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Superhero Movie
David Vaughn  |  Jan 06, 2009  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/superhero.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In an homage to <i>Spiderman</i>, nerdy high-school student Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, giving him superhuman abilities. He soon discovers the secret of being a superhero&#151;it's all in the costume&#151;and becomes "The Dragonfly."

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Event Horizon
David Vaughn  |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/eventhorizon.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In the year 2040, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanishes without a trace. Seven years later, it suddenly appears in orbit around Neptune, and the United States Aerospace Command sends out a rescue crew headed by Captain Miller (Lawrence Fishburne) to salvage the vessel. Where has the ship been all this time and what happened to its crew?

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Last Holiday
David Vaughn  |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lastholiday.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Shy New Orleans cookware salesclerk Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) finds out she has less than a month to live when diagnosed with terminal cancer. Determined not to live her last days in depression, she sets out on a dream vacation to a European resort spa without no worries of paying for the trip. You go girl!

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The Wedding Crashers
David Vaughn  |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/weddingcrashers.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are best friends who look forward to that special time of year where people gather to be with their families. No, not the holiday season&#151;wedding season! Guided by the closely guarded set of "wedding crashing rules," the pair descend on as many Washington D.C. weddings they can during the season to romance unsuspecting bridesmaids.

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The Duchess
David Vaughn  |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/theduchess.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) was married at 17 to a wealthy and emotionally constipated William Cavendish (Ralph Fiennes), the fifth Duke of Devonshire. He had only two requirements&#151;to provide him with a male heir and her loyalty. As Duchess of Devonshire, she becomes an integral part of London's high society and one of the most impassioned political voices of Britain in the 18th Century.

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Burn After Reading
David Vaughn  |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/burn.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>When the memoirs of an ex-CIA analyst (John Malkovich) end up in the hands of two dense gym employees (Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand), they resort to blackmail in order to extort a finder's fee. Unbeknownst to them, they set off a series of events that spiral out of control.

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The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 22, 2008  |  0 comments
Paramount
Movie ••••½ Picture •••• Sound •••½ Extras •••••
"Leave the gun.
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The Women—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 2.75/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 2.5/5
In New York City's modern whirl of fashion and publishing, Mary Haines seems to have it all until she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with the perfume girl from Saks Fifth Avenue. Now all hell breaks loose as Mary contemplates the fate of her marriage and her circle of tight-knit friends question their own friendships and relationships.
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Into The Wild—Paramount Vantage (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 2/5
This is the true story of Christopher McCandless. Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature.
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Fearless—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 1/5
When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.
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Death Race—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 4.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Welcome to the "Death Race", where hardened convicts and smoking-hot navigators race tricked-out cars in the most twisted spectator sport on Earth! Sentenced to the world's most dangerous prison for a murder he did not commit, Jensen Ames has only one chance to get out alive - win the ultimate race to the death.
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Event Horizon—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Its name: "Event Horizon". The high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller, to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. Accompanying Miller is his elite crew and the lost ship's designer; their mission is to find and salvage the state-of-the-art interstellar horror.
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Days of Thunder—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 0/5
From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, "Days Of Thunder" explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland, Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.
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Burn After Reading—Focus Features (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
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Bangkok Dangerous—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, street punk and pick pocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard just as Sarat decides it's time to clean house.
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