Review of The Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD: Building an Essential Movie Collection-With Information on the Best DVD Extras, Supplements and Special Features-and the Best DVDs for Kids (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a really good book, and I do recommend it.This, and the Video Hound's Guide to DVDs series are the only ones I've found that describe and rate both the movie and the DVD, as most movie review books really only give capsule reviews of the movie and ignore the DVD extras.This book has in-depth reviews of134 good movies and their DVD editions, whereas the Video Hound guides try to give a capsule review on a much larger set of DVDs.I think the reviews in this book are very good, and the information about DVD extras are even better.

However, there's one thing that I really didn't like about this book:It doesn't list any identifying information about the DVD, like the studio catalog number and / or UPC number.A number of the titles reviewed in this book have had several releases, and even though the review will mention which versionto buy (at least by which studio released it), it's not always easy to pick it out of the review.They really should, at the very least, clearly list the catalog and UPC number of the versions they are reviewing at the beginning of the review (with recommended version if there is one), and ideally also use this information when they are comparing features of different releases of a title.

Product Description

Citizen Kane - Boogie Nights - Sunset Boulevard - My Fair Lady - Almost Famous - Jaws - A Hard Day's Night - Lord of the Rings - Monsoon Wedding - Apocalypse Now Redux - Moulin Rouge - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - A Beautiful Mind - Shakespeare in Love

THEY'RE NOT JUST MOVIES ANYMORE.

THEY'RE DVDs.

Supplements...special collector's edition...extras...Words that set the heart pounding of every DVD lover. But how do you decide which DVDs to buy? Where do you begin collecting? Which special features are really special? What commentaries are informative or entertaining? Which disks are worth your time and money? Here at last is the portable, one-of-a-kind DVD buyer's guide -- from veteran film and television critics Steven H. Scheuer and Alida Brill-Scheuer.

Director/star/crew audio commentaries - Outtakes - Filmographies and biographies - Alternate takes, music, and endings - Celebrity interviews - Deleted scenes - Trailers - Lost footage - Hidden features and Easter eggs - Animated menus - Production notes - Storyboards - Promotional art - DVD-rom extras - Behind-the-scenes footage - Screenplays - Souvenir booklets - and a special afterword on the best DVDs for kids

About the Author
Steven H. Scheuer is a distinguished film and television critic, and a syndicated columnist. He is the author of several books, including The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies and Movies on TV and Videocassette. A renowned lecturer, he has also hosted the television series All About TV and the new series Television in America: An Autobiography.

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