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Home Alone—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 15, 2008  | 
Video: 3.25/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them.
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The Heartbreak Kid—Dreamworks (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 15, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 3/5
When the single and indecisive Eddie meets the sexy and beautiful Lila, the guy who could never pull the trigger jumps the gun. While honeymooning in Mexico, Eddie discovers he's made a really big mistake. He soon meets Miranda, his real soul mate. But when the love of your life isn't your wife, things can get quickly out of control. Now it will take some desperate measures to turn his honeymoon from hell into the perfect romantic getaway.
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Dead Space: Downfall—Anchor Bay (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 15, 2008  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.25/5
On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought aboard. When the unholy artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, its glimpse of Heaven transforms the ship into a living Hell. Prepare yourself for the disturbing opening chapters of the new EA game that takes adult animation to graphic new levels of bloodshed and terror.
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Austin Powers Collection—New Line Cinema (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 15, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 4.5/5
"Austin Powers Collection: Shagadelic Edition Loaded With Extra Mojo" includes: "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery"; "The Spy Who Shagged Me" and "Goldmember".
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The X-Files: I Want To Believe—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 15, 2008  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 4/5
When a group of women are mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of "The X-Files". The best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere...and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.
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The Dark Knight
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 08, 2008  | 
Warner
Movie •••• Picture ••••½Sound ••••• Extras ••••
Terrorism, torture, intrusive surveillance, and a
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Lost in the Blu
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Buena Vista
Movie ••••½Picture ••••• Sound ••••• Extras ••••½
TV's benchmark for A/V quali
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Meet Dave—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
Seeking a way to save their doomed world, a crew of tiny, human-looking aliens arrives on earth in the perfect disguise - a spaceship shaped like Eddie Murphy, the ship's captain. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter problems, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
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La Femme Nikita—Gaumont (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 0/5
Rescued from death row by a top-secret agency, Nikita is slowly transformed from a cop-killing junkie into a cold-blooded bombshell with a license to kill. But when she begins the deadliest mission of her career only to fall for a man who knows nothing of her true identity, Nikita discovers that in the dark and ruthless world of espionage, the greatest casualty of all...is true love.
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JFK—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.25/5
Oliver Stone's powerful film about the shots heard round the world and the mystery enshrouding them is one of the most provocative movies of our time. Aside from its box-office success, critical acclaim and awards, it played a major role in the national debate leading to passage of the 1992 Assassination Materials Disclosure Act.
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I Am Legend: Ultimate Collector’s Edition—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4.25/5
Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move...waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.
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Fred Claus—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
After growing up in saintly Nick's shadow, Fred becomes a grouch who's lost his belief in Christmas. Then, one magical December, Fred flies north (first class via reindeer) to find brother Nick is in trouble: a scheming efficiency expert is out to shut down Christmas forever! Expect fun by the sleighful as Fred helps save Christmas and rediscovers the gift of family.
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Encounters at the End of the World—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since “Grizzly Man”, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under.
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Chungking Express—Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
The whiplash, double-pronged “Chungking Express” is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas “California Dreamin” into tokens of romantic longing.
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Grindhouse: Death Proof—Dimension (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 3.25/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Kurt Russell stars as a sociopathic stuntman whose taste for stalking sexy young ladies gets him into big trouble when he tangles with the wrong gang of badass babes.
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