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Logan Lucky
Chris Chiarella  |  Mar 16, 2018
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Director/Producer Steven Soderbergh is an admirably free thinker, a true creative with an eye on the future of filmmaking. He’s very particular about the projects he chooses, emerging from pseudo-retirement to direct his latest, Logan Lucky. Made largely outside the Hollywood system he walked away from, it still managed to score some A-list talent on a modest budget, with James Bond and Kylo Ren likely welcoming the opportunity to play against type, as a down-on-his-luck explosives expert and a goodhearted sad-sack, respectively.
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 18, 2004

<I>Aspect ratio: 4:3. 4 discs. Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (English, French). Warner Home Video 27918. NR. $64.92.</I>

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Lord of the Rings Extended Blu-ray Goes Up for Pre-Order
Stan Horaczek  |  Mar 09, 2011

The other trilogy has already been available on Blu-ray for some time, but it seems the release of the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally almost upon us. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for $90.

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Lost - Season 4
David Vaughn  |  Dec 05, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lost4.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>More than three months after their crash, the stranded passengers of the ill-fated Oceanic Flight 815 learn that the only thing more dangerous than the Island itself might be the people who have come to rescue them. Jack (Matthew Fox) and his followers head to the beach in anticipation of their departure while the group led by Locke (Terry O'Quinn) heeds the advice of Ben (Michael Emerson) and goes into hiding.

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Lost Highway
Michael Gaughn  |  Jul 30, 2008
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In retrospect, it's clear that David Lynch

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Lost in the Blu
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008
Buena Vista
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TV's benchmark for A/V quali
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Lost Seasons 1 & 2 (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Jun 09, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lost1.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>On a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, California, Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The ensemble cast is outstanding, but the true star of the show is The Island. Why did Flight 815 crash there? Did The Island have anything to do with the crash? What is the mysterious beast roaming the forest? Why are the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 so special? Where did the hatch come from? Who are "The Others" and where do they come from? What is the Dharma Initiative? What happens if you don't push the button?

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Lost: Season Five (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Dec 07, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lost5.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Destiny send the Oceanic 6 back to the Island and into the heart of the mysterious Dharma Initiative. Why they had to return to the dreaded place and the fate of those left behind is revealed and many of the most pressing questions are finally answered as the show builds towards its concluding season in 2010.

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Lost: Season Six (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Aug 26, 2010
After five long years the fate of Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Jim (Daniel Dae Kim), Sun (Yunjin Kim), and Claire (Emile de Ravin) is finally revealed. These survivors of Oceanic flight 815 didn't land in a tropical paradise. Awaiting rescue they discovered polar bears, a smoke monster roaming the jungle, and the "Others" led by Ben Linus (Michael Emerson). Has it all been a dream? Did they all die in the crash and there in some sort of twisted version of hell? Who started the Darma initiative in the first place? Is it just me, or do all of these questions give you a headache?

Ending a popular show is a difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you take a show like Lost with its large ensemble cast, complicated story, and many unanswered questions. Is there a way to please everyone? Not a chance.

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Love & Mercy
Anthony Chiarella  |  Feb 26, 2016
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A year before The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper, Brian Wilson had completed “Good Vibrations,” the first pop song with orchestral backing and the most expensive single ever produced. By then, its genius composer had begun his descent into madness, which, by the 1970s, would find him bedridden for several years before being placed under the care of Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). Astonishingly accurate to its finest detail, Love & Mercy, which flashes between Wilson, “Rock Star” prodigy of the mid-’60s (Paul Dano) and “Rock Bottom” burnout of the late ’80s (John Cusak), is compelling on historical, musical, and emotional levels.
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Love & Other Drugs (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Mar 11, 2011
Smooth-talking playboy Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on the fast track to the top of the pharmaceutical-sales industry promoting a new miracle drug called Viagra. However, when he meets Maggie (Anne Hathaway) during one of his sales calls, he falls madly in love with her and is forced to choose between his career and the girl who captured his heart.

The trailers made this look like your typical romantic comedy, but it’s anything but. While it has its funny moments, it takes a very serious tone when tackling the subject of Parkinson’s disease and its effects on relationships. Hathaway and Gyllenhaal display great onscreen chemistry, but the supporting cast can be distracting, especially Gyllenhaal’s onscreen brother (Josh Gad), who’s quite annoying with his sophomoric behavior. If you find Hathaway attractive (I certainly do), then you’ll love the multiple sex scenes as she shows a lot of skin (and looks marvelous)!

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Love Actually (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Nov 08, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/loveactually.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>It's a few weeks before Christmas, and love is in the air in England for the ensemble cast that includes Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Laura Linney, and Kiera Knightley. All of the characters' lives are intertwined in one way or another, and somehow writer/director Richard Curtis keeps all the different stories interesting and emotionally stirring.

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Love and Monsters
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 16, 2021
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(Cue deep, sonorous narration.) In a world infested with giant, hungry bugs, what's left of mankind has hunkered down in underground colonies where they're safe (mostly) from being eaten alive. How this post-apocalyptic nightmare began is explained in the brief opening sequence of Love and Monsters, but in short it was mankind (as usual) that messed things up.
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Love Happens (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Feb 01, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lovehappens.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>When self-help author Dr. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets florist Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston), the one person who might be able to help him help himself. But will two people who may have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love a chance? If they can, they'll find that sometimes, when you least expect it….love happens.</i>

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Love Hurts
Ralph Potts  |  Apr 14, 2025  |  First Published: Apr 15, 2025
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Love Hurts is an action thriller that tells the story of Marvin, a mild-mannered Milwaukee realtor that rides his bicycle to work, bakes cookies for his clients, and shares a close relationship with his real estate mentor, Cliff. His idyllic life is thrown into chaos on Valentines Day when he receives a crimson envelope from Rose, a former crime associate, that he left in his past.

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