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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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Synecdoche New York—Sony Pictures Classics (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Mar 14, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality.
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T2 Judgment Day Skynet Edition—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as "The Terminator" in this explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he's one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprises her role as Sarah Connor, John's mother; a quintessential survivor who has been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she knows is inevitable. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy - the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created.
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Taken
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jun 27, 2004  | 

<I>Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 (anamorphic). Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French). DreamWorks Home Entertainment 90555. NR. $119.99.</I>

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Taken—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 31, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and rescue his daughter.
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Talking Lives: Extended Cut—Warner Bros (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009  | 
Video: 3/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
For 20 years an elusive serial killer has assumed his victims’ identities. But now there's a breakthrough: Scott is assigned to the case and it's her job to know what makes a killer tick. But somehow this killer knows even more about Scott.
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Tango and Cash—Warner Bros (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: .5/5
Ray Tango and Gabe Cash are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common: each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene. Unjustly jailed among lowlifes they put behind bars, the two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks then roar after the shadowy crime lord who set them up. "Tango & Cash" are out to clear their names. Join them and feel the rush.
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Tell No One—Europa (Blu-ray Import)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 21, 2008  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck still grieves the murder of his beloved wife, Margot, eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One."
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Tell No One—Music Box Films (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 12, 2009  | 
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
A professional writer finds his life turned upside down when he attracts the amorous attention of his late client's sister in this dark romantic comedy about a quirky young man who can't tell "write" from wrong.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Extreme DVD
Thomas J. Norton  |  Oct 06, 2003  | 

<I>Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton. Directed by James Cameron. Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (anamorphic). THX, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Dolby Headphone. Two discs. 152 minutes. 1991. Artisan Home Entertainment 14638. R. $29.98.</I>

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 07, 2004  | 

<I>Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken. Directed by Jonathan Mostow. Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (anamorphic). Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French). Two discs. 109 minutes. 2003. Warner Home Video 27723. R. $29.95.</I>

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Terminator Salvation—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2009  | 
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4.5/5
Extras: 4
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Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 07, 2008  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 3.25/5
Extras: 3/5
The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a Terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day.
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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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The 6th Day—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 14, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
You would think the "govenator" had a new film coming out this summer with all the Schwarzenegger films hitting Blu-ray shelves this past month. Sony throws their bid in with The 6th Day, an action thriller that takes a rather disturbing look at a possible near future where cloning has become common practice. We've seen these before and it seems like Hollywood always tries to cash in on the latest science buzz. The script is pretty horrendous when it comes to dialogue and delivery, but the action sequences and production make up for it a bit. One of Arnold's weaker films, but still a decent popcorn piece.
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