European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 8 2007 Page 11 Charlottes web the childrens tale that gave spiders a Good name comes to life in a live action version using striking visual effects to make All those barnyard animals speak the filmmakers herded together a super Star voice cast led by Julia Roberts As the spider Charlotte who takes pity on Young runt pig Wilbur and hatches plans to make sure her Friend does not wind up on the dinner table Dakota fanning leads the human cast while other creature voices Are provided by Robert Redford Oprah Winfrey Cedric the entertainer John Cleese Reba Mcentire and Kathy Bates the did features deleted scenes with commen tary from director Gary Winick who also provides commentary for the full movie the disc also has seven behind the scenes featurettes including Back ground on the stores author be White and a music video by Sarah Maclachlan the Good Shepherd Robert de Niro directs and costars in an epic dramatization about the found ing of the Cia and the development of its espionage methods Over a period of decades from world War i into the heart of the cold War Matt Damon plays an idealistic Yale scholar who is recruited into the spy game and gradually becomes a Man so devoted that his cause and his country take precedence Over his wife Angelina Jolie in a curiously superficial role and their son the movie clocks in at a whopping and excessive length of nearly three hours but for those who still want More the did has 16 minutes of deleted footage Volver Penelope Cruz teams up again with Pedro Almodovar who directed her in All about my Mother and live flesh and delivers a career performance that earned her an Academy awards nomination for Best actress Cruz plays a spirited working class mom who leads a cast of Strong women faced with dark secrets tragic twists and strange surprises including the seem ing return of a woman Almodovar Veteran Carmen Maura from beyond the grave Almodovar and Cruz pair up for audio commentary and the did features a making of segment and cast and Crew interviews along with an american film Institute tribute to Cruz the naturals directors Cut Hollywood throws out one of the first pitches of baseball season with a new version of Barry levinsons 1984 sports drama starring Robert Redford As a natural Star who could have been the greatest the game Ever saw if not for a violent Detour in his youth Levinson adds about 15 minutes of previously unused footage and drastic Al new on did Universal pictures Clover Russell played by Angelina Jolie intrigues her future husband Edward Wilson Matt Damon in the did the Good Shepherd by recurs the first act to restore what he Calls the filmmakers original intent to depict the origins of Redford Roy Hobbs who returns to baseball As a Middle aged Rookie and shakes up the sport with mythic batting Talent the two disc set has a huge Range of featurettes among them a segment examining the mythology behind the Story reel baseball the Early Days of major league baseball get a Lovely revival with this two disc set gather ing two feature length films and 11 shorts from the silent Era ranging from a on minute cinematic snippet shot in 1899 to 1920s full length Headin Home starring the Young trim babe Ruth also included is the 1919 feature length comedy the a 1922 Experiment in talking pictures that features a recitation of Casey at the a 1917 Short film with legendary new York giants manager John Mcgraw and a Felix the cat baseball cartoon from 1922 to on did entourage season three part 1 a rising actor Adrian Grenier braces for super stardom As his action blockbuster prepares to open in the hit series that examines the pleasures and pressures of Hollywood a three disc set has 12 episodes plus cast and Crew commentary and a Featurette twin peaks the second sea son the second and final year of David Lynch Short lived ode to bizarre doings in the Northwest comes to did Kyle Maclachlan stars As a cheery Fri Man investigating the death of a prom Queen the latest in a string of killings by an evil Force the six disc set has the last 22 episodes Law order the fifth year the venerable Anchor series of the crimean punishment franchise returns with a five disc set packing 23 episodes of the show that follows cops and prosecutors As they put away bad Guys mind of Mene a uncensored season 2 comedian Carlos men Cia uses monologues commercial spoofs and interviews with real people to skewer pop culture current events and anything else that comes to mind season twos 14 episodes come in a two disc set along with deleted scenes Roseanne the Complete seventh season Roseanne Barr and John Goodman Are Back As Heads of a dysfunctional household in the ground breaking sitcom that took on real issues from a working class perspective other new releases Black Christmas Michelle Trachtenberg of Buffy the Vampire Slayer leads a cast of sorority women stalked by a Slasher Over the holidays in this remake of the 1970s horror tale the did has alternate endings and deleted scenes copying Beethoven de Harris plays the great composer in his final year As the temperamental Beethoven reluctantly agrees to let a music student Diane Kruger help transcribe his masterpiece the ninth symphony Harris and director Agnieszka Holland pro vide commentary for the full film and deleted scenes death of a president director Gabriel Range crafts a fictional movie in documentary style to examine the aftermath of the hypothetical assassination of president Bush in october 2007 an idea More shocking in concept than in execution Given the relatively tame results the filmmakers provide commentary and interviews Fern Dakota fanning is one of Only two living beings who sees that Wilbur the pig is a special animal that has a special mend in the recent did release Char Lottes web q Al o d q
