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X-Men Trilogy (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 03, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/xmen.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to grow from a single-cell organism into the dominating species on the planet. This process is slow, taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.</i> &#151;Prof. Charles Frances Xavier

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The Matrix - 10th Anniversary (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 03, 2009  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/matrixdigi.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"</i>

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Dexter: The Complete Second Season—Showtime (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
Although committed to carrying out his twisted brand of vigilante justice - Dexter begins to doubt his murderous capabilities and continues to be haunted by his tortured past. His difficulties multiply when evidence of his deadly after-hours activities begins to surface and the FBI is brought in to investigate the city's new serial killer dubbed the "Bay Harbor Butcher". Dexter can't pause for a breath as the noose tightens and the questions keep mounting. Will he be able to continue his serial-killing ways? Or will Dexter's dark past finally be uncovered.
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Point of No Return—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 1/5
She is society's worst nightmare, an antisocial misfit convicted of murder and sentenced to die. But a covert government agency may be able to transform her into a sleek, cool-as-ice assassin. Dressed to kill, trained to survive, she's set loose in a deadly world where unexpected romance complicates things even more.
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans—Screen Gems (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
"Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans" delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian, emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja, in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
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American History X—New Line Cinema (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Derek Vinyard is dangerous, a coiled fury of hate who leads a neo-Nazi gang. But time and events start to change him. He reassesses his ways while doing time for manslaughter and emerges from prison eager to keep his younger brother from falling victim to the thug cycle of violence and payback. It may be too late. Weaving in and out of events past and present in Derek's life, "American History X" is revealing in its look at white-supremacist gangs and impassioned in its message that hatred and bigotry can be unlearned.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—Paramount/Criterion (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 5/5
"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
"Bueller... Bueller...?" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller, his girlfriend Sloane, and his best bud Cameron are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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The Grudge—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as an American nurse who has come to work in Tokyo. Following a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths, she encounters the vengeful supernatural spirit that possesses its victims, claims their souls, and then passes its curse to another person in a spreading chain of horror. Now, she must find a way to break this supernatural spell or become the next victim of an ancient evil that never dies, but forever lives to kill.
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Incendiary—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 1.5/5
Williams delivers a riveting and heart-felt performance as a young wife and mother who suffers a devastating loss in the attack...which occurs while she's meeting her secret lover. Wracked with guilt and trying to piece her shattered life back together, she becomes embroiled in the police investigation of the attack - and discovers that the authorities will do anything to cover up the terrifying truth behind it.
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Sin City—Dimension (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009  | 
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Welcome to "Sin City." This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
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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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The Uninvited—Dreamworks (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009  | 
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Following the suspicious death of their mother, sisters Anna and Alex become entangled in a deadly battle of wills when their father becomes engaged to Rachel, their mother's former caretaker. As the two sisters investigate Rachel's questionable past, they are confronted with ghostly visions, terrifying nightmares and deadly consequences.
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The Wrestler—Fox Searchlight (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime as pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a former superstar now paying the price for twenty years of grueling punishment in and out of the ring. But he's about to risk everything to prove he has one more match left in him: a re-staging of his famous Madison Square Garden bout against "The Ayatollah."
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