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Casablanca—Warner Brothers (HD DVD)
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 05, 2007  | 
Video: 3
Audio: 3
Extras: 5
Unashamedly, this is my favorite movie of all time. From the dialogue, to the acting, to the story, everything about this movie is awesome. If you never have, you owe it to yourself to see it. The story centers around hardened bar owner Rick, a lost love, and sticking it to some Nazis, which always make for good entertainment. As usual with a superior movie like this one, it’s about all that and more.
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Batman Begins—Warner Brothers (HD DVD)
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 05, 2007  | 
Video: 5
Audio: 5
Extras: 5
It was with some trepidation that I watched this movie. After all, Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman did their incompetent best to ruin the franchise for anyone who can sound out the word h-a-c-k-s. I shouldn’t have worried. Christopher Nolan knows his stuff and made a movie that is the equal to if not (dare I say it) better than Tim Burton’s classic. Unlike Brian Singer’s passable rebirth/continuation of the Superman franchise, Nolan starts fresh and does as the title says, showing the beginnings of Batman.
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Corpse Bride—Warner Brothers (HD DVD)
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 05, 2007  | 
Video: 5
Audio: 5
Extras: 3
Tim Burton spins a tale of love and marriage in the worlds of the barely living and the hardly dead. Using stop-motion animation, Burton creates a world that is visually stunning and unlike anything else out there (except for his other creations). The voice acting, from the likes of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Tracey Ullman, is excellent.
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DVD Review: Stranger than Fiction
Brandon Grafius  |  Feb 03, 2007  | 
Sony
Movie ••• Picture •••½Sound •••½Extras ••
In this story of an IRS agent (Will
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10 Best DVDs of 2006
 |  Feb 03, 2007  | 

Rad Bennett's Top 10 of 2006 Best Picture and Sound on DVD

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Clerks II 2-Disc Edition (HD DVD)
Shane Buettner  |  Feb 03, 2007  | 

In an effort to outperform the original, sequels invariably spend more money, have more explosions, more action, more stunts and more special effects. In this spirit I suppose it's inevitable that Kevin Smith's <I>Clerks II</I> would turn to bestiality (er, "interspecies erotica") in an effort to go where even the original <I>Clerks</I> hadn't gone before. The original did feature necrophilia as a set piece after all. And there's also a hilariously wrong homage to <I>Silence of the Lambs</I> here that anyone who sees this film will never forgive Kevin Smith or Jason Mewes for.

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Alien Vs. Predator (Blu-ray)
Shane Buettner  |  Feb 03, 2007  | 

OK, <I>AVP's</I> concept, such as it is, of pitting two of cinema's most known monsters against each other in mortal combat (not <I>Mortal Kombat</I>) began back in the day as a graphic novel. A graphic novel is a comic book of allegedly higher aesthetic and narrative value not necessarily aimed at little kids. However, even a comic book would be embarrassed at the setup here in which these two cinematic make-up and effects legends duke it out. Any teenager who reads Fangoria magazine could have dreamed this one up. And hell, who cares what he excuses are, we just want to see the Aliens and Predators run amok, which they do.

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DVD Review: Viva Pedro
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Feb 02, 2007  | 
Movie •••• Picture •••• Sound •••½Extras ••½
This terrific survey of Pedro Almodóvar's work covers a wide range of the dire
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DVD Review: 24
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 01, 2007  | 

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DVD Review: Scoop
Brandon Grafius  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 

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DVD Review: Talladega Nights
Brandon Grafius  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 

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Scanning High-Def
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 

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DVD Review: Miami Vice
Ken Korman  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 

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DVD Review: The Devil Wears Prada
Marc Horowitz  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie ••• Picture •••½Sound ••½Extras •••
The Devil Wears Prada p
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DVDs: Gary Cooper
Mel Neuhaus  |  Jan 05, 2007  | 
Warner
Movie ••• Picture •••½Sound ••• Extras •••
Gary Cooper, America's archetypal hero o
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