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Blu-ray Disc Review: Julie & Julia
Marc Horowitz  |  Feb 23, 2010
Sony
Movie ••••½Picture •••• Sound ••• Extras ••••

I've always been immune

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Rad Bennett  |  Feb 23, 2010
20th Century Fox
Movie •••½Picture •••½Sound •••• Extras •••½
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Angels & Demons
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 23, 2010
Just as faith is the cornerstone of religion, Angels & Demons requires a large suspension of disbelief to swallow its canny combination of questionable church lore and questionable scare-mongering over particle acceleration.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
 |  Feb 23, 2010
Sony
Movie ••½Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••••

Those who remember the Walte

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Coco Before Chanel
David Vaughn  |  Feb 17, 2010
This is an entertaining portrait of the early life of Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Audrey Tautou), an orphan who would build a fashion empire. Known to her friends as Coco, she emerges from an orphanage to a mundane job as a seamstress and eventually ends up as a concubine for an eccentric French aristocrat.

I enjoyed the film, but I was particularly taken with the cinematography featuring lush settings, Oscar-nominated costumes, and the beauty of Audrey Tautou. The color saturation is slightly washed out in most scenes (intentionally), but the fine detail is mesmerizing in the 1080p encode.

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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3
Picture/Sound: 1.5/2.5
Extras: 2
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Walk the Line—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 4.25/4.5
Extras: 3.5
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Magnolia—New Line (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 3.5
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Cliffhanger—Tri-Star (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4.5
Extras: 4
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The Box—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 3.5/4
Extras: 3.5
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A Serious Man—Universal Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 5/4.5
Extras: 3
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GoodFellas – 20th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Feb 08, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/goodfellas20.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Based on the novel "Wiseguy, Life in a Mafia Family" by Nicholas Pileggi, <i>GoodFellas</i> follows the life of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), who started as a gofer for the Mob and advanced through the ranks (although he could never become a "made man" based upon his heritage).

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Couples Retreat (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Feb 08, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/couplesretreat.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Eight friends group-rate vacation comes at a price when they discover that participation in the resort's unconventional couples therapy is anything but optional.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Feb 05, 2010  |  First Published: Feb 06, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/fearloathing.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Based on the book by Hunter S. Thompson about a journalist (Johnny Depp) and his lawyer (Benicio Del Toro) in search of the American dream while gallivanting around Las Vegas for 48 hours high on drugs. Along the way they meet a cast of real life characters including Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey,, Christina Ricci, Mark Harmon, Carmon Diaz, and Lyle Lovett.

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Surrogates
David Vaughn  |  Feb 05, 2010
In the near future, humans live their lives through perfect robotic surrogates controlled from the safety of their homes, and murder becomes a thing of the past. But when the son of the surrogates' creator is killed, an FBI agent (Bruce Willis) must reenter the real world to unravel the mysterious death.

To witness the effect of technology on our society, all you have to do is sit in a restaurant and watch families spend more time texting on their smartphones instead of talking to each other. Surrogates takes this to the extreme as humans completely withdraw from society, but it's certainly thought-provoking. Nevertheless, the pulsating DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack is loaded with demo scenes featuring pinpoint discrete effects, multidimensional imaging, and some foundation-shaking bass.

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