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Video Made the Radio Star

Oakland's Maldroid hopes to ride YouTube all the way to the top.

By Nate Seltenrich

Published: February 14, 2007

...it has signed a contract to release a full-length album. Divine hopes to package it as a DVD, with a video for each song, so that fans can watch and listen at the same time. ...

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Royal Flush

By Robert Wilonsky, Jordan Harper

Published: February 14, 2007

...enjoyed the boiling mass of crime-movie fun that was The Departed (which is also out on DVD this week), you'll want to check out its Hong Kong source material. Though Martin...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of February 13:

Published: February 14, 2007

Bicycle Thieves: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) The Boy From Lebanon (Picture This) The Butcher Boy (Warner Bros.) The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Tartan) ...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of February 6:

Published: February 7, 2007

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense (Lions Gate) All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal) Anything but Love: Volume One (Fox) Arabian...

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A DJ's Blue Period

What's a DJ doing in a video store? And why does he have all that blue paint?

By David Downs

Published: January 31, 2007

...compile some visuals.' Everywhere I go, I don't go to a record store anymore; I go to a DVD shop." The loaf-sized DVJ, Pioneer's DVD turntable, lets its operator cue up...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of January 30:

Published: January 31, 2007

Academy Awards Collection (MGM) The Comedians of Comedy (Anchor Bay) Dallas: The Complete Sixth Season (Warner Bros.) The Doctor, the Tornado & the Kentucky Kid:...

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Classic Coke

By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky, Jim Ridley

Published: January 24, 2007

...they look more psychedelically bewitching than ever on this spectacular five-film DVD, from 1947's homoerotic fever dream "Fireworks" to 1954's candy-colored absinthe...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of January 23

Published: January 24, 2007

... Our top DVD picks for the week of January 23: Brokeback Mountain: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Universal) Cowboy del Amor (Genius) Crooks (Lightyear) Fiddler...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of January 16:

Published: January 17, 2007

Clerks II (Weinstein) Council of the Gods (First Run) Die You Zombie Bastards (Image) Dreamland (Image) Employee of the Month (Lions Gate) Gridiron Gang ...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of January 9:

Published: January 10, 2007

America's Funniest Home Videos: Salute to Romance (Shout Factory) Behind the Mask (Good Times) Broken Bridges (Paramount) Color of the Cross (Fox) ...

Movies

The Future Is Now

Idiocracy , coming soon to your idiot box!

By Nathan Lee

Published: January 3, 2007

...The Stupid Movie Controversy of 2006 draws to a close this week with the DVD release of Idiocracy , the orphaned brainchild of writer-director Mike Judge ( Beavis and Butt-head,...

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Weird and Wonderful

Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper recap their top DVDs of 2006

By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky

Published: January 3, 2007

... Eraserhead (Absurda/Subversive) -- Finally available on DVD, David Lynch's debut film is as captivating and frustrating as it ever was. The print looks great in its own weird...

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Public Enemy 2.0

Chuck D's stunning live show with Flavor Flav is just another element of his ever-growing portfolio.

By David Downs

Published: December 27, 2006

...streams. He monitors them all from a new Mac laptop that he uses to produce his fourth DVD; provide constant media access; administer his music label, SLAMjamz; deal with his...

Music

East Bay's Grandpunks

Twenty years later, not much has changed at 924 Gilman Street.

By Kathleen Richards

Published: December 27, 2006

...wants to start selling Gilman T-shirts at its store (they spell it "stoar"), and make a DVD of the club's upcoming three-day twentieth-anniversary weekend for sale, though he...

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Juices Flowing

By Robert Wilonsky, Jordan Harper

Published: December 27, 2006

...Reportedly, over an hour of footage was cut -- but we'll never know from this paltry DVD, which has a couple of interesting docs, but no deleted footage and no director's...

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Our top DVD picks for the week of December 26:

Published: December 27, 2006

Airwolf: Season Two (Universal) Be With Me (Film Movement) Dane Cook's Tourgasm (HBO) Danica (First Look) Factotum (IFC) The Family Values Tour 2006 ...

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It's the Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007.

By Nikki Finke

Published: December 20, 2006

...squat. Writers and actors are still bummed over being stiffed by the studios during the DVD era and are determined not to be bullied again in this digital age. Both ...

Movies

It's Soooo High School

And that's a compliment to Rian Johnson's teen detective noir.

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: December 20, 2006

...Johnson's knockout debut as writer and director, Brick , languished in theaters and on DVD. It took a bunk, as Hammett mighta said, and wound up wearing a wooden kimono. ...

Movies

Rocky V. Ahmadinejad

Another sequel, another chance for Rocky to persevere for America.

By Rob Nelson

Published: December 20, 2006

...bicentennial year. In '06, Balboa's belated return to the ring can be blamed, like this DVD-ready sequel, on the digital revolution: The ESPN Boxing channel's computer...

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A True Horror Classic

By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky

Published: December 20, 2006

...Lee's four-part doc, easily the best non-fiction film of 2006, gets a fifth part on DVD: a 105-minute epilogue that reveals just how little has changed since Hurricane...