Sept 28, 2004
The Alamo
American Pimp
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fly Jefferson Airplane
The Hunting of a President
Maxim Presents:
The Real Swimsuit
Super Size Me

Sept 21, 2004
Coffee & Cigarettes
How To Draw A Bunny
La Dolce Vita
MADtv First Season
Mean Girls
Rounders

Sept 14, 2004
Angels In America
Home On The Range
Man On Fire
THX-1138
50 Years Of Playmates
Young Adam

Sept 7 , 2004
American Dreams
Bullwinkle & Rocky Show
Clerks
Darby O'Gill & The Little People
Dogville
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Ladykillers
Magnum P.I.
The Passion of the Christ
The Punisher
Shaolin Soccer
Wattstax

August 23, 2004
Dallas
Duel
Ella Enchanted
Goodfellas
Grafitti Bridge
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Laws of Attraction
Martin Scorsese Collection
The Munsters
New York Minute
Show Boy
Sugarland Express

August 10, 2004
Freaks
Kill Bill Volume 2
The Lost Boys
The Real Olympics
Sada

August 3 , 2004
Hidalgo
13 Going on 30
Darby O'Gill
Sliders
Knight Rider
The Elvis Collection Gidget
Beaches

July 27, 2004
Hellboy
The Whole Ten Yards
Showgirls
Ned Kelly
Pennies From Heaven
V - The Complete Series
Sledge Hammer
Hells Angels 69
Greendale
You Bet Your Life
Hells Angels 69
Salaam Bombay Dreams
Greendale

July 21, 2004
Bus 174
The Big Bounce
Broken Wings
Confidence
Crimson Gold
The Human Stain
Outfoxed
Starsky & Hutch
Thunderbirds Are Go

Ken Burns' America Collection | The Day After Tomorrow | The Five Obstructions
I'm Not Scared | That's Entertainment | The Shawshank Redemption | Valentin

Trailer	The Day After Tomorrow US/Canada Gross: $85.8 million The Hot Button Review: I want to start this piece with a sincere tribute to the team over at Fox. I cannot recall a single movie during my decade covering the film business - or even in decades of movie loving - that has been made to look as good as The Day After Tomorrow for as long as Team Fox has made this thing look good and which turned out to be as truly horrible a movie as this thing is. I'm not kidding. A Huge Boxoffice Weekend: The result on the domestic front was not tornados, earthquakes or tsunamis but the biggest weekend box office tally of all time whether measured on a three, four or five day basis. Photo Gallery | Headlines
Trailer	Valentin US/Canada Gross: $.28 million The bittersweet coming-of-age drama from Argentina, Valentin, deserved a better fate than being thrown on a shelf over at Miramax, until its perfunctory limited theatrical release last spring ahead of the DVD launch. A festival favorite in 2002 and early 2003, Valentin describes the boyhood of an imaginative 8-year-old (Rodrigo Noya), who is abandoned by his mother -- AWOL for reasons known only to the screenwriter -- and handed off to his crabby grandmother (Carmen Maura) by a father actively auditioning candidates for the role of Valentin’s stepmother. Set in 1968, the film includes references to the death of Che Guevara, but only does little more than hint at the political turmoil that resulted in the deaths of thousands of “disappeared” radicals. When Valentin isn’t dreaming of becoming an astronaut, he’s playing matchmaker for his dad. Valentin plays best for the art-house crowd, but there’s no reason teenagers looking for a way to brush up on their Spanish wouldn’t enjoy it, as well. -- Gary Dretzka Pride, Unprejudiced: I've been perplexed by some reviews of Valentin - Alejandro Agresti's memorable slice of Buenos Aires boyhood - tarring, feathering, and raving against this quiet, subtle joy of a movie.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.	The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Worldwide Gross: $58.8 million It’s been 10 years since Frank Darabont’s absorbing prison drama, The Shawshank Redemption, was released to mostly favorable reviews, if only lukewarm box-office results. Its profile would rise a bit after being nominated for seven Academy Awards, but not enough for anyone to predict with any accuracy it would become a true blockbuster in its video incarnation. That’s exactly what happened, though. College students, especially, were drawn to the closely examined friendship between convicted murderers, played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. While the many fine bonus features -- making-of docs, interviews with the director and stars, and a comic spoof -- in this two-disc anniversary edition help make sense of the phenomenon, none adequately explains how to capture lightning in a bottle twice.-- Gary Dretzka The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.
	Ken Burns' America Collection By now, Ken Burns' gentle documentary style is as familiar to television viewers as the quirky tricks used by David E. Kelley and Stephen Bochco to endear audiences to their offbeat characters. The films included in PBS Home Video’s Ken Burns’s America Collection -- Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty, Empire of the Air, The Congress, Thomas Hart Benton, Huey Long, The Shakers -- rhapsodize on themes that are as much a part of the national fabric as the individual jazz musicians, ball players and soldiers memorialized in his more epic series. It‘s easy to argue with some of Burns’ somewhat repetitive methodology and overly familiar mannerisms, but there’s no questioning his ability to entertain across a wide spectrum of viewers. For a documentarian, that’s praise, indeed.-- Gary Dretzka
	That's Entertainment Trilogy Gift Set Once a studio that could brag of employing "more stars than there are in the heavens," the greatness that was MGM now exists exclusively in the collective memory of lovers of classic Hollywood movies. Warners’ terrific new That’s Entertainment Trilogy Giftset includes all three editions of the star-studded documentary series, as well as a bonus fourth disc, “Treasures From the Vault.” It more than lives up to its name, reminding us once again of the role great music, dance and songwriting once played in Hollywood, and how desperately we miss the “old MGM.” The set is enhanced by three new documentaries, premiere night coverage, salutes to those who labored behind the camera, TV specials, making-of futurities and a video jukebox of musical outtakes. It would be difficult to imagine a better gift for those whose days began and end watching the AMC and TMC cable channels. Meanwhile, in a case of perfect timing, Warner is releasing Damn Yankees at exactly the moment baseball lovers in Minnesota are saying just that, “damn Yankees.” Produced and directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, this still-wonderful musical stars Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter and Ray Walston, and was choreographed by Bob Fosse. Also new on DVD is Donen’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. -- Gary Dretzka
	I'm Not Scared US/Canada Gross: $1.62 million Pride, Unprejudiced: Gabriele Salvatore's lyrical dead-of-summer thriller, I'm Not Scared, from a boy's point-of-view in an Italian rural village is dead-on terrific. Memorable in its own right, I’m Not Scared is also a lovely rendition of Niccolò Ammaniti's taut page-turner of a novel, keeping honorably to the point-of-view of Michelle, and the insistent, strings-heavy score by Ezio Bosso and Pepo Scherman is more affecting than one would might expect.
	The Five Obstructions US/Canada Gross: $.09 million As cinematic parlor games go, the one played in The Five Obstructions is a real doozey. Here’s how it goes: Lars von Trier asks one of his heroes, Danish director Jørgen Leth, to re-create his celebrated 1967 short “The Perfect Human” five separate times … the gag being that he must accept five different sets of "obstructions" for each. Von Trier insists that one version be set in Cuba, if only because Leth enjoys cigars, while another is to be shot in "the worst place on earth," Bombay's red light district. The filmmakers engage in some rather bizarre conversations between installments, but The Five Obstructions rarely feels overly academic or pretentious. Mostly, it’s a goof. Film students would do well to study The Five Obstructions, if only to see what can be accomplished, even when one’s hands are tied behind their backs. Others will find it surprisingly entertaining. -- Gary Dretzka MCN Review: I fully expect that The 5 Obstructions will be a key element of every film school curriculum for a long, long time. In fact, I would make it the first thing that every film school student sees at the start of each year of studies, as like all great art, its meaning will change for them every year. Pride, Unprejudiced: Watchable, teachable, indelible, The Five Obstructions - now making its way across the country--is a magical master class in the vagaries of filmmaking, film conception, production and cocking a snoot at one's mentors.