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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Another Hollywood entity has been lacerated by the dreaded "remains to be seen" in a New York Times Arts and Leisure article. In Dennis McDougal's 11.21 piece about Kevin Spacey's battle to make his Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea (Lions Gate, 12.17), he notes that Spacey "essentially becomes Darin in the film," but adds, "Whether that will help revive his career, which has flagged in recent years as he spent his talent on routine fare like Pay It Forward, K-PAX and The Life of David Gale, remains to be seen." That settles it...Spacey (and his movie, in all likelihood) are all but finito. Nobody survives "remains to be seen." Less than a month ago Nancy Hass's piece about Scott Rudin seriously wounded two upcoming prestige pics with the following sentence: "Whether Closer, with its searing look at relationships and adultery, or the zany Aquatic, directed by Wes Anderson and starring Bill Murray, will combine emotional depth with box-office magic remains to be seen." Aaaahhhh!

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