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Josef Krebs  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
I do declare, doesn't this 1939 film look dashing wrapped up in its new set of Blu-ray Discs - its 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition, to be precise.
Kris Deering  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
Movie: 2.75
Picture/Sound: 4.5/4.5
Extras: 3.5
Kris Deering  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
Movie: 2.5
Picture/Sound: 3/4
Extras: 3
Kris Deering  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4.5
Extras: 3.5
Kris Deering  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 2.5
Kris Deering  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 
Movie: 2.5
Picture/Sound: 3/4
Extras: 3
David Vaughn  |  Jan 13, 2010  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/invention.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In an alternate reality in which lying doesn't exist and everyone speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no worry of hurt feelings. When one man (Ricky Gervais) suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds it has its rewards. A new world of fame and fortune opens up but he steadfastly refuses to fib his way into the heart of the woman he loves. Can he get the girl on his own merits?

David Vaughn  |  Jan 12, 2010  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lastaction.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Movie lover Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) finds himself transported into the latest Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) action film when he's given a magic movie ticket by an elderly theater owner (Art Carney). Danny tried to convince Jack he's a fictional character but he doesn't buy it. His perspective changes when his arch nemesis, Benedict (Charles Dance), steals the ticket and enters the "real world" in order to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger, thus taking out Slater.

David Vaughn  |  Jan 10, 2010  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/cliffhanger.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>When an equipment malfunction takes the life of an inexperienced climber, Gabe (Sylvester Stallone) places the blame upon himself and loses not only his best friend (Michael Rooker), but his girl (Janine Turner) too. Almost a year later, he is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of stranded people, but when they turn out to be a band of criminals led by an international terrorist (John Lithgow) a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

David Vaughn  |  Jan 06, 2010  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/10things.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>High school sophomore Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) has two invitations to the prom and one big problem: her father (Larry Miller) won't let her go unless her antisocial older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) attends as well. Things start to look up for Bianca when Kat catches the eye of Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), who's been paid $300 by her sister's suitors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Andrew Keegan) to woo her.

Kris Deering  |  Dec 29, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/500days.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of "500 Days Of Summer," and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair. Tom, the boy, still believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer (Zooey Deschenel), the girl, doesn't. Not at all. But that doesn't stop Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman - not that he minds any of that - but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. </i>

Josef Krebs  |  Dec 28, 2009  | 
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Created from a scan of the original 1937 negative and given a digital restoration, the image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray Disc is stunning.

Kris Deering  |  Dec 27, 2009  | 
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 3.5/4
Extras: 3

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