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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated) - DVD Versus Blu-ray Disc

I can pin down the month when the NASCAR crowd made their assault on pop culture. It was the moment Soundscan was introduced to more accurately count the number of CDs being purchased by American consumers. In the old days, Billboard and other music publications would rely on the reporting of record stores to determine where an album placed on the sales charts. When Soundscan was introduced in November 1991, it insured that every record scanned at the time of purchase was counted. No more...

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Ocean Odyssey

And now for something completely different. Do you enjoy Nova on PBS? Did you enjoy the Walking With Dinosaurs series? Yes? Then read on. The makers of the Walking With Dinosaurs series have directed their attention to another impressive creature, one that is not extinct (no thanks to mankind), the Sperm Whale. This two-part miniseries educates and entertains as it recreates the eighty-year life of a bull Sperm Whale from a very young juvenile to a dominant...

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Forbidden Planet

When Forbidden Planet greeted audiences in 1956, moviegoers familiar with a steady diet of B-grade science-fiction cinema were hardly prepared for this imaginative, exquisitely produced film which set new standards for the science-fiction genre. Forbidden Planet extended beyond mere entertainment and expressed a foundation of provocative ideas that both reflected and influenced the thinking of the day. Similar to its contemporary The Day The Earth Stood Still and more recently Blade Runner...

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Dinosaur - BD

In 1999, the BBC broadcast the first in a group of miniseries intended to portray life on Earth long before modern man. It was Walking With Dinosaurs. Special Effects house FrameStore produced a virtual prehistoric world presented as a nature documentary. We visit the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous, ranging from 220 million to 65 million years ago. In each we are introduced to the creatures of the day. We observe their efforts to survive, how they live...

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A Scanner Darkly

I was intrigued when I discovered that A Scanner Darkly was to be released, another film based on the mind-bending work of Philip K. Dick (previous films included Minority Report, Total Recall, Blade Runner). But what I found impressed me as less Philip K. Dick and more as Hunter S. Thompson. It was an indication of my ignorance. The supplements would put me straight.This is a tale rooted in the science fiction concepts of what might be possible in the not too distant future...

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