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Hancock—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Will Smith stars as Hancock, a sarcastic, hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey, his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again - until he meets a woman with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.
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The Final Countdown—Blue Underground (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 2.5/5
The time is now. The place is aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, America's mightiest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly, a freak electrical storm engulfs the ship and triggers the impossible: The Nimitz is hurtled back in time to December 6, 1941, mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As the enemy fleet speeds towards Hawaii, the warship's Captain, a Defense Department expert, a maverick Air Wing Commander and a desperate Senator in the Roosevelt administration must choose between the unthinkable. Do they allow the Japanese to complete their murderous invasion or launch a massive counter-strike that will forever change the course of history?
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A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector’s Edition—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 3/5
Audio: 2/5
Extras: 3/5
The Christmas spirit isn't served up with more heartfelt warmth or observant hilarity that in this beloved adaptation of Jean Shepherd's holiday story. In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. He also endures all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit. We triple-dog-dare you to unwrap a more welcome Yuletide classic.
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The Shawshank Redemption—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.75/5
A prominent banker unjustly convicted of murder spends many years in the Shawshank prison. He is befriended by a convict who knows the ropes and helps him to cope with the frightening realities of prison life.
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The Polar Express 3-D—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Get up, get on, and get ready for the ride of your life! It's Christmas Ever, and you're about to roller-coaster up and down mountains, slip-slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine. You're on "The Polar Express!" "Seeing is believing," says a mysterious hobo who rides the rails with you. You'll see wonders... And you'll believe. All abooooooard.
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Wall∙E—Walt Disney Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, the curious and lovable "WALL-E" discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. Join them and a hilarious cast of characters on a fantastic journey across the universe.
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The Story of O—Somerville House (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 2.25/5
Audio: 1.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
A stunning young woman surrenders herself at a remote chateau at her lover’s request and is immediately forced into a round the clock regimen of every sexual appetite imaginable. Her submission is total to the orgasmic odyssey that explores the shadowy boundaries between pleasure and pain.
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Tropic Thunder—Dreamworks (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Nov 16, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in "Tropic Thunder", an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
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This Christmas
David Vaughn  |  Nov 15, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/thischristmas.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>For the first time in years, all the Whitfield kids have come home to spend the holiday with their mother Ma'Dere (Loretta Devine) and her boyfriend Joe (Delroy Lindo). Each has brought their own issues with them, and as the family prepares for the holiday festivities, the ties that bind them together are tested. Isn't family wonderful?

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WALL·E
David Vaughn  |  Nov 15, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/wall-e.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, waste-disposal robot WALL&#183;E (voiced by Ben Burtt) discovers a new purpose in life when he meets EVE (Elissa Knight), a sleek exploration robot looking for signs of life on a desolate, depopulated Earth. WALL&#183;E inadvertently stumbles upon the key to the planet's future and shares the discovery with EVE, whereupon she races back to space to report her findings to the humans who have waited generations to return home.

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