E 0 u 'til c.0 ~ While it's no secret III 0 where the sympathies 0 N of the great director r-: Mike Leigh lie on the N abortion issue, it's a ~ U credit to the artists . ~ IU involved that "Vera ~ Drake" is far from a >. polemic about IU "C abortion. Imelda C ::I Staunton's incredible Vl performance as Vera - ...-III a sweet little old lady 0 c.. in '50s England who ,:,t! helps women ~ 0 terminate pregnancies >- :: - is too good to limit Q) this to an "issues" z movie. No extras; this I spare, memorable fIlm I speaks for itself. I I The 1Wilight Zone: fine new boxed set. No extras, but fine transfers of 1955's I Season 2 "Colditz Story" (a nifty prison I break movie), 1953's tense ****Image, $99.99 U-boat drama "The Cruel Sea" and three more. Film buffs TVs greatest anthology series should jump. has been released on video and DVD in numerous different combinations, but none can match the care of this lavish set (and the recently released Season 1 at $119.99). You get audio commentaries, interviews "Twilight Zone" radio plays, ' promos, Rod Serling's appearances on talk shows and more. And, of course, classic episodes such as "Eye of the Beholder" and "Nick ofTinle," in gorgeous transfers. Essential.
Criterion,= usha$39.95 As George Lucas winds up his .. tar War "saga (and endures Apollo 13: 10th l.)Hckbats for the films' fading Anniversary Edition appeal), he can take great ***Universal,Ya $22.98 c mfort in one act of kindness: -'------he and Francis Ford Coppola reigruted the career of director Ron Howard's best movie is Akira Kurosawa by backing this still this matter-of-fact but bclllia.nt 1980 epic. Extras gripping look at the space in fide - of all things - program in its most griping S ory whiskey commercials and courageous hour. The sh t on the fIlm's set. 1995 movie about a mission gone awry is still a textbook example of no-fuss British war Collection filmmaking. New extras for * *lh this edition include two new ArichQr Bay, $89.98 documentaries - "Lucky 13: The Astronauts' Story" .and These discs may constitute "Conquering Space: The the d of the year - five Moon and Beyond" - totaling littie-known but generally about an hour in length. terrific British war films, in a