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1. The Parent Trap
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3. Cruel Intentions
4. Pasion de Gavilanes
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7. Pride & Prejudice
8. The Polar Express
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10. Traci Bingham's Fantasy Fest Uncensored

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NCIS: The Complete Second Season

I bet the producers of NCIS get really peeved being constantly compared to CSI (and its many spin-offs). But as fate would have it, this writer spent a lot of time last week getting through CSI’s sixth season and logged many hours in front of NCIS’s sophomore go-round over the weekend, so I can’t help but juxtapose the two series’ qualities (and shortcomings) in my mind.NCIS is far more politically bent than CSI (not in a partisan sense, but in terms of international...

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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - HD DVD

When director Richard Donner was shooting Superman The Movie, he was simultaneously filming Superman II. So, for example, when the cast and crew were on the interior Daily Planet office set, they would first film all the sequences required for the first film, then switch to the script for the second. It must have been a continuity nightmare. Since both Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman were available for a limited time, Donner had already finished capturing their performances for...

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12:01

He has 24 hours to save the world . . . again? In this sci-fi thriller, office employee Barry Thomas (Jonathan Silverman) is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in his company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks (Helen Slater). Fans of Groundhog Day and Back to the Future take note, this critically acclaimed cult favorite is...

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King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition

I’m finding myself behind the curve these days for getting out to see movies during their theatrical run. And even with a previous DVD release of the theatrical cut available for some time, I confess that viewing this extended cut of Peter Jackson’s King Kong on DVD is my first direct acquaintance with this film. Disappointingly, I found myself less enamored with Jackson’s film than I had expected. My impression was that the film had a few shortcomings (which I doubt are the...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

While traveling through Monteriano, Italy on an extended vacation, free-spirited Lilia Heriton (Helen Mirren) falls for young, handsome Gino Carella (Giovanni Guidelli) and, against the wishes of her family, decides to marry him and stay. Dispatched by her jealous, self-centered English relatives to retrieve her, brother-in-law Philip (Rupert Graves) and chaperone Caroline Abbott (Helena Bonham Carter) discover startling news that will alter the course of two families forever. Passion, betrayal...

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Baywatch: Seasons One and Two

Ah, Baywatch. Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle all the way home. And while you’re staring at the hypnotic vibrating jugs belonging to the lovely ladies of Baywatch, let me pester you with a bit of storyline. A virtually unknown actor named David Hasselhoff (I hear he’s huge in Germany) plays Mitch Buchanan, the chief lifeguard who leads his gaggle of busty co-eds through the rigors of the Los Angeles county beach lifestyle. Wow. That didn’t take very long. Just keep focusing on the boobs...

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Excalibur - HD DVD

I’ve been cursed with an insatiable curiosity. Legends in particular have intrigued me. Did a UFO crash at Roswell? Was Robin Hood an historical figure? Is the Loch Ness monster real? The film industry seems somewhat taken with legends as well. Did you know that there are almost fifty films that involve King Arthur either directly (First Knight) or indirectly (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)? But was Arthur an historical figure or was he simply a...

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes

The phrase “unlike anything you’ve ever seen” can be a double-edged sword; after all, we’re creatures of habit. On a base level, we all know what we like in films; when we press our DVD player’s Play button, some reptilian part of our brain anticipates that specific cinematic sensations are coming our way. But every once in a while, it’s nice to deal with a curve ball.Curve ball may be an understatement when applied to such a grand experiment as (say it with me...

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Top Selling DVDs at Yahoo! Shopping

1. The Parent Trap
2. El Cuerpo del Deseo
3. Cruel Intentions
4. Pasion de Gavilanes
5. Gia
6. Fateless
7. Pride & Prejudice
8. The Polar Express
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10. Traci Bingham's Fantasy Fest Uncensored

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My Geisha

The 1962 film My Geisha is an uncommonly charming story complimented by a film-production to match. The story is woven around issues that were contemporary in 1962 and continue to liger as open questions today: most centrally, the struggle to balance the equality of the sexes with appropriate roles in a marriage relationship. The film doesn’t attempt to judge, but rather explores questions like this amid the context of the relationship between wife and actress Lucy Dell and husband and film...

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Pinky and The Brain: Vol. 2

An offshoot of the irreplaceable Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain is the kind of reference-heavy ‘toon that has the devilish ability to engage both kiddies and Simpsons-loving grownups. Unlike the increasingly grating Family Guy, a show that comes up with pop culture references and just throws them into an episode without rhyme or reason (or point, for that matter), Pinky and the Brain pays homage to all kinds of cultural paradigms with exceptional results by keeping its narrative train on...

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Scary Movie 4 - HD DVD

Having been intimately involved in Airplane!, Police Squad!, Top Secret!, The Naked Gun, and The Naked Gun 2½, David Zucker (and his brother Jerry), could arguably be credited with creating a new genre: the intensely silly spoof. He and producer partners Robert Weiss and Craig Mazin were ideal candidates to take over the Scary Movie franchise when the Wayans Brothers walked away after the sequel. This is the second effort by the new team; it’s ingeniously entitled Scary...

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The Matador - HD DVD

Having been cast out of the Bond world (pun intended), it’s with no small irony that Pierce Brosnan chose to play this decidedly bent anti-Bond and, in the process, delivers one of his finest performances. The vehicle, The Matador, is difficult to express as a high concept. It’s a hit man flick. It’s a buddy flick. It’s a morality tale. It’s a psychological drama. It’s a black comedy. Delightfully unique, it amuses and...

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Derailed - HD DVD

What convinced me that Derailed is an effective thriller is that the performances and twists are so effective that I was completely distracted from noticing the plot’s failures in logic. Clive Owen plays Charles Schine, a Chicago ad executive whose life has become a burden. His daughter, Amy (Addison Timlin), suffers from diabetes and her third kidney transplant has failed. He and his wife, Deanna (Melissa George), are deeply in debt. They had to take out a second...