canadian TV on DVD. They are The Adams Chronicles -- the Emmy-winning series about early America's most influential first family -- and the crime drama DNA (Complete Series One and Two), about… Continued

Movie of the Week: Disco Pigs

Vanguard Cinema's 'Disco Pigs' dvd box art
Vanguard Cinema

In Film.com's latest movie of the week, Disco Pigs, two Irish kids (Pig and Runt), inseparable since birth, find their close relationship challenged by growing pains.

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Disco Pigs (2001)
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Producers: Ed Guiney, Stephen Bradley
Starring: Elaine Cassidy,… Continued

Criterion To Go Blu-Ray Starting In October

Criterion Collection 'Gimme Shelter'
Criterion

The high-end DVD company makes us go 'Oh wow, oh wow!' yet again.


Recently, Criterion Collection Newsletter subscribers received this message in their email inboxes:


We've got some exciting news for this fall: our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We've picked a little over a dozen titles from… Continued

On DVD: Some Came Running

Warner Home Video's 'Some Came Running' dvd box art
Warner Home Video

Young Shirley MacLaine puts the heart in this "stylized super-soap opera" with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.


Some Came Running is the transition movie between Frank Sinatra's earlier… Continued

On DVD: Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years

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Warner Home Video

Editor's note: It's a pleasure to introduce Glenn Erickson as a new writer on DVDs for Film.com. Along with a fan's love for and deep knowledge of movies, Glenn brings us his pro Hollywood "insider" creds. You've seen his Emmy-nominated editing work during the Academy Awards, as well as… Continued

On DVD: 'Untraceable' is Unembraceable

Sony Pictures "Untraceable"
Sony Pictures

No film histories will be written about Untraceable. No two-hour documentaries about mythic feuds on the set will be produced about Untraceable. No film school professors will assign their students to dissect it shot by shot. No hipster video store clerk will fly his noir cred by displaying it on… Continued

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Elaine Cassidy in Temple Film & TV Productions Ltd.'s 'Disco Pigs'
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Disco Pigs

In Film.com's latest movie of the week, Disco Pigs, two Irish kids (Pig and Runt), inseparable since birth, find their close relationship challenged by growing pains.