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Bombay Beach tells the stories of the residents of a once-thriving tourist resort now lost to the world. Director Alma Har'el's film, with its gauzy, dreamlike quality and choreographed sequences is at once beautiful and deeply problematic.
Release Date: January 17, 2012 from E1 Entertainment

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - February 3, 2012, 12:54 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, environment, ecology

Steven Soderbergh makes a different kind of a global viral pandemic film, one that focuses more on fear and research rather than gore and goo. A large, talented ensemble cast and the downward spiral of humanity makes this one a bleak, uneasy and scary thriller.

Recommended.
Release Date: January 03, 2012 from Warner Home Video

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - January 29, 2012, 3:46 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: steven soderbergh, virus

Pasolini's uncompromisingly arty Medea won't be to every taste, but the beauty and visceral brutality of the film is hypnotic.
Release Date: December 06, 2011 from E1 Entertainment

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - January 25, 2012, 2:37 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: maria callas, italian, mythology

This contemplative but unpretentious film goes behind-the-scenes at the Louvre museum. Director Nicolas Philipert documents a vibrant community--an entire world--that tourists never see.
Release Date: May 24, 2011 from Kino

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - January 24, 2012, 4:07 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: documentary, french, art, louvre

Given that this film began shooting almost 50 years ago is intriguing enough. Flicker Alley has upped the ante by including a second disc of supplementary material that allows us to study this compelling project long after the film itself is over.
Release Date: April 26, 2011 from Flicker Alley

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - January 21, 2012, 6:25 am - DVD Review
Keywords: enigmatic, possessed, reconstructs

In a film filled with a gaggle of talented, raw performances it is the intensity of David Thewlis in the coarse lead role that consistently propels Mike Leigh's Naked, commanding our attention to every sarcastic, caustic, brutal and philosophical utterance he delivers. Criterion's Blu-Ray transfer of Leigh's controversial 1993 release is lovely in its starkness, besting their 2005 SD disc by leaps and bounds.

Highly recommended.
Release Date: July 12, 2011 from The Criterion Collection

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - January 15, 2012, 2:38 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mike leigh, david thewlis, naked, criterion

This is an intriguing premise, but I have a bad feeling that overdone attempts at quirkiness might be the film's downfall. However, the casting is intriguing, to say the least.
Release Date: September 13, 2011 from E1 Entertainment

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - January 15, 2012, 10:18 am - DVD Review
Keywords: solar catastrophe, messiah, newfound celebrity

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Posted by: News Editor - January 29, 2012, 9:01 pm - Article
Keywords: movies, box office

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The Pound Puppies are a team of fearless dogs whose sworn mission is to find homes for lonely puppies. Even though they look like regular dogs, these pro-active pooches match up pups with loving families fulfilling the mantra of a pup for every person and a person for every pup--all while they keep the humans at Shelter 17 clueless. Sometimes dogs are dogs' best friend!

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Posted by: News Editor - February 3, 2012, 8:18 am - PR
Keywords: kids

New Tricks has run on the BBC for eight seasons since 2003 and has already been renewed for a ninth and tenth season. The series has enjoyed ongoing broadcast exposure in North America on public television, garnering fans on both sides of the Atlantic for its masterful storytelling, unforgettable characters, and sly humor. The DVD 3-Disc Set includes all eight episodes from Season 6, plus a bonus behind-the-scenes featurette.

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Posted by: News Editor - February 1, 2012, 8:27 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

Their second feature film stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin as we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. Encounter the Black Knight, the Killer Rabbit, The Knights Who Say 'Ni'! and the Black Beast of Aaaargh! The Blu-ray set is brimming with coconuts, shrubberies and swallows (African or European), OOPS, we mean loads of bonus materials, including over thirty minutes of new Blu-ray exclusive special features.

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Posted by: News Editor - February 1, 2012, 8:20 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

Has already won Martin Scorsese the Golden Globe for Best Director, was named the best film of 2011 by the National Board of Review, and was cited by more than 150 critics as one of the top 10 films of the year including writers for Associated Press, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time, Entertainment Weekly, New Yorker, New York Daily News and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Called magical and enchanting (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times) and one of the wonders of the world you need to see (David Edelstein, New York Magazine),

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Posted by: News Editor - January 31, 2012, 8:50 am - PR
Keywords: drama

When they were schoolboys, their rivalries were over soccer teams, girls, and clothes. Now that they're married men in their thirties, they compete over jobs, cars, and even the Christmas decorations on their houses. Lifelong friends Colin Armstrong and Howard Scott are so bent on outdoing each other that they risk jeopardizing everything and everyone around them, especially their long-suffering wives, Jackie and Pauline. In the end, they find there is no escaping each other--for good or for ill, the bitterest of rivals and the best of friends.

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Posted by: News Editor - January 31, 2012, 8:45 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

The story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership and life's method through intimate recollections with friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming himself from an impetuous, risk-taking radical into a mature leader and statesman.

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Posted by: News Editor - January 31, 2012, 8:39 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

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