Directed by John Lee Hancock
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The Blind Side

The Blind Side takes the true story of a young man who went from abandonment to success as a pro-football player and treats it with respect. The movie doesn't oversell what is, on the face of it, already compelling. It's almost impossible to describe the plot without sounding painfully inspirational: Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron, Be Kind Rewind), a hulking but gentle African-American teen in Tennessee, gets taken in by a well-to-do white family; the mother, Leigh Anne Touhy (Sandra Bullock), pushes and mothers the boy, who eventually wins a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi. In the wrong hands, this could have been maudlin, manipulative, and condescending. To the credit of writer-director John Lee Hancock, adapting Michael Lewis's acclaimed book, the result is intelligent, genuine, and alternately funny and moving. Leigh Anne could easily have been grandstanding and virtuous, but Bullock doesn't shy away from her vain and domineering side. The football scenes will be gripping even to non-sports fans because they've been so successfully grounded in Michael's emotional life. The all-around solid cast includes country music star Tim McGraw, pint-sized Jae Head (Hancock), and Kathy Bates as the tutor who guided Michael's academic success. Don't be surprised if you can't keep yourself from watching all the real-life photos of Michael, Leigh Anne, and the rest of the family that are featured in the credits; by the end of the movie, you will care about them all. --Bret Fetzer

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The Hangover (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray] (2009)

Directed by Todd Phillips
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They planned a Vegas bachelor party that they would never forget. Now they really need to remember what exactly went down! A baby? A tiger? Why is one of them missing a tooth? And most of all, where is the groom?! What the guys did while partying can't compare to what they must do sober in an outrageous caper that has them piecing together all their bad decisions from the night before-- one hazy clue at a time. Director Todd Phillips (Old School) and an all-aces comedy cast tie one on... big time!

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Digital Copy and Amazon Exclusive Set of 4 Collectible 8x10 Character Posters) [Blu-ray]

Directed by Victor Fleming
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In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum novel, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she encounters some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-29
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

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An OZ-some DVD Experience
Like most baby boomers, I've watched this film dozens of times in the past on broadcast TV, then VHS tape, then LaserDisc ... but I had never actually SEEN "The Wizard of Oz" until this newly restored DVD came out. It's an amazing transfer. The sepia-tone Kansas sequences are startlingly sharp and clear, and the Technicolored world "Over the Rainbow" is truly dazzling. I found myself fascinated by details I had never noticed before: the glittering corn stalks in the Scarecrow's field; the mirror-like floors of the Emerald City; the polished buttons on the guardsmen's uniforms. Incredibly, even the individual grains of red sand in the Witch's hourglass stood out and glistened! All these minor-but-sumptuous visual details served to heighten the magical spell that the film has always woven, enhancing the performances, the story, and the music.

The DVD extras are a mind-boggling embarrassment of riches. The "Making Of" documentary hosted by the incomparable Angela Lansbury is worth the price of the DVD alone, but there's so much more: an international poster gallery, interviews with cast members, deleted scenes, production stills, radio clips, etc, etc. There's enough material to keep even the most casual viewer fascinated for hours, and a true Oz buff will be occupied for days!

If you only bought a DVD player to watch this one disc, it would well be worth the expense. Treat yourself, and fall in love with this classic film again ... for the first time.

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Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection

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For the first time ever, find all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series in one box set, packed with exciting extras! Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again through these stellar remastered high-definition film transfers. Extras include the fascinating Serling bio-documentary Submitted for Your Approval, compelling interviews with the show's writers, the series' unaired pilot, audio commentaries with Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy, Cliff Robertson and much, much more!

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1 in DVD
• Brand: Image Entertainment
• Released on: 2006-10-03
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 28
• Dimensions: 3.05 pounds
• Running time: 4524 minutes

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astonishing
Giving this set a bad rating because you already bought an earlier set is doing any potential buyers of this set a grave injustice.

It is, simply, astonishing. Why? Start with digital transfers from the original camera negatives and magnetic tracks. Add commentaries for the majority of episodes. And multiple commentaries for several episodes. Add Rod Serling's college lectures used for commentaries. Add interviews with cast and crew members. Add isolated msic scores. Add intros and outros. Add network promo spots. Add the TWILIGHT ZONE radio dramas and comic books...I could go on but why bother? If you are a TWILIGHT ZONE FAN, you won't be disappointed.

Twilight zone
I am a real fan of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. I bought the 42 VHS collection of Twilight Zone via Columbia House Canada and paid nearly $1500.00 for the entire collection more than ten years ago. What a deal to obtain the DVD collection with all the extras for a fraction of what I paid for the VHS. The quality is excellent. One little note: there is no close caption for the season one but no problem for seasons 2,3,4,5. Thank you Amazon. I live in Québec canada and it took only five days to receive the collection by regular mail.

The Twilight Zone- The Complete Definitive Collection
I didnt get into this show until the past year or so. Ive heard of it in the past but I wasnt born until the early 80's so I didnt get to see it as much as id like to of. Now I can see all the great episodes on DVD and really get to appreciate the genius of this show. This box set contains all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series along with exciting extras.

List of Episodes for all 5 seasons-

Season 1

Episode 1: 'Where is Everybody?'- Earl Holliman stars as a man on the edge of hysteria in a deserted town. Despite the emptiness, he has the strangest feeling hes being watched.
Episode 2: 'One for the Angels'- A Salesman cleverly eludes death. But if he lives a little girl must die in his place. Only the salesman greatest pitch can save her.
Episode 3: 'Mr. Denton on Doomsday'- A drunk of a gunslinger finds his fast draw abilities can be restored by drinking a magic potion.
Episode 4: 'The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine'- an aging former movie star lives and dreams in the past. She refuses to leave her screening room until she disapears.
Episode 5: 'Walking Distance'- Martin Sloan is plays a frazzled executive who learns that you can go home again after he steps back in time and meets his mom his dad and himself.
Episode 6: 'Escape Clause'- A hypocondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Episode 7: 'The Lonely'- A covicted murderer incarcerated on a distant asteroid and is dying of lonliness.
Episode 8: 'Time Enough at Last'- A Bookworm yearns for more time to read, then a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world with lots of time, plenty to read and an ironic twist.
Episode 9: 'Penchance to Dream'- A man whos terrified of falling asleep in fear he might die. His pursuer? A mysterious vixen he meets in his dreams.
Episode 10: 'Judgement Night'- 1942, a german wonders why he is on the deck of a British Steamship with no memory of how he got there and impending doom.
Episode 11: 'And When the Sky was Opened'- Col. Clegg Forbes 'Rip Taylor' and 2 astronauts return from their space flight. They soon discover that no one remembers them as if they never even existed.
Episode 12: 'What You Need'- Two bit thug thinks hes found the key to a better life.
Episode 13: 'The Four of us are Dying'- Gifted with the ability to change his face Arch Hammer devises a plan to elevate himself.
Episode 14: 'Third from the Sun'- William Surka and a friend steal an experimental spaceship and go off to an unknown planet.
Episode 15: I shot an Arrow into the Air'- The worlds first manned space mission goes awry stranding the crew on an asteroid.
Episode 16: 'The Hitchhiker'- Alone on a cross country trip Nan Adams has a blowout. Surviving the incident, she gets back on the road, only to see the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
Episode 17: 'The Fever'- Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not happy when his wife wins a trip for 2 to Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name!
Episode 18: 'The Last Flight'- World War One flying ace flies through a mysterious and lands at a modern U.S. Airbase in the year 1960.
Episode 19: 'The Purple Testament'- Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle he has the ability to see whos about to die.
Episode 20: 'Elegy'- 3 astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place.
Episode 21: 'Mirror Image'- A woman spies her exact double at a bus station and becomes convinced the double is trying to take her place in this world. A fellow passenger thinks shes crazy..at first.
Episode 22: 'The monsters are due on Maple St'- Inexplicable events cause the residents of Maple Street to errupt into rioting. Residents suspect alien invasion.
Episode 23: 'A World Of Diffrence'- Arthur Curtis thinks hes an average businessman living a normal life. Or is he an actor playing a businessman in an office thats really a set?
Episode 24:' Long live Walter Jameson'- A history teacher who talks about the past as if he lives it.
Episode 25: 'People are Alike all over'- Space expidition crashes on Mars.
Episode 26: 'Execution'- man in 1880 about to be hanged for shooting a man in the back.
Episode 27: 'The Big Tall Wish'- Over the hill prizefighter gets a boost from a lil boy whos a big fan in a disillusioned world.
Episode 28: 'A Nice Place to Visit'- After being shot to death a theif encounters white haired pip who gives him everything he wishes.
Episode 29: 'Nightmare as a Child'- A schoolteacher who has blocked out the details of her Mother's murder and encounters a strange little girl.
Episode 30: 'A stop at Willoughby'- Advertising exec cracks under pressure of his job dreaming about a peaceful town called Willoughby.
Episode 31: 'The Chaser'- Roger Shackleforth, desperate to win the affection of the beautiful Leila, slips her a love potion.
Episode 32: 'A Passage for Trumpet'- After commiting suicide an unsuccessful trumpet player is given a second chance at life.
Episode 33: 'Mr. Bevis'- A good natured, accident prone eccentric whos guardian angel gives him a chance at success.
Episode 34: 'The After Hours'- A woman discovers that the floor of a department store on which she bought a gold thimble dosent exist.
Episode 35: 'The Mighty Casey'- Baseball team with a robot player.
Episode 36: 'A world of his own'- Noted playwright who discovers he can make anything appear or disappear by just describing it.

Season Two

Episode 37: 'King Nine Will not Return'- WWII captain/a vast desert. Where is his crew and why are futuristic jets flying overhead?
Episode 38: 'The Man in the Bottle'- A curio shop owner thinks hes found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him 4 wishes.
Episode 39:' Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room'- Small time hood is ordered to commit a murder he dosent want to perform.
Episode 40: 'A Thing about Machines'- A man despises any sort of machine, and he'll experience a new kind of terror when he learns the feeling is mutual.
Episode 41: 'The Howling Man'- During a walking trip in Europe Ellington loses his way and meets an insane monk claimed hes captured by the Devil.
Episode 42:' Eye of the beholder aka Private World of Darkness'- Janets hideous face has made her an outcast all her life. As she waits for her last chance surgery, she ponders the consequence of failure.
Episode 43: 'Nick of Time'- A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed with a penny fortune telling machine.
Episode 44:' The Lateness of the Hour'- Dr. Loren and the faultless Robot services he invented.
Episode 45: 'The trouble with Temptation'- An aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Hes given a glimpse of the past.
Episode 46: 'A most unusual camera'- Two thieves find out a camera they have stolen take pictures of the future.
Episode 47: 'Night of the Meek'- Christmas in the Twilight Zone. Art Carney as a forelorn department Santa who takes to drinking.
Episode 48:'Dust'- A man about to be hanged for running over a little girl. The girls father uses magic dust and a change comes over village.
Episode 49: 'Back There'- A man who travels back in time to Lincolns assassination.
Episode 50: 'The Whole Truth'- Automobile compels used car dealer to tell the truth. He cant sell a single vehicle on his lot until he comes up with an unusual idea.
Episode 51: 'The Invaders'- A flying saucer lands in the attic of an isolated house. Spaceship begins to stalk old woman.
Episode 52: 'A penny for your thoughts'- Flip of a coin gives banker the power to read minds.
Episode 53: 'Twenty Two'- Woman is terrified of returning nightmare involving number Twenty Two.
Episode 54: 'The Odyssey of Flight 33'- Flight 33 picks up a tail wind and is blown off course. After corrected the flight arrives at its destination- a billion years of course.
Episode 55: 'Mr. Dingle, The Strong'- A timid salesman is given super strength by a martian experimentor.
Episode 56: 'Static'- an antique radio starts to broadcast programs from an old mans youth that only he can hear.
Episode 57: 'The Prime Mover'- Ace Larson discovers his business partner can move things with his mind. They set out for Vegas and win.
Episode 58: 'Long Distance Call'- Before Grandma died she gave Billy a toy telephone. When he uses it to talk to her, his parents dismiss it as imagination.
Episode 59: 'A hundred yards over the Rim'- 1847, a western settler sets out to find medicine for his son, he returns with much more than medicine.
Episode 60: 'The Rip Van Winkle Caper'- Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Episode 61: 'The Silence'- Archie Taylor offers man half a million dollars if he can keep quiet for a year.
Episode 62: 'Shadow Play'- a man trapped in a reaccuring nightmare.
Episode 63: 'The Mind and the Matter'- a book on the power of thought enables a worker to recreate the world exactly how he wants it.
Episode 64: 'Will the real Martian please stand up'- State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object.
Episode 65: 'The Obsolete Man'- In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete by The Chancelor and sentenced to death.

Season Three

Episode 66: 'Two'- Two lone survivors of a nuclear Holocaust must start the world anew.
Episode 67: 'The Arrival'- A plane lands safely but all passengers and crew are missing.
Episode 68: 'The Shelter'- When a UFO invasion appears eminent, friends and neighbors are reduced to selfish conniving animals in a fight over one familys bomb shelter.
Episode 69: 'The Passersby'- Civil War Confederate Soldier stops at a house, he soons realizes everyone who pass are dead.
Episode 70: 'A Game of Pool'- a brilliant pool player in a show down.
Episode 71: 'The Mirror' - a poor and ambitious central american farm worker overthrows his countrys tyranical leader.
Episode 72: 'The Grave'- Notorious badman puts a curse on hired gun.
Episode 73: 'It's a Good Life'- He knows your every thought, every emotion. He can eliminate all you hold dear. Who is he? A six yera old boy.
Episode 74: 'Deaths'- Head Revisited- A former Nazi captain returns to a concentration camp to relive the good old days- until his long dead victims appear to deliver overdue justice!
Episode 75: 'The Midnight Sun'- Earths orbit has changed drawing closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction. Or has it?
Episode 76: 'Still Valley'- A confederate soldier gets a chance to win a Civil War for the South.
Episode 77: 'The Jungle'- A businessman and a trip to Africa. A voodoo curse is placed upon him.
Episode 78: 'Once upon a Time'- A janitor living in the year 1890 and a time traveling helmet.
Episode 79: 'Five Characters in Search of an Exit'- clown, hobo army ranger are trapped in a enormous cyclinder.
Episode 80: 'A Quality of Mercy'- A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from the enemy's point of view.
Episode 81: 'Nothing in the Dark'- an old woman has fought with death a 1000 times and always won but she thinks a wounded policeman at her door is Mr. Death. Is He?
Episode 82: 'One More Pallbearer'- Eccentric millionare offers use of his bomb shelter to 3 people who wronged him.
Episode 83: 'Dean Mans Shoes'- a vagrant steps into a murdered gangsters expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead mans ghost.
Episode 84: 'The Hunt'- An old hillbilly and his hound dog find themselves meet a gatekeeper who tells them theyre at the entrance to Heaven. One problem.. Dogs are not allowed.
Episode 85: 'Showdown with Rance Mcgrew'- TV cowboy finds himself in a real old west Saloon where Jesse James challenges him to a showdown.
Episode 86: 'Kick the Can'- an old man at sunnydale rest home discovered a secret to regaining youth.
Episode 87: 'A piano in the House'- A critic uses a magical piano player to disclose his party guests hidden selves.
Episode 88: 'The last rights of Jeff Mrytlebank'- came back to life at his own funeral, Jeff hasnt been the same. Townspeople want him out.
Episode 89: 'To Serve Man'- The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens arrive on Earth. To Serve Man.
Episode 90: 'The Fugitive'- Old Ben, A fugitive from Outer Space with a heart of gold.
Episode 91: 'Little Girl Lost'- a 6 yr old who can be heard but not seen and has vanished into a 4rth dimension.
Episode 92: 'Person or Persons Unknown'- David wakes up to find himself in a nightmare, no one, not even his wife or mother know him, all evidence of his identity has disapeared.
Episode 93: 'The Little People'- Spaceship commander declares himself a god when he lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
Episode 94: 'Four O'Clock'- Political fanatic has determined that at 4 p.m. he will eliminate all his enemies by shrinking them.
Episode 95: 'Hocus Pocus and Frisby'- Frisby is a loud mouth braggart whos boasts attract the attention of aliens.
Episode 96: 'The Trade-Ins'- An elderly couple visits the New Life Corporation hoping to transplant their personalities into youthful bodies.
Episode 97: 'The Gift'- An alien crash lands in a village and befriends and gives a present to a little boy.
Episode 98: 'The Dummy'- A Ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil.
Episode 99: 'Young Mans Fancy'- Newlywed couple return to grooms childhood home, the ties of the past prove to strong to resist.
Episode 100: 'I Sing the Body Electric'- Anne must learn to understand and accept that her new grandmother can be tender loving and thoughful even thought she is a Robot.
Episode 101: 'Cavender is Coming'- Carol Burnett stars as Agnes in this tale of a klutzy usherette rescued from poverty by a guardian angel.
Episode 102: 'The Changing of the Guard'- Donald Pleasance is Professor Ellis Fowler, forced to retire after 51 yrs of teaching. Fowler is startled by a ghostly appearance of former students..

Season Four

Episode 103: 'In His Image'- Alan Talbot dosent understand why his hometown seems unfamiliar, why he is driven to kill and what are the noises in his head?
Hes about to get answers when he comes face to face with his double.
Episode 104: 'The Thirty Fathom Grave'- submerged submarine, 20 yrs after it was sunk by Japanese during World War II.
Episode 105: 'Valley of the Shadow'- Phillip Redfield finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time.
Episode 106: 'Hes Alive'- Peter, 'Dennis Hopper', a smalltime Nazi Leader, yearns for more power.
Episode 107: 'Mute'- 12 yr old girl who loses her parents in a fire and dosent speak.
Episode 108: 'Death Ship'- 3 astronauts discover a wrecked duplicate of their spaceship and their own dead bodies!
Episode 109: 'Jess Belle'- Billy Ben finds himself enchanted by the beautiful Jess Belle who soons learns the danger of buying a love spell from a witch.
Episode 110: 'Miniature'- Charley Parkes is a shy bachelor who discovers a miniature doll alive inside a 19th century dollhouse.
Episode 111: 'Printers Devil'- Newspaper editor on the brink of suicide, someone presents an unusual deal.
Episode 112: 'No Time like the Past'- Paul travels back in time to try to prevent some of historys catastrophes.
Episode 113: 'The Parallel'- Astronaut finds himself back on Earth in a world similar to but not quite his own.
Episode 114: 'I dream of Genie'- George rubs a magic arabian lamp and a genie emerges to grant him one wish.
Episode 115: 'The New Exhibit'- About a Wax Museum
Episode 116: 'Of late I think of Cliffordville'- A bored wealthy businessman, gets a chance to go back in time and start over.
Episode 117: 'The Incredible World of Horace Ford': Toy Designer spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years, he gets a bitter taste of reality.
Episode 118: 'On Thursday we leave for Home'- Leader of a strander outpost in space for 30 yrs.
Episode 119: 'Passage on the Lady Anne'- young couple books passage on old ship.
Episode 120: 'The Bard'- Jack Weston is an untalented would be writer wohse career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespere writes his script.

Season Five

Episode 121: 'In Praise of Pip'- An alcoholic bookie regrets that he wasnt a better father to his son, 'Pip', critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
Episode 122: 'Steel'- The future, robots and asteroids.
Episode 123: 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'- A salesman recovering from a nervous breakdown spots a gremlin on the wing of his plane.
Episode 124: 'A kind of stopwatch'- magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Episode 125: 'The last night of a Jockey'- Mickey Rooney is Grady, a former jockey banned from horseracing.
Episode 126: 'Living Doll'- Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his stepdaughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it dosent like him.
Episode 127: 'The old man in the cave'- a mysterious guardian helps a tiny community.
Episode 128: 'Uncle Simon'- Barbara Polk has taken care of her detested Uncle for 25 yrs waiting impatiently to inherit his wealth. But his will states she must take care of his robot.
Episode 129: 'Probe 7, over and out'- Lone survivors of 2 annihilated planets.
Episode 130: 'The 7th is made up of Phantoms'- a trio of national guardsmen conducting war exercises.
Episode 131: 'A short drink from a certain fountain'- an aging man desperate to keep up with his younger wife tries a youth serum.
Episode 132: 'Ninety years without slumbering'- man believes he will die if his grandfather clock stops.
Episode 133: 'Ring a Ding Girl'- Hollywood Star Bunny Blake gets an unusual gift from her town fan club.
Episode 134: 'You Drive'- Oliver Pope hits a boy on a bike killing him.
Episode 135: 'The Long Morrow'- 40 years in suspended animation.
Episode 136: 'The Self improvement of Salvador Ross'- Salvador will stop at nothing to win Leahs love. He even trades his youth for money.
Episode 137: 'Number 12 looks just like you'- at age 19, everyone must undergo an operation which makes them beautiful and identical to everyone else. But Marilyn refuses.
Episode 138: 'Black Leather Jackets'- 3 tough looking guys on motorcycles move into a suburb. Dont drink the water.
Episode 139: 'Night Call'- Lonely and confined to a wheelchair Elva Keene starts to get numerous mysterious phone calls. Terrified, she screams the words that will doom her.
Episode 140: 'From Agnes, With Love'- A computer technician must dela with the queen of all femme fatales, a computer names Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Episode 141: 'Spur of the Moment'- Woman chased by mysterious figure in black.
Episode 142: 'An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge'- Confederate spy spared death when the rope meant to hang him breaks. Or does it?
Episode 143: 'Queen of the Nile'- a columnist,a movie star and a secret.
Episode 144: 'Whats in the box'- Joe sees a secret revealed and its horrible consequences on his tv set.
Episode 145: 'The Masks'- Knowing he is about to die, Foster summons his heirs to his mansion for a bizarre Mardi Gras ritual and gives them the inheritance they so richly deserve!
Episode 146: 'I am the Night, Color me Black'- an execution day and pitch black skies.
Episode 147: 'Sounds and Silences'- Roswell, a boisterous man who loves noise. But when his wife leaves the volume in his life goes haywire.
Episode 148: 'Ceasar and me'- Ventriloquist Jonathan West is no match for his evil dummy- Little Ceasar, woh grabs the chance to set him up for a fall.
Episode 149: 'The Jeopardy Room'- man has 3 hours to escape from a room with a ticking bomb and a gun pointing at his head.
Episode 150: 'Stopover in a quiet town'- 2 people wake up in a strange town where everything appears to be fake.
Episode 151: 'The Encounter' - ' A rare non syndicated episode'- Fenton, a WWII Vet, proudly shows his captured sumurai sword to Arthur Takamuri, a young Japanese American gardener- who picks it up and instantly knows he must kill his host!
Episode 152: 'Mr. Garrity and the Graves'- Jared Garrity makes a living reserecting the dead in the old west.
Episode 153: 'The Brain center at Whipple's'- Callous factory owner Wallace Whipple automates his plant, putting thousands of men out of work, Smugly self satisfied, he has no regrets.. At first.
Episode 154: 'Come Wander with Me'- a singer journeys to the backwoods to find authentic folk songs.
Episode 155: 'The Fear'- An unknown creature hidden in the shadows terrorizes a hysterical young woman a state trooper whos there to help her.
Episode 156: 'The Bewitchin' Pool'- For children distraught by feuding parents, a special swimming pool offers admittance to a happier, simpler place.

There are tons of extras on these DVDS. Some of the extras include Conversations with Rod Serling, Photo Galleries, Billboards, Alfred Hitchcock Promo, Everything you could imagine. Enjoy it.

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Mad Men: Season 2

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Set in 1960s New York City, Mad Men explores the glamorous and ego-driven "Golden Age” of advertising, where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper (Golden Globe® - winner Jon Hamm), Madison Avenue’s biggest ad man – and ladies' man – in the business. Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe®-winning series for Best TV Drama and Actor continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. The world of MAD MEN is moving in a new direction -- can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?

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Mad Men Living in a World Gone Mad.
Sopranos' writer, Matthew Weiner's Mad Men series is arguably the best reason to own a television these days. Set in 1960s New York City, the show involves a group of Madison Avenue ad executives and their secretaries working, smoking, drinking, and socializing together at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. In the show's first season, Mad Men provided viewers with a window into an American culture of Nixon-era social taboo-isms: alcoholism, sexism, racism, and consumerism, which is mainly what made Mad Men so fascinating. It's easy to see why the show won two Golden Globe awards in 2007 for Best Television Series - Drama, and Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama and the Emmy Award for Best Outstanding Drama Series. Imagine the "Mad-ness" of a bunch of complicated, alcoholic, Nixon-era, GQ ad men in starched white shirts, spending their workdays in a fog of cigarette smoke, and you'll have the basic premise of this highly-acclaimed, must-see show.

Mad Men's characters are a truly well-drawn bunch. For instance, the protagonist, Don Draper (Jon Hamm), is not only the creative director and junior partner of Sterling Cooper, he is also the illegitimate son of a prostitute, now living an assumed identity to hide his inner "whore child" from his wife and competitive Madison Avenue colleagues. Don is unhappy with his life. He drinks Jack Daniels, chain smokes Lucky Strikes, cheats on his trophy wife Betty (January Jones), and constantly dreams of escaping his life. He is known to sneak away from work to see afternoon foreign movie matinees. Betty, a former model, represents the classic '50s homemaker, but suffers from profound loneliness, sexual frustration, and dissatisfaction with her "perfect" life. (In Season One, we learned that household appliances literally give her orgasms.) With aspirations of becoming the agency's first woman copywriter, Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss) was a new secretary at Sterling Cooper, who was unexpectedly confronted with an unwanted pregnancy. Italian bachelor, Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt), is Sterling Cooper's macho art director, a homosexual afraid to come out of the closet, and equally afraid to act on his sexual impulses.

Season Two premiered on July 27, 2008 and picks up on Valentine's Day, 1962, two years after the first season during the Kennedy administration, an era marked by the growing civil rights movement, Bob Dylan, free love, increasing feminine discontent, crumbling marriages, the threat of nuclear annihilation, Leave It to Beaver, and New York poet Frank O'Hara's ever-ominous 1957 message of mortality: Meditations in an Emergency. Much of Season One's comic edge is now gone, and the tone of the show is more melancholic. While Don and Betty Draper experience marital problems, enigmatic Don experiences a full-blown existential crises while away on a business trip to sunny Los Angeles. Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) becomes disillusioned with his own "perfect" marriage and realizes he is in love with Peggy (Moss). The series ends under the cloud of the looming Cuban Missile Crisis. Mad Men remains television at its best.

12/12/08 Update: Mad Men and Jon Hamm received Golden Globe nominations this week for Season Two of Mad Men.


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One of TV's best shows gets even better
Update (1/11/09): MAD MEN just won the Golden Globe for the second straight year for Best Drama. Well deserved.

Frankly, I'm pretty despondent about the future of quality TV on the major four networks. The recent cancellation by ABC of the breathtakingly brilliant PUSHING DAISIES was the first major blow. When a show this great can get cancelled for weak (not genuinely bad, merely weak) ratings, you feel that something has gone wrong with commercial television. For one thing, TV history is resplendent with shows that started off weakly and then succeeded a couple of years into their run. THE X-FILES, SEINFELD, THE OFFICE, and 30 ROCK all started off with weak ratings, only to build an audience later. The second horrific piece of news undermining my confidence in commercial TV was NBC's announcement that starting next year Jay Leno will get FIVE HOURS (!) of prime time for a more politically oriented version of his talk show. First, why would we want Leno when we already have Stewart and Colbert? Second, this means losing FIVE HOURS (!!!!) of scripted programming on NBC each week. This is a recipe for disaster. And an act of despair. NBC clearly doesn't think it can produce 15 hours of quality TV a week, so it is trying to produce only 10 and then take the super cheap option with Leno. NBC, I have news for you: you get what you pay for.

MAD MEN could well be the model for successful quality TV shows in the future. Although it gets very low ratings, on AMC it is safe from cancellation because of its widespread critical acclaim. More and more, niche cable networks seem to be the place where quality TV series manage to thrive and avoid the constant threat of cancellation. AMC in fact has two superb series, MAD MEN and the very promising BREAKING BAD (which was seriously truncated by the writers' strike last year) and they've announced a new Sci-fi series based upon Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, about the settling of colonies on Mars. The series is taking its title from the first of Robinson's novels, RED MARS.

So, while I'm on the verge of giving up on ABC, NBC, and FOX (though under new head of programming Kevin Reilly its shows have become more interesting and he has so far resisted to kill shows prematurely as his predecessors did). CBS I gave up on years ago, since the network seems content to churn out an endless number of bland police procedurals. AMC, F/X, Showtime, HBO, ABC Family, the Sci Fi Channel, and similar networks may be where we all go in the future for the best shows.

MAD MEN became the first show not on one of the big four networks or HBO to win the Emmy for Best Drama this past summer. It will almost certainly win again this coming summer, since Season Two was even better than Season One. Moreover, during Season Two the show started building a buzz, culminating with a great appearance by Jon Hamm on SNL, including a skit with some of his MAD MEN guest stars. The show became part of our cultural sensibility, inspiring magazine photo spreads. I still think the show is one that people tend to know about rather than know. Thankfully people who do not have access to AMC can catch up on DVD (I watch it as it comes out, but my cable company shows AMC in low-def rather than high-def, so much of the show's physical beauty can only be recaptured on DVD or Blu-ray).

As good as the show was in Season Two, the sophomore season was even more brilliant. In my review of Season One, I mentioned that Jon Hamm's character Don Draper exemplifies Thoreau's statement that most people live "lives of quiet desperation." In Season Two, Hamm and his carefully constructed existence gradually begins coming apart at the seams. His Stepford Wife Betty begins to come apart at more than the seams. I really enjoyed January Jones in Season One, but primarily she was a beautiful manikin. In Season Two the human being inside is psychically rebelling against the roles she is being forced to play and the result is someone who is on the verge of collapse. One scene in particular was compelling. As she prepares for a dinner party she notices that one of the dining room chairs is wobbly. Moving the chair back and forth gives way to anger, as she displaces the stress of her life onto the chair and she begins to destroy and obliterate it. Indeed, the many moments where Betty loses control are among the season's finest.

January Jones's amazing performance as Betty gets a bit less acclaim than she deserves in part because of Elizabeth Moss's job as Peggy Olson. I think many people watching MAD MEN began in Season Two to realize that Peggy, as much as Don Draper, was central to the meaning of the show. I have very little evidence for this, but I believe that the show will end with Peggy Olson heading Sterling Cooper. The show started with her first day as an employee of the company, working as Don Draper's secretary. We've seen her become a successful copywriter for the company and at the end of Season Two even has the office next to Don's. I believe that a logical ending of the series, mapping al the changes that took place in national sensibilities in the sixties, would be for Peggy to become head of the company that at the start of the year was so completely male dominated. This does not mean, however, that Peggy's personal life has kept pace with her professional life. In fact, Peggy remains a bit of a mess. The season did end, however, with perhaps the best scene in the entire run of the show so far. Peter tells Peggy that he hates his marriage and that he loves her. Shockingly, Peggy tells him that she had had his baby and given it away. My feeling was that in telling Peter she was not trying to be cruel so much as she was trying to definitively close the door on one part of her life and open another. Peggy is one of the most wonderfully complex characters on TV. While Don Draper has artfully created a public self, Peggy has not. She has primarily resisted the roles that people have tried to provide for her. She has not yet become her own person, but you feel that she might. I also find her and Don Draper's relationship to be delightful. They are not close friends or perhaps not even friends. But a flashback in which Don visits her in the hospital when she is suffering from post-partum depression (intensified by the fact that she didn't even know she was pregnant) and essentially orders her to get her act together and get out of the hospital. Don is not always presented as a good person, but he has his moments, and the tough love he gives Peggy at the moment helps her turn her life around.

I mention Don, Betty, and Peggy, but one of the delights of MAD MEN is the very deep cast of characters. Joan Holloway (played by the beautiful Christina Hendricks) has a new fiancé, but it doesn't appear to be the healthiest of relationships (one of the most shocking moments in Season Two occurs when he rapes her in Sterling Cooper offices). The deeply closeted Salvatore starts gradually to confront his own sexuality and his attraction to men, including a coworker, while his "beard" marriage struggles. Roger Sterling struggles to overcome health problems in order to marry a much, much younger woman.

But at the heart of the show Don Draper remains the dominant character. Jon Hamm's performance as Don has been brilliant from the very beginning. On "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" series creator Matthew Weiner explained that Hamm instantly stood out in auditions, but the network wanted an established actor in the role. They were adamant that they did not want an unknown actor in the show's central role. Weiner finally issued an ultimatum, that without Jon Hamm as Don Draper, he was unwilling to proceed with the series. Weiner's wisdom in casting Hamm has been proven many times over. It is almost impossible to imagine this show without him. Don is one of the most artificial and complex characters in the history of TV. Just as he creates ad campaigns, so he has created the persona Don Draper. Season Two shows Draper having serious doubts about whether he wants to persist in playing the character he has created for himself.

I read a bit over a year ago that the plan for the show was to move a couple of years into the future with each ensuing season. If so, Season Three should pick up sometime past the Kennedy assassination, perhaps with the early part of the Vietnam War. Clearly the show intends to reflect the enormous social upheaval that took place in the decade. It also represents many of the now almost comic aspects of the pre-sixties world. For instance, in one scene Don, Betty, and their kids are enjoying a picnic on a blanket in a lovely country locale. As they finish, Don stands up and shakes all of their trash off the blanket and onto the ground. This was very definitely before Lady Bird Johnson's attempt to beautify America by picking up trash. I'm sure that Season Three will show many new changes.

This is easily one of the 3 or 4 best shows on TV. I put it up there with my own favorites PUSHING DAISIES, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and LOST. Notice that of those shows PUSHING DAISIES was on ABC and has been cancelled, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was on DirecTV in the fall and will be on NBC in the winter and spring, and LOST begins its penultimate season on ABC. I think in the future fewer and fewer of my favorite shows will be originating on the big four. AMC, with MAD MEN leading the way, is one of the last, best hopes for television

The Times They Are A Changin'
The second season of this AMC series is in story/character sense a lot like the second season of Sopranos was for itself. This season spends it's thirteen episodes expanding upon what has already been established at the same time as it balances sudden new story devices and taking things to their next logical (or sometimes illiogical based on the character) extensions. I found it very enjoyable and while it may not be a full reflection of life in the sixies it truly shows the aspects that it aspires to quite well and shows flawed characters who are full of unfortunate parallels with people in the world today.

This is a show that is telling a specific story while exploring specific character's in an attempt to disect certain issues within our world today. I look at this show as a reflection of recent times, the issue of never being happy with what you have and looking for happiness in the wrong places and feeling lost and unsure of your place in the world is something I see a lot of people dealing with in the world around me. The setting of the sixties is almost the perfect era to pair with such seemingly lost and depressed character's because of it's ironic nature at the same time as the literal sense of reinvention and change that occured in that time.

I feel the first season did a fantastic job of setting up this series. The second season acheived it's goal of expanding, elaborating and extending upon the world and character's we were introduced to. The third season is set up, like most shows, to take the best from the first and second seasons and finally show us a complete vision of the show without being tied down by these mandatory practices.

The second season contains the following 13 Episodes:

1 For Those Who Think Young
2 Flight 1
3 The Benefactor
4 Three Sundays
5 The New Girl
6 Maidenform
7 The Gold Violin
8 A Night to Remember
9 Sixth Month Leave
10 The Inheritance
11 The Jet Set
12 The Mountain King
13 Meditations in an Emergency

This DVD release will be a 4-disc set presented in Anamorphic Widescreen Video, English Dolby 5.1 Audio, with Subtitles in English & Spanish along with closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

The Packaging for both the DVD and Blu-Ray is described as being "available as a limited-edition sleek shirt box with see through window".

Special Features Announced So Far Include:

-Audio Commentaries With Cast & Crew on all 13 Episodes
-"Birth Of An Independent Woman Parts 1 & 2" - Featurette examining the rise of female independence in the 60's.
-"An Era Of Style" - Featurette exploring the fashion of the 1960's and it's lasting influence on designer's today.
-"Time Capsule" - Interactive featurettes paying homage to historic events on the 1960's and the daring generation that lived through them.

I will update my review when/if any more special features or information are given closer to July, when this will be released. I will also update my review when I have actually seen the special features on the set, but for now I have seen these episodes and think there is a lot to be found here for those interested and on top of that this show looks beautiful. Thanks For Your Time.

*Rather than further clutter up this review page I have included a list of short non spoiler giving episode descriptions in my comments section for those interested.

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True Blood: The Complete First Season

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True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)

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TRUE BLOOD chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps... where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin, Golden Globe(R)-winner for "True Blood", Academy Award®-winner for “The Piano”) works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte's. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Her situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron - 173-year old Bill Compton (Steven Moyer, "Quills") - and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other. Delivering the best of what audiences have come to expect from Creator and Executive Producer Alan Ball (writer of Oscar®-winning Best Picture “American Beauty”, creator of the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® series “Six Feet Under”), TRUE BLOOD is a dark and sexy tale that boldly delves into the heart - and the neck - of the Deep South.

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• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
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• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 720 minutes

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Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, speaks volumes about America’s willingness to accept fantasy. Of course, television has always produced good fantasy shows (I Dream of Jeannie), but True Blood’s Southern Goth brand of fun horror is more macabre and more perverse, not to mention gorier, than most shows of its kind to date. Adapted from Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, True Blood thrills because of its equal blend in each episode of erotica, humor, tragedy, mystery, and fantasy.

Set in a rural, swampy Louisiana parrish, the show centers around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her clan, sweet grandmother Adele (Lois Smith) and air-headed brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Illicit love is spawned early on, when Sookie saves vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) from having his blood stolen in the parking lot of Merlotte’s diner, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell) who completes what will form a complex love triangle. As tensions between Sookie’s suitors loosen or tighten, many side plots, such as her African American best friend Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) struggle with an alcoholic, Bible-thumping mother and her brother’s dangerous crush on drug addicted hippie, Amy Burley (Lizzy Caplan), keep one wondering who will succeed in this podunk place. The main tension throughout, however, is a race war waged between vampires and humans. As murders of “fang bangers” occur (human girls who let vampires bite them) and dumb policeman Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) fails to find clues, one sees the metaphorical implications of vampirism and feels deeper resonance with what can be a downright trashy show. Gossip galore, especially about what kinds of babies interbreeding will produce, is rampant. One of the funniest characters is Tara’s flamboyant cousin, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), who deals drugs, works as a fry cook, and services the local white politicians, while making sure he’s always up in everyone’s business.

What makes True Blood smarter than pure soap opera is the parallels it draws between its monster mash and actual, familiar societal problems. Sookie and her friends watch the news, where Evangelicals bash vampires and prohibit mixed marriage, and everyone is addicted to V, a.k.a vampire blood, that effects like psychedelic heroin. Even its gore reflects a mix of serious and silly, as vampires explode into red, sticky goop. Though it may not be attempting to qualify for the best vampire footage ever shot, True Blood is as addictive as that substance the town’s youth obsesses over, which is a metaphor in itself. --Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews

Sadly Disappointed
I have to say that I LOVE the book series and have read all of the ones written so far. I cannot believe how awful the HBO series based on the books is. I was so excited about the TV series based on the books but, I am sad to say I was so disappointed. They took a great book series and turned it into a smutty, foul-mouthed TV show. They have characters in the show that I do not even recall being in the books. I usually never write reviews for things but, I felt I just had to leave one on this series. The books are so good and I cannot believe that Charlaine Harris would want her books portrayed in this manner. I guess she is not bothered by it. I wish that I could get my money back on the DVD's. I will continue to read her books because she is such a good author but, I will just use my imagination and not watch the series. My imagination is better.

Freaken AWESOMENESS!
My 1st purchase through Amazon and it went smoothly. I pre-ordered and they shipped in advance. got it 3 days ahead of schedule, on the release date. Great thing to come home to after a hard days work. :) I followed this show when it 1st aired last fall. If you are interested in another take in vamp history (so-to-speak) then you'll enjoy this show. All the characters are great and played very well by the actors. Can't wait to start season 2!! :D

HOOOOO SOOKIE!
MY GOSH! WHAT HAVE WE HERE? I LOVE IT! MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE READ ALL OF THE BOOKS, WATCHED ALL THE EPISODES, AND HAVE PRE-ORDERED THE NEXT BOOK OUT IN OCTOBER 2009. WE HAVE TURNED FRIENDS AND FAMILY ONTO TRUE BLOOD / THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE NOVELS.

THE MYSTERY, THE FANTASY, IT IS TOTALLY CAPTIVATING. THERE IS NOT ANY "ONE PARTICULAR" FAVORITE YOU CAN PICK BECAUSE EACH CHARACTER IS TRUE UNTO THEMSELF. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH IN THE BOOKS TO THE SERIES IS NO MAJOR DEAL. I CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR THE STORY TO RESUME.

I WAS A FAN OF SIX FEET UNDER AND I DO BELIEVE MR BALL HAS HIT AOTHER HOME RUN!

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Best DVDs of February 2009: "Let The Right One In"

by Craig Downing on January 29, 2009

What it is: Let The Right One In is not just a vampire movie. This mood-setting movie is about friendship, youth and relationships. And, yes, friendship, youth and relationships do get a little complicated when you are a 300 year old vampire in a 12 year old's body. Based on the best-selling Swedish book, Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let Me In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, this movie slowly infects you with a mood and tone that makes it nearly impossible to simply catalog the movie as a vampire movie. The film has been knocking audiences dead after winning many awards on the film fest circuit including Best Narrative Feature (Tribeca Film Festival). Overall, the film masterfully balances the dynamics of the darker side of vampires within a modern and realistic setting.

Why It is Significant: The movie is significant for its ability to hold you in a mood for the entire length of the movie. Let The Right One In exemplifies how a movie doesn’t have to be loud with rusty and bloody lawn mower blades to haunt your thoughts days after you leave the dark theater. In addition, there are minor plots within the story, each adding their own unbearable tension to the overall draw of the movie. Think you are beyond liking vampire movies? Me too. But, this movie had me wishing I could move to Sweden in order to befriend a strong vampire as my own personal wingman. And, hey, watch the movie now so when the American remake (directed by Matt Reeves) comes out in 2010 you can brag that you already saw the original Swedish version. -Craig



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The enduring popularity of the vampire myth rests, in part, on sexual magnetism. In Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson's carefully controlled, yet sympathetic take on John Ajvide Lindqvist's Swedish bestseller-turned-screenplay, the protagonists are pre-teens, unlike the fully-formed night crawlers of HBO’s True Blood or Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight (both also based on popular novels). Instead, 12-year-old Oskar (future heartbreaker Kåre Hedebrant) and Eli (Lina Leandersson) enter into a deadly form of puppy love. The product of divorce, Oskar lives with his harried mother, while his new neighbor resides with a mystery man named Håkan (Per Ragnar), who takes care of her unique dietary needs. From the wintery moment in 1982 that the lonely, towheaded boy spots the strange, dark-haired girl skulking around their outer-Stockholm tenement, he senses a kindred spirit. They bond, innocently enough, over a Rubik's Cube, but little does Oskar realize that Eli has been 12 for a very long time. Meanwhile, at school, bullies torment the pale and morbid student mercilessly. Through his friendship with Eli, Oskar doesn't just learn how to defend himself, but to become a sort of predator himself, begging the question as to whether Eli really exists or whether she represents a manifestation of his pent-up anger and resentment. Naturally, the international success of Lindqvist's fifth feature, like Norway's chilling Insomnia before it, has inspired an American remake, which is sure to boast superior special effects, but can't possibly capture the delicate balance he strikes here between the tender and the terrible. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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#1: Sex and the City - The Movie (Special Edition)

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* Released on: 2008-09-23
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#2: The Tracy Anderson Method Presents Mat Workout DVD
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After working for 10 years to develop my method, I have turned down every opportunity to have it reach the masses - until now. I have figured out an effective way to take everyone on the life-changing journey that my method has to offer. This DVD will help you get the kind of results that I know you never thought were possible. My Dance Cardio DVD is a follow up to last year's Dance Aerobics DVD and it is full of new combinations. It features a break down section so that you can learn the routines at your own pace and you will have the exciting option of following me from the back just as if you were in the class with me. Dance Cardio is the perfect complement to the muscular structure work of the Mat Workout DVD. Take the time to get good at the moves featured in these DVDs and they will be all that you need to be on your way to a life free from wondering if you are doing the "right" exercise to get the body you want.

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#4: Iron Man (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition) [Blu-ray]

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• Released on: 2008-09-30
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#5: Iron Man (Two-Disc Special Collectors' Edition)

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Suit up for action with Robert Downey Jr. in the ultimate adventure movie you’ve been waiting for, Iron Man! When jet-setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now, he’s on a mission to save the world as a hero who’s built, not born, to be unlike any other. Co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, it’s a fantastic, high-flying journey that is "hugely entertaining" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

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#6: Grey's The Complete Fourth Season
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Enter a world of change in the irresistible and unforgettable fourth season of one of television's most acclaimed dramas. Love lies and family ties are revealed as the surgeons of Seattle Grace discover that their choices have major unintended consequences. And coupled with the arrival of some very eager new interns life at the hospital sizzles with more emotion excitement and heartbreak than ever before. Get an extra dose of GREY'S ANATOMY in this comprehensive 5-disc DVD box set complete with never-before-seen extended episodes and exclusive bonus features that take you inside the world of your favorite doctors. From the very first minute you'll be hooked on TV's most talked about show.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 786936754193 Manufacturer No: 05636400

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#7: The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]
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#8: The Office: Season Four
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Steve Carell (Get Smart) returns in his Golden Globe®-winning role of “The World’s Greatest Boss,” Michael Scott, in Season Four of the hit comedy series The Office! This must-own four-disc set includes every irreverent episode from Season Four, including the five extended full TV-hour specials, plus hours of hilarious deleted scenes and bonus features! Rejoin Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) as they bring romance to the workplace, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) as he continues his quest to be Michael’s right-hand man, and newly deemed “Wunderkind” Ryan (B.J. Novak), who’s working to drag Dunder Mifflin into the digital age. Developed for American TV by Primetime Emmy® Award winner Greg Daniels (King of the Hill, The Simpsons), The Office is the intelligent and edgy Primetime Emmy® Award-winning series that critics are hailing as “the funniest show on TV” (Gavin Edwards, Rolling Stone). You’ll enjoy the inappropriate remarks, uncomfortable silences and petty behavior again and again!

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#9: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3
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#10: Smallville - The Complete Seventh Season
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