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When the Kevin Smith Blu-ray boxed set was announced, my first reaction was why? I mean Kevin Smith films aren’t known for their directorial flourish and they certainly didn’t win any awards for cinematography excellence. Kevin Smith’s claim to fame is his story telling abilities and his great ear for dialogue – which let’s face it, as he says consists of "fart jokes." This Blu-ray collection includes his 3 most well know films Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes back. Each disk is packed to the gills with features.

Clerks

This includes a restored version of the original black and white movie that started it all for Kevin. It includes the original cut (where Dante dies in the end) and the theatrical version. This was the movie that I had the most concerns about, I mean really the original movie looks like garbage or DVD. This hi-def transfer breathes new life into the picture. It’s really sharp and clear now. Yes there’s a lot of grain, but I’d rather have that then the fuzziness from before. This is the definitive version of Clerks to get.

• Extras
• Oh What A Lovely Tea Party: The Making of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (80 Min) (SD) – The Kevin Smith Intro is awesome as he makes fun of the entire idea of Clerks on Blu-ray.
• Clerks The Lost Scene – Animated Short, (10 Min) (HD)
• The Flying Car (8 min) (SD)
• MTV Spots
• Trailer
• Soul Asylum Music Video (5 Min)(SD)
• Clerks Restoration (20 Mins) (SD)
• Original Auditions
• Snow-Ball Effect Documentary about the making and impact of Clerks (90 Min) (SD)
• 10th Anniversary Q and A with the Cast and Crew (43 Min) (SD)

Comments for Clerks

I’ll admit it, I’ve never been a fan of Clerks. I always thought it looked ugly and was barely watchable and it’s just too damn talky with nothing really happening. I honestly don’t care about Randal and Dante. But this new transfer has changed my mind, now that I can actually see what’s going on, I appreciate it a bit more. I really dislike the menu navigation with all the sub menus, and the audio is decent but sort of bland. But here’s the scam while it’s packed with extras, including two 90 minute documentaries, this is the same material that was on the Clerks X disc that I already own. If you don’t already own Clerks this is the definitive version to get.

• Movie – C
• Picture Quality B
• Extras B (due to the fact they are all in SD)
• Audio B

Final Overall B

Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy is Kevin Smith’s most accomplished and full movie to date. It’s amazing how well this movie continues to hold up through the years. The transfer is nice and clean, but it’s not one that’s going to make you go wow.

Extras

• Previews
• Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc (HD) (90 mins)
• “Was It Something I Said?” – A Conversation With Kevin & Joey (HD) (30 Mins)
• 10 Years later Q & A
• Audio Commentary with Writer/Director/Actor Kevin Smith and Producer Scott Mosie
• Chasing Amy Comments
• I still love this movie and the new HD Transfer doesn’t hurt.

Grades

• Movie A
• Video – A
• Extras – B+
• Audio – B

Final Overall Grade A-

Jay and Silent Bob

The 3rd installment in the Jay and Silent Bob "Trilogy" is the funniest. I bust a gut the first time I saw this movie several years ago. It’s best to watch this movie drunk.

• Audio Commentary with Director Kevin Smith; Producer Scott Mosier &
• Jason Mewes;
• Deleted Scenes with Intros by Kevin Smith and Guests;
• “The Secret Stash” with Intro;
• Gag Reel with Intro;
• Internet Trailers with Intro;
• TV Spots;
• Stills Galleries;
• Behind the Scene featurette;
• Morris Day and the Time’s video “Learnin the Moves”;
• Music video Afroman “I Get High”; Music video Stroke 9 “Kick Some Ass”;
• Comedy Central’s Reel Comedy: Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back;
• Cast and Crew Filmographies;
• Guide to Morris Day and The Time

Grades

• Movie A-
• Video/Picture Quality – B
• Audio – B
• Extras – B (Most are in SD)

Final Overall Grade B+

Box Set Comments

Most Box Sets will give you the bare bones edition of the various films and then throw everything onto a special Bonus Disk. This set is different; each single disk is packed to the gills with features. The only problem is 90 percent of the features on each film were already on the DVD version. As I said up front, Kevin Smith films aren’t something you "need" to see in High Def (except Clerks). This is a nice package and "intro" to Kevin’s world. Although there’s a gaping hole in the collection and that’s Mallrats. Where’s Mallrats? This set Collection is for people who don’t already own the DVD versions of these movies. If you don’t already own any of these films then why are you reading this?

EM Review by
Michelle Alexandria
Originally Posted 11.30.09

There are so many lessons to take away from my recent experience in netbook hardware failure, it’s hard to know where to begin. A resounding vote for cloud computing and distributed risk? How about, beware of irony and over-praising your gadgets? Or simply when it rains (first the washing machine breaks down, then the car…), it pours. No, here’s the moral of the story I like: when your computer dies on a weekend, it’s good to know the Geek Squad is around for data recovery.

My beloved Asus Eee 1000HA has served me well for eleven months, but last Friday everything changed when a system config error popped up my screen. I couldn’t even boot in safe mode, and every attempt to break away from the error screen resulted in a cycle that landed me right back where I started. Miraculously I had the Windows XP recovery CD and an external CD/DVD drive on hand, but even after I figured out how to re-order the boot sequence, it became clear to me I would lose all of my data if I ran the recovery disk. A call to Asus tech support also confirmed that an F9 reset would wipe my files, and that I would need to get a full back-up before attempting the process. (Tech support would not provide any advice on how I might accomplish such a back-up with no working operating system.)

At this point you may be wondering whether I have ever considered backing up my data on a regular basis to avoid this type of disaster. I have backed up in the past to one of our Western Digital external hard drives, but even with the help of the Clickfree back-up solution I picked up in January at CES (it runs a differential back-up every time you plug it in), I’ve never managed to get into a regular routine. Before last week, it had been several months since I’d run a back-up, and I was panicked at the thought of losing the many files existing solely on my Eee PC.

I had two options once I discovered I’d have to extract the data from my netbook. I could either play amateur IT specialist, trying to boot up the computer with an alternate OS loaded on to a disk, or I could call in the professionals. Given the hours of frustration inherent in the first option, I decided on the second. Most computer places are closed on the weekends, but Best Buy is not. Gene from the Geek Squad quickly determined that he could recover my files booting up from a home-grown OS. (Yes, the Geek Squad has its own OS.) He promised he’d have everything done by Tuesday, but after listening to me whine a bit, he also said he’d call if they finished the $99 process earlier. Roughly five hours later, my data was ready.

The sad part of this story is that a system recovery on my netbook only lasted a day before the machine when kaput again. But my Eee PC is still under warranty, which means it will either get repaired (unlikely) or replaced. For my two weeks without the Eee, I’ve managed to secure a temporary laptop (thanks, Gretchen!), and I have access to all of my files. Once I’m back up and running on my own computer, I have a firm resolution to get serious about data back-ups. But if I should happen to falter in that resolution, it’s good to know the Geek Squad is right around the corner, and available to me every day of the week.

P.S. If being unwilling to continue endlessly attempting to recover data on my own makes me a failed geek, so be it. I’m a very practical person.

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Our good friend and EIC Erik Davis (that's me!) had a very thoughtful idea for the holiday season: Why not scan the early flyers for the Black Friday sales, and report back to you — the ravenous movie junkie — to let you know where to find the best treats on the day after Thanksgiving? We'll be bringing you deals for a variety of stores and online retailers all week long. Here's what we've posted so far so you can keep track:

Black Friday Movie Deals: Best Buy
Black Friday Movie Deals: Target

Walmart opens at 5am on Friday, November 27th. I've highlighted the most notable (for being awesome) deals in bold.

17 Again (DVD) $9.00
Aliens In The Attic (DVD) $9.00
Blazing Saddles (DVD) $2.00
Blood Diamond (DVD) $2.00
Braveheart (Blu-ray) $10.00
Casino Royale (DVD) $2.00
Facing Giants (DVD) $2.00
Fast & Furious (Blu-ray) $10.00
Fireproof (DVD) $9.00
GI Joe (DVD) $9.00
Gladiator (Blu-ray) $10.00
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Blu-ray) $10.00
HellBoy II (DVD) $2.00
Horton Hears A Who (DVD) $5.00
Hotel For Dogs (DVD) $5.00
I Am Legend (DVD) $2.00
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Blu-ray) $10.00
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD) $9.00
Iron Man (DVD) $5.00
Kung Fu Panda (DVD) $5.00
Little Black Book (DVD) $2.00
Madagascar 2 (DVD) $5.00
Mall Cop (DVD) $5.00
Marley & Me (DVD) $9.00
Monsters Vs Aliens 2 Pack (DVD) $9.00
Nim's Island (DVD) $5.00

More after the jump
DVD/Blu-ray continued

Quantum Of Solace (DVD) $9.00
Seven Pounds (DVD) $5.00
Spaceballs (DVD) $2.00
Spider-Man 3 (Blu-ray) $10.00
Star Trek (DVD) $9.00
Surf's Up (DVD) $5.00
Terminator 3 (Blu-ray) $10.00
The Big Freeze (DVD) $2.00
The Boondock Saints (Blu-ray) $10.00
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (DVD) $5.00
The Dark Knight (Blu-ray) $10.00
The Dark Knight (DVD) $5.00
The Great Longneck Migration (DVD) $2.00
The Marine (DVD) $2.00
The Mummy (DVD) $2.00
The Mysterious Island (DVD) $2.00
The Secret Of Saurus Rock (DVD) $2.00
The Tale Of Despereaux (DVD) $5.00
The Wisdom Of Friends (DVD) $2.00
Underworld (Blu-ray) $10.00
Underworld (DVD) $2.00
Underworld: Evolution (DVD) $2.00
Wanted (Blu-ray) $10.00
X-Men 2 (DVD) $5.00
X-Men 3: The Last Stand (DVD) $5.00
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (DVD) $5.00
Year One (DVD) $9.00
Yes Man (DVD) $5.00
Young Frankenstein (DVD) $2.00

Hardware

Magnavox NB500 Blu-ray Disc Player $78.00
Samsung BD-P1590 Blu Ray Player (Saturday 11/28 Only) $148.00
Sony BDP-S369 Blu Ray Player $148.00

For more Black Friday deals, head over to WalletPop.

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Are you a There Will Be Blood kinda guy, or an Eternal Sunshine kinda gal? The choice of our favorite movie of the decade is one of the most important we as individuals can make.

There is no more personal act in the contemporary society than compiling a Best Of List. Since Congress decreed that people could no longer have personalities and substituted cultural pastiche for humanity, the choices we make in terms of what we put on our year end best lists has said everything about who we are and more importantly, whom we'd like people to think we are.

However, in our best of the year lists, we find ourselves so constricted; so many times ending up with the same ten movies or Mad Men episodes or Arcade Fire songs as everyone else. But in a best of the entire decade, our spirits truly have room to romp and play and reveal their golden shades within.

And for critics, this is the time to throw down the fire hose and say, this is who I really am. This is me, people!

Let's look then at some of the early entries in the Best of the Decade Derby and see what they say about the listmakers behind them.

• The Furrowed Brow: Many of the 00's are very heavy on turgid, dark dramas. Much like the times, would say the critics, who above all, want you to know they are thinking turgid, dark, serious thoughts in such turgid, dark, serious times. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers for instance offers a list guaranteed to make anyone take their own lives if they try to watch the list films straight through, featuring such laugh riots as There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, A History of Violence, No Country for Old Men, Brokeback Mountain, The Departed and Mystic River. Sounds like somebody needed a teddy bear this decade…
• When the Moon is in the House of Quirk: Whimsical goofiness was the theme for much of the world's intelligensia through most of the 00's; childlike wonder drawing on the looks and sounds of the 70's and 80's, the times of the artists' precious youth. Many lists are run heavy on the quirky side of the ledger, demonstrating the critics' refusal to dress like uptight smallminded Middle American people, thereby proving in contrast that the critic who likes quirk possess both intelligence and a depth of spirit unknown to non-quirky people. The Paste list heavily represents the decade's great moments in Quirk, including The Royal Tannenbaums, Amelie, Lost In Translation and Eternal Sunshine all in their top ten. Few quirk-centric critics had the courage to put their true spiritual leader, Napoleon Dynamite, on their list, but his spirit runs strong throughout them all.
• I Came To Play: Some critics shun the heavy Oscar-bait dramas that makes up so much of our prestige listing in favor of genre films. Cinematical's Jessica Barnes even breaks her list down by genre, giving the best of the horror, action and superhero genres, showing her adventurousness by giving the much-underseen and truly terrifying The Descent her top horror slot.
• A Man's Critic: The Times of London's Top 100 list demonstrates that these critics are guys' guys, who love to see movies about guys or watch intense, unnerving guy-friendly subjects. Their #1 pick, is Michael Haneke's unnerving Cache, something only an intense guy critic could handle. The rest of their top ten includes such a guycopia of titles about guys in extremis including Grizzly Man, No Country for Old Men, The Bourne films, Casino Royale, Team America and Hunger. (Somehow The Queen slipped in there too, but what real guy doesn't get weepy for HRM?)
• The Geek Flag: An end of the decade list is also a time to prove how much better you know your film than anyone else around could ever dream. The Onion's AV Club for instance, is heavy on the overlooked (25th Hour, The New World, Time Out) and the condemned (A.I) .

But there's still weeks left to the decade, and plenty of time for people to reshape their entire identity with the liste juste that makes the world see them in a whole new light.

Send an email to Richard Rushfield, the author of this post, at .

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(15) Lindsay Anderson, 1968 Starring Malcolm McDowell

Made in the heady days of global unrest and protest, Anderson's boarding-school flick caught the mood of anti-establishment disaffection. Its exotic flourishes – making out with a libidinous waitress; gunning down the faculty with weapons stolen from the cadet force armoury – fuelled the fantasies of rebellious schoolboys everywhere.

Best scene

College House listens in uncomfortable silence as Travis (McDowell) is given a brutal caning by the head whip.

Flirting

(15) John Duigan, 1991

Starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton

“One thing about boarding school, 24 hours a day, you're surrounded,” begins misfit Taylor, stuck in a rural Australian boys' school in 1965. “Either you abandon yourself and become a herd animal, or dig deeper into your head and skulk inside.” Taylor finds a different path when he discovers love with Newton from a nearby girls' school.

Best scene

Taylor defends his girlfriend's honour, in the boxing ring against the school's top pugilist. Inspiration from his hero, Jean-Paul Sartre, proves no help whatsoever.

Rushmore

(15) Wes Anderson, 1998

Starring Jason Schwartzman

Max Fischer (Schwartzman) is the rare boarding-school-flick hero who loves his alma mater and throws himself into all its activities. He becomes an intrinsically comic character, thanks to the chasm between his inflated self-image and the school's assessment of him as one of its worst pupils.

Best scene

In a dinner to celebrate the school play he wrote and directed, jealous Max is hilariously rude to Miss Cross's date.

Evil

(15) Mikael Håfström, 2003

Starring Andreas Wilson

This Swedish film tells the story of bad boy Erik (Wilson), who meets his match when he's sent to Stjarnsberg school. Hardly the most sympathetic character in the opening of the movie, he achieves redemption through his defiance of bullying prefects, and especially his defence of a fellow pupil.

Best scene

In a tit-for-tat response to the latest indignity administered by the school council, Erik and his pal pour a bucket of faeces on its leader's head.

Innocence

(15) Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004

Starring Marion Cotillard, Hélène de Fougerolles

Based on Mine-Haha: The Corporal Education of Young Girls, Frank Wedekind's 1901 novella, Innocence has an eerie, timeless quality and what the Guardian called “a meticulously created atmosphere of pastoral menace”. If most boarding schools “feel” like prisons, the one in this highly aestheticised mystery literally is one: the white-uniformed young girls are trapped in a forest idyll with high walls and no entrance.

The only escape is to be “chosen” and the climax – a brief burst of release at the end of a subterranean journey of tunnels and trains – casts fresh light on the plotless intrigue that precedes it.

Best scene

In the film's coda, in which the “chosen girls” unexpectedly arrive in a modern sunlit urban square, one of them is joined in a gushing fountain by a shirtless adolescent male.

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