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This Week's DVD Releases
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| Bruno
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen) stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality. An incredible chameleon who completely disappears behind his flaming alter ego, the bold Baron Cohen serves up nonstop laughs... (read more) | | |
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| Carbon Copy
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| Cyrano de Bergerac
Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting France's most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literature's meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must... (read more)
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| Downhill Racer
Robert Redford stars in this excellent 1969 film about a selfish and ambitious athlete who wants to break records at the Olympics but not participate in the teamwork emphasized by his coach (Gene Hackman). Redford comes across as a rare heel, and the film's understated tone keeps the focus on characters and sundry themes important to director... (read more)
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| Gone with the Wind
Based on the book by Margaret Mitchell, the movie follows the life of a spoiled brat Southern daughter whose world gets shook upside down by the Civil War. (read more)
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| How to Be
This dry British comedy stars Robert Pattinson as Art, a twentysomething musician who, after being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend, moves back in with his parents in order to face the challenges of his quarter-life crisis. Soon, Art enlists the services of a self-help guru to follow him wherever he goes, inspiring a series of hilarious... (read more) | | |
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| Humpday
During a getaway at a sex-positive commune, best pals Andrew (Joshua Leonard) and Ben (Mark Duplass) find their friendship tested in strange new ways when a dare leads them to contemplate filming a live sex scene for an amateur porn festival. As the shoot date looms, our heroes must contend with two major logistical difficulties: Ben's wife, Anna... (read more) | | |
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| Is Anybody There?
Growing up in a seaside nursing home run by his parents takes its toll on 10-year-old Edward (Bill Milner), but things begin to look up for the lonely boy when a retired magician (Michael Caine) with a zest for life moves in. Set in the 1980s, this poignant tale follows the developing friendship between Clarence -- a spirited old troublemaker... (read more) | | |
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| My One and Only
When her husband (Kevin Bacon) catches her in a compromising position, Ann Devereaux (Renée Zellweger) rounds up her teenage sons and hits the road, hoping to find a wealthy new man to care for her family in this comedy based on the real-life childhood of actor George Hamilton. Ann finds no shortage of admirers, but soon wonders if she's searching... (read more) | | |
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| My Sister's Keeper
A former defense attorney (Cameron Diaz) finds herself back in the courtroom when she and her husband (Jason Patric) get sued for emancipation by their teenage daughter, Anna (Abigail Breslin). The subsequent trial exposes a shocking family secret that tests the limits of parental love -- and the boundaries of ethics. Joan Cusack and Alec Baldwin... (read more)
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| Penance
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin. (read more) | | |
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| Pray the Devil Back to Hell
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| Revenge
This often grisly, arguably racist movie stars Kevin Costner as a U.S. Navy pilot who is the improbable friend of a powerful, vaguely criminal Mexican millionaire (Anthony Quinn). While visiting the latter on his estate, Costner's character has an affair with his host's gorgeous young wife (Madeline Stowe), for which he is almost beaten to death... (read more)
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| Rituals
Shot on location in the Northern Ontario bush, Rituals follows five vacationing doctors on an extended wilderness hike. They're targeted by an unseen madman who begins by pulling a few nasty pranks, then ups the ante to murder. As the atrocities pile up, the victims slowly begin to figure out their assailant's bizarre motive. (read more) | | |
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| Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
The film starts in Switzerland where a disguised Holmes successfully spirits away scientist Franz Tobel (William Post Jr) from under the noses of some Nazi officers. Tobel has invented a new type of bomb-sight which not only needs to be kept away from the Germans but could greatly benefit the RAF. And the game's afoot... (read more)
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| Shout at the Devil
An American, with the help of an upper-class Englishman who`s looking for adventure, hopes to get rich via smuggling and land speculation in Africa. But they are forced to put aside the conflict and focus on more serious problems when they discover a group of Germans attempting to ready a grounded battleship for war.
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| Star Trek
Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his trusted team on the starship USS Enterprise boldly go where no man has gone before in this installment of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise that follows the early days of the intergalactic adventurers. The crew includes Spock (Zachary Quinto), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and... (read more) | | |
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| Teacher's Pet
James Gannon is a cynical newspaper man who finds himself falling for a sweet, good-natured journalism teacher named Erica Stone. Because James knows that Erica hates him thanks to his reputation, James pretends to be a wallpaper salesman and starts attending her classes. (read more) | | |
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| The Canyon
A backcountry excursion deep into the Grand Canyon wilderness is a honeymoon come true for city slickers Nick (Eion Bailey) and Lori (Yvonne Strahovski) until a viper bite debilitates their grizzled old guide (Will Patton), leaving the couple leaderless and utterly lost. Now the pair are in a fight for their lives against starvation, treacherous... (read more) | | |
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| The Drifter
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| The Limits of Control
An enigmatic stranger (Isaach De Bankolé), with no friends to speak of and no one to trust, is on a shadowy criminal mission. His moves are always marked with the knowledge that the law is never far behind. Acclaimed indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes) writes and directs this tale, which is set against the backdrop... (read more) | | |
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| The Open Road
With his mother (Mary Steenburgen) facing surgery, Carlton (Justin Timberlake) and his friend Lucy (Kate Mara) travel to Ohio to round up his estranged father, Kyle (Jeff Bridges), a baseball legend. Michael Meredith's comedy-drama follows the unlikely trio on an emotionally awkward road trip back to Texas. As the miles unfold before them, father... (read more)
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| Train
In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride in this remake of "Terror Train," the Jamie Lee Curtis-starring slasher from the '80s. (read more) | | |
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| Wild Child
A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father. (read more) | | |
Next Week's DVD Releases
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| Air America
Air America is one of those movies that could have been great, and now maintains its low-key reputation as a typical Mel Gibson film in the wake of his first two Lethal Weapon hits. Originally conceived as a biting black comedy about the CIA's top-secret smuggling operation in Laos during the Vietnam war, Air America lost most of its political... (read more)
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| Buck Rogers
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| Cabin Fever
An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other. (read more)
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| Carny
A teenage girl bored with working as a waitress hooks up with two men
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| Christmas in Wonderland
Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to Edmonton. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall they find counterfeit cash. They inadvertently help catch the crooks, and later make a discovery about Santa. (read more) | | |
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| Female Yakuza Tale
In this sequel to the 1973 sexploitation classic Sex & Fury, Ocho (Reiko Ike) is back, this time plotting her escape from a violent drug cartel that dared capture the deadly vixen. But once she's free, Ocho still has to contend with a group of male Yakuzas and a gang of female thugs. This action saga had an obvious influence on Quentin Tarantino's... (read more) | | |
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| Four Christmases
Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon teams up with Vince Vaughn for this romantic comedy in which they play a pair of newlyweds forced to spend their first Christmas as husband and wife visiting each of their four divorced parents in a single day. Directed by Seth Gordon, the holiday season comedy boasts an all-star cast, including Robert... (read more) | | |
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| Funny People
In the world of stand-up comics, even work can be a joke -- at least until one funnyman has an all-too-close call with death and discovers another side of life. Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) directs this moving comedy that stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza and Billy Concha. (read more) | | |
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| Gomorrah
The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two cocky teenagers form the fabric of this gritty and lyrical examination of the influential Neapolitan mob known as the Camorra. Peering into a multitude of social strata within present-day Naples, director Matteo Garrone's film -- a hybrid of melodrama, crime and art-film... (read more) | | |
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| Imagine That
Work problems are piling up for financial exec Evan (Eddie Murphy), and his ruthless rival (Thomas Haden Church), greedy boss (Ronny Cox) and touchy-feely best (DeRay Davis) friend aren't helping matters. But when Evan discovers a pathway to his daughter's imaginary world, he starts finding some solutions. Nicole Ari Parker co-stars as Evan's... (read more)
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| Janky Promoters
Russell (Ice Cube) and Jellyroll (Mike Epps), two inexperienced concert promoters, get their big break when they book a huge rap star (Young Jeezy, playing himself) into an intimate concert hall, but the duo is unprepared for the never-ending series of complications that threatens to derail the event. As they handle one impossible situation after... (read more) | | |
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| La Traviata
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| Screwed
Screwed was another nail in the coffin of former Saturday Night Live wisecracker Norm MacDonald, following his dismal previous film, Dirty Work. However, while Screwed isn't particularly funny (the jokes about dentures, dog poop, and dead bodies are pretty much as old as the hills), the plot exerts a perverse interest; for most of the movie,... (read more)
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| Shorts
When the residents of a tight-knit community learn that 11-year-old Toe Thompson (Jimmy Bennett) has discovered a mysterious multicolored rock that grants the wishes of whomever possesses it, chaos ensues. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids), this family-friendly tale also stars Jon Cryer and Leslie Mann as Toe's parents, Kat Dennings as his... (read more) | | |
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| Silent Scream
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| The Uninvited
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