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THE EUR SCREENING ROOM/DVD RELEASES FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2003: The Adventures of Indiana Jones, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, 28 Days Later and More

By Cherie Saunders (Los Angeles / cherie@eurweb.com)
(October 21, 2003)
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The Adventures of Indiana Jones -- The Complete DVD Movie Collection is a four-disc spread in both widescreen and fullscreen editions. Each film appears on its own disc, restored and digitally remastered by THX, 5.1 surround. The fourth disc has a three-hour smorgasbord of bonus features including never-before-scene material from the Lucasfilm archives. Extras include "Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy," "The Light and Magic of Indiana Jones," "The Sound of Indiana Jones," "The Stunts of Indiana Jones" and "The Music of Indiana Jones." Good morning Charlie. The Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle DVD offers a rated and unrated version and commentary from director McG, complete with a telestrator so that he can highlight certain aspects John Madden style. The Angel Vision Trivia Track is a pop-up with video link-outs to the Angel Scouts. The insane amount of featurettes include: Angels Makeover: Hansen Dam featurette on the scene filmed at the Hansen Dam; Designing Angel's featurette on production design; Dream Duds featurette on the costumes; Full Throttle featurette on the cars; and There's No Such Thing as a Short Shot, Only an Overworked Producer featurette, which takes you through the filming of the opening montage. Pink’s video is on the DVD, as is the Cameo-Graphy, a menu-driven list of the celebrity cameos. On the Unrated version, you’ll get all of the above, plus an extra Pussycat Dolls featurette; Rolling with the Punches featurette on the training, choreographing, rehearsing and filming of the fight scenes; XXX-treme Angels featurette on the Moto-Cross scene, and Full Throttle Jukebox which features a menu-driven list of the soundtrack songs. “Charlie’s Anels: Full Throttle” stars Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, Bernie Mac, Luke Wilson, John Forsythe, Crispin Glover, Justin Theroux, Robert Patrick, John Cleese and Matt Leblanc. Cameos include Bruce Willis, Pink, Jaclyn Smith, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Carrie Fisher, Eve and many others. Does it get any more disturbing than “28 Days Later?” The DVD features commentary by director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, two alternate endings, deleted and extended scenes, "Pure Rage: The Making of 28 Days Later," a Jacknife Lee music video, animated storyboards and galleries. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns and Stuart McQuarrie. It would’ve been great to hear commentary from the three generations of Douglases who star in “It Runs in the Family,” but the DVD only features director Fred Schepisi on the mic. In addition to deleted scenes and a photo gallery, featurettes include "Family Makes You Nuts: The Making of It Runs in the Family" and "All That Grit: Kirk Douglas and the Movies.” The film stars Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Rory Culkin, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Michelle Monaghen and Sarita Choudhury. Before she was “Punk’d” on the very first episode of the MTV series, Jessica Alba was a genetically-enhanced, ass-kicking mutant in “Dark Angel.” ”Dark Angel: Season 2 is a six-disc set with all 21 episodes from the second and final season; featuring commentary on select episodes, three featurettes a gag reel and bloopers. More adults than kids will be lining up for SpongeBob SquarePants: Wave 1 -- The Complete First Season, a three-disc set with 40 episodes. Extras include four featurettes, three music videos, a karaoke segment, interactive tour of Bikini Bottom and commentary on select episodes. Starting Lineup, Volume 2 Cedric the Entertainer brings out fresh new comics on the rise Leon Rogers, Nema Williams, Rodney Perry and Prescott Gilliam.
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