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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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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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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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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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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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Lost - Season 4
David Vaughn  |  Dec 05, 2008  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lost4.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>More than three months after their crash, the stranded passengers of the ill-fated Oceanic Flight 815 learn that the only thing more dangerous than the Island itself might be the people who have come to rescue them. Jack (Matthew Fox) and his followers head to the beach in anticipation of their departure while the group led by Locke (Terry O'Quinn) heeds the advice of Ben (Michael Emerson) and goes into hiding.

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The Stendhal Syndrome—Blue Underground (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 2.5/5
Extras: 3.25/5
When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art. Trapped in this twilight realm, Anna plunges deeper and deeper into sexual psychosis, until she comes to know the killer's madness more intimately than she ever imagined.
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Mystery of the Nile—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 3/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Join a team of explorers on the expedition of a lifetime as they set off to become the first to navigate the Blue Nile from source to sea. The epic 3,260-mile descent down the world's greatest and deadliest river has eluded humankind for centuries - until now! Ride shotgun on the team's 16-foot rafts as they crash through the rapids in Ethiopia's desert canyons. Battle through some of the world's most extreme whitewater rapids with renowned kayaker, Gordon Brown. Over the arduous, four month journey, the team faces nearly insurmountable challenges - from crocodile attacks to armed bandits and arrests.
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Mamma Mia!—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 4/5
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in this musical celebration of mothers, daughters and fathers, true love's lost and new one's found. Based on the Broadway smash-hit and filled with ABBA Songs you know and love, it's the feel-good experience that will have you singing and dancing over and over again.
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Lucky # Slevin—The Weinstein Company (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.25/5
"Lucky # Slevin" is a thriller that twists and turns its way through an underworld of crime and revenge. Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses; The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them... before they get him.
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Stranger Than Fiction—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert, Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel, an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures up a way to finish him off.
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The Alps: Climb of Your Life—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 4.75/5
Audio: 3.25/5
Extras: 3/5
In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned father's life.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian—Walt Disney Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
The magical world of C.S. Lewis' beloved fantasy comes to life once again in "Prince Caspian", the second installment of "The Chronicles Of Narnia" series. Join Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, the mighty and majestic Aslan, friendly new Narnian creatures and Prince Caspian as they lead the Narnians on a remarkable journey to restore peace and glory to their enchanted land.
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The Contract—First Look Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.25/5
While on a hiking trip to reconnect with his son after the death of his wife, Ray Keene stumbles into a nightmare scenario of paid assassins and ex-military guns-for-hire. Frank Cardin is attempting to fulfill a contract to assassinate a high profile businessman when things go awry and he ends up in the custody of the U.S. Marshalls. After an ill-fated attempt by his compatriots to free him Frank finds himself in the custody of ex-lawman Ray and his son. As the trio tries to make their way back to civilization they are relentlessly pursued by Frank's friends who are intent on freeing their leader in order to collect on the contract. But one pursuer may be more foe than friend.
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Elf—New Line (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.75/5
This hilarious Christmas film tells the tale of a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts on Christmas Eve and is transported back to the North Pole and raised as an elf. Years later Buddy learns he is not really an elf and goes on a journey to New York City to find his true identity.
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