| New Video and DVD Releases | |
| Part 1: This Week's New Releases on Video/DVD |
by Ivana Redwine
There are some interesting new video and DVD releases slated for December 23, 2003, including "Alex and Emma," "Anything Else," "Jeepers Creepers 2," and "The Medallion." In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
December 23, 2003 - Video and DVD Releases
Tagline:
"Is it love... or are they just imagining things."
Length:
96 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and some language
This romantic comedy pairs Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson. Alex (Wilson) will be killed if he doesn't pay off a big gambling debt in 30 days. His only hope is to write a novel, and he hires Emma (Hudson) as a stenographer to help him. The movie shows scenes from the novel with its characters being played by Wilson, Hudson, and Sophie Marceau. With time running out, Alex and Emma struggle to finish the novel and fall in love along the way.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats
Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check
for availability on VHS.
"Anything
Else"
Tagline:
"In any relationship, one person always does the heavy lifting."
Length:
108 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for a scene of drug use and some sexual references
Written and directed by Woody Allen, this comedy stars Jason Biggs and Christina
Ricci. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer whose career is going nowhere
and whose relationship with his difficult live-in girlfriend Amanda (Ricci)
has gone badly awry. Jerry turns to the older comedy writer David Dobel (Woody
Allen) for advice, but the young man's troubles deepen when Amanda's mom (Stockard
Channing) moves in with him.
• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Tagline:
"He can taste your fear."
Length:
104 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and language
This horror movie is the sequel to "Jeepers Creepers" (2001) and brings back the Creeper (Jonathan Breck), a hibernating winged creature that awakens every 23 years and voraciously feeds for 23 days. This time around, a bus carrying a high school basketball team and cheerleaders is disabled on a country road, and the Creeper starts picking off his victims. Meanwhile, a farmer (Ray Wise) is on the way with a harpoon-like weapon.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Length:
88 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action violence and some sexual humor
This is a Jackie Chan martial-arts action movie. Chan plays Eddie Yang, a Hong
Kong cop who teams with Interpol agent Arthur Watson (Lee Evans) in an effort
to apprehend the criminal Snakehead (Julian Sands). Snakehead kidnaps a young
man who is the keeper of a magic medallion and flees to Ireland. Eddie and Watson
follow him there and join forces with another Interpol agent (Claire Forlani)
as they try to set things right.
• Full-Screen
and Widescreen Anamorphic Formats
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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