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         <title>A Common Man (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60412</link>
         <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:26:38 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60412"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00BLN4UJM.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>In the wake of the attacks in Boston a couple of weeks ago, a movie that presents a man threatening to blow up several public places as an intriguing figure is probably not going to be well-received, but <em>A Common Man</em> is a poor thriller even aside from its case of bad timing. From logos to credits, the film is the definition of "by the book," with the only deviations from time-tested formula being the unnatural cadence that occasionally infects the performances or the dialogue.<p>Ben Kingsley plays the common man in the title, a normal-looking fellow who drops duffel bags on a bus, on a commuter train, in a shopping mall, and even in a police station. He then returns to a rooftop control center, where he sits in front of a tiny television and a series of cell phones, and politely informs the Deputy Inspector General (Ben Cross) that they have until six sharp to comply with his demand to release...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60412">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Pawn (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 16:38:57 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60101"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00B6OEEQ0.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><div align="center"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 735px"><tr><td align="left"><div style="width: 735px"><div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0)"><div style="padding: 15px"><center><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/76/full/1367714235_1.jpg" border=2></center><font size=2><p>David Armstrong's <i>Pawn</i> (2013) treads familiar territory...but more often than not, it stands out where it should fall back.  Our story revolves around a late-night diner robbery: captained by "The Brit" (Michael Chiklis), our band of thugs quickly holds down the 24-hour restaurant in search of its safe contents.  Unfortunately for them, this safe is not only on a time lock, but a police officer (Forest Whitaker) drops in for a bite.  Soon enough, blood is shed, a tense hostage situation ensues and the criminal motivations eventually make themselves known.  Though not w...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60101">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Silver Linings Playbook (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59817</link>
         <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 06:08:00 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59817"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00A81NFAS.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><P><center>Reviewed by Glenn Erickson</center></P><P><b><i>Silver Linings Playbook</i></b> is funny, entertaining and quite captivating thanks to the presence of Jennifer Lawrence. The film also makes Bipolar Disorder look like a sure path to true love and happiness. It's about getting our feelings out in the open, you know? Our afflicted young hero Pat (Bradley Cooper) is unpredictable in action and speech. When not blurting out something offensive, he's on a wild emotional jag, waking up the whole neigborhood in the middle of the night. Lots of Manic but not really any Depression. Pat's affliction has cost him his teaching job, his house and his marriage. He's determined to get them all back, even though he's still acting like a madman and has vowed to circumvent the restraining order lodged against him by his estranged wife. Apparently this is the new norm for America -- if an individual isn't deran...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59817">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Down the Shore (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:14:23 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59925"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00B6OEDY8.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b><br><p>The members of the vaunted HBO show <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/35607/sopranos-the-complete-series-the/">The Sopranos</a> have tackled post-show projects to varying degrees of success. Yet for an odd reason while watching <I>Down The Shore</I> I felt at the time as if this were an oddly eclectic sequel for one of the characters. Once I got past it, I was pleasantly surprised.</P><p>Written by Sandra Jennings (her first feature film screenplay) and directed by Harold Guskin in his directing debut, the main character in this film is Bailey (James Gandolfini, <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/59662/killing-them-softly/">Killing Them Softly</a>). Bailey runs a small amusement park on the New Jersey shore. He lives next door to Mary (Famke Janssen, <a href=" http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/37057/x2-x-men-united/">X2</a>) whom he has known since they were both kids an...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59925">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>The Trouble With Bliss</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:15:20 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58685"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009WHDCAW.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>The tagline for <em>The Trouble With Bliss</em> promises "a comedic coming-of-age tale about a guy who should have come of age a long time ago." There was a time before the influence of Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow when that might've been an unremarkable pitch, but every other comedy out there seems to be about a guy, somewhere between 25 and 35, waiting for his life to blossom into something more than the menial existence they've been eking out for too long. Despite a talented cast, this is one of those "popular idea" conundrums: a movie that was likely financed because these kinds of "arrested development" comedies are currently successful, yet one that doesn't have any reason to exist in a marketplace full of similar movies.<p>The <em>Bliss</em> in the title belongs to Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), a 35-year-old layabout still living at home with his grumpy, widowed father, Seymour (Peter Fonda). M...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58685">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Dragon (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60307</link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:06:32 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60307"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00B6OEFPK.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b>The Movie:</b></p><p>Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, <i>Dragon</i> (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was <i>Wu-Xia</i>) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He's lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are raising two kids and they seem to lead a quiet, idyllic life together. This changes when, seemingly completely by chance, Jin-xi stops a pair of bandits who attempt to rob a store. When he kills them in the ensuing brawl, he's looked upon by the townsfolk as a hero but Detective Xu Baijiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) wonders if what seems to have been nothing more than luck on the part of Jin-xi might actually be an indicator that he's not who he says he is.</p><p>Ever suspicious, Baijiu starts to obsess o...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=60307">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:13:55 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59717"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00AHREQMY.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Show:</b><br> British detective show <i>Thorne</i> has points that work quite well for it, and points that tend to drag it down. On the plus side, and as I've said many times before, the British have a particular gift for television detective drama, and that gift finds a particularly well executed expression here. On the minus side, the jaded, damaged detective who "doesn't play by the rules" has sort of been done to death, and when coupled with a dearth of likeable characters, as in <i>Thorne</i>, it can make viewing a bit of a slog.<p> David Morrissey plays the eponymous detective Tom Thorne, and he's a brooding, driven man, who doesn't mind a bit of strong arming, skirting the rules and violation of procedure if that's what it takes to snag the bad guy. And in the two stories included on this release, separated into six episodes, they are most definitely very bad fellows. In <i>Sleepyhead</i>...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59717">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Killing Them Softly (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:08:52 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59662"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009AMALBM.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b>THE MOVIE:</b><br><p><font size=1><i>Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included with this release, not the Blu-ray edition under review.</i></font><p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/177/1363574358_3.png" width="400" height="225"><p>Damn, it's hard to be a gangster. Particularly in this economy. Don't be fooled. When your wallet's empty, the bad guys are feeling the pinch, too. <p>Or so we come to learn in <i>Killing Them Softly</i>, the latest feature from Andrew Dominik, the long-awaited follow-up to his masterful <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/30950/assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford-the/?___rd=1"><i>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</i></a>. The writer/director is working from a novel by author George V. Higgins here. Higgins also wrote the source material ...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59662">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>This Must Be the Place (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59777</link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:41:02 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59777"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00ATP24YQ.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>To see Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is to get a sense of his emotional state: a mass of wild black hair surrounds a pale face, with large expressive eyes and an attention-grabbing strip of dark red lipstick in the center. In the 1970s, he fronted the popular rock band Cheyenne and the Fellows, jamming with Mick Jagger and David Byrne, only to abruptly disband the group in the 1980s and move to Ireland, where he lives like a recluse, barely leaving the massive mansion he shares with his wife, Jane (Frances MCDormand). Despite offers from musicians and the music industry, Cheyenne is determined to remain in the personal funk he's occupied for nearly thirty years, but the death of his father brings him back to America, where he goes on a strange and unexpected mission of revenge.<p>What's most impressive about <em>This Must Be the Place</em> is how deftly Italian director / writer Paolo Sorrentino takes the key e...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59777">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Girls Against Boys (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:13:08 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59984"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00AFEYF4S.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b><br> <i>Girls Against Boys</i> is another revenge drama, though following a somewhat different path than most, and quite muted in its way. Technically, it's near perfect, but this perhaps contributes to the fact that the tale itself seems a bit anemic.<p> Shae (Danielle Panabaker) is having a bit of a bad weekend. Her married boyfriend Terry (Andrew Howard) has just dumped her to go back to his wife. When she goes out on the town with new friend Lu (Nicole LaLiberte), they have a few drinks, dance a few dances, and meet a few nice seeming boys. Later that night, one of those nice boys sexually assaults Shae in the hallway outside of her apartment. And no one seems to care. Her mother can't tear away from meetings and business long enough to hear about her daughter's troubles. The police are nonchalant, bored and suspicious. Terry just sees her request for help as an invitation to have ...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59984">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Lay the Favorite (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59569</link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:48:35 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59569"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00ATP24XC.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>With an industry cranking out more product faster than ever, "middle class" cinema has all but disappeared, Between the major blockbusters and studio "independents," there used to be a range of $20 and $30m comedies and dramas to help round out a studio's release schedule, but these days such films are generally doomed to a DVD premiere, despite a cast and crew that would've warranted a theatrical release and the whole Hollywood marketing machine just five years ago. At the same time, the likely fate of these films creates a "distracted driver" mentality where all the talent involved is on autopilot, picking up a job to pay the bills while they wait for bigger things to roll.<p><em>Lay the Favorite</em>, adapted from Beth Raymer's memoir, is one of those movies. The film was directed by Stephen Frears and adapted for the screen by D.V. DeVincentis, who previously collaborated with John Cusack on <em>Hi...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59569">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Girls Against Boys (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:38:27 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59400"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00AFEYF4S.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>Shae <span style="font-size:11px">(Danielle Panabaker)</span> is still reeling after getting dumped by her middle-aged and more-than-a-little-bit married boyfriend, so she does what any other rational twentysomething-year-old woman would do: girls' night out!  It seems like it's going <table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="475" align="left"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('../girlsagainstboys/2.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/girlsagainstboys/2.jpg" width="475" height="267" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px"><span style="font...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59400">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:32:12 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59645"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008220DIC.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><div align="center"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 735px"><tr><td align="left"><div style="width: 735px"><div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0)"><div style="padding: 15px"><center><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/76/full/1360270536_1.jpg" border=2></center><font size=2><p>Throughout his career---and increasingly since 1999's <i>Magnolia</i>---director Paul Thomas Anderson's films have been hard to pin down.  2007's striking <i>There Will Be Blood</i> (reviewed on <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33594/there-will-be-blood/" target="blank">Blu-Ray</a> and <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/32809/there-will-be-blood-2-disc-collectors-edition/" target="blank">DVD</a>) depicted a self-absorbed man and his pursuit of petroleum and profit.  This man, Daniel Plainview, is resentful of a young pastor's spiritual advances and leads a desolat...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59645">Read the entire review</a></p>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59048"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00ADRYE6Q.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b>The Movie:</b></p><p>Directed by stuntman Jesse V. Johnson, 2012's <i>The Package</i> stars 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin as Tommy Wick, an enforcer for a loan shark named Big Doug (Eric Keenleyside). When we first meet him, he and his partner arrive at a bowling alley where they shake down a guy named Luis who owes Doug some money - they've already given him an extension, it's time to pay up. Tommy makes this very clear to Luis by pushing his face into the ball return just as a bowling ball flies up the tunnel and breaks his nose.</p><p>From there, Doug gives Tommy his next mission: he's to deliver a package from Seattle to British Columbia to The German (Dolph Lundgren). He's not to open this package, he's only to deliver it and if he does this four Doug, the aging mobster will forgive the sizeable debt owed to him by Tommy's younger incarcerated brother. Tommy agrees, goes home and makes love to h...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59048">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Snowmageddon (Blu-ray)</title>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57748"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B0090EDEIC.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b><br><p>As of this writing, while my area has yet to experience a really good snowfall this winter, the Northeast is bracing itself to get absolutely slammed by a storm that threatens to dump almost three feet of snow on it, to be complemented by high winds and low visibility. Such storms are given silly nicknames, like "Snowpocalypse," "Thundersnow" or "Nemo." And since I could not bring a truckload of snow to my area, with the SyFy TV movie <I>Snowmageddon</I>, at least I could try to do it artificially.</p><p>The film is written by Rudy Thauberger, who continued to scratch the 'winter disaster' itch later with a movie called <I>The 12 Disasters of Christmas</I>. It is directed by Sheldon Wilson, who has directed several other similar movies for the network. Set in Alaska, we have Beth (Laura Harris, <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/36507/dead-like-me-the-complete-collection/">...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57748">Read the entire review</a></p>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59236"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00ADRYEOI.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>Russell <span style="font-size:11px">(Taylor Piedmonte)</span> comes to in a cemetery.  He doesn't know where he is or what's going on, exactly, but that clumsily-fitting suit, the ridiculous necktie, these leather gloves...that's not what he was wearing at that low-rent horror convention or the oddball afterparty last night.  <table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="475" align="left"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('1360282628_2.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/full/1360282628_1.jpg" width="475" height="196" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59236">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59053</link>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59053"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00AF4OSJ0.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b><br><p>The funny thing about the timing of seeing <I>Undefeated</I> for the first time for me was that it was in the middle of me experiencing the show <I>Friday Night Lights</I> for the first time, specifically the show's <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/45353/friday-night-lights-the-fourth-season/">fourth season</a>, which gives us the show's star, a football coach who takes over a barren high school and tries to take a barebones group of kids and shapes them to be football players. So to a degree I was prepared for <I>Undefeated</I>, but I had no earthly idea what would come from this.</p><p>The film is directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin, who last worked together on a documentary chronicling a World Series of Beer Pong (which both intrigues me and makes me envious). Lindsay and Martin use Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee, as their setting. The school h...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59053">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58658</link>
         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:48:25 PST</pubDate>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59167</link>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59167"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009WHDCI4.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>There are those out there, not an insignificant number, who positively loathe Jerry Lewis. For them the iconic postwar comedian is insufferably self-absorbed, that he symbolizes a bygone era of show business excess at its tackiest, that his comedies are indulgent and unfocused, and that in public his comments, particularly during his long stint as host of the annual MDA Telethon, were frequently cringe inducing. <p>I'm an admirer of Jerry Lewis yet concede all of these points, though I'd also argue these facets of Lewis's character are partly what makes him so utterly fascinating. But Lewis's detractors and even many of his fans aren't aware of or appreciate the magnitude of his influence and how far-reaching his innumerable achievements are. With and without one-time partner Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis was one of the most phenomenally popular performers of the last century. Before Beatlemania there was J...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59167">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58704</link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:22:41 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58704"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009YQMMWK.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b><br><p>The filmography of Stephen Dorff has been a curious one to me. Ever since he was Cliff Spab in 1994's <I>S.F.W.</I>, it seemed to me like he was being groomed for a larger spot in the acting landscape, though he never broke the way I was expecting him to. And now he is apparently in commercials for electronic cigarettes? OK. But when he does a movie, he does manage to bring in some familiar faces to a production, if his latest vehicle <I>Officer Down</I> is any indication.</p><p>Written by John Chase and directed by Brian Miller (<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/49620/house-of-the-rising-sun/">House of the Rising Sun</a>), Dorff plays David Callahan, a Bridgeport, Connecticut police detective. He is married to Alexandra (Elisabeth Rohm, <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/32115/angel-complete-series-collectors-set/">Angel</a>) and has a teenaged daughter, but he also ...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58704">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:40:31 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58650"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009IV2Z3M.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><i>Ho Ho Ho</i>ld the phone while I get my axe.  Anchor Bay Entertainment has released <b>Silent Night, Deadly Night:  Christmas Survival Double Feature</b>, featuring 1984's notorious <b>Silent Night, Deadly Night</b> from TriStar and director Charles E. Sellier, Jr. (<i>yes</i>...that same Charles E. Sellier, Jr. from family-friendly Schick-Sunn Classic Films), and the <i>now</I> notorious ("<i>Garbage day!</i>") sequel, <b>Silent Night, Deadly Night:  Part 2</b>, from 1987.  Parents and teachers and politicians <i>really</i> got ticked off back in 1984 at the notion of a serial killer dressing up as Santa...but within three short years when the sequel came out, nobody cared anymore.  Plenty of extras and nice transfers (all holdovers from Anchor's previous 2003 release of this double-header) make this a buy for newcomers who like their mayhem with a dash of Yuletide cheer.  Let's look briefly at ...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58650">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58428</link>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58428"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009IV2ZCI.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="650"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('../silentnight/4.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/silentnight/4.jpg" width="650" height="267" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px"><span style="font-size:9px">[click on the thumbnail to enlarge]</span></td></tr></table></div>I know, right?  Killer Santa with a Flamethrower: it's like someone caught a sneak peek at my Christmas list or something.  <i>Silent Night</i> is a throwback to the '80s slashers I grew up with, and that makes s...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58428">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58489</link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:23:36 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58489"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009IV2ZAA.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>In 10 Words or Less</b><br>Controversy in the world of competitive butter carving <p><center><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/103/full/1354159414_2.jpg" width="800" height="450"></center><p><b>Reviewer's Bias*</b><br><b>Loves: </b>Dark comedies, Ty Burrell, Kristen Schaal<br><b>Likes: </b>Jennifer Garner, Rob Corddry<br><b>Dislikes: </b>Kids who act like adults<br><b>Hates: </b>Striving conservatives<br><p><b>The Movie</b><br>I had been dying to see <i>Butter</i> since I first got a look at the cast list. Bringing together <i>Modern Family</i>'s Ty Burrell, Kristen Schaal, Rob Corddry, Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman and Olivia Wilde for a movie set my expectations quite high. That the story would be about the behind-the-scenes machinations of a butter-carving contest in a tiny Iowa town made it a must-see. As an unabashed east-coast liberal, I can't get enough of movies that po...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58489">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58327</link>
         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:17:16 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58327"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B009369Z8A.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b><u>THE FILM:</b></u></p><p><center><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/274/full/1353364664_2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/274/full/1353364664_2.jpg" style="border: 0px solid ; width: 725px; height: 408px;"></a></center></p><p><center><b><i>Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.</b></i></center></p><p>Director John Hillcoat reteams with screenwriter and musician Nick Cave for this prohibition-era tale of bootlegging set in Franklin County, Virginia; the wettest county in the world.  Adapted from Matt Bondurant's novel about his grandfather and great-uncles, <i>Lawless</i> streamlines its source and follows Bondurant brothers Jack, Howard and Forrest as they grow a moonshine business under constant threat from outside competitors and the law.  Hillcoat and Cave again create an exquisitely staged and ...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58327">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58317</link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:32:42 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58317"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008WCP2HE.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b><u>THE FILM:</b></u></p><p><center><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/274/1353029471_1.jpg" width="400" height="200"></center></p><p>Post-apocalyptic genre films would litter video store shelves if any still existed.  <i>The Day</i> is one of the latest, and is as generic as its title.  It's a bit unfair to compare this low-budget Canadian thriller with superior films like <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/42751/road-the/"><i>The Road</i></a> and <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31268/28-days-later/"><i>28 Days Later</i></a>, but the market provides better alternatives in both film and on television with shows like "The Walking Dead."  <i>The Day</i> isn't a zombie film, but it does follow a band of survivors as they traverse a desolated landscape looking for food and shelter while avoiding hostile forces.  Notable for being the first release by WWE Studios witho...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58317">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57277</link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:30:36 PST</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57277"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008NNY8M2.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b><u>THE FILM:</b></u></p><p><center><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/274/full/1353029178_1.jpg" width="640" height="360"></center></p><p>The following should be enough to gauge your interest in seeing <i>Excision</i>: AnnaLynne McCord fantasizes about having sex with corpses; former adult film star Traci Lords displays surprising acting chops as her uptight mother; and John Waters, the king of trash cinema, shows up as a priest.  This crazy slice of celluloid is one of the weirdest films to hit Blu-ray this year, but <i>Excision</i> is a refreshingly malicious take on teenage angst.  Director Richard Bates Jr. crafts a boundary-pushing tale of suburban horror anchored by a committed McCord, who is nearly unrecognizable as troubled teenager Pauline.  <i>Excision</i> isn't for everyone, especially its bizarre sexual violence, but those up for its stomach-churning thrills are i...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57277">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57749</link>
         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:23:47 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57749"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B0090EDE00.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="650"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('../vamps/1.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/vamps/1.jpg" width="650" height="366" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px"><span style="font-size:9px">[click on the thumbnail to enlarge]</span></td></tr></table><br /><span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold">"You know how it is when you eat Chinese!  Half an hour later, you're hungry again!"</span></div><br>Yeah, I know, and that Thursday-night-on-TBS sense of humor is pretty much wh...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57749">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57289</link>
         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:19:08 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><p><b>THE MOVIE:</b><br> <p><font size=1><i>Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review.</i></font> <p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/177/1350877467_3.png" width="400" height="225"> <p>This might get me branded as some kind of sicko, but for a movie that apparently was almost rated NC-17, <i>Chained</i> is rather tame, at least in terms of onscreen gore. Lots of terrible things happen in the movie, but director Jennifer Lynch (<i>Boxing Helena</i>) shows a surprising level of restraint in an era when horror movies about sadists and torture demand ever-sickening depictions of violence. What is most violent in <i>Chained</i> is not the murders, but the mental games that one man plays on another, the damage that is inflicted on a child's psyche. <p>The film starts off building tension...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57289">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:28:19 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57410"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008NNY8TA.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="475" align="right"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('../247/3.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/247/3.jpg" width="475" height="196" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px"><span style="font-size:9px">[click on the thumbnail to enlarge]</span></td></tr></table><i>Frozen</i> in a sauna.<br><br>...wait, that didn't come out right.<br><br>In a lot of ways, <i>247&amp;deg;F</i> is a muddy reflection of <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/45771/frozen/">Adam Green's claustrophobic thriller</a> fro...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57410">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:39:19 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57443"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008NNY8UE.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>Ugh.  The whole point of this camping trip is to get away from it all...y'know, for family bonding time.  Instead, Sadie <span style="font-size:11px">(Allie MacDonald)</span> is kneedeep in the whole Cynical Teenager schtick, rolling her eyes at everything and hiding behind her earbuds.  Little <table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" style="margin:8px;background-color:#a4a4a4" width="475" align="right"><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><a style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" href="javascript:imgPopup('../barrens/4.png')"><span style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000"><img src="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/barrens/4.jpg" width="475" height="267" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000" border="1"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="color:#000000;border-color:#000000; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px"><span style="font-size:9...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57443">Read the entire review</a></p>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=54923"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B007CZ3HNI.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>When a child goes missing, Officer John Koski (Jon Voight) is the man to call. He has an affinity for abduction cases...and a somewhat loose sense of morality when it comes to making sure justice is served. His superior officer, Jack Musker (Dermot Mulroney), is usually there to take the heat in the interest of greater good, but it's clear that John's remaining days with the force are limited. With controversy hanging over his head, John takes on what may be his last case: the abduction of Amy (Chloe Leslie), a 7-year-old girl whose mother happens to be Jack's sister, Sarah (Teri Polo).<p>There aren't many places to go in the "tired cop takes one last case" or the "abducted child" crime genres. <I>Beyond</I>'s addition of a psychic to the formula is nothing particularly new (everything from <I>Minority Report</i> to "The Closer" has touched on this concept), but it does give the picture a tiny amount o...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=54923">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>The Victim (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:49:44 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58200"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008DL4LSU.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b> <p>(Not) Based on True Events... - With that caption we're underway in Michael Biehn's <em>The Victim</em>, which is a pseudo throwback to the 'grindhouse' era of films (but more like the recent crop) that tells the story of a young woman named Annie (Jennifer Blanc), who witnessed a murder committed by two crooked detectives. Annie is also a stripper by trade. Yeah, I just had to get that out there. Kyle (Michael Biehn) is a recluse who spends his days and nights held up in his cabin in the woods. His world along with hers will change forever when she makes that desperate move of knocking on his door for help. 'Of all the strip clubs, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.' Okay, Biehn really didn't say that, but that's the way it plays out. He's just minding his own business until Annie and her troubles come along and put him in the middle. <p>From that point on, K...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58200">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Bait 3D (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57013</link>
         <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:07:57 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57013"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B008DL4HXE.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b>The Movie:</b></p><p>Directed by Australian filmmaker Kimble Rendall and written by Russell Mulcahy and John Kim, <i>Bait</i> (or if you prefer, <i>Bait 3D</i>) begins with an opening scene in which a lifeguard named Josh (Xavier Samuel) is goofing around with his fianc , Tina (Sharni Vinson), the sister of his friend and fellow lifeguard, Rory (Richard Brancatisano). When Rory heads out into the surf to check on a buoy, he doesn't see the massive great white shark that has cruised on into the area and while Josh heads out on the Jet-Ski as quickly as he can in hopes of saving his friend, it's too little too late and Rory winds up as shark food.</p><p>Cut to a few years down the road and Josh is working in a supermarket and wouldn't you know it, Tina wanders in out of nowhere with her new man, Steven (Qi Yuwu). While this is going on, security guard Ryan (Alex Russell) gets fired by the store's o...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57013">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Breathless (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56539</link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:39:42 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56539"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B0085Z3AMM.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie:</b> <p>Take one part <em>Pulp Fiction</em>, one part <em>Curdled</em> (the hardcore fan base know what I'm talking about), insert some southern hospitality, mix it in a blender and hit puree. <em>Breathless</em> is what you've got. It's a drama, black comedy, and southern-noir tale all rolled up into one. <p>Lorna (Gina Gershon) is married to piece-of-crap-small-time-thief named Dale (Val Kilmer) who has committed a robbery and made off with $100,000 dollars and he's not sharing. Lorna beats him and ties him up. Tiny (Kelli Giddish) is Lorna's best friend and confidant and is there to help Lorna figure out what they're going to do with Dale. Ray Liotta is a nosy Sheriff that is on the lookout for Dale, so that complicates things even more. Actually, what complicates things even more is that Lorna and Tiny also have to dispose of a dead body. Not only do they have to dispose of a dead body...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56539">Read the entire review</a></p>
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         <title>Spartacus: Vengeance - The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray)</title>
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         <link>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56428</link>
         <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:58:15 PDT</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56428"><img src="http://images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B0072OFOM6.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Series:</b> <p>After triumph and tragedy, the <em>Spartacus</em> saga returns to the small screen to continue the tale of a former slave who has lost everything and will do whatever he can to exact vengeance on those that have done him wrong. <em>Spartacus: Vengeance</em> picks up after the events of the first season, which was called <em>Blood and Sand</em>. The show went into production, but had to be delayed due to Andy Whitfield's illness and subsequent death. Gears shifted and a prequel was created that follow the events that led up to <em>Blood and Sand</em> called <em>Gods of the Arena</em>, which introduced more characters that carried over into <em>Vengeance</em>. <p><em>Spartacus: Blood and Vengeance</em> picks up shortly after the events that culminated with the House of Batiatus massacre where Spartacus (Liam McIntyre) freed all of the gladiators and led them to revolt. He and his co...<a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56428">Read the entire review</a></p>
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