Wash n' rinse - 12:04am

Just in from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment are the full specs for their January 2003 catalog lineup, featuring three Oscar winners. Leading the pack on January 21st is the controversial 70's comedy Shampoo, which snagged Lee Grant a Best Supporting Actress win. Presented in anamorphic widescreen and full screen with English and French mono tracks, extras are sparse, with only bonus trailers included. Also sans supplements is the Michael Caine and Julie Waters comedy Educating Rita, which netted Waters a Best Actress nomination. Debuting on January 7th, this one features an anamorphic widescreen transfer only, English and French 2.0 Dolby stereo tracks, and more bonus trailers. Also making its first-ever DVD appearance on the 7th (and just in time for Black History Month) is recent honorary Oscar recipient Sidney Poitier's classic Brother John. Presented in anamorphic widescreen and full screen transfers and English and French mono, the film's original theatrical trailer is also included. Retail is $24.95 each.

Stocking stuffers - 12:03am

Rounding out today's news, Fox Home Entertainment has announced a sleigh's worth of repricings and new budget line releases just in time for the holidays. Effective on December 17th, slashed to a new low price of only $9.95 are over two dozen Fox favorites: Quills, Inventing The Abbotts, Impostors, Ice Storm, Brokedown Palace, Rangers, Grand Canyon, Paradise Road, Smilla's Sense Of Snow, Zardoz, Two Girls And A Guy, Bartok The Magnificent, Norma Rae, Drive Me Crazy, Ravenous, Silent Trigger, Active Stealth, Do You Want to Know a Secret, Newton Boys, Slums Of Beverly Hills, Firestorm, Ping!, Shooting Fish, Cousin Bette, Mom's Outta Sight, Extreme Limits, Poseidon Adventure, Reckless and Wild, Five Aces and the atrocious Wing Commander. Making their first-ever DVD debuts are a number of B-movie and direct-to-video action thrillers: Red Scorpion, Do You Want to Know a Secret, Hustle, To Walk With Lions, Jack of Hearts, La Cucaracha, Layover, Lying in Wait, RPM, Tunnel, Blind Terror, Carnivore, Final Stab, Island of the Dead, Moving Targets and Road Kill. Unfortunately, specs for these cheapies are not yet available, but stay tuned...