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Appaloosa
David Vaughn  |  Jan 21, 2009  |  First Published: Jan 22, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/appaloosa.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Longtime friends and for-hire peacekeepers Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) find themselves in the crime-ridden town of Appaloosa and attempt to take back the streets from a band of local outlaws. When a young widow (Renee Zellweger) moves to town, Cole struggles between his duty and his newfound love for the beautiful new resident.

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Friday Night Lights
David Vaughn  |  Jan 21, 2009  |  First Published: Jan 22, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/fridaynight.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Based on the best-selling book by H. G. Bissinger, <i>Friday Night Lights</i> chronicles the 1988 season of the Permian High School Panthers of Odessa, Texas, the most successful football team in the state's history. For Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), it's a season filled with immense pressure as he tries to drive his team to the championship after failing to do so the previous two years.

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King Kong
David Vaughn  |  Jan 21, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/kingkong.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>A desperate young actress, Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), and an ambitious and unscrupulous movie producer, Carl Denham (Jack Black), travel to a mysterious jungle island to shoot a film. There they discover an extraordinary lost world and encounter Kong, a gigantic, savage gorilla who becomes enthralled with the leading lady. Their mutual empathy and affection eventually leads to the beast's tragic downfall.

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Swing Vote
David Vaughn  |  Jan 21, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/swingvote.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) is a regular guy with a dead-end job content with coasting his way through life until his daughter, Molly (Madeline Carroll), sets off a chain of events that results in a presidential election coming down to a single vote&#151;Bud's. All hell breaks loose when political operatives from both parties, including the incumbent president (Kelsey Grammar) and the Democrat challenger (Dennis Hopper), swarm his hometown to vie for the winning vote.

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Mirrors—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 19, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.75/5
A security guard is exposed to unspeakable acts of evil from the past, present and future only visible to him in the reflection of mirrors. Suddenly, his life is exposed to the evil and he must stop it before everyone he knows is dead.
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King Kong—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 19, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Get ready for breathtaking action in this thrilling epic adventure about a legendary gorilla captured on a treacherous island and brought to civilization, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival.
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The Bourne Trilogy—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 19, 2009  | 
Video: 4-4.5/5
Audio: 4.5-5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmaneuver anyone who stands in the way of his finding out the secrets of his mysterious past. Follow his explosive, action-packed adventures in three blockbuster films from one of the most popular series of all time: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum".
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Being There—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 19, 2009  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 2.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman, Eve, and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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Open Season 2—Sony Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 19, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy poodle named Fifi, the pets do not plan to let Mr. Weenie go without a fight.
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Zodiac—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
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The Truman Show—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
Video: 2.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.75/5
Truman is about to discover just how abnormal his seemingly "normal" life is. What he doesn't realize - just yet - is that his whole life is a reality TV show, televised and broadcast for the world to see!
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The Duchess—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer, was the original "It Girl." Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her. She helped usher in sweeping changes to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party. But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke. And when she tried to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons pushed her to the brink of risking banishment by her husband, family and all of London society.
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Swing Vote—Touchstone Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Bud Johnson's an ordinary dad drifting through life, caring about nothing except his overachieving daughter Molly. Trying to encourage him to get involved, Molly accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day that ends with the presidential race coming down to one vote - Bud's.
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Super Troopers—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.75/5
Always looking for action, five over-enthusiastic, but under-stimulated Vermont State Troopers raise hell on the highway, keeping motorists anxiously looking in their rear view mirrors. Between an ongoing feud with the local cops over whose you-know-what is bigger and the state government wanting to shut them down, the Super Troopers find themselves patrolling the boundaries of good taste as they hilariously and unwittingly skid towards solving the crime of their lives.
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Surfer, Dude—Anchor Bay (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jan 11, 2009  | 
: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
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