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Any Given Sunday: Special Edition Director's Cut

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Oliver Stone's football epic, starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, was met with mixed reviews last winter when it opened in theaters. Now it has been released on DVD with about seven minutes of additional Stone staples -- gratuitous sex, drugs and violence. And of course these qualities never hinder a film.

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The Dark Crystal

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Jim Henson will forever be remembered for Kermit the Frog, but it is his 1982 work "The Dark Crystal" that might very well be the defining moment of his career.

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Pumpkins' last disc awesome

By Jason Gaddis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Virgin Records and the Smashing Pumpkins have never gotten along. But this time, the Pumpkins have the last laugh. They decided to release 25 vinyl copies of Machina II / the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music to a select group of friends and fans, encouraging mass bootlegging.

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Cam'ron's sophomore effort profane

By Kenneth Durril · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Profane from the beginning, Cam'ron's S.D.E. sets an urban reality or suburban fantasy of a violent New York City and candid sexual speech. This sophomore record is consistent but has no high-profile songs such as "Horse and Carriage," a BET favorite that featured Mase at his prime.

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Technology envy 101

By Jen Wagner · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Make a little more room in the U-Haul, mom. Along with their sheets, clothes and funky wall decorations, students are now moving decadent home entertainment centers, souped-up computers and expensive video game systems into their dorm rooms, apartments and houses.

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Boogie Nights

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

\"Boogie Nights," easily one of the most incendiary films of the '90s, hits the DVD format for the second time in a pristine anamorphic transfer, chock full of supplemental materials.

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The Matrix

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Take the red pill or the blue pill? Buy the videocassette or the DVD version of "The Matrix"? It's a tough choice, but for everyone who is still surfing the Internet trying to find Morpheus, DVD is the only way to go. The DVD version, which was released before the videocassette version, is jam-packed with extra little goodies.

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The last laugh

By Kate Lewis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Saturday night was bittersweet for both the audience and performers. About 50 people gathered in the IMU cafeteria to watch the very last performance of the Pumpernickel improv troupe, and they were thoroughly impressed. The group, which formed in 1994, does Chicago-style comedy games similar to those seen on "Whose Line is it Anyway?". Saturday's final performance made the audience laugh, cry and, in the end, they were sorry to see the group go.

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Osborne's latest effort darker, less passionate than 'Relish'

By Kate Lewis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Joan Osborne is an excellent musician. Her 1995 release Relish produced the tepid "One of Us" for radio airplay, but the rest of the album was much stronger. So her eagerly anticipated follow-up had big shoes to fill. Unfortunately, Righteous Love leaves much to be desired.

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USA: How low can you go?

By Jeff Schogol · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

I hope that the Screen Actors Guild goes on strike. Then we'd be spared crap like USA's new original series "The War Next Door" (9 p.m. Sunday), representing the latest offensive in the network's war on good t

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The Sweet Hereafter

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This 1997 Atom Egoyan masterpiece on the slow destruction of the workings of a small town stands as one of the great films of the 1990s. New Line fully recognized this and gave it the best DVD treatment it could.

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Rating DVD quality

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Movie studios have yet to fully figure out the possibilities of DVD, but they are getting there.

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Cheap dates

By Eden Kerr Perkinson · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Face it, you're flat broke. It's OK, we all are. But does that mean that as students we don't deserve the finest weekend entertainment out there? Does that mean we don't get the chance to impress dates with our creativity and romanticism? Basically, does that mean that our dating scene should be confined to Friday and Saturday night keggers because the $3 plastic cup fee is the most we can splurge? I think not.

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Brazil

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This 1985 Terry Gilliam masterpiece stands as one of the great examples of studio-prevented censorship. Universal originally wanted to chop more than 30 minutes out of the film and give the film a happy ending. But critics came to the rescue after a special screening of Gilliam's original cut.

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Turn it up

By Yahya Chami and Yayha Chami · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

I have been to a lot of parties at IU that would have been phenomenal if the music played had come from a bigger selection. Picture this scene with me. Lots of people are there, and the music is loud. Most of the people are trying to dance and have a good time, but the only CD the host owns is a bootlegged copy of Nelly's Country Grammar album. You can only grind to the same song a set number of times in one night.

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Death of the VCR

By Jen Wagner · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Colin Kearns took the leap in high school. He wanted more movies, better quality and the best technology on the market. His only option was to go digital. "I switched over to DVD a few years ago because I knew that eventually it was going to take over the video world, which it is slowly doing already," says Kearns, now a freshman in college. "I have had a deep interest in film for a couple years now, so I wanted to have access to the special features on DVD, like documentaries, deleted scenes and director's commentaries."

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Terminator 2: The Utimate Edition

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Fans of the Schwarzenegger/ Cameron sci-fi masterpiece will undoubtedly flip over this boss new cut of the flick. There are two versions of the film on the double-sided disc, both the original theatrical version and a director's cut.

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Leon: The Professional

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This is the moniker under which director Luc Besson's brilliant hitman-relationship flick "The Professional" was recently released on DVD. The film now contains 24 minutes of footage previously unseen by U.S. audiences, which really lift the film from an above-par action flick to a deep meditation on life and love with a high squib count.

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