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Sol Louis Siegel  |  Feb 23, 2011
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The Criterion Collection
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The producers of René Clair’s 1931 À nous la liberté sued Charlie Chaplin over the similarities between that film and Chaplin’s 1936 Modern Tim

Marc Horowitz  |  Feb 25, 2011
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20th Century Fox
Movie ••½Picture •••Sound ••••Extras ••½

Start with Tom Cruise as an International Superspy, Killer-Smile Division. Toss in a generous portion of Cameron Diaz as a hot and surprisingly capable Girl Next Door.

Rad Bennett  |  Feb 25, 2011
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Universal
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 The dictionary defines a “minion” as an underling. Despicable Me has turned Minions into superstars.

Marc Horowitz  |  Feb 25, 2011
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Warner
Movie •••• Picture •••½ Sound •••• Extras ••••

As he did in the superior Gone Baby Gone, director Ben Affleck (who also stars this time) takes great pains in The Town to get blue-collar Boston right — from the accents to t

Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2011
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BBC/Warner
Movie ••••½ Picture ••••½ Sound •••½ Extras •••½

“The game is on!” So flows the contemporary parlance of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly re-imagined as the world’s only consulting detective in modern-day

Rad Bennett  |  Feb 25, 2011
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HBO
Movie •••½ Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ½

The titular relationship is that between the U.S. and the U.K., and it also refers to the working rapport of their leaders.

Stan Horaczek  |  Mar 09, 2011

The other trilogy has already been available on Blu-ray for some time, but it seems the release of the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally almost upon us. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for $90.

Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2011

"Who is Don Draper?" That’s the opening line—and the crux—of Mad Men’s Season 4 arc, something that show creator Matthew Weiner confirms multiple times over the course his welcome appearance this three-disc Lionsgate Blu-ray set’s commentary tracks.

Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2011

"Who is Don Draper?" That's the opening line-and the crux-of Mad Men's Season 4 arc, something that show creator Matthew Weiner confirms multiple times over the course his welcome appearance this three-disc Lionsgate Blu-ray set's commentary tracks.

Josef Krebs  |  Mar 31, 2011

The Social Network opens with a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend (Rooney Mara), and it's the perfect setup for a movie about a certain form of Internet interaction.

Geoffrey Morrison  |  Apr 03, 2011

First with the just-released Diamond Edition of its 1942 classic, Bambi, and now with Tron: Legacy, Disney is including a Blu-ray bonus called Disney Second Screen. After downloading an app to your iPad or laptop computer, you enable the program in the disc's menu. The iPad/laptop now plays special features to coincide with your viewing of the Blu-ray on TV.

Sol Louis Siegel  |  Apr 19, 2011

The story was irresistible: A group of men (eventually joined by a teenage girl) escape from a vicious labor camp in Stalin's Gulag and make their way, on foot, to the safety of India, traveling through Siberia, the Gobi, and the Himalayas - a distance greater than the length of America.

Josef Krebs  |  Apr 29, 2011

The first extra I jumped to after experiencing the 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal brainspill Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream was the author’s commentary.

Marc Horowitz  |  May 04, 2011

File this one under Wasted Potential. The Green Hornet does have plenty of visual style, courtesy of director Michel Gondry. It also has the likable Seth Rogen as the title character, the awesome Christoph Waltz (Oscar winner for Inglourious Basterds) as the bad guy, and Cameron Diaz as the brainy eye candy.

Marc Horowitz  |  May 04, 2011

File this one under Wasted Potential. The Green Hornet does have plenty of visual style, courtesy of director Michel Gondry. It also has the likable Seth Rogen as the title character, the awesome Christoph Waltz (Oscar winner for Inglourious Basterds) as the bad guy, and Cameron Diaz as the brainy eye candy.

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