Ivana's DVD Blog

Painterly animation, an enchanting story and memorable music make Sleeping Beauty a film that has delighted both children and adults for years. I had forgotten just how magical a movie it is. For me, the best part of watching Sleeping Beauty was that it evoked a sense of wonder and let me feel like a kid again. Read more

^{Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Platinum Edition) DVD Cover Art - © Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment}

Words like garish and tawdry come to mind when thinking about Touch of Evil (1958), which was written and directed by Orson Welles and starred him along with Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh. But Welles' mastery of visual artistry, sparkling dialogue, compelling characters and labyrinthine plot make this one of the great all-time films. Read more

^{Touch of Evil — 50th Anniversary Edition DVD Cover Art - © Universal Studios Home Entertainment}

The new DVD releases include The Happening, The Visitor and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.

More About New Movies:

• The Happening DVD
• The Visitor DVD
• You Don't Mess With the Zohan DVD

More About This Year's DVD Releases:

• 2008 DVD Releases

^{You Don't Mess With the Zohan DVD Cover Art - © Sony Pictures Home Entertainment}

Offering visual spectacle and bloody battles, this Mongolian-language film directed by Sergei Bodrov is an old-fashioned epic about central Asian ruler Genghis Khan. Mongol comes to DVD on October 14, 2008. Read more

More Movies Coming to DVD:

• The Incredible Hulk DVD
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull DVD
• Journey to the Center of the Earth DVD
• Kit Kittredge: An American Girl DVD

Explore More New, Upcoming and Current DVD Releases:

• New DVD Releases - October 14, 2008
• New DVD Releases - October 7, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 30, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 23, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 16, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 9, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 2, 2008

Netflix has been streaming movies and TV programs to its subscribers for some time, but these have been mostly older titles. However, that is changing as now the online rental company will be able to stream recent hits like Spider-Man 3, Superbad and No Country for Old Men due to a deal with Starz. Read more

Also of Interest:


• Netflix Customers to Be Able to Stream CBS, Disney TV Shows

From the Judd Apatow laugh factory, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a funny, heartfelt comedy that I enjoyed even more than The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Read more about this hilarious bawdy comedy about getting over being dumped.

Other DVD Reviews and Profiles of Interest:


• The 40-Year-Old Virgin DVD Review
• Knocked Up DVD Profile
• Superbad DVD Profile

^{Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD Cover Art - © Universal Studios Home Entertainment}

The new DVD releases include Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Iron Man and Jellyfish. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.

More About New Movies:

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD
• Iron Man DVD
• Jellyfish DVD

Also of Interest:

• Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Platinum Edition) DVD Preview

More About This Year's DVD Releases:

• 2008 DVD Releases

^{Iron Man DVD Cover Art - © Paramount Home Entertainment}

Paul Newman, legendary Hollywood actor and sometime producer and director, has died at age 83. He had major roles in over 50 movies and is probably best remembered for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Nine times he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award and won for The Color of Money (1986). He was particularly good at portraying an anti-hero, as in Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). But he was a versatile actor, as shown by his performances in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Exodus (1960), The Sting (1973), Absence of Malice (1981) and The Verdict (1982). All of these titles are available on DVD, and watching them is a good way of honoring Newman's memory.

Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman star in this creepy horror film, the debut feature of writer-director Bryan Bertino. The movie opens with a young couple, Kristen (Tyler) and James (Speedman), just having been to a wedding. The Strangers comes to DVD on October 21, 2008. Read more

Explore More New, Upcoming and Current DVD Releases:

• New DVD Releases - October 14, 2008
• New DVD Releases - October 7, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 30, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 23, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 16, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 9, 2008
• New DVD Releases - September 2, 2008

^{The Strangers DVD Cover Art - © Universal Studios Home Entertainment}

The Godfather — The Coppola Restoration is a five-disc DVD set containing all three Godfather movies — The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Godfather: Part III (1990) — that is an upgrade to The Godfather Collection, the DVD set released in 2001. The picture and sound quality of the first two movies is noticeably better in The Coppola Restoration, and The Godfather: Part II, which was split across two discs in the older edition, is now contained on a single disc. All the bonus materials from the 2001 DVD set are brought over to the new edition and about an hour and 21 minutes of new extras are added. Read more

^{The Godfather Collection — The Coppola Restoration - © 2008 Paramount Pictures}