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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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Casablanca: Ultimate Collector’s Edition—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 4.5/5
"Casablanca": easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance.
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Band of Brothers—HBO (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 4/5
Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries "Band Of Brothers" tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, "Band Of Brothers" chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered 150 percent casualties, and whose lives became legend.
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Space Chimps—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 2/5
When a $5 billion Space Agency probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
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Planet of the Apes: 40-Year Evolution Box Set—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.25/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist. The "Planet Of The Apes: 40-Year Evolution" includes "Planet Of The Apes: 40th Anniversary Edition", "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes", "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes", "Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes" and "Battle For The Planet Of The Apes".
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The Dark Knight
David Vaughn  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/darkknight.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Batman (Christian Bale) continues his war on crime in Gotham City with the help of Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). Determined to destroy organized crime, the three make great strides toward restoring order until a criminal mastermind know as The Joker (Heath Ledger) thrusts the city into anarchy, forcing Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.

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I Am Legend—Ultimate Collector's Edition I Am Legend—Ultimate Collector's Edition
David Vaughn  |  Dec 07, 2008  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/iamlegend.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In the year 2012, virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last human survivor in New York City. An outbreak of a lethal virus in 2009 wipes out 99% of the human population, leaving most of the remaining 1% as mutants, with the exception of Neville, who is immune. Along with his loyal canine, Samantha, Neville hunts for food and other survivors by day, and in his spare time&#151;which he has a lot of&#151;he works on an antidote for the virus utilizing his own blood as the source.

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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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Casablanca
David Vaughn  |  Dec 01, 2008  | 

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/casablanca.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>During World War II, Casablanca served as an exit point for many Europeans seeking to leave escape the gripping hand of the Nazi's. American Eexpatriate American Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), owner of Rick's Caf, isn't what you would call a people person. When Still, when Rick's ex-lover, Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), arrives in town with European resistance fighter, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), they seek out Rick's help in obtaining papers to escape Casablanca.

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