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Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 5:58am CEST
Based on a true story, The Soloist is a showcase for the acting of Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. The film also brilliantly captures Los Angeles as a city...
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Posted: July 28th, 2010, 4:11am CEST
Co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air is quite contemporary in some ways, while in others it is reminiscent of older films like Billy Wilder's The Apartment...
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Posted: July 26th, 2010, 6:56am CEST
The new DVD releases include The Art of the Steal, Clash of the Titans and Repo Men. We'll also look at upcoming new DVD releases.
Next Week's New DVD Releases:
The Art...
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Posted: July 26th, 2010, 5:05am CEST
Steve Carell and Tina Fey star in this action comedy. Phil and Claire Foster (Carell and Fey) are an ordinary suburban married couple with kids and jobs. Read more: Date...
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Posted: July 21st, 2010, 6:52am CEST
There's not much of a plot in Greenberg, but it's a superb character study with quite a bit of wry humor. One of the movie's strengths is in closely observing...
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Posted: July 19th, 2010, 6:08am CEST
The new DVD releases include Cop Out, The Losers and The Runaways. We'll also look at upcoming new DVD releases.
This Week's New DVD Releases:
Cop Out DVD
The Losers DVD
The...
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Posted: July 19th, 2010, 4:55am CEST
Adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. Read more: Shutter Island DVD review
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 4:24am CEST
There are many good things about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but the most striking is its central female character, Lisbeth Salander, played by actress Noomi Rapace. Read more:The...
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 6:36am CEST
The new DVD releases include The Bounty Hunter, Greenberg and Our Family Wedding. We'll also look at upcoming new DVD releases.
This Week's New DVD Releases:
The Bounty Hunter DVD
Greenberg DVD...
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 3:47am CEST
Jude Law stars in this sci-fi thriller based on Eric Garcia's novel The Repossession Mambo. In the near future, corporations sell synthetic body parts to people, but the prices are...
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Posted: March 24th, 2010, 3:30am CET
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was one of the great all-time filmmakers, but in the US some of his movies have been difficult to see in recent years. But that has changed...
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Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 5:04am CET
The new DVD releases include The Blind Side, Brothers and The Men Who Stare at Goats. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next week's...
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Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 4:24am CET
Words like garish and tawdry come to mind when thinking about Touch of Evil (1958), which was written and directed by Orson Welles and starred him along with Charlton Heston...
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Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:55am CET
The movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire should be seen for the brilliant performances by Mo'Nique and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. Both actresses received Academy Award nominations they...
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Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:02am CET
Once is a charming, low-budget, low-keyed, intimate, unpretentious indie film set in contemporary Dublin. The plot centers on the relationship that develops between a pair of musicians. The acting style...
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Posted: March 15th, 2010, 10:05am CET
The new DVD releases include Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Princess and the Frog and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. You can also take a look at additional...
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Posted: March 15th, 2010, 10:05am CET
The new DVD releases include Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Princess and the Frog and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. You can also take a look at additional...
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Posted: March 15th, 2010, 7:17am CET
Mickey Rourke creates an unforgettable character in The Wrestler, a haunting drama that takes place at the bottom end of the world of professional wrestling. Read more: The Wrestler DVD...
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Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:05am CET
The new DVD releases include Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Princess and the Frog and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. You can also take a look at additional...
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Posted: March 15th, 2010, 2:17am CET
Mickey Rourke creates an unforgettable character in The Wrestler, a haunting drama that takes place at the bottom end of the world of professional wrestling. Read more: The Wrestler DVD...
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:12am CET
Co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air is quite contemporary in some ways, while in others it is reminiscent of older films like Billy...
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:12am CET
Co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air is quite contemporary in some ways, while in others it is reminiscent of older films like Billy...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 12:17pm CET
The new DVD releases include Old Dogs, Planet 51, Precious and Up in the Air. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:49am CET
Winner of six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture, The Hurt Locker is an unusual war movie, and one of the best ever made. Read more: The...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:13am CET
A fairy tale set in a parallel-universe version of Nazi-occupied France, Inglourious Basterds is a pulpy, darkly comic, violent thriller written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:00am CET
This Oscar winner for Best Documentary shows how emotionally powerful film can be when used for advocacy journalism. With terrific footage and superb editing, this...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:17am CET
The new DVD releases include Old Dogs, Planet 51, Precious and Up in the Air. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:49am CET
Winner of six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture, The Hurt Locker is an unusual war movie, and one of the best ever made. Read more: The...
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Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 9:04am CET
The Informant! is a quirky seriocomedy directed by Steven Soderbergh. The offbeat story comes from Kurt Eichenwald's 600-page nonfiction book that tells a strange tale of...
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Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 10:20pm CET
Financially troubled Blockbuster has made major changes to its terms for in-store rentals of DVD and Blu-ray discs, shortening the "initial rental period," eliminating the "grace period" and imposing late...
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Posted: March 1st, 2010, 11:05am CET
The new DVD releases include 2012, Ponyo and Where the Wild Things Are. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next...
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Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:01am CET
Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, Man on Wire (2008) is an absorbing film about a daredevil who walked on a cable suspended between ...
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Posted: February 24th, 2010, 9:22am CET
Nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture, The Hurt Locker is an unusual war movie, and one of the best ever made. Read more: The Hurt Locker DVD review
The...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 10:58am CET
The new DVD releases include The Box, The Informant! and Sorority Row. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next week's...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 8:40am CET
In Enchanted April, four discontented Englishwomen "who appreciate wisteria and sunshine" leave their humdrum lives behind to spend a month at a castle on the Italian coast. Read more:...
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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 9:52pm CET
Bad news for consumers! The kiosk dollar-a-night rental giant Redbox has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. to delay renting that studio's DVDs until four weeks after they go on...
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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 10:41am CET
This Oscar nominee for Best Documentary shows how emotionally powerful film can be when used for advocacy journalism. With terrific footage and superb editing, this...
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Posted: February 15th, 2010, 9:47am CET
The new DVD releases include Coco Before Chanel, Good Hair and Law Abiding Citizen. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next ...
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Posted: February 14th, 2010, 9:34am CET
There's no guarantee of finding romance in real life, but if you know where to look, you can usually find romantic movies at least. Explore a list of my favorite...
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Posted: February 10th, 2010, 9:23am CET
Rome Open City (1945), Paisan (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1948) are three influential Italian neorealist films by Roberto Rossellini. Collectively called the War Trilogy, all deal with World...
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Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:08am CET
The new DVD releases include Couples Retreat, The Stepfather and The Time Traveler's Wife. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next ...
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Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:57am CET
Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire (2008) dazzles the viewer with exotic locations, exuberant filmmaking, Bollywood music and a rags-to-riches story with...
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Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 11:33am CET
This Best Picture Oscar nominee is laugh-out-loud-funny at times, yet the worldview embodied by the film is bleak. However, there can be no argument that the...
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 9:28pm CET
Nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture, The Hurt Locker is an unusual war movie, and one of the best ever made. Read more: The Hurt Locker DVD review
The...
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 8:58pm CET
Written and directed by Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia is a feel-good movie that features a great performance by Meryl Streep as Julia Child (1912-2004), who co-authored Mastering...
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 8:38pm CET
Nominated for eight Oscars including best picture, Inglourious Basterds is a pulpy, darkly comic, violent thriller written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. One of the best things about the...
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Posted: February 1st, 2010, 11:38am CET
The new DVD releases include Adam, Amelia, Love Happens and Zombieland. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next ...
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Posted: February 1st, 2010, 9:01am CET
His work on The Cove won Louie Psihoyos a Directors Guild of America's award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary. The Cove is a documentary that shows...
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Posted: January 27th, 2010, 12:20pm CET
Benicio del Toro gives a superb performance as the title character in Che, Steven Soderbergh's idiosyncratic Spanish-language biopic about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967). Read more: Che...
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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 11:43am CET
The new DVD releases include Michael Jackson's This Is It, Surrogates and Whip It. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next ...