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20 Million Miles To Earth - 50th Anniversary Edition DVD [Science Fiction]: Really good monster movie DVD done right by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2:37 [Mainstream]: 2:37 is a fascinating Australian high school drama.
3 Godfathers [Westerns]: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
30 Days of Nights [Horror]: Vampires take over Alaska town when sun goes down for 30 days. Good stuff
3:10 to Yuma [Westerns]: Great cowboy psychological thriller western DVD
A Christmas Carol [Mainstream]: A faithful cinematic adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim [Mainstream]: Everything A Christmas Carol fan could possibly want in a DVD set
A Dark Noel - Projekt Records Compilation [Mainstream]: Dark wave Christmas CD.
A Fistful Of Dollars [Westerns]: Back in the old days when writers and directors mixed genres they didn’t actually mix the genres – they just stole the story and adapted it.
A Perfect Day - Christmas Movie [Mainstream]: Writer gets visits from ghosts of Christmas style character and learns a life lesson.
A Summer Place [Mainstream]: the charm of the illicit romance of both couples conquering all depends on understanding the values of the time.
Aeon Flux [Science Fiction]: Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is a sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
Alien Nation [Science Fiction]: Alien Nation is an after the fact kind of science fiction DVD movie.
Alien Nation The Complete Series [Science Fiction]: Great science fiction cop TV show that was a spin-off of Alien Nation the movie with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin.
Alien vs Predator - Requiem Unrated [Science Fiction]: Big green monster goes after other big green monster going after another big green monster in a jade colored environment.
America's Most Haunted Inns [Horror]: America’s Most Haunted Inns DVD features a boos boo of inns in Pennsylvania
America's Most Haunted Town [Horror]: New Hope, Pennsylvania is America's Most Haunted Town and this horror documentary is very good at touring it.
American Pastime [Mainstream]: Human drama about Japanese internment camps, baseball, jazz, and a haircut.
An Inconvenient Truth [Documentary]: CO2 is changing the world and not in a good way.
Angel And The Bad Man [Westerns]: A shot bank robber appeals to a family for help and starts to reconsider his life after seeing how they live.
Appleseed ExMachina [Science Fiction]: Manga becomes anime
August Rush [Mainstream]: supposed to be about the magic of music but there are so many obvious mirrors and the smoke is so think that magic and the good performances all around get sucked into a black hole of disbelief.
AVPR - Fans Will Love What They've Done [Science Fiction]: A hybrid Alien/Predator is unleashed on Earth after causing the crash of a Predator spacecraft. A Predator is dispatched to Earth to take care of the situation leading to a dark hunt in a small Colorado town.
Baseball - NPR Driveway Moments [Mainstream]: Interesting collection of good if too short baseball stories.
Being Ian - The Curse [Mainstream]: Halloween timed Being Ian DVD has 3 episodes, 1 is a bit much for an eight year old, the other are fine.
Black Irish [Mainstream]: A coming of age story about a boy slated to become a priest who really just wants to play baseball.
Black Water [Horror]: Three people stuck in a tree while crocky waits for lunch. Great movie.
Blade [Horror]: A part vampire part human called Blade hunts vampires.
Blade Runner 25th Anniversary Contest ends 12-14-07 [Science Fiction]:
Blood And Chocolate [Horror]: Youth horror novel made into a graphic novel style gothic movie
Bloodsport [Action]: Kung Fu expert Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a martial arts master who arrives in Hong Kong to compete in the Kumite, a violent championship fighting contest
Bloody Mary [Horror]: This DVD is not a horror movie classic but it is a hell of a lot of fun.
Bobby Deerfield - Al Pacino [Mainstream]: Looks like a racing movie, plays like a romantic drama
Bobby Z [Action]: Good action movie DVD with a pretty original story.
Botched [Horror]: Great horror flick with comedy
Bottom of the Ninth [Documentary]: Very interesting and well-made baseball documentary.
Brahm Stoker's Dracula [Horror]: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name.
Brahm Stoker's Way Of The Vampire [Horror]: Way Of The Vampire bites because the sound sucks
Broken English [Mainstream]: Parker Posey DVD
Buried At Sea and Radiant City - The Passionate Eye April 5th and 6th 2008 [Documentary]: 2 CBC documentaries. 1 awful, 1 good (and unwittingly hilarious if you live in the burbs)
Buried At Sea - CBC The Passionate Eye April 5, 2008 10:00 [Documentary]: Documentary about the chemicals and weapons dumped in the oceans after WW II. Should have included this bad NFB film
Canada - Whole New Thing [Foreign Film]: Coming of age story in parts about a young boy's crush on his male teacher. Not as controversial as you might think.
Captain Video Master Of The Stratosphere [Science Fiction]: Back in the good old days, movie theatres ran a few news clips, a couple of serials, and a cartoon or two before the main feature.
Care Bears - Grissle-ly Adventures [Mainstream]: 2 Care Bears adventures. Family not impressed
Cat People [Horror]: A haunted beauty lives with a curse that no one but her believes.
Cell [Horror]: The Stand meets zombies with cell phones.
Cheyenne The Complete First Season [Westerns]: Classic western cowboy and indians television series.
Chindi [Science Fiction]: Jack McDevitt's hard SF novel Chindi both satisfies and examines this sense of wonder, which inspires not only SF readers and writers, but every explorer and scientist who seeks to understand the universe.
Clive Barker's The Plague [Horror]: Children of the Damned meets Dawn of the Dead in this excellent horror movie DVD
Clockstoppers [Science Fiction]: Zak becomes embroiled in a time stopping adventure as he tries to save his father from a megalomaniac researcher.
Coach Carter [Mainstream]: A successful sport store owner is asked to coach a high school boys basketball team and insists that as student athletes the word student comes before athlete.
Constantine [Horror]: A lackluster celebration of CGI and special effects.
Coogan's Bluff [Westerns]: Clint Eastwood is Deputy Sherriff Walt Coogan in Coogan’s Bluff. Any serious Clint Eastwood fan will be happy with this movie but it will leave the rest of the public wondering why they rented it.
Cookers [Horror]: It starts with meth addicts and spirals from there.
Crank [Action]: You have been poisoned and if your heart rate drops below a certain level you will die. How do you keep it togther and find your killer?
Crossfire Trail [Westerns]: Tom Selleck could have been a great western hero and proves it again in this movie.
Cruel World [Horror]: Reality TV meets the horror thriller. Pretty good B movie
Crystal Singer [Science Fiction]: Imagine training all your life for a single purpose and then discovering you cannot pursue that dream.
Daredevil - Fox Marvel Heroes Box Set [Action]: The lesser of the Marvel comic book silver screen adaptations
Dark Fury – The Chronicles Of Riddick (Animated) [Science Fiction]: A bridge of the gap between 'Pitch Black' and 'Chronicles of Riddick' to give more insight into Riddick as a character.
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King [Action]: A great adaptation of The Ring of the Niebelungs.
Darwin's Nightmare [Documentary]: A frightening look at what happens to an economy when there is only one product to bring to market and that product is also destroying the lives of those around it.
Days of Glory / Les Indigenes [Mainstream]: Fact based war movie about Moroccan soldiers fighting to liberate France.
Dead End [Horror]: An Xmas trip to grandma's place goes horribly wrong when Dad decides to take a short cut.
Dead Like Me [Horror]: Dead Like Me was not a bad show at all. It just did not live up to its premise.
Deadwood - The Complete First Season [Westerns]: The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is the scene of the best western ever created for the small screen.
Dearly Devoted Dexter [Horror]: Deviant Dexter devoted to his sister stalks a slicer who could be his salvation. Oh what is a boy to do when the one person who can guarantee his freedom is the one person he has to stop from killing again?
Death Tunnel [Horror]: Bodacious babes and horror.
Debatable Space [Science Fiction]: When a group of pirates kidnap the Cheo's daughter they soon realize they have bitten off more than they could chew.
Delta State [Science Fiction]: Cool looking animated science fiction series in a 2 DVD set
Dennis The Menace - Trouble, Trouble Everywhere [Mainstream]: 4 cartoons from the mid-eighties Saturday morning show
Dexter - The First Season (2006) [Horror]: A psychotic raised in a normal family with a code of conduct works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami P.D. while carrying on a series of murders.
Doctor Who - The Complete First Series - With Clips [Science Fiction]: Doctor Who THe Complete First Series made even this non fan of Doctor Who a fan.
Doctor Who - The Complete Third Season [Science Fiction]: Season Three of BBC Doctor Who series really kicks ass.
Doctor Who - Tom Baker - Destiny Of The Daleks [Science Fiction]: 4 part show originally aired 1979. Good stuff, even for this very casual fan of the series
Dolls [Horror]: A good little movie worth your time.
Donnie Darko [Science Fiction]: Donnie Darko is a teen boy being visited by a time bending demonic rabbit. Well maybe.
Dragonflight [Science Fiction]: When thread threaten Dragonriders take to the sky.
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers - Ray Harryhausen [Science Fiction]: Classic Ray Harryhausen sfx movie
Elektra - Fox Marvel Heroes Box Set [Action]: Spin-off from Daredevil and just slightly better Marvel comics adaptation
Equilibrium [Science Fiction]: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Exorcist II The Heretic [Horror]: Which is more evil, Pazuzu or this bad horror movie?
F Troop The Complete First Season [Westerns]: classic soldiers and Indians sitcom from the sixties
Fantastic 4 - Fox Marvel Heroes Box Set [Action]: Solid Marvel comics big screen adaptation
Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer - Fox Marvel Heroes Box Set [Action]: Second movie in this Marvel comics franchise, good stuff
Fantastic Four - Volume 3 [Action]: 4 episodes of the 2007 version of this Marvel Comic cartoon
Fear Nothing [Horror]: Unexpected endings can take you by surprise.
Film Movement Festival Shorts Collection [Mainstream]: For fans of the short film, this is a must. There are 5 excellent shorts on this 8 film DVD
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Limited Edition Collector's Set [Science Fiction]: A reluctant Cloud is pulled into battle against his younger brothers to save the children with geostigma and prevent the genes of Jenova from infecting the lifestream.
First Blood [Action]: John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy.
Flywheel [Mainstream]: Pretty good indie movie. Faith based and really preachy near the end buy enjoyable nonetheless.
For A Few Dollars More [Westerns]: If the words “spaghetti western” are not in your vocabulary then they need to be added. The Italian director Sergio Leone changed the way that westerns were shot and the language of westerns. For A Few Dollars More Leone teams up again with the great Clint Eastwood and the often underrated Lee Van Cleef to cobble together a rich story of insanity, lust, greed and revenge.
Forbidden Planet - Special 50th Anniversary Edition [Science Fiction]: Classic science-fiction movie now in great restored DVD version
Fort Apache [Westerns]: A classic cavalry movie starring Henry Fonda
France - Her Name Is Sabine / Son nom est Sabine - Documentary [Foreign Film]: Soul wrenching documentary about a woman's transformation due to mental illness.
Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) American science fiction author. [Science Fiction]: The life and times of Frank Herbert
Friday [Science Fiction]: A consummate story teller's less than stellar story.
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine [Documentary]: An in depth account of the Garry Kasparov v Big Blue match.
Gardening Confidential - CBC March 27, 2008 [Documentary]: Even serious gardeners will be jealous of some of the stuff in this program
George and the Dragon [Action]: A really fun to watch action comedy the whole family can enjoy. Lots of action, no blood and guts.