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007: Bond Girls are Forever (Limited Edition) | 2002 | $5.00 | DVD | John Watkin | |
| A look back at all of the Bond Girls. This was a special release that debuted with the latest Bond movie. | ||||||
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30 Days of Night | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | David Slade | |
| In the middle of winter, in Alaska, residents of the quiet town of Barrow are preparing to live, as every year, a month without sunlight. In the wake of a series of strange events, Eben (Josh Hartnett) and Stella (Melissa George), both local sheriffs, are learning about the incredible truth. A gang of vampires has invested the city to slay all its inhabitants. Eben, Stella and a small group of survivors such as Marlow (Danny Huston), Billy Kitka (Manu Bennett), Wilson Bulosan (Craig Hall), Doug Hertz (Joel Tobeck), Jake Olemaun (Mark Rendall), Denise (Amber Sainsbury), Lucy Ikos (Elizabeth Hawthorne) and Issac Bulosan (Chic Littlewood) will then try to survive until sunrise. | ||||||
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61* | 2001 | $6.00 | DVD | Billy Crystal | |
| "61*" is an intriguing examination of the 1961 season when Major League Baseball was focused on the potential for either Roger Maris (Barry Pepper) or Mickey Mantle (Tom Jane) to hit at least 61 home runs and break Babe Ruth's longstanding record. A media firestorm is created to concoct a supposed bitter and intense rivalry between the two Yankee teammates, who in reality were friends. The wild Mantle and the more reserved Maris actually support each other through the season. Part of the drama revolves around the time pressure, since Ruth set his record when seasons were only 154 games to 1961's 162 games. The real drama is as much in the relationship between the two men and their friendship as it is in the record itself. | ||||||
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The Accidental Spy | 2001 | $6.00 | DVD | Teddy Chan; Teddy Chen | |
| Jackie Chan returns to dazzling form! If you've watched Chan's Hollywood movies (Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon) and been unimpressed, The Accidental Spy is a good introduction to the astonishing fights and extraordinary stunts that make Chan's Hong Kong films such events. Chan plays an exercise-equipment salesman who turns out to be the missing son of a Korean double agent who's connected with drug lords in Turkey who have developed a super-addictive opium--got all that? The plot is largely nonsensical, a series of implausible escapades that frame the action; but what the movie lacks in logic, it makes up for in spectacle, ranging from a burning runaway truck cascading off a bridge to a stark-naked Chan pursued by thugs in a Turkish bazaar, defending himself with every implement in sight. This is why Jackie Chan is the biggest movie star in the world--check it out. --Bret Fetzer | ||||||
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 4 | 2000 | $16.00 | DVD | Dave Willis (III); Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis | |
| Those ferocious fast-food freedom fighters Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake return for more outrageous adventures in this double-disc set culled from their third season. Longtime fans of Aqua Teen Hunger Force know that the Teens rarely battle any actual evildoers--their chief nemesis, Dr. Weird, blows himself up before he can hatch any of his schemes--but the fellas still have plenty of trouble to deal with in these episodes, whether it's from an Atari 2600 that can contact the deceased ("Video Ouija"), the hellish creature known as MC Pee Pants, who returns here as an elderly gent in a retirement home ("Little Brittle"), a robot babysitter for Meatwad (voiced by Sarah Silverman in "Robositter"), or the perennially pesky Mooninites, who make two appearances here (in "Remooned" and "The Final Mooning"). But of course, the Teens' worst enemies are themselves, and in the 13 episodes featured on this set, the boys manage to take on crash diets ("Diet"), destroy New Jersey's gas line ("Dusty Gozongas"), summon a monstrous Santa Claus with a magical T-shirt ("T-shirt of the Dead), shrink themselves ("Unremarkable Voyage"), and well, expire ("Video Ouija"). In short, it's typical Aqua Teen Hunger Force lunacy, abetted by several fun celebrity guest voices (Bob Odenkirk and Fred Armisen in "Hypno-Germ," Scott Thompson in "Dusty Gozongas," and Ted Nugent as himself in "Gee Whiz"). As with previous ATHF DVDs, Volume Four comes with a wealth of supplemental features for the series' fans: nine of the 13 episodes feature commentary from the show's creators, which are unfortunately plagued by sound-quality problems. But there's also the complete "Spacecataz," which compiles the brief clips of the Mooninites and Plutonians' ceaseless and ridiculous battles which open each episode into one short feature; a short film titled "Raydon" from the show's producers; "San Diego Must Be Destroyed," an amusing clip featuring the Mooninites which screened at a comic convention; and a featurette on the vocal talent as they record the dialogue for "Spacegate World." A montage of fan art set to the show's music and an intriguing clip for what appears to be the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theatrical feature (titled "Send Us Money for This") round out the offbeat extras. -- Paul Gaita |
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Atlantis - The Lost Empire | 2001 | $6.00 | DVD | Kirk Wise; Gary Trousdale | |
| A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis. | ||||||
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AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem | 2007 | $5.00 | DVD | Colin Strause; Greg Strause | |
| Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival. | ||||||
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Baadasssss! | 2003 | $6.25 | DVD | Mario Van Peebles | |
| Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. | ||||||
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Babylon 5 - The Gathering (Pilot) / In the Beginning | 1993 | $6.25 | DVD | Richard Compton; Michael Vejar | |
| In spring 1993, a year before the Babylon 5 series was launched, the two-hour movie and series pilot "The Gathering" staked out the initial territory, introducing primary characters (some of whom would never appear again) and sketching the alliances and rifts in interplanetary diplomacy. The central story involves the attempted assassination of the newly arrived Vorlon, the mysterious Ambassador Kosh, at the hands of (perhaps) Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare). This is the reedited cut released on video, a stronger, more engaging film than the original, but still a broad first stab at characters that would be redefined through the course of the show's run. "In the Beginning," produced between the fourth and fifth seasons, packs all the history alluded to in "The Gathering"--and more--into a prequel stuffed to the hatches with the epic doings of Earth, Minbar, Narn, and Centauri in the days before the Babylon stations were built. Infused with epic sweep and storytelling confidence by producer-writer Michael J. Straczynski and his cast and crew, it's an elegant, compelling addition to the Babylon 5 universe and a dramatic highlight of the series. It's not an ideal introduction, though, as it gives away the shadowy history slowly revealed through the first three seasons. --Sean Axmaker |
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The Bad News Bears | 1976 | $6.00 | DVD | Michael Ritchie | |
| When parents fail to get their disorganized little league baseball team together, themselves, they decide to hire a washed-up former professional baseball player to coach the team. Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) is the hired coach, but his boozing life-style further deteriorates the team. Before he is fired and the team disbanded, an old girlfriend introduces him to her daughter Amanda Whurlizer (Tatum O'Neal) who is not only a talented baseball player, but contends with the old coach like a burr in his saddle to make changes. He not only changes to try to win back his old girlfriend, but to prove to the pint-sized player who prods him that he can get the team ready to face their fiercest rivals. | ||||||
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Barbershop | 2002 | $6.00 | DVD | Tim Story; Tom Tataranowics | |
| A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop. | ||||||
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Batman Vs. Dracula | 2005 | $6.25 | DVD | Michael Goguen | |
| Gotham City is terrorized not only by recent escapees Joker and Penguin, but by the original creature of the night... | ||||||
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Batman: Gotham Knight | 2008 | $10.00 | DVD | Yoshiaki Kawajiri; Yasuhiro Aoki; Futoshi Higashide; Shojiro Nishimi | |
| “Batman: Gotham Knight” is an animated anthology drawn by some of Japan’s top animation talent. Six chapters compose this story which showcases how Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy) became Batman (Kevin Conroy) and moved beyond into a frightening myth of legend. Each of these stories takes Batman up against villains from his rogue’s gallery such as a rematch with the Scarecrow (Corey Burton) and Killer Croc (George Newbern). The stories delve deeper into the ever growing relationship between James Gordon (Jim Meskimen) and Batman. Each segment can be viewed individually but are all intended to be seen as a whole so as to paint a nice mosaic of the life of the Dark knight. | ||||||
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Be Kind Rewind | 2008 | $6.00 | DVD | Michel Gondry | |
| After Jerry (Jack Black,) an accidentally-magnetized auto worker, accidentally erases all the data off of the video tapes at a video rental store in Passaic, New Jersey, he and a local video store worker, Mike, (Mos Def) combine forces to recreate classic and not-so-classic movies to keep the patronage of the store's most valued customer, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow). Using household objects and improvising special effects, the two make their own versions. They call it "swedeing" of "Ghostbusters" and "Rush Hour 2," and inadvertently create a local sensation, as well as a bundle of copyright issues. | ||||||
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Sidney Lumet | |
| Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a big wig accountant, and Hank (Ethan Hawk) , a hard working man, are brothers living in two different worlds, but are brought closer when money becomes an issue for both of them. Hank needs money for child support from his recent divorce, and Andy has some money problems of his own. The two decide to knock off a small "mom and pop" jewelry store that is in the neighborhood near them. The only catch is that this jewelry store is quite literally their Mom and Pop's jewelry store. During the robbery things go array and things happen that neither of them anticipated. After the heist things start to go downhill for both men, and this film shows brilliantly their downward spiral and where no good deeds will lead those who do them. Andy's wife, Gina (Marissa Tomei), adds to the problems of both of the men. This film is filled with deceit, murder, robbery, suspense, and much much more. How will it end up? Watch and find out. | ||||||
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Big Fish | 2003 | $6.25 | DVD | Tim Burton | |
| A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself. | ||||||
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Black Hawk Down | 2002 | $5.00 | DVD | Ridley Scott | |
| 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. | ||||||
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Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) | 1982 | $6.00 | DVD | Ridley Scott | |
| We regret that this DVD is under certain restrictions that prohibit sales to customers who live outside the North American continent. If you do not live in the United States or Canada, we will not be able to ship you this DVD. Thank you for understanding. | ||||||
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Cabin Fever - Special Edition | 2003 | $4.00 | DVD | Eli Roth | |
| A sneaky and surprisingly smart horror flick, Cabin Fever sets up all the cliches of its particular subgenre (what might be called the "sexy young people go into the woods" horror movie, featuring hostile redneck locals, dead animals on hooks, cars that suddenly stop running, etc.) and by the end has played a clever twist on every standard element, often to darkly comic effect. What's the plot? Well, five sexy young people (Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, and James DeBello) go to an isolated cabin where they contract a nasty bacteria that eats their flesh; this, combined with a bad-tempered dog and a party-loving police deputy (Giuseppe Andrews, giving a particularly funny performance), leads everyone into confusion and bloody chaos. Some of the ironic twists are a little obvious, but most of them effectively subvert your expectations to entertaining effect. --Bret Fetzer | ||||||
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | $6.00 | DVD | Tim Burton | |
| Mixed reviews and creepy comparisons to Michael Jackson notwithstanding, Tim Burton's splendidly imaginative adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would almost surely meet with Roald Dahl's approval. The celebrated author of darkly offbeat children's books vehemently disapproved of 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (hence the change in title), so it's only fitting that Burton and his frequent star/collaborator, Johnny Depp, should have another go, infusing the enigmatic candyman's tale with their own unique brand of imaginative oddity. Depp's pale, androgynous Wonka led some to suspect a partial riff on that most controversial of eternal children, Michael Jackson, but Burton's film is too expansively magnificent to be so narrowly defined. While preserving Dahl's morality tale on the hazards of indulgent excess, Burton's riotous explosion of color provides a wondrous setting for the lessons learned by Charlie Bucket (played by Freddie Highmore, Depp's delightful costar in Finding Neverland), as he and other, less admirable children enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Wonka's confectionary wonderland. Elaborate visual effects make this an eye-candy overdose (including digitally multiplied Oompa-Loompas, all played by diminutive actor Deep Roy), and the film's underlying weirdness is exaggerated by Depp's admirably risky but ultimately off-putting performance. Of course, none of this stops Burton's Charlie from being the must-own family DVD of 2005's holiday season, perhaps even for those who staunchly defend Gene Wilder's portrayal of Wonka from 34 years earlier. --Jeff Shannon | ||||||
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Cleaner | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Renny Harlin; Martin Troy | |
| Tom Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) is an ex-policeman obsessed with cleanliness. Channeling his natural talents, he sets up his own crime-scene cleaning business, Steri-Clean. When he cleans up a house in an upscale neighborhood after a murder, it's business as usual. But when he returns to drop off a forgotten key, the dead man's wife (Eva Mendes) knows nothing of her husband's death--but he is missing. Entangled in the apparent cover-up of a murder, he digs deeper into the deception with his former partner, Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris). But the further he goes, the worse it becomes for him, as the past secrets of his family are unearthed. | ||||||
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Collateral (Widescreen Two-Disc Edition) | 2004 | $8.00 | DVD | Michael Mann | |
| A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an attorney working with the federal government who is attractive, friendly, and gives him her business card after paying her fare. Max thinks his luck is getting even better when his next fare, Vincent (Tom Cruise), offers him several hundred dollars in cash if he'll be willing to drop him off, wait, and pick him up at five different spots over the course of the evening. Max agrees, but he soon realizes Vincent isn't just another guy with errands to run — Vincent is an assassin who has been paid to murder five people who could put the leaders of a powerful drug trafficking ring behind bars in an upcoming trial. As circumstances force Max to do Vincent's bidding, the cabbie has to find a way to prevent Vincent from killing again and save his own skin, a task that becomes especially crucial when he discovers Annie is one of the names on Vincent's hit list. Collateral also stars Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, and Bruce McGill as police detectives hot on Vincent's trail. — Mark Deming | ||||||
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete 1st Season | 2000 | $15.00 | DVD | Andrew Adamson; Larry Charles | |
| He's got it all: a loving wife, good friends, a successful career, a great home..what could possibly go wrong for Larry David... | ||||||
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete 2nd Season | 2001 | $15.00 | DVD | Andy Ackerman; Larry Charles; Robert B. Weide; Keith Truesdell; Bryan Gordon | |
| Larry joins a new job of car salesman- a job for which he is ready to give up a lot of things. He also... | ||||||
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Daily Show: Indecision 2004 | 2004 | $6.00 | DVD | Scott Preston; Christian Santiago | |
| The 2004 race for the White House was one of the most memorable presidential elections of the last five years. Now relive it again - and again - and, that's enough - with this exquisitely packaged heirloom collection. This 3-DVD set brings together some of the most repackageable moments from "Indecision 2004." | ||||||
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Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | $6.00 | DVD | Stephen Frears | |
| A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal, and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression. Former lovers, they now fancy themselves rather like demigods whose mutual desires have evolved beyond the crudeness of sex or emotion. They ritualistically act out their twisted affections by engaging in elaborate conspiracies to destroy the lives of their less calculating acquaintances, daring each other to ever-more-dastardly acts of manipulation and betrayal. Why? Just because they can; it's their perverted way of getting get their kicks in a dead-end, pre-Revolutionary culture. Among their voluptuous and virtuous prey are fair-haired angels played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman, who have never looked more ripe for ravishing. When the Vicomte finds himself beset by bewilderingly genuine emotions for one of his victims, the Marquise considers it the ultimate betrayal and plots her heartless revenge. Dangerous Liaisons is a high-mannered revel for the actors, who also include Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, and Keanu Reeves. --Jim Emerson | ||||||
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Death at a Funeral | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Frank Oz | |
| Daniel (Matthew MacFadyen) just wants to bury his father with a little dignity, with the help of his estranged brother Robert (Rupert Graves). But it is just one fiasco on top of another. First there is the mysterious midget (Peter Dinklage) who brings Daniel a shocking revelation about the man who raised him. Then Simon Smith's (Alan Tudyk) strange behavior after taking a "valium" reaches a forte when he sees his girlfriend kissing another man. And throughout, everyone is treated to the fowl mouthed elder, Uncle Alfie (Peter Vaughan). Daniel is forced to step up and take charge before there is another "Death at a Funeral." | ||||||
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Delta Farce | 2007 | $4.00 | DVD | C.B. Harding; CB Harding | |
| Redneck hicks Larry (Larry the Cable guy) and Bill (Bill Engvall), along with another bumbling goof of a human beings are army reservists on their weekends. Due to the terrible loss of soldiers in the Iraq war, a brief (and failed) attempt is made to train them... prior to sending them abroad. On the way to Iraq, they get dumped out during a storm (having been asleep in an RTV equipped with a parachute). They land... only it's really Mexico. While tossing around vulgar and oftentimes insulting humor, they find themselves in a war... not with Iraqis, but armed bandits muscling in on a small town. | ||||||
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Dennis Miller - The Raw Feed | 2003 | $8.00 | DVD | James Yukich | |
| Dennis Miller rolls out a highly polished new act in this HBO special, taped before a live Chicago audience on March 1, 2003. While Miller's social commentary remains rigorously middlebrow, it's his typically loquacious, often elegant, occasionally anachronistic (one wonders what the young, Windy City audience makes of Miller's coiffure reference to "the harmonica player from the J. Geils Band") delivery that makes The Raw Feed worth visiting. Surreal esoterica abounds from the moment the comedian takes the stage with references to the "sequin mines of L.A.," the India-Pakistan conflict as understood through the filter of Jonny Quest, the length of purchase receipts from Circuit City, and suck-up Saudi royalty described as "the Eddie Haskells of the Middle East." The occasional killer line emerges, including Miller's prescription for peace in Israel (give Palestinians the casinos) and a hard truth about nature: "It's like Nick Nolte with a clogged Eustachian tube." --Tom Keogh | ||||||
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Doctor Strange | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Frank Paur; Jay Oliva; Patrick Archibald | |
| Dr. Stephen Strange (Bryce Johnson) was one of the most talented surgeons in medicine before his hands were left devastated and worthless as a consequence of a car crash. Spending his wealth in quest of a means to fix his splintered body, the depressed doctor believed all was gone until the Ancient One (Michael Yama) presented him trust and cure in Tibet. Training mind, body and soul with the Ancient One and his students, Doctor Strange's capacity, control and kindness cultivates as he steps closer to his spiritual destiny. But to fully cuddle his destiny and look after the worlds of magic and reality, Strange must face betrayal, death and the origin of an extra-dimensional mystic entity Dormammu (Jonathan Adams). | ||||||
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist - Season 1 | 1995 | $8.00 | DVD | ||
| Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season One includes the first six 1995 episodes from the Comedy Central animated series, which was based, the story goes, on comic actor Jonathan Katz's personal life. Playing himself (i.e., providing the voice for his cartoon self) as a divorced psychologist whose clients include a number of comedians, Katz is very funny in a non-confrontational, quietly frustrated yet loquacious way. Dr. Katz lives with his grown son (H. Jon Benjamin), an unemployed, apparently unskilled loser who hangs around Katz's office ineptly trying to pick up his dad's prickly receptionist (Laura Silverman). The latter is so surly and self-centered she tells Katz he doesn't "know what it's like" to spend a day around "crazy people" at work. (Katz, being Katz, has no comeback to that remark.) These three absurd characters (and the inspired performers behind them) would be enough to fill a show by themselves. But the biggest plus in Dr. Katz is a succession of vocal performances (which sound largely improvised) by some welcome comedians playing neurotic versions of themselves, including (and especially) Ray Romano, Wendy Liebman, Dave Attell, Laura Kightlinger, and Larry Miller, all in the first season. Each episode exudes anxiety and churns along to the sound of rambling dialogues that barely paper over repressed desire and rage. Sort of like real life, except funnier. --Tom Keogh | ||||||
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist - Season Two | 1995 | $8.00 | DVD | ||
| An unusual feature of Dr Katz is the novel animation technique called Squigglevision, whereby, essentially... | ||||||
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Dreamgirls | 2006 | $6.00 | DVD | Bill Condon | |
| "Dreamgirls" begins sometime in the late 1950's to early 1960's in Detroit. We see three young African American girls set to try out for a talent show. Their performance led by Effie (Jennifer Hudson), wins them a gig with James Early (Eddie Murphy). At first the girls are happy to be back up singers, but gradually they get restless for stardom. Their manager (Jamie Fox) gradually guides them to success by appealing to a crossover, white, audience. In the process, Effie, gets replaced as the groups lead singer by the more photogenic, but generic voiced Beyonce. The movie follows the "Dreams" rise to the top, along with several tragedies. All this is set agains the backdrop of the volatile 60's. | ||||||
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Election | 1999 | $6.00 | DVD | Alexander Payne | |
| A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections. | ||||||
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Eulogy | 2004 | $6.25 | DVD | Michael Clancy | |
| A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships. | ||||||
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Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Seventh Season | 1996 | $4.00 | DVD | Kenneth R. Shapiro | |
| The seventh season of Everybody Loves Raymond serves up a delightful mix of comedy and pathos as the Barones deal with cults, theft, marriage, and death. The season opener (which aired on CBS in 2002) starts where season 6 ended: with Debra (Patricia Heaton) and Marie (Doris Roberts) feuding, and Ray (Ray Romano) and Robert (Brad Garrett) conjuring up a plan to get them to make up. This 5-disc set includes all 25 episodes, including the two-part wedding finale between Robert and Amy (Monica Horan). In typical Marie fashion, she has a shocking and inappropriate comment to make when the priest makes the rhetorical statement, "If anyone can think of any reason why these two should not be joined, speak now or forever hold your peace." There is very little peace when Marie is around. A fantastic cook and a loving mother, Marie is the reason why women worldwide dislike mama's boys. When things go wrong on the home front, Ray isn't above comparing Debra to his mother. Sometimes it's unintentional. But at other times, it's calculated as a means of getting his way. The show's saving grace is the likeability of the characters and the strong writing, which makes up in humor what it lacks in subtlety. The relationship between woebegone Robert and Amy is a delight, especially because viewers get to meet her parents this season. Fred Willard (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and Georgia Engel (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) play Amy's conservative parents who'd rather see their daughter remain single than marry into the Barone family. Chris Elliott also guest stars as Amy's spoiled, unemployed brother who likes to stir things up between the two clans. The show's success always has been less about completely out-there premises than taking a slice of everyday life--helping the kids with their homework, sharing chores, dealing with in laws--and presenting them in a comical manner. In the real world, a lazy husband like Ray wouldn't be nearly as cuddly. And an interfering mother-in-law like Marie would not be tolerated by most wives. But on Everybody Loves Raymond, they're two of the main reasons why viewers consistently tuned in to this hit sitcom. --Jae-Ha Kim |
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FahrenHYPE 9/11 | 2004 | $5.00 | DVD | Alan Peterson | |
| A documentary which refutes and debunks 'facts' made by Michael Moore in his hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11". | ||||||
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Fat Actress (2-disk set) | 2005 | $8.00 | DVD | Keith Truesdale; Keith Truesdel | |
| An actress (Alley, playing a version of herself) struggles to lose weight and revive her Hollywood career. | ||||||
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Flight of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition) | 2004 | $6.00 | DVD | John Moore | |
| Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane. | ||||||
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Flightplan | 2005 | $6.25 | DVD | Robert Schwentke | |
| Like a lot of stylishly persuasive thrillers, Flightplan is more fun to watch than it is to think about. There's much to admire in this hermetically sealed mystery, in which a propulsion engineer and grieving widow (Jodie Foster) takes her 6-year-old daughter (and a coffin containing her husband's body) on a transatlantic flight aboard a brand-new jumbo jet she helped design, and faces a mother's worst nightmare when her daughter (Marlene Lawston) goes missing. But how can that be? Is she delusional? Are the flight crew, the captain (Sean Bean) and a seemingly sympathetic sky marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) playing out some kind of conspiratorial abduction? In making his first English-language feature, German director Robert Schwentke milks the mother's dilemma for all it's worth, and Foster's intense yet subtly nuanced performance (which builds on a fair amount of post-9/11 paranoia) encompasses all the shifting emotions required to grab and hold your attention. Alas, this upgraded riff on Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (not to mention Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing) is ultimately too preposterous to hold itself together. Flightplan gives us a dazzling tour of the jumbo jet's high-tech innards, and its suspense is intelligently maintained all the way through to a cathartic conclusion, but the plot-heavy mechanics break down under scrutiny. Your best bet is to fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the thrills on a purely emotional level -- a strategy that worked equally well with Panic Room, Foster's previous thriller about a mother and daughter in peril. --Jeff Shannon | ||||||
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The Four Feathers (Widescreen Collector's Edition) | 2002 | $6.25 | DVD | Shekhar Kapur | |
| A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice. | ||||||
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Free Enterprise | 1999 | $9.00 | DVD | Robert Meyer Burnett | |
| This modest but likeable movie is driven by a sincere love of the screenwriters' childhood kitsch, with Star Trek dominant above all--although Logan's Run, the X-Men, Planet of the Apes, and dozens of other science fiction touchstones of the 1970s have been worked in as well. Even an action figurine of almighty Isis, from the Saturday morning TV show, plays a major role in the plot, if plot is the right word. The story follows two guys on the fringe of the movie industry: Robert (Rafer Wiegel) edits movies like Teen Bimbo Beach Assault, while Mark (Eric McCormack from Will and Grace) is writing a screenplay about a serial killer who murders all the characters from The Brady Bunch. The movie touches on their career struggles but spends most of its time with their floundering love lives, suggesting that their pop-culture programming may not be the best model for life. The actors are clearly enjoying themselves, and the writing makes its innumerable pop references with wit, but what really makes the movie work is William Shatner. Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer | ||||||
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Frequency | 2000 | $6.25 | DVD | Gregory Hoblit | |
| An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences. | ||||||
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The Future Is Wild | 2004 | $13.00 | DVD | ||
| This speculative cable TV series was an extension of a special which aired in January 2003, posting the Animal Planet networks' second-highest ratings. The premise: What sort of animals will exist in the future, long after humankind has left the planet? The first episode was set some five million years in the future, when a probe from outer space returns to the earth's surface to find 120-ton "toratons" living in the swamps of India, giant termites thriving in the New York desert, and saber-toothed weasels "the size of sheep" roaming the Arctic wastes of Paris. Subsequent episodes examined the state of the world 100 million and 500 million years from now. The series combined computerized animation, vivid imagination, and authentic scientific input. Designed as a seven-part series, The Future Is Wild had been pared down to three installments by the time the property made its Animal Planet bow on July 8, 2003. — Hal Erickson | ||||||
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Gatchaman Collection (Vols. 1-3) | 1997 | $8.00 | DVD | Shuichi Kaneko; Hiroyuki Fukushima; Steve Kramer; Hisayuki Toriumi | |
| A bird-themed superhero team fights against the menace of Galactor, a technologically advanced terrorist organization. | ||||||
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