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|The Dark Knight: Two-Disc Special
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2008-12-09
Warner Home Video
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The Dark Knight may have only been released this past December but its pre-sales stretched back into its theater days! The biggest movie of the year and one of the finest action films ever made, The Dark Knight featured strong performances, especially from the late Heath Ledger.
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|Mad Men - Season 1 (DVD)|
2008-07-01
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Matthew Weiner, a writer and executive producer for The Sopranos, may have set this series in the picture-perfect 1960s, but his characters are just as scheming as the mobsters on his last show.
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|Juno (Two Disc Special Edition with
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2008-04-15
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Juno might have a lot of strengths--Page's award-worthy performance, a pitch-perfect soundtrack, excellent direction from Jason Reitman--but it's the screenwriting debut of writer Cody Diablo that makes this such a winning film.
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|3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen) (DVD)|
2008-01-08
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Based on the Elmore Leonard story, 3:10 To Yuma is a riveting remake of the 1957 classic Western. It's the story of Dan Evans (Christian Bale), a down-and-out rancher who lost his leg in the Civil War. Crowe is fantastic as the smooth-talking gunman, and Bale delivers a moving performance as the weary-eyed Evans.
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|Wall-E (Widescreen) (DVD)|
2008-11-18
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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$20
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Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realized world as photorealistic as it is full of wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the stripped-down sad-clown pathos found in classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving and simply unique love stories in a long time.
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|The Office - Season 4 (DVD)|
2008-09-02
Universal Studios Home Video
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$37
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The Office Season Four, like each season before it, is loaded with laughs. A must-have for every DVD collection, this box set was the top TV series purchased in 2008.
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|There Will Be Blood (DVD)|
2009-07-28
Paramount Home Entertainment
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$13
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Director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is a masterly, unflinching examination of a consummately evil man. The film is visually stunning, and alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert and meticulously composed, darkly lit close-up of his actors, presenting complex images of the American landscape and the souls that dot it.
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|Spaced: The Complete Series (DVD)|
2008-07-22
Warner Home Video
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$40
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The creators of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz first gained notoriety with this cult British comedy series. When an aspiring comic-book artist is thrown out of his flat, he lucks into a roommate when he meets Daisy, a would-be writer. A cast of eccentric friends and oddball neighbors, including the duo's neurotic landlady Marsha, add plenty of comic variation to this well-crafted series loaded with surreal touches, slacker humor, and genre parodies.
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|John Adams (DVD)|
2008-06-10
Warner Home Video
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$47
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John Adams is a sprawling HBO miniseries event that depicts the extraordinary life and times of one of Americas least understood, and most underestimated, founding fathers: the second President of the United States, John Adams.
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|Lars And The Real Girl (DVD)|
2008-04-15
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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$9
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Craig Gillespie's Lars And The Real Girl is a sweet love story and a film which deals with mental illness in surprisingly subtle ways. With a formula that could easily have manipulated for cheap laughs, the film achieves quirky humor in parts but mostly touching observations about the nature of delusions themselves.
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