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Behold, the reason so many people diss the original Doctor Who and its horrendous special effects. The disastrous dinosaur effects in the Who story "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" are legendary, and here's a clip from the new DVD featurette exploring just how they went so wrong. And they did go so very, very wrong. More »
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If you've never seen the 1962 science fiction film La Jetée — which inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys — then you're going to have a new chance to check it out. The Criterion Collection is putting out a new Blu-ray version of La Jetée along with Sans Soleil, another film from Chris Marker. More »
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Doctor Who: The Complete Series Six comes out on DVD on Tuesday. And here's your exclusive first look at one of the five never-before-seen mini-episodes on the disc! More »
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When you really want to show people you care about them, the best present is one that they can spend hours exploring. And nothing sucks people in quite like a really feature-heavy DVD or Blu-ray box set, full of special features, alternate versions and commentary tracks. More »
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If the Star Wars Blu-rays were a theatrical release, they'd be the biggest movie of the week, or possibly the month. As it is, they're just a record-breaking sales monster. The Blu-ray set has taken in $84 million worldwide in its first week, selling about 515,000 copies. That makes it the best selling Blu-ray title of all time. Apparently fans weren't too deterred by those much-ballyhooed changes to the films, after all. [THR and Washington Post] More »
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For better or worse, the day is finally here – George Lucas's magnum opus is out today on Blu-ray. I'm sure you've all heard by now that they're not the versions we all know and love, and they're not even the versions we've begrudgingly had to live with for the last 10 years. However, they are now in full HD and the 9 disc set is packed with hours worth of extras and documentaries. So who better to review them than the man who took it upon himself to create feature length visual commentaries for all three original trilogy films, Jamie Benning? More »
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Yesterday, we shared with you some of the um... controversial changes that are happening in the Star Wars Original Trilogy Blu-ray discs. Like Darth Vader shouting "Noooooooooooo" as he tosses the Emperor. And Obi-Wan's baffling new attack cry. More »
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George Lucas is not satisfied with turning the puppet Yoda in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace into a CG creation. Or just fixing some of the wonky lightsabre effects in the original trilogy. He's going a bit further. More »
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Everybody who went to the Star Wars Fan Movie Awards last night got a special surprise: a short "sizzle reel" showcasing the deleted scenes from the original trilogy that'll be on this fall's Blu-ray release. And here it is! More »
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Why was A Clockwork Orange such a controversial film when it originally came out? It's not just because of all the sex and violence — or even the combination of the two. More »
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More than special effects or even the Big Idea science fiction, fantasy and horror movies depend on one thing: casting. A good cast can help make mediocre material convincing while a mediocre cast can turn even the best production into Mansquito 2. Phantoms, based on the Dean Koontz novel, is an uneven but often mesmerizing mix of science fiction and horror, and it owes a lot to a solid cast that includes Peter O'Toole, Ben Affleck, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber and Joanna Going. More »
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A poor bunny rabbit is exposed to the molecular duplication ray — and its evil opposite is created, in this amazing clip from Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The new Captain Planet DVD set is full of equally ludicrous moments. More »
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Back when Peter Davison was playing that mysterious time traveler, the Doctor, he had a lot fewer tricks up his sleeve — and he couldn't rely on the sonic screwdriver to get him out of jams. More »
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A blonde sex-worker breaks her rule against kissing clients — only to run into the worst case of identity theft in history, in this clip from Marvel's animated Black Panther, out now on DVD. More »
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Shout Factory has been putting out the motherlode of Roger Corman productions with its Roger Corman's Cult Classics series — but a new set features three weird masterpieces that Corman actually directed. Including Attack of the Crab Monsters. More »
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What do the two Doctor Who stories on DVD today have in common? On the surface, nothing. But they're both stories about sheltered alien societies coming into contact with other alien races... with disastrous results. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Though DVDs have been consumer-grade tech for years, it wasn't until yesterday that scientists announced they were certain why they worked. Now we know that burning a DVD is really more like freezing it. More »
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When it comes to the "gift that keeps on giving," there's nothing like a great DVD set that people will want to watch over and over. Here's the motherlode of Blu-rays and DVDs with fantastic adventures, amazing extras and more. More »
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An air-limousine glides through a rainy night in the alien Demeter City, unaware that it's got a tail. Check out an exclusive look at a beautiful bit of composition from Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct, directed by Bond-movie veteran John Glen. More »
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Prices for DVDs of the original Tron have tripled on eBay, as movigoers hunt for the out-of-print item to re-watch it before seeing Tron Legacy. But is Disney keeping Tron unavailable on purpose, to help promote Tron Legacy? More »
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Doctor Who got a new lease on life this year — not just in the sense of growing a new body, but also getting a whole new look and creative team. And now the results are a shiny DVD box-set! More »
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One of the most controversial moments of the last Doctor Who season was when Amy Pond tried to seduce the Doctor. Now watch what happened next, courtesy of one of the season five DVD extras. More »
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In many ways, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind marks the birth of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. And now that it's out on Blu-Ray, it looks like a whole new movie. Twitch's Ard Vijn reviews the Blu-Ray release. More »
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In celebration of today's Scott Pilgrim DVD/Blu-ray release, guest editor Edgar Wright is posting all day at io9. First up: his detailed list, given to io9 exclusively, of the top 10 DVDs that influenced Scott Pilgrim. More »
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People sometimes put down Space: 1999 for looking cheap and nasty — but after you see how much cooler it looks in a restored HD version, you'll want to watch it all over again. More comparisons below. More »
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Check out three exclusive clips from the special features on the upcoming Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series DVD box set. Matt Smith sings the Doctor Who theme tune, and it turns out those redesigned Daleks have many secret weapons. More »
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The real monster in the Back To The Future movies isn't the bully Biff, argues Premiere's Gene Newman. It's Doc Brown, the lying manipulator who deals with terrorists and nearly destroys the space-time continuum. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Our neon-tinged dystopian future cities used to be Tokyo, but now they've gone Vegas. Or so it would seem, from our first glimpses of Jake Sully on Earth from November's three-hour extended Avatar DVD. Which may actually be worth getting. More »
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No, that's not Kirk squaring off against his transporter duplicate: It's a scene from William Shatner's Spaghetti Western, White Comanche. A new DVD set is full of Trek stars' cowboys-and-Indians adventures, which really feel like lost Star Trek episodes. More »
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Fringe season two comes out on DVD today, and here's a newly released deleted scene to whet your appetite. Olivia's investigating a serial killer who causes cancer... but is there something else haunting her? Update: now there's a blooper reel. More »
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Doctor Who's huge new stage production goes on tour October 8. It'll star Nigel Planer, better known as the hippie Neil from The Young Ones, as the Greatest Showman in the Galaxy. Will his character turn up on the show? More »
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The Lost season six DVD box set doesn't come out for another week, but the blooper-reel and snippets from the special features are out now. Watch actors try to keep track of their intrigues, plus the pilot's worryingly "cheesy" moment. More »
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The entire 12-minute epilogue to Lost, which explains everything that may have mystified you, is on Youtube now. Update: And it's already down. Our reactions below, including spoilers! More »
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Get a look inside the Dharma Logistics Warehouse in the first ever clip from the Lost DVD's epilogue. Find out how the new guy is running things, and where those nifty Dharma canned goods came from. More »
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Check out this hilarious clip, showcasing just what was wrong with the Doctor Who story "The Horns Of Nimon." The new DVDs for "Nimon" and four other not-so-classic stories offer a blunt dissection of what went wrong. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5589884&view=rss&microfeed=true It's a long weekend, and that means only one thing: marathon! Over at io9's Facebook page, we're discussing which DVD box sets we're breaking out for the long haul. More »
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Sometimes the extras on the Doctor Who classic series DVDs are side-splitting as well as fascinating, like Terrance Dicks explaining that the alien Alpha Centauri looked like a big penis. Three old-school Doctor Who stories just came out on DVD. More »
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox came out on DVD a couple weeks ago, giving us a chance to re-evaluate this dark, comedic gem. How does Roald Dahl's dark whimsy mesh with Wes Anderson's quirky indie-adventurer sensibility? Mostly, pretty well. Spoilers ahead... More »
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This Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison's ground-breaking Frankenstein movie, and it's finally coming out on DVD in a restored print. Frankenstein's actors were paid $5 a day and hid the fact that they were slumming in movies. More »
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A major injustice is about to be redressed.The ground-breaking cyberpunk TV series Max Headroom is finally coming out on DVD — and the extras may include the original British short film 20 Minutes Into The Future. More »
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