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Phish: Walnut Creek

Take it or leave it, Phish at a peakTotal jammin' brodown or no, Phish's two-DVD Walnut Creek, recorded in July 1997, stays focused on the music. Five cameras, almost exclusively trained on the earnestly pretentious Vermont foursome, plus a poppingly mixed soundtrack make for (mostly) caveat-free hippie goodness. Even in digital fidelity, Phish is—by its standards—flawless....  read more

Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)

Stuart Rosenberg's 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke has left a heavy footprint in our pop-culture conscience...  read more

Leatherheads

Release Date: Sept. 23Director: George ClooneyWriters: Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly Producers: Grant Heslov, Casey Silver Starring: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
Studio/Run Time: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 114 mins.Silly comedy about football's beginnings kinda swell, thanks to ClooneySay, George Clooney's got a lotta moxie, giving us this slapsticky movie about an aging football player's hail-mary attempt to save his rag-tag 1925 team and bring fame and fans to the fledgling professional sport. He's the cat's pajamas as Jimmy "Dodge" Connolly, all rumpled and dapper in his newsboy cap, three-piece suit and soft smirks. It's hard to understand how Renée Zellweger—as...  read more