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		<title>SWEENEY TODD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: John Logan

Based on the play by Stephen Sondheim &#38; Hugh Wheeler and also the play by Christopher Bond
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders
Distributed by Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks &#38; Warner Bros.
Film will be released on Region 1 on 2 Disc DVD on April 1st 2008 from retailers such as Amazon for $22.99
Film will be released on Region 2 on 2 Disc DVD on May 19th 2008 from retailers such as Play.com for £12.99 
Review by Ray DeRousse
Film: [rating: 2.5]
DVD Set: [rating: 5]
Even though the highly-lauded Sweeney Todd failed to receive much love at last month's Academy Awards, Dreamworks has pulled out all of the stops in this comprehensive collector's edition worthy of an Oscar winner.

THE FILM

I hate most musicals. The form usually falls into one of two formulas:

	Musicals in which the characters break into song because they are part of a stage performance or theatrical spectacle. Films like Victor/Victoria, All That Jazz, and Chicago fall into this category. The characters are singing because they are stage performers, or onstage performing.
	Musicals in which the characters break into song every time ...]]></description>
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		<title>SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by Tim Burton

Written by John Logan

Based on the play by Stephen Sondheim &#38; Hugh Wheeler and also the play by Christopher Bond

Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders

Distributed by Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks &#38; Warner Bros.

Film gets a wide release in the U.K. on Jan 25th, 2008

Review by Matt Holmes

[rating: 5]

Sweeney Todd, the bloodiest of all the musicals, the closest shave of sinister and macabre and the glorious Victorian time period which brought out the very best of horror fiction writers Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, HG Wells and Bram Stoker.... who all lived through that dark and mysterious period.

We've already seen From Hell (which Depp also happened to star in) adapt the legend of the 19th century serial prostitute serial killing rapist Jack "The Ripper" into an interesting yet very conventional slasher movie from The Hughes Brothers but what of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the fanciful Tim Burton, a director who hasn't been this dark in a decade?

How would his first venture into a live-action musical turn out, where characters sing rather than talk to each other, and ...]]></description>
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