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Tower Speaker Reviews
Mordaunt-Short Mezzo 6 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 29, 2008
Following a train of thought.

The world is full of loudspeakers and their manufacturers. Try as I might, I can’t review them all, and normally I have no problem with my limitations. But where Mordaunt-Short is concerned, a feeling of having missed the boat haunts me. Given the quality of the Alumni sat/sub set I reviewed in March (my first review of a Mordaunt-Short product), how could I have missed out on such a stellar company, especially one with a 40-year pedigree?

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Audio Video News
Netflix to Rent TV Shows on the Net
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 29, 2008
Netflix has cut deals with CBS and the Disney Channel to make their shows available through its fledgling online service, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Netflix online library has only about 12,000 titles, versus the 100,000 titles available through the chain's brick-and-mortar stores, so the company needs to keep cutting deals like these.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Stark Contrast
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 28, 2008
Paramount
Movie •••• Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••••½

Apart from nailing the tone and look of the c

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Knocked Up—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 4.25/5
They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben and career girl Alison, that's certainly the case - at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious and heartwarming journey.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
L.A. Confidential—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 4/5
Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humor.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Hulk—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 4.75/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 3.75/5
Eric Bana stars as David Banner, whose involvement in a freak lab accident exposes him to gamma radiation. As a result, whenever the mild-mannered man becomes angry, he transforms into a huge, rampaging creature that destroys everything in his path. Banner's ex-girl friend Betty Ross believes that his father may hold the answer to the desperate situation but can she make the connection in time to save a terrified world.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Daredevil Director’s Cut—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 3.75/5
By day, blind attorney Matt Murdock toils for justice in Hell's Kitchen. By night, he's "Daredevil," The Man Without Fear - a powerful, masked vigilante stalking the dark streets with an uncanny radar sense that allows him to "see" with superhuman capabilities. But when the love of his life, fiery Elektra Natchios, is targeted by New York City's ruthless Kingpin of Crime and his deadly assassin Bullseye, Daredevil may be about to meet his match.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Corteo – Cirque Du Soleil—Sony Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 2.5/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek, a Syrian man, and Zainab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
American Gangster—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Armed with ruthless, street-wise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The 40-Year-Old Virgin—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 28, 2008
Video: 2/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Andy Stitzer has gone 40 years without "doing it." Now his pals are making it their mission to help him score... fast! Can he survive their hilariously bad advice? Will he land in the arms of the way-too-experienced or the way-too-drunk? Or can he find true love where he least expects - from a gorgeous grandmother?
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