New Video and DVD Releases
The new DVD releases include Basic Instinct 2, On a Clear Day, and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
July 11, 2006 - New Video and DVD Releases:
Basic Instinct 2 DVD
Tagline: "Everything interesting begins in the mind."
Length: 114 minutes (An extended version of this movie is also available on DVD.)
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, nudity, violence, language and some drug content (An unrated version of this movie is also available on DVD.)
The sequel to Basic Instinct (1992), this suspense thriller stars Sharon Stone as novelist Catherine Tramell.
In the earlier movie, Catherine was linked to several murders in San Francisco. Now the sequel finds her in London doing research for her next book, and a number of dead bodies turn up. But the heart of the story is the relationship that develops between Catherine and Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) when he becomes her shrink: the psychoanalyst becomes dangerously infatuated with his alluring patient.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Commentary
? Deleted Scenes
? Theatrical Version Also Available on Blu-ray Disc
? Widescreen
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
On a Clear Day DVD
Tagline: "Anything is possible."
Length: 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some language
This is a feel-good British dramedy, rather in the spirit of The Full Monty. On a Clear Day stars Peter Mullan as Frank Redmond, a 50-something Glasgow resident who gets laid off at the shipyards after working there for decades.
Plagued with family problems, Redmond begins to fall into a deep depression until he gets the idea of attempting to swim the English Channel. Supported by his pals, he finds redemption in working toward this goal.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Widescreen
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story DVD
Tagline: "He's about to play the role of his life."
Length: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language and sexual content
Directed by Michael Winterbottom, this comedy is about an attempt to make a movie based on Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, a classic 1760 novel that seems unfilmable. The novel is comically digressive, and so is Winterbottom's movie. Actor Steve Coogan portrays an actor named Steve Coogan, who in the film-within-the-film plays both Tristram Shandy and Tristram's father Walter. The fictional Coogan struggles as he deals with a number of problems involving cast and crew, the press and his girlfriend.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Deleted Scenes
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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July 11, 2006 - New Video and DVD Releases:
Basic Instinct 2 DVD
Tagline: "Everything interesting begins in the mind."
Length: 114 minutes (An extended version of this movie is also available on DVD.)
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, nudity, violence, language and some drug content (An unrated version of this movie is also available on DVD.)
The sequel to Basic Instinct (1992), this suspense thriller stars Sharon Stone as novelist Catherine Tramell.
In the earlier movie, Catherine was linked to several murders in San Francisco. Now the sequel finds her in London doing research for her next book, and a number of dead bodies turn up. But the heart of the story is the relationship that develops between Catherine and Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) when he becomes her shrink: the psychoanalyst becomes dangerously infatuated with his alluring patient.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Commentary
? Deleted Scenes
? Theatrical Version Also Available on Blu-ray Disc
? Widescreen
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
On a Clear Day DVD
Tagline: "Anything is possible."
Length: 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some language
This is a feel-good British dramedy, rather in the spirit of The Full Monty. On a Clear Day stars Peter Mullan as Frank Redmond, a 50-something Glasgow resident who gets laid off at the shipyards after working there for decades.
Plagued with family problems, Redmond begins to fall into a deep depression until he gets the idea of attempting to swim the English Channel. Supported by his pals, he finds redemption in working toward this goal.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Widescreen
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story DVD
Tagline: "He's about to play the role of his life."
Length: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language and sexual content
Directed by Michael Winterbottom, this comedy is about an attempt to make a movie based on Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, a classic 1760 novel that seems unfilmable. The novel is comically digressive, and so is Winterbottom's movie. Actor Steve Coogan portrays an actor named Steve Coogan, who in the film-within-the-film plays both Tristram Shandy and Tristram's father Walter. The fictional Coogan struggles as he deals with a number of problems involving cast and crew, the press and his girlfriend.
Selected DVD Special Features:
? Deleted Scenes
Find out more about this DVD release.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Next Page - Additional Video/DVD Releases of Interest This Week
