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Stargate SG-1: Season 9

When the original Stargate was first released theatrically, I dragged myself into the theater to see the movie and I wasn't impressed. I've always liked star Kurt Russell's work but was not a fan of filmmakers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmrich. (In my opinion their best movie is still their first, Universal Soldier). They went on to make such stellar films as ID4 and Godzilla, eliminating all future hope I had for them. (Then again, I bought those DVDs, so how gullible does that make me?) Anyway...

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit – 3-Season Pack

This ain't your mama's muckracking: Penn & Teller's Bullshit is a bawdy, passionate, fervently inquisitive Showtime series that takes various concepts and/or organizations that have questionable tenets and investigates the shit out of them until the bullshit that lies directly underneath (or in many cases, right on top of) their operations becomes glaringly and deliciously clear. What separates the bravado of P & T from the journalistic "integrity" of other on-air personalities...

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National Lampoon's Animal House - HD

I can think of two comedic actors who make me laugh without saying a word: Kevin Smith and John Belushi. Smith’s Silent Bob cracks me up with subtle facial expressions and body language. And my favorite Belushi character is Samurai [fill in the blank] from Saturday Night Live (when it was still funny). Interesting, the Samurai was essentially mute as well, only uttering bits of Japanese-sounding double talk and the occasional thrusting scream. Belushi’s Bluto...

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The O.C.: The Complete Third Season

Laguna Beach just does it better. I remember watching my first few episodes of The O.C. with my friend Cash who, at the time, was a veritable series addict, and thinking it really wasn’t all that bad. Daddy (Peter Gallagher) and his son Seth (Adam Brody) as well as the sultry and skinny Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) all gallivant around one of the most luxurious and regal areas of the free world, pouting and fighting from multi-million dollar home to multi-million dollar home.But a few...

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The Office: Season Two

The American interpretation of Ricky Gervais’ internationally-recognized The Office was supposed to be one of those crappy mid-season replacements that offered a few chuckles but ended up leaving TV critics breathlessly exclaiming that it was a far, far cry from the genius of the original series. But God bless Steve Carrell and company. This writer has no problem calling the American Office even better than its predecessor (and the British Office was damned good). I wouldn’t have...

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One Tree Hill: The Complete Third Season

One Tree Hill is just another show about just another set of brothers trying to get along. Familial struggle has always been prolific fodder for TV drama. What melodrama doesn’t have siblings falling out of favor at least for an episode or two? But One Tree Hill presses this particular plot point just about as far as it can go.This show about half-brothers and the emotional and sexual webs they weave around their high school has the potential to be a great harbinger of rebellious angst. At...

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A Prairie Home Companion

Whoever said they couldn’t make a good movie out of a radio show never saw Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion. Actually, I said you couldn’t make a good movie out of a radio show. I’m not sure if that statement was ever true, but it’s certainly not true now. The perfect match of director and material, A Prairie Home Companion is based on Garrison Keillor’s long-running National Public Radio program. The show has been airing weekly for about thirty-one...

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The Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection Vol. 1

Not one but two Humphrey Bogart DVD collections were released this month, and while it might have been nice to throw them both into one mega-set (rest assured they’re both worth purchasing), even as separate entities, they’re behemoths. Let’s start with Volume 1.They Drive By Night (1940) is a helluva genre picture, made with the same Raoul Walsh kick that would later leave such an impression on High Sierra. The story is simple and by-the-book. A set of brothers (Bogie and...

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Halloween (197

Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and...

Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Teen

Running Time: 1 hr. 31 min.

Release Date: October 25th, 1978

MPAA Rating: R

Distributors: Compass International Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers (II)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Produced by: Irwin Yablans, Debra Hill, Kool Lusby

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Assault on Precinct 13 - HD DVD

If John Carpenter's 1976 Assault on Precinct 13 was no-budget, then the 2005 version is all-budget. But instead of spending the extra dough on more squibs, the filmmakers actually focused on a good script, an up-market cast, and a director who knew when to say when in the flash department. The result is an above average meat-and-potatoes genre exercise. Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne have some deliciously devious repartee, courtesy of a strong and sometimes surprising screenplay by James...

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U-571 - HD DVD

U-571 is as straightforward a piece of patriotism as they come. A World War II German submarine is disabled and an American sub is dispatched to masquerade as a German rescue sub. The mission is to steal the highly coveted Enigma code machine that makes German communication codes unbreakable. But before they can accomplish their mission, the American's sub is sunk, stranding our sailors onboard the German U-boat. They must carefully navigate to safety, evading both their own fleet to...

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Over the Hedge

In a year full of CGI cute animal films that rarely satisfy, Over the Hedge comes as a notable exception. Clever, witty, well written, and nicely voiced, this is one of 2006’s CGI cute animal flick to beat. (I’ll leave it to you to figure out which other CGI cute animal flick passed muster.)RJ (Bruce Willis) is an enterprising raccoon desperate for food. He invades the den of a hibernating grizzly named Vincent (Nick Nolte). Big mistake. After RJ...

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The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology

Including every film in the Exorcist pantheon (and no, there was no Exorcist Holiday Special), this Complete Exorcist Anthology chronicles the franchise from its blockbuster roots to its whimpering finale.Widely considered the greatest horror film of all time, few films can claim to have generated as much controversy as the original 1973 cut of The Exorcist. In the 30-odd years since it premiered to shocked audiences in 1973, it has subsequently been banned in nearly a dozen countries and...

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M:i:III 2-Disc Editions - DVD versus HD DVD


This third entry in the Mission Impossible series - which has the distinction of having more colons in its title than any other motion picture - begins with a dramatic flash-forward. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a captive, wrists handcuffed and ankles taped to what appears to be an old dentist’s chair bolted to the floor. A couple of yards away sits his very upset love, Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), mouth covered with duct tape and bound to a chair. A gun is held to her...

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