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Criterion is going BluRay!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSS! Hey folks, Harry here. As a high def junkie - I've been dying waiting for Criterion to commit and start offering us there ubercoolness in 1080p glory! As for the line up... It's just about as outstanding as you could hope for from Criterion. THIRD MAN! MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH! CHUNGKING EXPRESS! WALKABOUT! WAGES OF FEAR! I can not friggin wait! Great news for all of us that love Criterion and HD!

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 1st week of May DVDs: Bob Dylan, Tornadoes, Vagina Dentata, THE CAR, Evil Children and Bollywood! +


Hey folks, Harry here… Sorry this was a day late, but I pulled a muscle in my back and really didn’t feel right writing. Sucks – I know… but it’s feeling much better now. This week isn’t the most amazing – but next week is the shit - especially if you love vintage films like me. As always the box art and titles are linked to the titles’ Amazon pages where you can learn more about the title – or you can purchase, thus supporting this column. I hope you dig it. I’m working on next weeks already!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 5th week of April DVDs: Alien Bestiality Porn, Foreign Genius Children Films, Golden Compass & more!


Hey folks, Harry here with this week’s DVD PICKS AND PEEKS. Some interesting films here – Especially the 3 Criterion Children’s films – which I can’t recommend enough – and of course the exact opposite – THE BEAST FROM SPACE. But there’s more… As usual you can click on any of the box art or titles and be taken to Amazon where you can choose to purchase or learn more about the title in question. If you do purchase – a small percentage of the price will go to continue this column – which I hope you good folks enjoy. Well, enough from me, here ya go…

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 4th week of April DVDs: CLOVERFIELD, Mae West, Sturges, Fuller, Silent Prostitution, Shaw Brothers +

Hey folks, Harry here – you wouldn’t believe how awesome and eclectic this week’s column is. Lots of vintage jewels this week. Great titles – ancient titles… and so much more. I loved viewing most of these this week. As always – if you click on the box art or titles you’ll goto Amazon – where you can learn more on the title in question – and if you feel like it, you can buy it – thus supporting this column with a small percentage of the revenue helping this endless series. Well – there’s a lot to get to. Let’s get to it, shall we…

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 3rd week of April DVDs: LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, JUNO... COMMANDO, PREDATOR, Schizophrenic Porn +...


Hey folks, Harry here with this week’s DVD COLUMN – there’s lots of good stuff on here and as usual – if you click on the art or the title – you’ll find yourself at AMAZON where you can learn more on the title – or purchase it – which would send a portion of the profit to sponsor this column. Hope you enjoy it…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 2nd week of April DVDs: THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Houdini, Nessie, the Environment and Munchausen!!!


Hey folks, Harry here… I’m betting y’all were betting I wouldn’t get this done for today, but personal problems are not really an excuse to not get the job done – but an excuse to get the job done… right? I hope y’all enjoy this week’s column – and as usual the DVD art and titles are clickable to their Amazon page where you can learn more on the titles or if you feel like it, you can click-through to purchase and help support the column. Now – let’s get to this week…

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 –

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - April Fool's Day DVDs: Sweeney Todd, The Beatles, Unbreakable and more!!!

Hey folks, Harry here and no foolin’ these are the releases of interest on this – the silliest holiday of the year! That said – as usual you’ll find that by clicking on the box art or the titles – you’ll be taken to Amazon – where you can learn more about the releases this Tuesday – or you can purchase the item – helping to sponsor the continuing exploits of this column. You know the drill… Let’s start it off with some fresh Meat Pies, eh?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 4th week of March: The Mist, Bonnie & Clyde, Jimmy Carter, World Wide Exploitation & More!!!


Hey folks, Harry here… hope you had a hippity hoppity Easter good time! The holiday put me behind schedule a tad - but here’s this week’s column. Not a lot of High Def content this week, but some really great titles and awesome exploitation glee towards the end of the column. As always – you can click on the box art or title to go to AMAZON – where you can learn more on the title – or if you want it, you can purchase – and a small percentage will go to continue this column’s work. I hope you enjoy the list and I’ll see you April Fool’s Day with more!

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 3rd week of March: BSG, ENCHANTED, I AM LEGEND, ATONEMENT, ICE STORM and much much more!!!

Hey folks, Harry here with another week of DVD titles. There’s some good stuff here, not a ton of titles, but a healthy group. Hope you enjoy the list this week – as always you can click on the box art or titles and it’ll take you to Amazon where you can learn more on the titles or if you wish, you can purchase them – and this column will get a small kick back to help keep the column going. Well… let’s get to it…

Tuesday, May 18th, 2008

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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 2nd week of March: Melies, Coens, Emmerich, Fletch and more!


Hey folks, Harry here – I’m proud of me for getting this out – even though I’m in the midst of SXSW. There’s some great films on here – and a set that absolutely blows my mind, but you’ll discover that down below. As usual – the boxes and the titles are clickable to take you to AMAZON – where you can learn more – or purchase the title, where a tiny percentage will get kicked back to support this column, which I hope you all enjoy. Here ya go…

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 1st Week of March: C.H.U.D., 12 ANGRY MEN, Cult Films, Seuss, Disney, Herzog & further insanity

Hey folks, Harry here… Sorry for the lateness of the column – but I was two reviews from finishing this last Saturday – when my computer ate it. I’m sure you know the pain. The agony. The mental horror at seeing a few thousand words destroyed in a blink that you replay a thousand times in your mind trying to figure out… what did I do? Why didn’t it get saved in the miracle Mac back up system? Why me, God? Why me?

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 4th Week of Feb: NEW FRONTIER, BEOWULF, SMURFS, Wes Anderson, GOYA & Maxfield Parrish! & More!!

Hey folks, Harry here… This what’s coming out of interest today. As usual – the box art and the titles are clickable to Amazon – where you can learn more – and / or – purchase the film, with a small percentage going to support this column. Of everything in this month’s release – I can’t recommend you picking up JUSTICE LEAGUE – THE NEW FRONTIER enough… it is truly a masterpiece.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 3rd Week of Feb: Jeff Mahler INSIDE - MICHAEL CLAYTON - LUST, CAUTION - RUN LOLA RUN - more

Hey folks, Harry here… well the big news this week is the end of the format war. While the war may be over – we’ve still, in the here and now got both formats continuing to come out. It’s a pretty good line-up – and as usual – if you click on a box or title, you can go to Amazon where you can learn more and if you decide to purchase it there, this column gets a small kick back – that helps it continue on. Let’s get right to it with a film much larger than the man who made it…

Tuesday - February 19, 2008

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 2nd Week of Feb: Warner Cartoons, Zapped!, Stephen Chow, Lubitsch, Kramer, Affleck? Lots More!

Hey folks, Harry here… sorry it’s been so long since I hit my regular schedule, but here we are… Posting well in advance of this coming Tuesday. There’s some fun stuff here. In fact, I sort of have an argument with myself over which is the most fun title… and there’s a good 5 titles I could argue that award for. As always – if you click on a DVD you’ll be taken to Amazon – where you can learn more on the title and/or purchase the item so that a portion of the price goes to support this column. Thanks a lot and I hope you enjoy this good week of titles…

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 1st Week of Feb: Jesse James, Beatles, Giant Gila Monster, Aristocats, Killer Jodie & much more!

Hey folks, Harry here – first time in a while that I got this out in advance of the actual day of release… but I said I would – and I did… just not as ambitiously early as I thought. As always – the dvd art and titles are clickable to Amazon where you can learn more about the titles, purchase them – and this column will be thankful by continuing to searching out the interesting works being released each and every week. Some great stuff this week.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for the last Tuesday of January 2008: EL CID, KING OF KONG, Exploitation, RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR & More!


Hey folks, Harry here – I told you that I’d get this done today – and I stayed up all night banging it out. Here it is. As usual – click on the boxes or the titles and you’ll have the chance to go to Amazon where you can learn more on the title, buy the title and kick back a little something to this column. Glad to be back and as up to date as I can. I’ll have next week’s before the weekend – SUPER BOWL could easily distract me. Here ya go…

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 3rd & 4th Tuesdays of January 2008: Lots of Good Stuff!!!

Hey folks, Harry here – I am profusely sorry that I’ve been skipping these – it’s completely and utterly unprofessional of me, but life has been pretty crazy here. But this is a crazy month – was sick for two weeks, Yoko turned 21, Father Geek turned 63 and Yoko and I celebrated 2 years of loving one another. Add to that the screenings and a whole bunch of hectic behind the scenes – and celebrating… and I just haven’t had time to do these lists and reviews which are extremely time consuming… with the viewing and write-ups.

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 2nd Week of 2008: Sorry it's way late!

Hey folks, Harry here… With the big surprise news of the Home Video Market being that Warner Brothers shifted from a neutral stance in the High Def Wars – to supporting BLU-RAY – I find it equally interesting looking at what is hitting in the HD world this Tuesday. There’s lots of library titles – and some Grindhouse Exploitation titles hitting the market. Never mind all of that though – this is the first week that we get a great selection of material to nab… in about 3 weeks. So let’s get to it.

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 1st Week of 2008: Shoot 'Em Up!, War, Weird Science seasons 1&2, Indie Sex and 1 more!!!

Hey folks, Harry here… As the year comes to a close and comes to a birth – we, the lovers of DVD in all its forms, are left without much to look forward to this January 1st, New Year’s Day. It’s a sad selection – personally I’d love for them to come out with a bunch of cool new titles – as we all have gift cards and returned item money that’s burning a hole in our pocket and well… all we have to look forward to is the following week. Here you go with this first column for the New Year.

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 4th Week of December: Pan's Labyrinth, Eastern Promises, Kingdom, Harry Langdon, Cat People!

Hey folks, Harry here with our last DVD column of the year… though before the year is up, I’ll have JAN 1st’s column done and up, but it’s for the New Year. Sorry there isn’t a lot of titles here, there isn’t a lot coming out this Tuesday (actually Sunday most of these will be hitting shelves I hear) due to it being Christmas. So enjoy and remember – you click the titles or art and you’ll be whisked away to AMAZON, where if you choose 1 day shipping it can be at your place on Christmas Eve for last minute wrapping! Here ya go – enjoy…

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 3rd Week of December: Blade Runner, The Simpsons, Stardust, Once, Young Indy, Mod Squad & More

Hey folks, Harry here… I’ve got to go out and buy some new cables to take full advantage of my new toys – but decided to bang out this next Tuesday’s column so you folks get it in advance of this Tuesday as I should always have it for ya. As always – you can click on the box art or titles for links to Amazon – where you can learn more about the title and/or purchase the title in question -- and yes, I get an 8% commission to help support this column’s existence.

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 2nd Week of December: Kurosawa, Bourne, Fellini, Potter, Disney, Jarmusch, Donald Duck & Oswald!

Hey folks, Harry here – This week’s column is very very late and I’m sorry – a combination of BNAT and my actual birthday being this week’s dvd release date meant… I was out of contact with my computer for too many hours. As usual, you can click on the images or links to go to Amazon where you can learn more about the item in question – or you can purchase it! Got some news that some of you BLU Rayers have been waiting for…

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 (Harry’s Birthday)

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 1st Week of December: Pirates: Hope & Depp, John Ford, Battlestar, and Killer Snakes!

Hey folks, Harry here – had a crazy period of BNAT insanity and just now have finished the column – sorry to have it so late. As usual you can click on the boxes and links to go to Amazon where you can find out more about the titles and order them. It’s a fantastic set of titles – enjoy…

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007





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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 4th Week of November: Futurama, Paprika, Kurosawa, Simon Pegg, the Lohan, The Omega Man and more

Hey folks, Harry here – Hope you’re all recovering from the Turkey and stuffings you all feasted your way through – and that you got some of your holiday shopping over with. Now its time to think about yourself. What are you going to watch – as usual – I’m back previewing and picking some of the myriad of choices you face this Tuesday on DVD, HD DVD and BLU RAY.

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Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 3rd Week of November: Classic Trek HD, John McClane, Werner Herzog, TREMORS HD & much more!

Hey folks, Harry here… This pre-Thanksgiving Tuesday comes loaded to the gills with great stuff. Lots of goodies here. As usual – the box art and titles are linkable to their Amazon page, where you can purchase & a small percentage goes to support this column – or you can begin to compare and save finding the best deal out there. Also – you might just want to add this to your rental lists. Whatever, I hope you enjoy the list – which reflects my personal interests and recommendations. Enjoy…

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

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