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If anyone can pull together the biggest concert event of any given year in the south Pacific, it’s Neil Finn. Considering that Crowded House earned the distinction of “best concert in the world” for its 1996 farewell concert, it may be no surprise that he also drew some of the biggest crowds in 2001 with his star-studded week-long gig in Auckland, New Zealand. Featuring Eddie Vedder, Lisa Germano, Ed O’Brien, Johnny Marr, Tim Finn, and Betchadupa (the band headlined by Neil’s son Liam), 7 Worlds Collide is a record of the best performances from that week. (more…)

An 80s favorite that convinced many a kid with an Apple II that hacking was not only cool, but the chicks dug it, WarGames may also have the distinction of being Matthew Broderick’s finest hour (well, it sure as hell wasn’t Godzilla). Broderick fits the role of a proto-Wesley Crusher-esque, well-intentioned geek perfectly, and Ally Sheedy also gets a good outing with this one.

The DVD isn’t thick with features, but what features it has are good ones. (more…)

The BBC’s range of Doctor Who DVDs finally hits its stride with this title, the third to be released. Featuring a wonderfully restored version of the 1970 four-parter - which holds the distinctions of being the first Jon Pertwee story, the first color story, and the first Doctor Who adventure to be shot entirely on location and on film (due to a BBC studio workers’ strike) - the Spearhead From Space DVD also piles on a text trivia subtitle (a very cool feature I look forward to in future releases), (more…)

I’ve already raved about the first volume of Rhino’s eagerly awaited series of Battle Of The Planets DVDs, and while the features are basically the same on this volume - corresponding Gatchaman episodes with subtitles and one episode of the supremely crappy re-edited “G-Force: Guardians Of The Universe” - but the episodes are better, as they’re from a point further into the series where the producers had found the right balance between the original Gatchaman footage and the newly (well, newly in the ’70s) created footage of 7-Zark-7 to fill in for censored violent scenes. (more…)