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Robin Hood - Russell Crowe reunites with director Ridley Scott to to reveal the untold story of a common man's rise to become a hero. In 13th century England, expert archer Robin Longstride encounters Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion. In the face of injustice, he assembles a gang of mercenaries and leads an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people.
American Beauty - Director Sam Mendes' haunting, lyrical and darkly comedic tour de force makes its Blu-ray debut. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay, this critically-lauded drama presents an engaging portrait of the disillusionment, disappointments and dreams of the Burnhams, a "typical" American family in a culture obsessed with outward appearances. But underneath that seemingly squeaky clean suburban sheen, the less-than-perfect cracks in the Burnham's middle class existence are about to bust this family's pandora's box of secrets wide open.
Casino Jack and the United States of Money - Lobbyists have long played a powerful role in American politics, but it wasn't until Jack Abramoff became the center of a 2006 corruption scandal with ties to leading members of Congress (and even the White House) that many became aware of just how deep and pernicious their influence truly was. The son of a wealthy businessman, Abramoff became a Republican activist in college, involved in programs to raise funds for GOP candidates and supporting political movements in Angola and South Africa that he believed promoted a free-market ideology. In 2001, Abramoff took control of a profitable gaming empire after the murder of casino owner Gus Boulis, while also operating a lobbying business that curried political favor among Republican politicians through money and expensive gifts (one of his leading allies was GOP party whip Tom DeLay). However, when Abramoff was discovered to have defrauded a number of Native American groups hoping to open gambling casinos with promises of political favors that could be obtained for the right price, his empire came crashing to the ground, taking a number of important reputations along with it. Filmmaker Alex Gibney chronicles the rise and fall of Jack Abramoff and the often bizarre story of how his political and financial ambitions took root in the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, which includes interviews with a number of his associates and rare newsreel footage of his early years as a political gadfly. Casino Jack and the United States of Money was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Chasing Gus' Ghost - Documentarist Todd Kwait helms the nonfiction mosaic Chasin' Gus' Ghost as an homage to jug band music. Using as a point-of-entry the introduction to four popular celebrators of that form - Gus Cannon, Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Dixieland Jug Blowers and The Memphis Jug Band - Kwait then employs a co-mingling of archival clips and photographs and interviews to illustrate how jug music impacted folk and rock music from the 1960s through the 1970s. He subsequently moves into a discussion and exploration of jug music's widespread popularity in contemporary Japanese culture. Participants (and interviewees) include Bob Weir, Fritz Richmond, John Sebastian, Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur and others.
Alpha Incident - The Earth is threatened when an alien organism, that has the potential to destroy all life, is released. A corrupt government tries to cover up the danger.
Back Up Plan - Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) is well aware that her biological clock is ticking, but she just can't find the type of guy she'd want to settle down and start a family with. Eventually, she makes the decision to become a single mother. The very same day that Zoe follows through on her plan, however, she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin), a single charmer whom she thinks would make a great father. While at first Zoe struggles to hide her condition from Stan, before long there's no denying the truth and she decides to spill the beans. Much to her surprise, Stan responds enthusiastically, announcing that he's in it for the long haul. Over the course of the next nine months, Zoe and Stan enter into a whirlwind romance, begin drawing up wedding plans, and mapping out the rest of their lives together. But will their burgeoning relationship collapse under the stress of all this weight, or was it simply meant to be that Zoe and Stan would both find each other at such a crucial turning point in each other's lives?
The American Astronaut - Eraserhead meets Buck Rogers by way of an MGM musical in this bizarre outer-space saga about Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), a galactic truck driver looking to make a killing. The film opens with Curtis landing on the freewheeling, all-male asteroid of Ceres. Before winning a dance contest with his buddy Blueberry Pirate -- who is renowned for smuggling fresh fruit -- Curtis learns from Blueberry about a scheme to give a fetal "real live girl" to the similarly male-dominated planet of Jupiter in exchange for a strapping adolescent known solely as "The Boy Who Actually Saw a Female Breast." He in turn will be sent to the all-female planet of Venus where he will spend his life servicing the planet's occupants. Unfortunately, Curtis is followed by the mysterious self-proclaimed birthday boy Professor Hess, who has a tendency to vaporize any and all who come into contact with him. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival as a part of the Midnight Madness program.
Calvin Marshall - An unathletic junior college student works to realize his dream of playing for the MLB while courting a pretty volleyball player who displays the athletic prowess that he so sorely lacks. Calvin Marshall (Alex Frost) is a good kid with big dreams. Despite knowing that the young player will never make it to the big leagues, his coach, Doug (Steve Zahn), recognizes Calvin's dedication to the game, and decides to keep him around as a morale-boosting bench warmer. Meanwhile, likeable Calvin strikes up a tentative romance with Tori (Michelle Lombardo), a statuesque volleyball star with a quick smile and a warm heart. But just as Calvin and Tori are getting to know one another, the bumbling baseball player tells an innocent lie that threatens to destroy any chance for a meaningful relationship. Despite the many setbacks Calvin faces both romantically and professionally, he struggles with the realization that his only hope for getting the absolute most out of life is to accept the little disappointments along the way, and turn his failures into learning opportunities.
Festival of Fright - This three-disc set offers a collection of over 35 classic horror and sci-fi movie trailers, with previews and "Coming Attractions" of a wide variety of niche films, like From Hell It Came, The Cyclops, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, and many more.
Stomp the Yard: Homecoming - With the national step-off competition fast approaching, Truth University dance troupe The Theta Nus take in a talented young pledge who may be able to help them take the top prize, if he can just stop dwelling on his own problems and start perfecting the moves that will blow their rivals off the stage. Chance Harris (Collins Pennie) just can't seem to focus on dancing, and who can blame him: his family like is a mess, his relationship with his girlfriend is on the rocks, and now a street gang is out to teach him a lesson for failing to pay on a lingering debt. In order to win the competition, Chance will have to put all of his problems aside and focus on leading his troupe to victory. It won't be easy, but Chance is up to the challenge, and this time he's determined to get it right.
TV
30 Rock (Season Four)
Battlefield (Great Sea Battles of WWII)
Beastmaster (Season 3) (Alliance)
Being Human (Season Two)
Best of Travel: Beautiful Mexico
Best of Travel: China
Best of Travel: Japan
Castle (The Complete Second Season)
Christina Aguilera: The Girl Next Door
Community (The Complete First Season)
Designing Women (The Complete Fourth Season)
Desperate Housewives (The Complete Sixth Season)
Directors: Life Behind the Camera
Dragon Ball GT: The Complete Series
Ghost Hunt: The Complete Series S.A.V.E.
Glamourpuss: The Lady Gaga Story
Hell’s Kitchen - Season 1: Raw and Uncensored
Hell’s Kitchen - Season 3: Raw and Uncensored
He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
How I Met Your Mother (The Complete Season 5: The Suited Up Edition)
Human Target (The Complete First Season)
Hunger, The (Taste of Terror)
Initial D: First Stage, Part One
kaBOOM! - Let’s Party!
kaBOOM! - Let’s Play!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Year Eleven)
Lexx (Season 4)
Madonna: Out on the Floor, Story of a Dancer
Max & Ruby: Everybunny Loves Winter
Mentalist, The (Complete Second Season)
Middletown
Modern Family (The Complete First Season)
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (Complete Collection)
Mythbusters (Collection 6)
Petty Blue
Power of Myth, The
Rhoda (Season 4)
Rolling Stones, The: Born Under a Bad Sign
Samurai 7: The Complete Box Set (Viridian Collection)
Saturday Night Live (Best of ‘09/’10)
Scenic National Parks: Alaska & Hawaii
Scenic National Parks: Glacier Banff & Jasper
Scenic National Parks: Zion & Bryce
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (The Complete First Season)
Taggart (Set 3)
Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases (Vol. 5)
Two and a Half Men (The Complete 7th Season)
Winx Club - Fire & Flame: Season Three, Part Two -
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