From Doris to D.E.B.S.: once you've had your fill of parades and meat-on-a-stick, there are plenty of great DVDs arriving in June to keep you entertained.There are several exciting new boxed sets on the market for all kinds of tastes. Warner Home Video rocks the house in this department, with The Boris Day Collection ($88.92), The Essential Steve McQueen Collection ($68.92), and The Complete James Dean Collection ($68.92). When you're not enjoying the vintage Hollywood classics, you can make your Bette Davis Collection and Joan Crawford Collection (each $49.92 and available June 14) push each other down the stairs. Sold as three separate DVDs ($14.98 each) is Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's Frank Sinatra Celebration, featuring the gritty procedural The Detective--with howlingly dated gay content--and the goofy Tony Rome and Lady in Cement. Other recent releases: Following an all-too-brief theatrical run, the charming lesbian-inclusive spy comedy D.E.B.S. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $24.96; available June 7) makes it to DVD with a commentary, deleted scenes, and other goodies. David Cronenberg's creepily brilliant Dead Ringers (Warner Home Video, $19.96; available June 7) left out the gay content from the source novel, Twins, but we're willing to let that go. This second DVD incarnation of the film features a new Jeremy Irons commentary. Let's go sexin'! John Waters's outrageous and libidinous li·bid·i·nous (l -b d n- s)adj. comedy A Dirty Shame (New Line Home Entertainment, $27.95; available June 14) makes it to home video in both its original NC-17 NC-17 - No Children under 17 years of age (movie rating)NC-17 - No One 17 and Under Admitted (MPAA rating) version and a tamer R-rated release for all the "neuters" out there. Finally, pour yourself a bowl of Cocoa Puffs and curl up with Super Friends--Volume Two (Warner Home Video, $44.98). Enjoy goofy villains, Wonder Twins, and a great "Pajama-Rama" featurette, in which some very funny Gen X-ers wax nostalgic about the 1970s cartoon. |
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