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Quick reviews of our favorite recent DVD releases.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-18-2011 |
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Superstition Ain't The Waynew
A powerful performance by a teen actress lifts this morality tale above its station.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-18-2011 |
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A Holocaust Mystery in Sarah's Keynew
Sarah's Key tells the story of an American expat journalist in Paris who discovers that the apartment she's about to move into has a deeply unsettling connection to the past.
Tags: Sarah's Key
Colin Farrell Enlivens Fright Nightnew
The movie's almost as ridiculously entertaining as Colin Farrell's performance, which has him hissing at beams of sunlight in mid-sentence and casually telling prospective victims "Catch ya later!" as they run away.
One Day is a Long Timenew
As the film checks on its characters each June 15 for 20 years, the date appears in dainty cursive font that floats, blows away and, at one point, pops up in a toaster. It's typical of the twee tone that undercuts the story's potential.
Tabloid: Nothing But the Truth or Something Like Itnew
Depending on whose story you choose to believe or what aspects you choose to believe, Joyce McKinney was able to spirit Kirk Anderson to a “safe house,” where she handcuffed him to a bed and had sexual relations with him.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
08-17-2011 |
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Read All About Itnew
Tabloid features kidnapping, fried chicken and sex.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-17-2011 |
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The Mirror Has Blue Facesnew
Somber sci-fi drama crackles with low-budget intensity.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-17-2011 |
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The Devil You Knownew
Dominic Cooper puts on a master class as Uday Hussein and his look-alike.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-17-2011 |
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Working Outside the Lawnew
Three brothers fight for Algerian independence.
Boise Weekly |
Elizabeth Duffy |
08-16-2011 |
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Tags: Outside the Law
‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ sets a new standard for troubled franchisenew
Poor James Franco. First, he loses an arm after it got trapped by a boulder; then he hosts the Oscars.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2011 |
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Beats, Rhymes & Life doc plumbs the tortured creativity of A Tribe Called Questnew
Haters, brace yourselves.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-15-2011 |
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Mise-En-Scenarionew
Tribe Called Quest doc gives short shrift to the midnight marauders.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-15-2011 |
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England's Odd Couplenew
Opens Friday at The Flicks
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-03-2011 |
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Tags: Food, Michael Winterbottom, Movies, Culture, England, Steve Coogan, Cinema, The Trip, Rob Brydon
No Ceiling for Cynicism: NATO Empowered Sex Trafficking Expose Tells All
The illicit sex-trafficking actions of NATO peacekeepers -- both privatized and not -- is the subject of this incendiary film that falls prey to predictable dramatic conventions.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-02-2011 |
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