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 | | 16. Watchmen (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Billy Crudup Jackie Earle Haley Director: Zack Snyder | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/18/2009 |  | Watchmen - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/10/2009 4:48 PM | |
The year is 1985. The Cold War rages on. While serving his fifth consecutive term in the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon contemplates nuclear assault against an aggressive Soviet Union. Elsewhere, an egomaniacal villain unleashes a mysterious threat that promises to decimate several of the world's major cities. Help, meanwhile, is not on the way. The masked superheroes who used to protect our crumbling society are in exile, banned by Congress from practicing what's now believed to be vigilante justice. And our nation's top weapon -- a sky-blue, radioactive superbeing nicknamed Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) -- has fled to Mars following a fight with his longtime girlfriend. read the full review | |
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 | | 17. Watchmen (Blu-Ray + Digital Copy) | | | Starring: Billy Crudup Jackie Earle Haley Director: Zack Snyder | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 7/21/2009 |  | Watchmen - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Robert M. Barga - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 7/20/2009 5:10 PM | | It is 1985, America won that war in Vietnam, and Nixon has been elected to his third term. The city of New York is repugnant, with crime, prostitution, and drugs everywhere. In a high-rise in the city of lights, an old man is tossed out of his penthouse. He plummets to the ground, accepts his fate, and dies. Somebody, somewhere, is killing off superheroes. Watchmen weaves an intricate tale of woe, love, war, passion, and humanity. The movie opens with the death of Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who in a previous life was the masked man known as The Comedian. After his former colleague and one of the few still-active heroes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), hears of the death, he heads over to investigate. Looking around Blake’s room, Rorschach is forced to conclude that somebody came after Blake because he was a hero, not for some other reason. read the full review | |
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 | | 18. Lost (Complete First Season) | | | Starring: Terry O'Quinn Dominic Monaghan Director: Jeffrey Abrams | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/28/2009 | User Rating: 5 |  | Lost: Season One - DVD Review By: Joel Meares - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/28/2009 1:44 AM | |
Agatha Christie wrote something in excess of 80 novels. Christie was a practiced and a brilliant mystery taleteller, a commercial writer who exploited her full and total grasp of the mystery genre to massive popular success. Each plot was intricately realized, no facet of the mystery introduced that could not be resolved. Such is the enjoyment of good mysteries: a confidence that although clues and complications have confused us for now, in the end the equation will make sense. We should not know the ending, but it should not be impossible to work out. Lost, 2004’s hit about a group of plane-wreck survivors milling about on a mysterious island, crashes and burns on its inability to handle the genre Christie had mastered. read the full review | |
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 | | 23. The Good German new! | | | Starring: Cate Blanchett George Clooney Director: Steven Soderbergh | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 |  | The Good German - DVD By: Alexandra Calamari - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/25/2007 11:47 PM | | The Good German begins promisingly enough in a typical noir style - the inciting death launches the characters into a mystery they can't escape and the shadowy femme fatale constantly undermines the hero. But as the storyline becomes increasingly complicated, it becomes nearly impossible to follow, worsened by the useless narration that switches in perspective from Tully, to Jake to Lena. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. October Road-2nd Season | | | Starring: Brad Henke Bryan Greenberg Director: David Paymer Gary Fleder | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/5/2009 |  | October Road: The Complete Second Season - DVD Review By: Kelly West - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/4/2009 3:37 AM | | Drama is running high on the Ridge when the second season of October Road picks up. While we watched certain relationships build in the first season, other's started to crumble. If you're unfamiliar with October Road, the series follows Nick Garrett (Bryan Greenberg) and his childhood friends as he reconnects with them after leaving them behind for a decade. Nick left Knights Ridge to backpack through Europe after high school, leaving his girlfriend Hannah (Laura Prepon) and the rest of his friends and family behind. He was supposed to return after a few weeks but it took him ten years to get back home. read the full review | |
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 | | 37. Ncis-6 Season Pack | | | Starring: Mark Harmon | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/25/2009 |  | NCIS - The Complete Sixth Season - DVD Review By: Amanda - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/26/2009 9:30 AM | | No one would have thought that when JAG introduced a new team of naval criminal investigators that it would spawn a new television phenomenon. When NCIS spun off from JAG in 2003, it was billed as a more modern, more action-packed version of the legal military drama. While NCIS started out fairly modestly in the ratings, it became one of the few shows out there to increase ratings every season until it became one of the most-watched shows on television. NCIS became so popular, in fact, that it's spawning a spin-off of its own, NCIS: Los Angeles, set to air this fall on CBS. read the full review | |
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