New on DVD: 'Eagle vs. Shark' and 'The Golden Door'
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New Zealand's 'Eagle vs. Shark' is on the wrong side of quirky, an Italian family immigrates to America in 'The Golden Door.'
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DreamWorks&#39; &quot;Shark Tale&quot; truly suffers in comparison with Hollywood&#39;s previous computer-animated, undersea fantasy-adventure, &quot;Finding Nemo&quot;: It has little of that film&#39;s simplicity, charm, exhilarating action or staggering aquatic beauty.
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Classics, cult classics, vintage TV and one silent treasure
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IN AMERICAâS eyes everything seems fair game for a remake. Studio scouts pounce on the latest Asian horror sensation hoping to discover the next Ring.
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Several movie studios choose a side in the battle of DVD formats.
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Everything old is new again in the latest film about the beloved pooch with the I.Q. of a grad student and the instincts of a boomerang.
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Company is the latest to choose sides in the next-generation DVD format battle.
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Between new releases "Jackass Number Two," the sure winner at the weekend box office, and "Jet Li's
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This week's new DVD's include a remake of George A. Romero's 1978 horror classic, a behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera and two films that reveal Takashi Miike's softer side.
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The Motion Picture Association of America shows off a new antipiracy tool: DVD-sniffing dogs.
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Two new films, National Treasure and SpongeBob SquarePants, and the expansion of Bridget Jones took on The Incredibles and The Polar Express this weekend in a race to the top.
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Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington provide a smooth and appealing update on the gangster-as-tragic-hero myth
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LOS ANGELES - The animated fish story "Shark Tale" swamped the competition, opening as the top weekend movie with $49.1 million and potentially breaking the record for best October debut. John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix's firefighting adventure "Ladder 49" premiered in second place with $22.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday...
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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With the longer and better theatrical version of Spike Lee's Jim Brown - All American out today, I've been thinking about the DVD pleasure I've gotten from other portraits of African-American sports figures. Three to check out:
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Global politics, seniors in love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the Weinstein brothers
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Still more reasons for you not to miss this awesome movie!