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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Brandon DuHamel's Review of Wild China</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=185</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[With China currently in the midst of hosting the Summer Olympics in Beijing, there has been a proliferation of documentaries on television exploring this ancient culture. Everyone from PBS and History Channel to Discovery and the Smithsonian Channel entered the fray in the months leading up to this year's Olympic games with their contributions to feed the West's growing curiosity in China and its ancient history.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Mad Men, Season 1</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=184</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one smokin' series, and that's a pun. Just about every character in this original AMC television show chain-smokes. The bras are pointy, car fenders are pointy, and the language is pointedly sexist. As fascinating as the juicy plotlines are, what's equally entertaining is the way that "Sopranos" alum Matthew Weiner was able to perfectly replicate the look, the atmosphere, the language, even the attitudes of the period.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of  Nim's Island</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=183</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Jodie Foster makes a refreshing return to comedy while Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") works with animals and plays action hero in this warm-hearted family adventure. It's what you'd get if you crossed  "Swiss Family Robinson" with "Home Alone" and "Romancing the Stone," then threw in imaginary characters to celebrate the imagination.]]></description>
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		<title>The Rolling Stones: Shine a Light</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=182</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Big Picture Big Sound<br />
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It's quite telling -- and somewhat amusing -- that in one of Shine a Light's archival interview segments Mick Jagger, only two years into The Rolling Stones recording career, predicted that the band may go on for only another year. Over forty years later, The Rolling Stones are still around, and still selling out concert venues (and movie theatres, as the case may be). In Shine a Light director Martin Scorsese documents the band on their 2006 "A Bigger Bang" tour, during the second of a two-night stay at New York City's legendary Beacon Theatre.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of Urban Legend</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=181</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Every couple of years a new trend in horror emerges that spawns countless knock-offs that get worse with each passing title. The two most recent trends have been the “Japanese Horror” craze and the “Shock Horror” craze. Both have spawned one or two decent films among a proverbial plethora of foul muck.]]></description>
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		<title>Ganges</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=180</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Big Picture Big Sound<br />
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The Ganga River, or Ganges, the most revered river on the Indian subcontinent, originates after the confluence of six tributaries -- the Alaknanda, the Dhauliganga, the Nandakini, the Pindar, Mandankini, and what is considered the source stream from the pristine waters of the Gangotri Glacier at an elevation of 7,756m (25,446 ft.) -- in the high peaks of the Himalayas where, from its very beginning, it brings forth an abundance of sustenance for humans and animals. Langurs (leaf monkeys), musk deer (prized by the pharmaceutical and perfume industries) and snow leopards mingle near the waters of the Ganges as it plunges through the foothills of the Himalayas and then across the Gangetic plains. <br />
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The river flows eastward across northern India, passing through some of the most populous cities on the subcontinent, such as Bengal and Calcutta. During its journey across the vast expanse of grasslands on its way towards the delta, particularly during the long monsoon season, the Ganges is responsible for bringing the riches of a fertile soil in the form of huge quantities of sediment it lays across the land. Farmers, whose main crops are a rotation of rice, wheat and millet, enjoy the abundance of mineral rich mud brought down by the powerful body of water, as do mudskippers, wild boar, Indian elephants, makak monkeys and many other animals along the way.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of "In the Line of Fire"</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=179</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and his newly assigned partner investigate what they believe to be a routine presidential death threat only to find a photographic shrine dedicated to former presidential assassinations. After securing a search warrant, the two return to find the apartment barren except for a single photograph of Horrigan working presidential detail for Kennedy right before his 1963 assassination. Numerous phone calls and chance encounters later, the would-be assassin’s true identity is revealed and Horrigan attempts to prevent history from repeating itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Earth: The Biography</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=178</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Big Picture Big Sound<br />
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In our workaday lives, we go about the dreary tasks of our daily routines, hardly lending a thought to this sphere, this big blue planet at the edge of the Milky Way we call home - the Earth. Seven billion people scratching out humble and not so humble existences; we laugh, we cry.  Some manage to stumble into that one person out of seven billion that makes their lives on this rock complete and perhaps worth carrying on. What most of us seem to do, however, is to take for granted that delicate balance that makes it all possible -- the cycle of life, the forces that drive our planet and make it habitable for us all -- until someone or something comes along every so often to remind us of the majesty and rarity of it all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of "The Bank Job"</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=177</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Statham shows new range in this old-school caper film that takes him back to his own cinematic roots. The kind of stunts and martial arts we saw from Statham in films like "Transporter" are out, and the classic heist structure from "The Italian Job," "The Thomas Crown Affair" and countless other films is in, where the emphasis is on the recruitment of the crooks, the plan, the grab, and the inevitable getaway or unraveling. Though "The Bank Job" isn't nearly as convoluted as Statham's first film, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (also coincidentally a heist film of sorts), Statham seems to have reached a new comfort zone as Terry Leather. This guy has two mindsets--business and pleasure--and he isn't as concerned about bravado as previous Statham heroes were. You get the feeling that he's vulnerable, and Statham is able to convey that without sacrificing any of the Bond coolness or ringleader calculation.]]></description>
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		<title>Vantage Point</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=176</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By HighDefDiscNews<br />
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The Movie Itself is the directorial debut from Pete Travis (formerly a TV director). The film’s plot involves an event where world leaders have gathered in Spain for a world summit in hopes of responding to the recent increase in terrorist activities. With no warning the President of the United States is suddenly gunned down.]]></description>
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		<title>Batman Begins</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=175</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By HighDefDiscNews<br />
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The Movie Itself is directed by Christopher Nolan who also directed Christian Bale in “The Prestige.”  After numerous horrible, horrible Batman films (“Batman and Robin” and “Batman Returns” are my least favorite), the Batman films have finally, finally returned to a place where someone can be proud to have seen and proud to own to this film.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of The Bucket List</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=174</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Bucket List” was a bit of a surprise for me. I half expected a typical “Jack Nicholson is old”-type comedy with the aging star balancing his usual cool guy antics with cheap old guy gags like farting and rickety arthritis issues. The other part of me expected a sappy sentimental trip down memory lane from Morgan Freeman, whose soft narration has almost become cliché. The narration is intact, and as cheesy as ever, but the cheap jokes are thankfully absent.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Men in Black</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=173</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[James Edwards (Will Smith) is the latest recruit to join Men in Black (MIB), a top secret agency with the sole purpose of monitoring alien activity on Earth. After beating out his military competitors for the job, the former NYPD officer is paired with a long-time member of MIB, Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). While training, the two agents are thrust into a situation that threatens all life on Earth, and they must work together in order to save the planet from imminent destruction.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of So I Married an Axe Murderer</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=172</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA["So I Married an Axe Murderer" is one of those comedies that is easy to forget. It's an amusing film, but its jokes don't deliver the usual one-two punch one gets from classic comedies. It was "SNL" star Mike Myers first non-SNL related film and his first headlined vehicle without a co-headliner. The film follows a young '90s yuppie hipster (Myers) as he falls in love with the attractive local butcher (Travis), only to discover that she may or may not be an axe-wielding murder who's offered numerous husbands prior to tying the knot with our love-struck hero. ]]></description>
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		<title>Cloverfield</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=171</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By HighDefDiscNews<br />
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Many critics have lashed out against “Cloverfield” simply because of how the film was shot. Akin to the style that director Paul Greengrass (”The Bourne Ultimatum“) shoots his film, at first the style of shooting was a bit distracting and annoying (I shut off the film 10 minutes into it and had to come back at a later time). But once I sat down again and actually watched the whole movie, I have no problem admitting that I was completely hooked by everything in front of me. The decision to tell the story from the perspective of Hud was excellent as each and every movement made by the group felt like I was there. Their screams and emotions were made more personal as it seemed that everything occurring was something that was happening to one of our friends. Kind of like a home video. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Youth Without Youth</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=170</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In his youth, Dominic (Tim Roth) was a successful linguist whose dedication to his job resulted in the loss of his love interest; now an old man, he is alone and surround by his failures, both in life and in love. As he crosses the street on a rainy day, he is struck by lightning, an event which he not only survives, but also brings him new youth and intelligence. Now battling his own personal demons, he is given a second chance at happiness. ]]></description>
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		<title>Jumper</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=169</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By HighDefDiscNews<br />
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The Movie Itself is based on the novel by Steven Gould, originally adapted into screenplay by David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg and Directed by Doug Liman. The whole plot to this film involves the possibility of teleportation — being able to “teleport” or jump to one place or time at an instant. The story revolves around a boy named “David Rice” who in early teenage years (played by Max Thieriot) escapes a ‘near death experience’ of drowning by… teleporting to his local library. Yes, I know that sounds absolutely nuts in print which makes me wonder how David S. Goyer who originally worked on the first draft of the screenplay adaption of this novel decided to word that statement I just made — about ‘escaping to the library.’ Anyway, the explanation is that he has these mysterious powers that allow him to teleport to anywhere he wants which he’s explaining to us now in voice-over Narration at this point in the film.<br />
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		<title>There Will Be Blood</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=168</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By HighDefDiscNews<br />
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The Movie Itself is Written / Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and based on the Novel “OIL!” by Upton Sinclair. The film’s main character “Daniel Plainview” is played by Daniel Day-Lewis who won the “Academy Award” for Best Actor this year — for this role. The story tells that of Daniel Plainview who we get to know from the first 15 minutes of the film — as it contains no dialogue. We see him first working alone in what appears to be a mine searching for oil but instead finding silver, working with a small crew on his first oil rig endeavors, designing an oil “derrick” and eventually striking it rich when he hits oil. From this we’re fast forwarded a few years and find Daniel and his son “H.W.” (played by Dillon Freasier) talking to a group of people about drilling for oil in their town. Daniel is a very smooth talking and intelligent man which comes across very early on from scenes like these but at the same time he’s got somewhat of a dark side too. One day while Plainview, son H.W. and his assistant are sitting having dinner a boy by the name of “Paul Sunday” (played by Paul Dano) shows up asking what kind of “finder’s fee” he can get for leading Plainview to some land that he knows has oil.<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath’s Review of The Sand Pebbles</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=167</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Director Robert Wise was so proud of this film that he hosted cast and crew reunions from time to time. And it is an achievement in filmmaking--an old-Hollywood story like “Dr. Zhivago,” in which personal lives get caught up in an epic drama of social change. Steve McQueen stars as a Navy mechanic named Holman, who’s assigned to the U.S.S. San Pablo (or “The Sand Pebbles,” as the crew and their coolie doubles call it). In pre-revolutionary 1929 China, this ship has found itself in a peculiar state of operations. Chinese locals originally brought onboard to do small jobs have managed to all but take over every job on the ship, each boss coolie having other coolies who work under him while the U.S. sailors supervise. It’s a system newcomer Holman tries to buck, but he has as much of a chance doing that as the gunboat has of negotiating suddenly treacherous straits. As a nationalist movement fuels anti-American demonstrations, the captain (Richard Crenna) orders the ship upriver to make its customary display of a U.S. military presence. But personal dramas intertwine with the revolution that’s rolling in like a menacing storm. One of the crew (Richard Attenborough in a warm and tender role as Frenchy) has fallen hard for a “fresh” prostitute named Maily (Marayat Andriane), and in strangely parallel fashion Holman has drawn quite close to the coolie he was forced to train (Mako as Po-han). Their fates play out against this “Go Home Yankees” backdrop.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of Blades of Glory</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=166</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[For some unknown reason, Will Ferrell seems to have gotten himself stuck doing cheeky sports movies. He's been in a few solid comedies ("Old School" and "Elf") as well a decent drama ("Stranger than Fiction"), but as of late, he seems locked in this tired subgenre. It started with the completely dreadful Jesse Dylan opus "Kicking and Screaming" and has continued with sports hits such as "Talladega Nights," "Blades of Glory" and this year's "Semi-Pro." ]]></description>
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		<title>Patton</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=165</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDTown.com<br />
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"Patton" earned 10 Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Art/Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound. There was no nomination for Best Actress, though, because the only women in this 1970 film are lineless nurses scuttling about and a correspondent briefly doing her job. Yet, if there's a war film aside from a romantic affair like "From Here to Eternity" that will appeal to women as well as men, it's this one. That's because the focus is on the man himself, rather than war, and Patton's determination to win comes across in much the same way as it might in a sports biopic or one of the old biographies of musicians or scientists. In every case, the underlying question that hooks us is the same: What is it that makes a flawed but great person the stuff of history, rather than an ordinary wayfarer in life like the rest of us? That question is so much a part of "Patton" that even at 172 minutes the film never seems to drag. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Longest Day</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=164</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDTown.com<br />
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Timing is everything. It was crucial to the success of Operation Overlord--better known as D-Day--and it's always been important in the movie industry. Some very good films managed nothing but Oscar snubs because they had the misfortune to be released the same year as an even better film.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of Master and Commander</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=162</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Director Peter Weir crafts a delicate, but intense film that's both action-packed and wonderfully spun with skillful thought. This is easily one of Weir grandest film's, with only "The Mosquito Coast" coming anywhere near as close to the level of epic intensity and passion. Weir does, however, mold the action in a very muttered and confused way, making it hard to tell exactly what the viewer is seeing during the claustrophobic battle sequences. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of 27 Dresses</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=161</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane's obsession with not only weddings, but her well-to-do philanthropist boss (Burns) is genuinely creepy--bordering on unhealthy. She waits on her boss hand over fist, obsessing over his every move, and never once thinks about herself. When Jane's boss takes a liking to her kid sister (Akerman), and decides to propose marriage, Jane spirals out of control, unable to hold in her closeted emotions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=160</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Redford is such a star now that it¹s hard to remember he was a virtual unknown when Hill cast him as the Sundance Kid opposite Paul Newman¹s Butch Cassidy. The studio wanted Steve McQueen or Warren Beatty, and even Marlon Brando expressed an interest. But Hill played his cards well, and the rest is cinematic history. The two actors clicked as affable outlaws trying to outrun a super-posse and the encroachments of progress.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath’s Review of Michael Clayton</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=159</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Legal thrillers find an interesting variation in “Michael Clayton,” a film about a “janitor” (George Clooney) who handles all the dirty work for a high-powered New York law firm. When the situation seems impossible (or impossibly messy), the big boss (Sidney Pollack) calls on the suave, no-nonsense Clayton. This time it’s one of the partners, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), who’s gone off the deep end in Milwaukee during a deposition hearing. Edens has been handling the account for U-North, a chemical company now facing a class-action lawsuit alleging the products they sell to farmers have been causing cancer. As Clayton tries to handle the case as discretely and quickly as always, the information-terrain keeps shifting, the stakes keep getting higher, and he finds himself having to deal with the forceful chief counsel (Tilda Swinton, in an Oscar-winning performance) and two hatchet men (Robert Prescott, Terry Serpico) hired by the corporation after they began to grow impatient with him.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of I, Robot</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=158</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In the year 2035, robots have become a common assistant to the more the affluent residents of Chicago. Even through they must abide by the three laws of robotics, and are therefore harmless to humans, homicide detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) has never let down his guard. Just before the new NS-5 model is to be introduced, the man behind the development of these machines is murdered, forcing Spooner to dig deeper into whether robots are as harmless as they have been made to be.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Ben Williams' Review of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=157</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) is your prototypical rock icon. He had a harsh childhood, suffered tragedy and overcame his checkered past to rise to prominence in the musical world. His story is cribbed right from the plot of Ray and Walk the Line and follows the same basic structure of those films - - to the letter.. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Golden Compass</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=155</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many universes, we're told, and this story takes place in a world where people's souls aren't contained inside them. Instead, they walk (or fly) beside them as "daemons," an animal/insect/reptile representation that can talk to them. It's based on volume one of  Philip Pullman's mega-hit fantasy trilogy, published in the U.S. as "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife," and "The Amber Spyglass." Newcomer Dakota Blue Richards really holds the screen as Lyra, an orphan who has a special place at Jordan College because her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), teaches there. Something's happening to the children, though. Legend has it that "gobblers" are taking those who disappear, and when Lyra's friend Roger is taken, she's determined to rescue him.<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Golden Compass</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=156</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many universes, we're told, and this story takes place in a world where people's souls aren't contained inside them. Instead, they walk (or fly) beside them as "daemons," an animal/insect/reptile representation that can talk to them. It's based on volume one of  Philip Pullman's mega-hit fantasy trilogy, published in the U.S. as "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife," and "The Amber Spyglass." Newcomer Dakota Blue Richards really holds the screen as Lyra, an orphan who has a special place at Jordan College because her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), teaches there. Something's happening to the children, though. Legend has it that "gobblers" are taking those who disappear, and when Lyra's friend Roger is taken, she's determined to rescue him.<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of The 6th Day</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=154</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Arnold has had himself a hard time in the past few years when it comes to picking decent actioners. Ever since "True Lies," the muscle bound actor has struggled to reclaim the action-packed glory days of his youth. He's done some decent fare in the past few years ("Terminator 3"), but he's also done some flops. ..]]></description>
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		<title>A Passage to India</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=153</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDTown.com<br />
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There had been so much talk about a possible Blu-ray of "Lawrence of Arabia" that it's almost a surprise that "A Passage to India" becomes the first David Lean film to make it to the new format. At 164 minutes, "Passage" is about as lean as the director's epics get--far shorter than "Lawrence" (216 minutes) and "Doctor Zhivago" (197 minutes), and only moments longer than "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (161 minutes). But none of these films feels interminably long, and that's because Lean has an uncanny ability to mesmerize audiences with the landscape and local life, while offering characters so complex and richly drawn that they also command our attention.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Juno</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=152</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not often that an independent film charms its way onto the Kodak Theatre stage, but "Juno" earned four big nominations:  Best Original Screenplay (Diablo Cody), Best Director (Jason Reitman), Best Actress (Ellen Page), and an unheard-of Best Picture nod. Though only first-time screenwriter Cody won an Oscar, this warm, witty, and winning comedy about teen pregnancy disarmed audiences who thought they knew what to expect from an indie film about teens and the ultimate teen problem. But instead of teen angst, they got a story that was more funny and witty than it was sentimental or dramatic, and a film that steered clear of clichés while delivering an elevated style of quirkiness wrapped in a story that still seemed organic and authentic.....<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=151</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[One name says it all, but who knew of Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. back in 1958, when "The Chipmunk Song" sold 4.5 million records in just seven weeks?<br />
Bagdasarian was better known as David Seville, and a high-tech tape recorder allowed him to do the voices for all three chipmunks as well as his own, and the musician's son revived the pop-novelty phenomenon in the Eighties, when it spawned an animated TV show.  Now, this live-action and CGI film brings "Alvin and the Chipmunks" to a third generation. Forget what you've heard from cranky critics. This is a great family film, entertaining for the youngsters and fun for parents, and not just because it's an "origin" story that incorporates snippets of the old familiar songs.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of In the Valley of Elah</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=150</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[We're told in this film that David slew Goliath in the Valley of Elah, and are left to decide whether that's a metaphor for the innocent young soldiers who were sent to do battle in Iraq and returned with a different, more inhuman set of values, or if it's Tommy Lee Jones who's an aged David, trying to get to the bottom of his son's disappearance. Or maybe it's both.]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Legend</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=149</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDFuture.com<br />
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Smith plays Dr. Robert Neville, seemingly the only survivor of a deadly viral outbreak. He's living alone, in New York City, only accompanied by his faithful dog, Sam. He spends his days trying to find a cure for the virus and traveling New York City in search of resources, food and companionship. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Age</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=148</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDFuture.com<br />
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"Ice Age" was a genuine surprise for me. The Blu Sky produced, 20th Century Fox film wasn’t the classy CG comedy you've come to expect from Pixar or Disney films, but it was pretty funny in its own right. <br />
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Geared more for adults, rather than kids, "Ice Age" is certainly not what most expected. It’s closer to the Dreamworks animation-based films like "Shrek" instead of "Monster's Inc." or "The Incredibles" (though "The Incredibles" is sort of geared for adults as well). <br />
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The plot involves a wholly mammoth named Manfred.........]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of No Reservations</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=147</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as a self-centered workaholic chef who's been forced by her restaurant's owner (Patricia Clarkson) to see a therapist.<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Dogma</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=146</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Unaware of the consequences, Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon), two outcast angels, have discovered a loophole that will allow them back into Heaven. Bethany Sloane (Linda Fiorentino), a Catholic who is slowly losing her faith, is tasked by God to stop the two from completing their pilgrimage. Together with the “prophets” Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), she follows them to New Jersey in order to prevent the angels from returning to Heaven, and thus negating all existence.]]></description>
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		<title>Enchanted</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=145</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDTown.com<br />
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It all starts with a strong concept. What a great idea it is to have a cartoon princess pushed into a well by a witch who sends her to a place where the hag thinks there are no happily ever afters: New York City. And so with her Prince and one of her forest friends trailing, Giselle (Amy Adams) finds herself being forced to take a bite out of the Big Apple. The first fully animated portion of the film is shot in a letterboxed 1.85:1 to give the appearance of the old 1.33:1 classics, while the minute Giselle comes up through a manhole cover in the middle of Times Square and everything turns to live-action, the ratio switches to 2.35:1. <br />
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Adams, who was equally unflappable and cheery in "Junebug," lays it on appropriately thick in this romantic comedy, which takes quite a few liberties with fairy tale conventions.......]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of No Country for Old Men</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=144</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[While hunting antelope, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) follows an injured dog to the gruesome scene of a drug deal gone wrong. Using his tracking skills, Llewelyn finds the missing shooter, who has since died, along with a large bag filled with cash. By taking the money, he starts a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a psychopathic killer, seeks to reclaim his stolen money. All the while, local sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) searches for both men, hoping to stop trail of dead bodies left behind in their wake.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath’s Review of Scary Movie</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=143</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wayans brothers do their Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker impression in “Scary Movie,” which owes an obvious debt to the “Airplane!” school of comedy. Horror/slasher films get pilloried in this crude and bloody parody.  Subtlety is not a part of this brand of humor, nor is intelligence, except as cleverness is required to articulate the elements of teen-slasher films that are so silly that they’re pretty much asking for it. There’s just enough plot to parody the films and give a framework for the jokes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gattaca</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=142</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVDFuture.com<br />
<br />
Just a little over ten years ago, "Gattaca" arrived in theaters with much anticipation and critical acceptance behind it. Sadly, the film didn't end up being the hit that producers thought, and hoped, it would be. However, when the film it video, it became an immediate cult hit generating countless late night debates among thousands of young college students and scholars alike. It send cold shivers down the spine of the scientific community. It's been quoted and discussed among geneticists as the best possible view of where genetic tampering could go horribly wrong. Molecular biologist Lee M. Silver even went on record saying that "Gattaca is a film that all geneticists should see if for no other reason than to understand the perception of our trade held by so many of the public-at-large." <br />
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So, even though it was initially a commercial failure, "Gattaca" has become quite an extraordinary film--a true achievement in annals of cinema history. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of 30 Days of Night</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=141</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA["30 Days of Night", which is based on a graphic novel written by Steve Niles, begins in an isolated, cold Alaskan town with a population less than 300. Once a year the sun fades for an entire month, blanketing the city in total darkness. Most of the town heads to a sunnier locale during this time, leaving only half of the original population. ]]></description>
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		<title> Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Across the Universe</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=140</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to find his father, Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves his job as a dock worker and travels to America. Upon arriving he befriends Max, a student at the University where his father works. The two new friends move to New York, and are soon joined by Max’s sister, Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), whose boyfriend was killed serving in Vietnam. Jude and Lucy fall in love, but the stresses of the ongoing war soon take their toll on the blossoming relationship.]]></description>
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		<title>Crimson Tide</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=139</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rope of Silicon.com<br />
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Crimson Tide is officially the best looking high-definition video I have seen to date, HD DVD or Blu-ray, this one takes the cake. From the minute the credits began to roll I knew I was in for a treat. It had been several years, probably 13 in fact since I don't think I had seen this film since it was first released in 1995, and revisiting it was an absolute joy. You can't really go wrong with  Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman and Viggo Mortensen in a solid supporting role can you? And when it looks this good you can only sit back and enjoy......]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Edward Scissorhands</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=138</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(20th Century Fox, 105 min., PG-13)<br />
Film release date: 12/14/90<br />
Blu-ray release date:  10/9/07<br />
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Disc Specs: 1 disc (25GB). Video:  1080p (MPEG-2 codec, 1.85:1 aspect ratio). Audio:  English DTS-HD 4.0 Master Lossless, Spanish and French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo.  Subtitles:  English (CC), Spanish, Cantonese, and Korean.  Extras:  The same two commentaries as on the 10th Anniversary DVD release, plus a brief featurette, also from the DVD release<br />
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Director: Tim Burton.  Stars:  Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price<br />
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SRP:  $39.98<br />
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Reviewed by James Plath, Managing Editor of DVD TOWN.COM and Contributor to HollywoodinHiDef.com<br />
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Synopsis<br />
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Tim Burton's fascination with strangeness finds a perfect outlet in this modern-day fairy tale, which is a simple yet complex story that can be "read" a number of ways. It's a wonderful example of magic realism, in which a single magical element (in this case, a Goth-looking lad who has cutlery for hands) enters into an otherwise realistic tale that is narrated with matter-of-factness. But "Edward Scissorhands" is also a modern reworking of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," with Vincent Price playing the inventor who creates a life that suffers consequences because of his miscalculations.<br />
Most of all, though, Burton's film is a wonderful commentary on suburbia.<br />
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Johnny Depp gives a stellar performance as a Goth lad who's rescued by a perky Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) and brought to live in the midst of identical houses and their inhabitants' all-but-identical lives. It's an offbeat love story as well, since the Avon lady's daughter (Winona Ryder) eventually comes to care about the weirdo who's punctured her water bed. And it's a tale of celebrity, as the neighborhood women who gush over Edward's topiaries and haircuts lead to his 15 minutes of fame that Andy Warhol promised, and the inevitable fall from grace, which finally finds the peasants reaching for their torches and pitchforks.  Through it all, the performances are wonderfully understated, and Burton's vision is supported by a production design that highlights the many themes. It's a poignant story, made more so by the sad fact that this was Vincent Price's last film.<br />
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Video Quality<br />
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"Edward Scissorhands" looks better than it ever has, but that said, it's not a showcase for Blu-ray. There's a lot of visual "noise" and a slight graininess throughout, especially in the outdoor scenes with hazy light. But in close-ups you can see a great amount of detail, and the black levels seem appropriate to the pastel palette. It's clearer than the DVD, that's for sure, but "Edward Scissorhands" doesn't appear to have been remastered especially for the Blu-ray release. The aspect ratio is 1.85:1.<br />
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Audio Quality<br />
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Fox has been going with DTS-HD, and this one has a 4.0 Master Lossless that does the job. Personally, I think PCM is the stronger soundtrack, but this one has a nice balance of treble and bass, as well as a pleasing timbre and an okay spread across the main speakers. The rear effects speakers don't exactly get a workout, but much of the film is dialogue anyway.<br />
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Bonus Features<br />
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The only thing missing from the 10th Anniversary DVD is a photo gallery that I didn't think was terribly essential. Otherwise, both the commentary track by Tim Burton and one by Danny Elfman are here, as is a brief featurette that feels more like a pre-release promo. Neither Burton nor Elfman is much of a chatterbox, and there are long pauses that make you forget you've got the commentary track on. I'd rate them average at best, and personally would have preferred interviews.<br />
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Tru-Blu?<br />
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Absolutely. Though the HD quality isn't as strong as on more current releases, Burton's vision of individuality and suburban dystopia makes for a classic film-one of his best-and with Depp's bravura performance, Wiest's dead-on soccer mom parody, and Price's curtain call, "Edward Scissorhands" seems a must-have for any Blu-ray collection.<br />
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		<title>The Invasion</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=137</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High Def Disc News.com<br />
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The Movie Itself is the work of famous Hollywood Producer Joel Silver, Director Oliver Hirschbiegel and the Screenplay written by David Kajganich. It’s their new modern take on the classic Science Fiction novel “The Body Snatchers” by Jack Finney. Over the years there have been many great film adaptations of this such as the 1956 original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” or the 1978 remake. This new take on the story follows the life of a woman named “Carol Bennell” (played by Nicole Kidman) who is a psychiatrist in the Washington, DC area. This takes obvious influence from the original novel with the main character being a Doctor but this time it’s a woman. Carol has a young son named “Oliver” (played by Jackson Bond) who she has split custody over with her ex-husband “Tucker Kaufman” (played by Jeremy Northam).<br />
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With her work as a psychiatrist she encounters many people complaining of the same thing, their loved ones aren’t themselves anymore. This sudden outbreak happens after a Space Shuttle named “Patriot” crashes on re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere leaving wreckage across a wide range of the United States. I’d like to point out this is obviously inspired by the “Columbia” Shuttle disaster that was very similar to this back in February 2003. They also use tie-ins with the sudden outbreak explaining it as a “New Flu” (very similar to the “Bird Flu” or “SARs” that were headlining in news as well in the past years). These influences of our modern fears and disasters make it that much more scary and believable I guess when you realize as the viewer...<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: R.L. Shaffer's Review of 3:10 To Yuma</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=136</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From the opening moments to the bitter end, "3:10 to Yuma" is a great movie and a great remake. It does exactly what a remake should, it uses the context of the original story and expands and improves upon it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Hairspray</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=135</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[John Waters' edgy musical gets the big-budget, big-name treatment and makes a star out of Nikky Blonsky, who plays a wide-eyed teen bent on becoming a dancer on the Dick Clark-style Corny Collins Show. You wouldn't think that a funny musical could also successfully address a serious issue such as Civil Rights, but "Hairspray" pulls it off. It's a rollicking, zestful, tune-filled coming-of-age story not only for an overweight teen, but for racially-divided 1962 Baltimore. Right from the robust opening song-sequence, "Good Morning, Baltimore," you know you're going to be in for an amazing blend of music, humor, and compelling narrative.]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=134</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By DVD Future.com<br />
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It's been a long while since a decent sci-fi film has graced the megaplexes. I'm not talking about mainstream sci-fi like "Star Wars" or "Transformers", but a thinking-man's sci-fi movie--films like "2001" and, to some extent, Ridley Scott's "Alien." Last year, writer/director Darren Aronofsky attempted, in some ways, to bring back heady sci-fi with "The Fountain", but the result was a mish-mash of pretentious and preposterous ideas marred even further by a story that thought it was smarter than what it was. It was a huge disappointment for me as I had longed to see that film and had hoped it would be a visual and intellectual delight. <br />
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Thankfully, Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" fulfills the promises that "The Fountain" had made, but failed to provide. "Sunshine" is a scary, tense, visual treat, awakening almost every sense of the viewers body while at the same time, opening the mind intellectually. The film follows several astronauts as they attempt to reignite the sun. On their journey they must take on the dark halves of themselves while facing the enormous challenge of saving the entire planet. <br />
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<span class="cmsLink"><a href="http://www.dvdfuture.com/review.php?id=943" target="_blank"> Read More at DVDFuture.com </a></span><br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=133</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Warner Bros., 139 mins, PG-13) <br />
Film Release Date:  7/11/07 <br />
Blu-ray Release Date:  12/11/07 <br />
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Disc Specs:  1 50GB dual-layer disc.  Video: 1080p, VC-1 Codec, 2.40:1 aspect ratio.  Audio:  English PCM 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 in English, French (Parisian &amp; Quebecan), Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, and Catalan.  Subtitles:  English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,  Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Catalan.  Extras:  "Focus Points" featurettes [in High Definition], "Trailing Tonks" featurette [in High Definition], "The Magic of Editing" feature-game, and additional scenes. <br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  Josh Dreuth's Review of Paprika</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=132</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures – 90 Minutes – R<br />
Theatrical Release: November 25, 2006<br />
Blu-ray Release: November 27, 2007<br />
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BD-50<br />
Video: 1.85:1 1080p (MPEG-2)<br />
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD (Japanese and English)<br />
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Director: Satoshi Kon<br />
Stars: Megumi Hayashibara<br />
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MSRP: $38.96<br />
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Reviewed by Josh Dreuth, News Editor for <span class="cmsLink"><a href="http://www.blu-ray.com/" target="_blank"> Blu-Ray.com  </a></span>Blu-ray.com and Contributor to HollywoodinHiDef.com.]]></description>
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		<title>The Simpsons Movie</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=131</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High Def Disc News<br />
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Overall as a Blu-ray Disc release I have to say this is a MUST OWN title for sure! The film is absolutely full of laughs and sure to please the fans. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Ben Williams' Review of Rataouille</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=130</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Disney / Pixar <br />
111 Minutes <br />
Rated: G<br />
Released:  November 6, 2007<br />
BD-50 / 1080p / AVC Mpeg-4<br />
$34.95<br />
Directed by: Brad Bird<br />
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Peter O’Toole, Brian Dennehey, Peter Sohn, Lou Romano, Ian Holm &amp; Janeane Garofalo]]></description>
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		<title>The Lookout</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=129</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fulvue Drive-in.com<br />
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Nobody is picking more interesting roles to take on in filmmaking these days than Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  After recent artistic triumphs like Brick, he is setting himself up to be one of the best actors and stars of his generation long after his TV days.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Superbad</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=128</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dvdfuture.com<br />
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Extras: <br />
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Sony has presented fans with a storage shelter of goodies to peruse. There's a lot here and honestly it was overwhelming trying to cover it all, but I'll do my best. <br />
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First off, the Blu-Ray edition is presented in an Unrated form and on two discs with some supplements on one disc and some on another. I enjoyed the unrated version of the film just as much as the rated version and found the newly added material only added to the already funny venture. <br />
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Next, we're treated to a hilarious Audio Commentary from the Apatow gang. I really enjoy their commentaries and it's a delight to hear this one. Fans should give this commentary a listen for sure. <br />
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After checking that out, you can give the supplements a spin. There's virtually a revolving door of outtakes, deleted scenes, off color making of documentaries and so much more. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Spider-Man 3</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=127</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony Pictures, 139 mins., PG-13)<br />
Film Release Date: 5-4-07<br />
Blu-ray Release Date:  10-30-07<br />
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Disc Specs: 2 discs.  Video:  1080p (2.40:1 widescreen).  Audio:  English PCM 5.1, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, and French, Spanish, Portuguese and Thai Dolby Digital 5.1.  Subtitles:  English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Thai, Chinese Mandarin, and Chinese Cantonese.  Extras:<br />
ALL bonus features from the two-disc DVD.<br />
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Director: Sam Raimi<br />
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SRP:  $43.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=126</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia Pictures – 137 Minutes – PG<br />
Theatrical Release: November 16, 1977<br />
Blu-ray Release: November 13, 2007<br />
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BD-50 (2-disc set)<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (MPEG-4)<br />
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio (English)<br />
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Director: Steven Spielberg<br />
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon and François Truffaut<br />
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MSRP: $49.95<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Surf's Up</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=125</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony, 85 mins., PG)<br />
Film Release Date: 6-8-07<br />
Blu-ray Release Date:  10-9-07<br />
 <br />
Disc Specs: 1 disc. Video:  1080p (AC-3, 1.85:1 aspect ratio).  Audio:<br />
English PCM 5.1 (uncompressed), English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.  Subtitles:  English, English SDH, French, Spanish.  Extras:  All the bonus features from the DVD are included on the Blu-ray, except for the three games. Instead, there's a single "Surf's Up"<br />
Pinball Game that wasn't included on the DVD.<br />
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Director: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck. Stars:  Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zoey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods, Mario Cantone, Diedrich Bader.<br />
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SRP:  $38.95<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Ben Williams' Review of Bram Stoker's Dracula</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=124</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures<br />
128 Minutes<br />
Rated R<br />
<br />
Presented in 1080p 1.85:1 Widescreen<br />
<br />
Director:   Francis Ford Coppola<br />
Stars: Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Rider &amp; Keanu Reeves <br />
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Release Date:  October 2, 2007<br />
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MSRP: $28.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Memoirs of a Geisha</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=122</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony Pictures, 145 minutes, PG-13)<br />
Film Release Date: 12-23-05<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 9-25-07<br />
 <br />
Disc Specs: 1 disc, 50 GB.  Video: 1080p, 2.40:1 widescreen.  Audio: English PCM 5.1 (uncompressed), English, French and Thai Dolby Digital 5.1.<br />
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Korean, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai.  Extras: All features from the DVD, including two commentaries, 11 short features, recipes, and photo galleries.<br />
 <br />
Director: Rob Marshall.  Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, and Gong Li.<br />
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SRP:  $28.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of The Usual Suspects</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=121</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[MGM – 106 Minutes – R<br />
Theatrical Release: August 16, 1995<br />
Blu-ray Release: February 13, 2007<br />
<br />
BD-25<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (MPEG-2)<br />
Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (English)<br />
<br />
Director: Bryan Singer<br />
Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Kevin Spacey<br />
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MSRP: $39.98]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer (Blu-ray)</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=120</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High-Def Digest<br />
<br />
Fox Home Entertainment / 2007 / 92 Minutes / Rated PG <br />
Street Date: October 02, 2007<br />
List Price: $39.98<br />
 <br />
Bottom Line  Highly Recommended  <br />
Reviewed by Peter M. Bracke<br />
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 <br />
<br />
The Movie Itself: Our Reviewer's Take <br />
<br />
Although it was derided by critics and die-hard comic fans alike as one of the worst Hollywood adaptations ever, 2005's 'Fantastic Four' hit the bull's-eye with the mainstream, grossing over $325 million worldwide.<br />
<br />
Not being much of a comic book fan, I personally enjoyed 'Fantastic Four' quite a bit. Of course, I was the film's target audience -- the kind of clueless moviegoer too ignorant of the comic's origin to realize that it was a bastardization. Still, taken on its own terms 'Fantastic Four' was lighthearted, dim-witted fun, and a refreshing change of pace from all the morose comic book adaptations of late. Don't get me wrong, I love 'Batman Begins,' but do all superheroes have to be manic-depressive, anti-social, borderline suicidal freak shows?<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Replacement Killers (Extended Cut)</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=119</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Columbia Pictures, 96 minutes, Unrated)<br />
 <br />
Film Release Date: 2/6/98<br />
 <br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 9/11/07<br />
 <br />
Disc Specs: 1 disc.  Video: 1080p HiDef, 2.40:1 widescreen.  Audio: English, Italian PCM 5.1 uncompressed, English, French, Italian, and Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1.  Subtitles: English, English SDH, Arabic, French, Korean, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Romanian, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese.  Extras: "The Making of The Replacement Killers: Where the Action Is," "Chow Yun-Fat Goes Hollywood." <br />
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Director: Antoine Fuqua<br />
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SRP:  $28.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to Hollywoodinhidef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of A Few Good Men</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=118</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia Pictures – 138 Minutes – R<br />
Theatrical Release: December 11, 1992<br />
Blu-ray Release: September 18, 2007<br />
<br />
BD-50<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (MPEG-2)<br />
Audio: 5.1 PCM (English/German)<br />
<br />
Director: Rob Reiner<br />
Stars: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore<br />
<br />
MSRP: $28.95<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of Kingdom of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=117</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(20th Century Fox, 194 minutes, R)<br />
Film Release Date: 5-6-05<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 11-14-06<br />
 <br />
Disc Specs:  1 disc, 50GB. Video: 1080p (MPEG-2/24MBPS), 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Audio: DTS HD 5.1 uncompressed Lossless Audio. Subtitles:  English (CC), Spanish, and French. Extras:  None.<br />
 <br />
Director: Ridley Scott. Stars: Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Brandan Gleesan, Jeremy Irons, Ghassan Massoud, Eva Green.<br />
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SRP:  $39.98]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of The Prestige</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=116</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Touchstone Pictures – 130 Minutes – PG-13<br />
Theatrical Release: October 20, 2006<br />
Blu-ray Release: February 20, 2007<br />
<br />
BD-50<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (AVC)<br />
Audio: 5.1 PCM (English)<br />
<br />
Director: Christopher Nolan<br />
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Cane, Scarlett Johansson, and David Bowie<br />
<br />
MSRP: $34.99]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=115</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High-Def Digest<br />
<br />
It all started as a joke. Comic artist Kevin Eastman wanted to parody industry favorites like "Daredevil," "The New Mutants," "Cerebus," and "Ronin," so he drummed up some money and self-published a single issue release of the tongue-in-cheek "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in 1984. Almost overnight, his creation gave birth to an animated television series, a line of toys and a comic series. By the time the television series had run its course in the early '90s, an entire generation of kids had taken Eastman's joke very seriously.<br />
<br />
And even twenty years after the fact, the turtles have yet to fall by the way side. In the years since their debut, there have been a successful series of live action films, new action figures released on a regular basis, and even a recent TV reboot. The latest offshoot of this profitable juggernaut came in the form of 'TMNT,' a feature length CG animated film helmed by rookie writer/director Kevin Munroe.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Searchers</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=114</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Warner Brothers, 119 minutes, NR)<br />
Film release date: 3/13/56<br />
Blu-ray release date:  10-31-06<br />
 <br />
Disc specs: 1 disc. Video: 1080p (1.85:1 aspect ratio), digital Hi Def transfer from restored VistaVision picture and audio elements. Audio:<br />
English, French, and Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono. Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish.  Extras:  New featurette on "The Searchers: An Appreciation"; "A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and The Searchers" 1998 documentary; Intro by Patrick Wayne; Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich; vintage behind-the-cameras segments from the "Warner Bros.<br />
Presents" TV series; theatrical trailer.<br />
 <br />
Director: John Ford<br />
 <br />
SRP:  $28.99<br />
 <br />
Reviewed by James Plath, Managing Editor of DVD TOWN.COM and Contributor to HollywoodinHiDef.com]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Lives of Others</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=111</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures Classics, 138 minutes, R) Film release date: 2/9/07 Blu-ray release date: 8/21/07<br />
 <br />
Disc specs: 1 disc. Video: 1080p, AC-3 codec, 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Audio:<br />
German PCM 5.1 uncompressed, German Dolby Digital 5.1. Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish. Extras: All features from the DVD release are included, with a commentary by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, an interview with Donnersmarck, "The Making of The Lives of Others," and eight deleted scenes with optional commentary.<br />
 <br />
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck<br />
 <br />
SRP:  $38.96]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Ben Williams' Review of Apocalypto</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=110</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Buena Vista Home Entertainment<br />
124 Minutes<br />
Rated R<br />
<br />
Presented in 1080p 1.78:1 Widescreen<br />
<br />
Director:  Mel Gibson<br />
Stars: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead &amp; Carlos Emilio Baez<br />
<br />
Release Date:  May 22, 2007<br />
<br />
MSRP: $39.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Immortal Beloved</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=112</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures – 121 Minutes – R<br />
Theatrical Release: December 16, 1994<br />
Blu-ray Release: August 21, 2007<br />
<br />
BD-50<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (MPEG-2)<br />
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD (English/French)<br />
<br />
Director: Bernard Rose<br />
Star: Gary Oldman<br />
<br />
MSRP: $28.95]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of The Descent</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=113</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lionsgate – 99 Minutes – Unrated<br />
Theatrical Release: July 8, 2005<br />
Blu-ray Release: December 26, 2006<br />
<br />
BD-50<br />
Video: 2.35:1 1080p (AVC)<br />
Audio: 6.1 PCM (English)<br />
<br />
Director: Neil Marshall<br />
Stars: Shauna Macdonald and Natalie Mendoza<br />
<br />
MSRP: $39.99]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's Review of The Devil Wears Prada</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=109</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(20th Century Fox, 109 minutes, PG-13)<br />
Film Release Date: 6/30/06<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 12/12/06<br />
 <br />
Disc Specs: 1 disc. Video: 1080p (MPEG 2, 18MBPS), 2.35:1 aspect ratio.<br />
Audio:  English DTS HD 5.1 Master Lossless Audio, Spanish and French Dolby Digital 5.1. Subtitles: English (CC) and Spanish. Extras: Five short features from the standard DVD release are missing; included is a commentary track, deleted scenes with optional commentary, gag reel, and a pop-up trivia track.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: James Plath's Review of Chicken Little</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=108</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Walt Disney Pictures, 81 minutes, G)<br />
Film Release Date: 11-4-2005<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 3-20-07]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Josh Dreuth's Review of Stranger Than Fiction</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=107</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures – 113 Minutes – PG-13<br />
Theatrical Release: November 10, 2006<br />
Blu-ray Release: February 27, 2007<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: James Plath's Review of Kung Fu Hustle</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=105</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Stephen Chow; Stars Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Kwok Kuen Chan, Qiu Yuen and Sheng Yi Huang<br />
<br />
SRP $28.95<br />
<br />
Synopsis<br />
 <br />
When I first saw this film, I was blown away by its quirkiness and outrageous blend of comedy and martial arts. There were so many Warner Brothers cartoon allusions thrown in that it felt a little bit like a cinematic tour de force.<br />
 <br />
Like the spaghetti westerns of old, where streets clear when a gang shows up on the edge of town and walks to its center, looking for trouble, the formally-dressed Axe Gang turns up en masse, ready to kill, maim, or dazzle you with dance steps at the drop of a hat. In westerns, you could always tell the bad guys by their black hats. In Kung Fu Hustle, it's black teeth.<br />
The crocodile cowboy-booted and Stetson-wearing boss of the Crocodile Gang has conspicuously rotten teeth, and so does Big Brother Sum (Kwok Kuen Chan), the boss of the Axe Gang. But just when you think this is going to be another gang vs. gang film, the Axe Gang makes short work of their rivals early in the film and does a celebratory dance (parents, be warned, there's some pretty graphic violence, and the dancing makes it all the more casual).<br />
Kung Fu Hustle really turns out to be the saga of a street rat named Sing (director Chow) who, with his sidekick (Chi Chung Lam), yearns to be a member of the Axe Gang. Who wouldn't want to be? he muses. These guys are sharp dressers, they have money, and they get the girls. And you can't beat those signature flares that they fire off, beaming an illuminated axe in the sky (rather than Batman's famous bat symbol). The rest of the film follows their misadventures as they try to join the gang, then beat the gang--with a hair-in-curlers landlady emerging as a comic masterpiece.<br />
 <br />
Video Quality<br />
 <br />
If you run side-by-side comparisons with the standard DVD, you'll see an appreciable improvement with Blu-ray. This is especially noticeable in the title and end credits, where the lettering looks ragged on the standard disc and so much sharper on Blu-ray. Black levels might not be as strong as in some releases--same with the color saturation--but the level of detail is very strong.<br />
 <br />
Bonus Features<br />
 <br />
Director Chow is joined on the commentary track by the actors who played the sidekick, Axe Gang leader, and Axe Gang advisor. Together, they have a high-kicking good time of it, with plenty of laughter--although there's not much in the way of analysis. The best of the extras is a loose-but-intelligent interview with Chow that feels like a real conversation, rather than an interrogation. There's also a behind-the-scenes TV special that's worth watching, as is a short blooper reel that's fascinating because it's the only document on this disc that shows the work that actors did with ropes. The only feature missing from the standard DVD is a poster gallery.<br />
 <br />
Tru-Blue?<br />
 <br />
Kung Fu Hustle won't be everyone's cup of Chai. Some will be unsettled by the violence or the odd insertion of dance and cartoon elements. But Kung Fu Hustle was the highest grossing film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, and it's easy too see why. It's flat-out crazy. Put this Blu-ray on when  you want to laugh out loud.]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  James Plath's review of Rocky Balboa</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=106</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony Pictures, 102 minutes, PG)<br />
Film release date: 12-20-06<br />
Blu-ray release date: 3-20-07]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Stranger</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=103</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank god for the law of diminished expectations. After 'Perfect Stranger' received scathing reviews during its blink-or-you-missed-it theatrical run this past spring, I went into this review fully expecting this film to be a disaster of epic proportions. And to be sure, this is not a good movie -- in fact, it's rather crappy. But to my great surprise, I still found 'Perfect Stranger' bizarrely enjoyable in a chintzy, Sunday-afternoon rental kind of way. <br />
<br />
Halle Berry stars as Rowena Price, an investigative reporter whose friend's affair with married ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in murder. Suspecting Hill of the crime, Rowena goes undercover with the help of her cyber-geek accomplice Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), posing as two highly alluring women: Katherine, a sexy temp who works within Hill's agency, and Veronica, a seductive temptress he chats up online. Engaging in a dangerous game of virtual cat-and-mouse, ultimately both Rowena and Hill come to realize things may not be what they seem -- and that the real killer may not be who anyone suspected.<br />
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		<title>Weeds Season 2</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=101</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[When 'Weeds' debuted on Showtime in 2005, it told the tale of a suburban housewife named Nancy (Mary Louise Parker) who was hurled into a financial crisis after her husband died. The debt dropped on her shoulders seemed insurmountable until she discovered the untapped market for marijuana in her community. Season one followed this newly single mother as she worked to keep her family afloat, hide her extracurricular activities from her best friend Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), and boost pot sales among clients like her city councilman Doug (Kevin Nealon). As she developed her business, she got help from her brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk), a supplier named Heylia (Tonye Patano), and Heylia's nephew Conrad (Romany Malco).<br />
<br />
'Weeds: Season Two' picks up where we left off by focusing on the cliffhanger from season one -- it seems Nancy's boyfriend is a DEA agent. At the same time, Nancy attempts to begin growing her own product. Complicating matters are a series of twists and turns that leave their mark on every character: Nancy's two sons become more aware of her new job; one of her sons gets a girl pregnant; Andy may have to go overseas and join the war; Doug loses his councilman seat to Celia; and the town is converted into a "drug free zone".<br />
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		<title>Waiting...</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=102</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Three million dollars generally doesn't buy much in Hollywood. Stretching every dime, you might be able to get a low-grade name actor, a basic crew, and a backlot director -- if you're lucky. But give three million dollars to a guy working at T.G.I. Friday's and these limitations apparently no longer apply. Three million was all it took for rookie writer/director Rob McKittrick to turn a script he wrote (while waiting tables) into a trendy indie comedy that caught the attention of male adolescents across the country. 'Waiting' has an impressive ensemble cast and a solid cinema aesthetic -- but is this little-indie-that-could worth your time?<br />
<br />
Dean (Justin Long) has been stuck in the same job since high school, waiting tables at a local theme restaurant called Shenaniganz. While his co-worker Monty (Ryan Reynolds) has accepted the hope-numbing fact that he's in for the long haul, Dean dreams of bigger and better things, so he finds himself at a crossroads when he's offered an assistant manager position at the restaurant -- should he get out while he can, or sell his soul to Shenaniganz and its manager, Dan (David Koechner)? Aside from this central dilemma, the film is also peppered with tales of constant conflict between the kitchen staff (Luis Guzman, Dane Cook and Chi McBride among others) and the waiters (Anna Faris, Jordan Ladd, and Rob Benedict), a wide-eyed trainee (John Francis Daley) who's introduced to the behind-the-scenes eccentricities of a restaraunt, and an ongoing battle with an endless wave of rude and arrogant customers.<br />
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Bill Hunt's Review of Ghost Rider: Extended Cut </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=98</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony, 123 mins, Not Rated)<br />
Film Release Date: 2/16/07<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 6/12/07]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com: Bill Hunt's Review of Hellboy: Director’s Cut</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=99</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sony, 132 mins, Not Rated)<br />
Film Release Date: 4/2/04<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: 6/5/07]]></description>
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		<title>HDNet World Report Special: Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=100</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I can vividly recall being ten years-old and watching the first, historic mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia on television. The date was April 12, 1981, and it was the first live launch of a spacecraft I'd ever witnessed. My reaction of awe and wonder was, I'm sure, similar to those who watched the original moon landing back in 1969. There is something universally out-of-body about the very concept of space travel that's incomparable to anything else. The sheer act of mere mortals breaking the barriers of our earthy world to explore the cosmos is, arguably, the closest we can get to God without going to heaven itself. ]]></description>
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		<title>Special to HollywoodinHiDef.com:  Bill Hunt's Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=97</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[(Buena Vista, 150 mins, PG-13)<br />
Film Release Date: July 7, 2006<br />
Blu-ray Release Date: June 5, 2007]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Things</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=89</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Blue Bay, Florida. A mythical elite beachfront town ripped right from the pages of classic Hollywood film noir, Blue Bay is a world run by money, corruption and power, where every man is a con artist and every woman a cheap, oversexed nympho who'll screw you for a few bucks. It's also the world of 'Wild Things,' one of the most gleefully perverse and completely over-the-top potboilers to hit theaters since the glory days of Zalman King. ]]></description>
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		<title>Phone Booth</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=93</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a publicist, but he spends more time on himself than his group of clients. He makes calls, sends faxes, and conducts in person visits, but he only helps his clients to further his own ends. Such is the nature of business, but Stu lies more than he should and in the case of one client, he puts his own marriage on the line. The one call he makes on a public phone instead of his cellular phone, to keep his wife in the dark, is to this client and she is Pam McFadden (Katie Holmes), a beautiful young actress. Stu even removes his wedding band when he calls Pam, as she has no idea that he is married and if Stu has his way, she will never learn the truth about his personal life. He calls from the same phone booth each day, to talk with her and get her to meet him at a hotel. But after he hangs up the phone on this day, it rings again and this time, its not a beautiful young woman on the other end. The voice belongs to an unknown man in a building nearby, who is holding a high powered rifle aimed right at Stu. If he doesn't do as the sniper demands, Stu will be shot dead, as has happened to several others. The sniper even shoots a man trying to force Stu out of the booth, which causes the police to arrive. Can Stu manage to escape this situation alive, or will the sniper have the final say in the matter?]]></description>
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		<title>Flatliners</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=86</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's take a trip back to the Summer of 1990, shall we? Not a whole lot was different "back then", George Bush was president and we were at war with Iraq. Film-wise, movies like "Ghost", "Days of Thunder" , "Dick Tracy" and "Total Recall" were hits at the box office and a little movie called "Flatliners" had a great cast of some fairly new, fresh faces. Yes, we'd seen Kiefer Sutherland in previous movies like "Stand by Me" and "The Lost Boys" but who was this other Baldwin brother? Little did we know there was yet another (Stephen). Julia Roberts was coming off her Spring-time box office success of "Pretty Woman" and wouldn't you know it, she and Kiefer Sutherland were an item. Yep, before Brad and Angelina (and Brad and Gweyneth), Bennifer and TomKat, there was Kiefer and Julia. Naturally they didn't last, but the on-screen chemistry is there, to be sure. Enough about the cast, though I have neglected to mention Kevin Bacon and this movie certainly helped his "Six Degrees" stature. The idea behind the film is this: "Can you cheat death to see what's on the other side?"<br />
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		<title>The Patriot</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=87</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) has served his time in military action, but he has no wish to return to his warlike ways. He has lost his wife, but still has several children to tend to and has no intentions of leaving them fatherless. But his oldest son, Gabriel (Heath Ledger) wants to be right on the front lines and enlists even without his father's consent. Soon Gabriel returns home, though this time he is wounded and is mere hours in front of a massive battle. The battle spills right into the Martin's property and when morning comes, the cruel Col. Tavington (Jason Isaacs) of the English army arrives and orders the death of Gabriel for carrying papers to American forces. As if that wasn't enough, Tavington also kills a younger son when he tries to intervene and this drives Benjamin over the edge. He soon rallies his remaining sons, takes arms, and heads out to free Gabriel. After this mission works, he joins up with the American forces and works to amass a civilian team to hold off the English forces until the French arrive. But this is a personal mission as well and by the time the war ends, either Benjamin or Tavington will be dead by the other's hand. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hustle &amp; Flow</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=85</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer/director Craig Brewer's hip-hop drama 'Hustle &amp; Flow' might well be called "the little movie that could." Seemingly plucked from obscurity to debut at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the critically-praised film enjoyed a surprisingly strong theatrical run, and went on to earn a scad of award nods (including, most famously, an Oscar win for the Three 6 Mafia song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp").<br />
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The film itself focuses on a hard-working pimp named DJay (Terrence Howard), who finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis. As the city street corners become more and more dangerous, he can't help but feel that he was meant to do something greater in life. And so, with the help of his sound technician friend Key (Anthony Anderson), DJay begins to lay down rap tracks in the hopes of impressing a famous hip-hop artist coming to town named Skinny Black (Ludacris). Along the way, he'll also receive help from two hookers in his employ (Taraji P. Henson and Taryn Manning), and a mixer friend of Key's named Shelby (D.J. Qualls).<br />
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		<title>Ice Age 2: The Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=95</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Meltdown is a surprisingly satisfying sequel and that’s due to the great voice work by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo plus an expanded role for the consistently-hilarious Scrat and his elusive acorns. Also noteworthy is the sequel’s superior animation; landscapes and textures have come a long way since the original.]]></description>
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		<title>Open Season</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=96</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[On Blu-ray, Open Season is drop-dead gorgeous and the picture quality alone makes this one worth a watch. Individual hairs can easily be seen on Boog’s fur and colors consistently pop off the screen. Audio is uncompressed PCM and sounds good but it’s nothing to write home about. Extras abound but most are in standard definition. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Untouchables</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=83</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High-Def Digest <br />
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By 1987, Brian De Palma had toiled for two decades in the lucrative (but critically derided) "ghetto" of low-and mid-budget genre filmmaking -- directing such films as 'Sisters,' 'Dressed to Kill,' 'Blow Out' and 'Scarface.' But while many of his films generated their fair share of attention, none were particularly profitable by Hollywood standards, and most were widely derided by critics as being far-too-derivative of Alfred Hitchcock.<br />
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So when Paramount announced it had signed De Palma to helm 'The Untouchables,' the news was met with more than a few raised eyebrows -- not only was De Palma an unproven choice for such a big-budgeted epic, but the political cynicism of his earlier works ('Blow Out' and 'Scarface' being prime examples) seemed out of whack with this most American of stories, set to be produced at the height of Reagan-era patriotism.<br />
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		<title>Black Snake Moan</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=84</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By High-Def Digest<br />
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How does an up-and-coming director follow a breakout flick about a middle-aged pimp with career aspirations of hip-hop superstardom? Apparently with a controversial landmine of a film that juggles issues of race, abuse, addiction, and morality. Loosely based on a George Eliot novel from the 1860s ("Silas Marner"), writer/director Craig Brewer's second film (after his critically acclaimed 'Hustle &amp; Flow') is an unusual film, to say the least. <br />
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'Black Snake Moan' tells the story of Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), a religious blues musician whose wife runs off with his brother. Stuck in a tailspin, Lazarus withdraws from his tight-knit community and attempts to deal with his wife's betrayal at the bottom of a bottle. After a heavy night of drinking, he wakes up to find a young woman named Rae (Christina Ricci) lying alongside the road, beaten and left for dead. He nurses her back to health, but soon discovers that she's a nymphomaniac with an abusive past who can't control her sexual urges. Chaining her to a radiator in his house, he decides to cure her of her "sickness" with his Bible and a stern bout of tough love.<br />
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		<title>Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=82</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream success of Tyler Perry is arguably the antithesis of the usual Hollywood success story. Launching his career in the theater, Perry staged various gospel-backed productions that rapidly grew in cult appeal. He then went on to further grow his grassroots fanbase by starring in a series of low-budget film comedies, beginning with "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and then "Madea's Family Reunion' (which marked his own film directing debut). Yet despite the homegrown charm and growing popularity of his creations, their schlocky construction and reliance on base humor (fart jokes, etc.) have all but turned Perry into a critical whipping post.]]></description>
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		<title>Primeval</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=79</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I distinctly remember seeing the original theatrical trailer for 'Primeval' in 2006 -- it was tantalizing with its quick flashes of an off-camera serial killer that had supposedly killed hundreds of people without ever being caught. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Warriors</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=80</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA['The Warriors' may be the only movie with a poster that's as notorious as the film it promoted. The image is now a classic -- a shot of a thousand gang members under a tagline that reads, "These are the Armies of The Night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City." The resulting uproar over what effect the poster might have on impressionable young adults was so strong that the one-sheet would ultimately be pulled by Paramount, and replaced by a new poster that simply had the words "The Warriors" spray-painted on a subway wall.]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Botti Live with Orchestra</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=77</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I like jazz, but I'm far from an aficionado--which is why I never heard of Chris Botti. But I'm happy to have made his acquaintance via Blu-ray on "Chris Botti Live with Orchestra &amp; Special Guests."]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge to Terabithia </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=78</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Often the best movie experiences are those you go into without any preconceived notions or expectations. Such was my experience with 'Bridge to Terabithia.' From reading the Blu-ray box cover, at first I worried that this might be a cheap Disney knock-off of such fantasy faves like 'The NeverEnding Story' or 'The Dark Crystal,' but in reality 'Terabithia' is a true gem -- an underrated sleeper that I personally preferred to much more popular and highly-acclaimed films such as 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and 'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.']]></description>
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		<title>Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=74</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA["Nature porn" in the high-def world is the equivalent of what the first Nickelodeons to motion pictures in the early part of the 20th century -- endless loops of beautiful waterfalls, leaves blowing gently in the wind and hummingbirds pollinating flowers, all solely for the benefit of dazzling the eye and exciting the senses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Lyrics</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=75</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In the current pop culture climate, there are at least three forces impervious to all but a nuclear holocaust: the bubbly charm of Drew Barrymore, the bubbly charm of Hugh Grant, and the bubbly charm of '80s synth-pop nostalgia.]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Dancing [20th Anniversary]</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=76</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not want to admit to how many times I´ve seen "Dirty Dancing" since it debuted twenty years ago. I shouldn´t even admit that I owned "Dirty Dancing" and "More Dirty Dancing" on cassette.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=70</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[John Wayne is an American icon -- nearly every film fan knows his name and many can even throw out a quick impression of the actor's vocal delivery. He appeared in hundreds of films going back to the '20s, and his swagger has influenced every action movie that's hit the screen ever since. One of the most notable films of the twilight of his career was 'The Cowboys,' a western that stripped Wayne of the firearms his characters had become known for over the years.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Rider</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=71</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[With Superman, Batman and Spider-Man responsible for the lion's share of big-screen blockbusterdom these days, what's a Hollywood studio to do when it needs to save itself at the box office? Apparently, they raid the Marvel and DC vaults for any even remotely marketable, half-remembered character that they can spiff up with CGI and try to pass off as cool. <br />
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		<title>Seven Years in Tibet</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=72</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite its philosophical desire for peace and freedom, Tibet has found itself embroiled in a significant conflict with China that has only intensified since the 13th century. This dispute is based on each nation's varying accounts of history, their separate claims to Tibet as a nation, and wildly different perspectives on the legitimacy of Tibet's liberation. In 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet and formed an exile government in northern India that continues to fight China's claim to their homeland to this day.]]></description>
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		<title>Blood &amp; Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=73</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Werewolf movies have been quite en vogue since "Underworld" electrified theaters in 2003. The genre had been in a slight upswing before Kate Beckinsale showed how well she could fit into a leather outfit. "Underworld" wasn´t a great film, but it was the female empowerment werewolf equivalent of Wesley Snipe´s "Blade" series. It was only a matter of time before a real stinker in the werewolf genre found light of day and set the entire sub-genre of the fantasy horror genre back into darkness. "Blood &amp; Chocolate" is exactly that film. Director Katja von Garnier had not had much work before the film and leading actress Agness Bruckner had previously done a lot of work in television, but not in cinema. One could chalk "Blood &amp; Chocolate" off to a rookie experience for all involved. However, that would just be trying to make an excuse for this dreadful film.<br />
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		<title>Rescue Me:  The Complete third Season</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=68</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Denis Leary would appear to be a walking paradox. He's fiercely funny, terribly angry, and one of the most outspoken comedians of his generation -- but beneath all the bitterness is a humanitarian with an impressive level of commitment. As the founder of the non-profit Leary Firefighters Foundation, he's raised nearly three million dollars for fire departments in Boston and New York City and has helped support post-Katrina rescue and clean-up efforts in Louisiana. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=69</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-November 2006, Bruce Springsteen and the 18-member strong Sessions Band performed a three-night series of concerts at The Point in Dublin, Ireland. 'Live in Dublin' (which is being concurrently released on CD, DVD and Blu-ray) features a wide-ranging collection of the best performances from those three concerts, including a host of songs from Springsteen's latest album ("The Seeger Sessions"), some radical interpretations from The Boss' past songbook, plus a few songs that have never before been captured on a Springsteen release.<br />
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		<title>Rio Bravo</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=64</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1955, director Howard Hawks, stung by the critical and commercial failure of his big-budget epic 'Land of the Pharaohs,' took what would become a four-year exile from Hollywood. It was a startling about-face for the embattled but highly-prolific director, who previously had directed forty pictures in almost as many years. But Hawks would, phoenix-like, eventually re-emerge from the ashes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of the Bulge</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=67</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Annakin´s 1965 war epic "The Battle of the Bulge" is a film not known for its historical accuracies. Loosely inspired by the infamous battle that was responsible for nearly 100,000 American casualties and was the last major push by the German forces during World War II, Annakin´s picture features a number of familiar faces. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas and Charles Bronson are all big stars in their time. Shaw is one of the film´s principal characters, as is Henry Fonda´s character, but Telly Savalas has a supporting role with Charles Bronson not appearing for more than a couple scenes. The picture is heavily maligned by military buffs for its gross inaccuracies. The military hardware, camouflage schemes, geographical features of Bastogne and Ardennes and the factors in the Allied victory during the Battle of the Bulge are all incorrect throughout the film.<br />
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		<title>Blood Diamond</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=65</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA['Blood Diamond' on Blu-ray might best described as an experiment for Warner Home Entertainment. Over the past year, the dual-format supporting studio has been the most aggressive among its peers in releasing HD DVD titles with interactive features, but due what it has described as technical differences between the two next-gen formats, it has been unable to match those features on its Blu-ray releases. As a result, the format-neutral studio has generally opted to hold off on releasing titles with such functionality to Blu-ray until it can provide those releases on the format with like-features.]]></description>
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		<title>Stomp the Yard</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=63</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Truth University is a prestigious college, not the kind of place DJ (Columbus Short) ever imagined he would wind up at. His interests fall more on the side of dance, not academics, but his past landed him in hot water. His brother was murdered when a dance battle between rival gangs turned violent. As DJ tried to cope with the intense loss, his uncle (Harry Lennix) gave him a chance to get his life back on the right track. As soon as he is on campus, DJ feels out of place, since many of the other students are upper class and come from such a different background. But on the bright side, he quickly meets the beautiful April (Meagan Good) and romance seems to be in the cards. Then he learns about "stepping," a tradition at the school where the fraternities engage in elaborate dance battles to determine who rules the school. But can DJ keep all these things in order and make the turn to improve his life, or will he buckle under the pressure?<br />
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		<title>Hellboy</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=61</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[You know the kind of movie that holds your interest for about a half hour but after that pretty much just flounders and ends up being an exercise in uninteresting and tedious boredom? Hellboy is that kind of movie. I had a lot of hope for it going in, mostly because I had heard a lot of good things about it. I'm not averse to superhero movies, I read comic books when I was younger. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Messengers</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=58</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming rather late in the post-'Grudge' Japanese-inspired wave of PG-13 horror, 'The Messengers' is the horror movie equivalent of week-old bread. Filled with nearly every cliche of the haunted house flick, you'll have far more success counting the number of creaking doors and flash-cuts to pale dead kids than you will bumping into a single fresh creative idea during the film's 84-minute runtime. ]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to America</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=59</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Hitting theaters hot on the heels of Eddie Murphy's string of mid-eighties blockbusters, 'Coming to America' reunited Murphy with his 'Trading Places' director John Landis, and paired the comic actor with the then-emerging comedian Arsenio Hall for this 1988 fish-out-of-water comedy. Nearly twenty years on, it may not be as enduring a film as 'Trading Places,' but it is still a fun and endearing flick, and one that clearly set the stage for Murphy's later shape-shifting roles in films like 'The Nutty Professor' and 'Norbit.'<br />
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		<title>Volver</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=62</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and her sister Sole (Lola Duenas) have been without their mother since she perished in a fire, but they were close with an aunt. When their aunt dies, the sisters attend the funeral and hear rumors that their mother has been seen, which of course has them on edge. Back from the funeral, Sole opens the trunk of her car and discovers her mother Irene (Carmen Maura) inside. Of course this is a shock, but she takes her in and tells her neighbors she is an immigrant, as Irene doesn't want Raimunda to know she is still alive. ]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Places</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=57</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[There is long-standing theory in Hollywood that the more fun the filmmakers have making a movie, the less fun the audience will have watching it. Particularly in the case of comedies, it would seem to ring true -- how many times have you watched a so-called laugh riot that just felt out-of-control, with the actors flailing their arms all about and screaming one-liners at each other to no avail? It may have been one big party on the set, but it's nothing but headache-inducing when projected on a big screen fifty feet wide. <br />
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		<title>Weeds: Season One </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=52</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Although HBO may be king when it comes to original programming on premium cable, rival movie channel Showtime has turned in a number of its own high-profile and critically acclaimed series over the last few years, including 'Brothers,' 'The L Word,' 'Queer as Folk,' and 'Fat Actress.' In 2005, the channel introduced a new series called 'Weeds' that was equal parts quirky family dramedy and surreal morality tale. As it prepares to launch its third season in August of 2007, the show debuts on Blu-ray with this release of the series' first ten episodes.<br />
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		<title>Million Dollar Baby</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=55</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood has no desire to retire from Hollywood. In his advancing years, the veteran actor and director has decided to spend more time behind the camera than in front of it. Eastwood will make an exception and return to acting if one of his films contains a role he feels perfectly suited for. 2004´s "Million Dollar Baby" is one such film and the last time that Eastwood has stepped in front of the camera. "Million Dollar Baby" took home Best Picture and captured yet another Best Director Academy Award nomination, following "Mystic River," "Unforgiven," and precluding "Letters from Iwo Jima." As was the case with "Unforgiven," Eastwood brought home the Oscar for Best Director for "Million Dollar Baby" and helped further his legacy as one of Hollywood´s truly great talents.<br />
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		<title>Space Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=56</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Implausible. I can´t think of a better word to sum up the plot of Clint Eastwood´s geriatric astronaut epic "Space Cowboys." Produced, directed by and starring a then seventy year old Eastwood, a fifty four year old Tommy Lee Jones, a sixty five year old incarnation of Donald Sutherland and James Garner the eldest at seventy two years of age during filming, "Space Cowboys" veteran actors provided entertainment, but the film´s lackluster and completely implausible storyline bogged down the seemingly longer 130 minute film. Clint Eastwood has had his hits and misses behind the camera and for each success like "Unforgiven" or "Million Dollar Baby," there is an unsuccessful film like "Space Cowboys" or "Blood Work."]]></description>
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		<title>Curse of the Golden Flower</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=53</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Until relatively recently, acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou ('Ju Dou') was known for his intimate dramas and character studies. That changed in 2002 with the release of his critically acclaimed actioner 'Hero,' the first of three films that together form an unofficial Wushu trilogy. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Fountain</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=54</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky´s long-time-coming project "The Fountain" has had a storied past. Originally, the film had Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett attached. The film was given the greenlight with a healthy seventy five million dollar budget. When Pitt and Aronofsky disagreed on script changes that Pitt had demanded, he left the project and "The Fountain" was put on the shelf. Four years later, Aronofsky pieced together his personal project that he penned and found a replacement for Pitt in Australian Hugh Jackman and British beauty Rachel Weisz. ]]></description>
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		<title>Cruel Intentions </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=49</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The first time I saw 'Cruel Intentions' was on a Sunday afternoon in a mall multiplex, the kind you usually find half-empty and smelling of week-old popcorn. After paying my admission, I walked up to the ticket-taker, a kid no older than 16, who looked at me and said, "Boy, old people sure do love to see this movie."]]></description>
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		<title>Norbit</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=50</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[As absurd as it may sound, there's a theory floating around Hollywood that Eddie Murphy's Best Supporting Actor loss for 'Dreamgirls' at the Oscars earlier this year was a direct result of his role in 'Norbit.']]></description>
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		<title>Flags of Our Fathers</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=48</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood is a national treasure. At seventy five years old, the veteran actor and director just keeps churning out incredible films. Whereas he thrilled audiences with numerous memorable character roles such as Harry Callahan the infamous man with no name in Sergio Leone´s spaghetti western trilogy, Clint Eastwood is one of the quintessential tough guy actors and perhaps the stereotypical image of a cinematic gunslinger. ]]></description>
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		<title>Happily N'Ever After </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=30</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of years have seen some pretty dreadful animated films. Sure, every once in while we get a great flick like 'Happy Feet' or 'Cars' or even the humble charms of the underrated 'Monster House.' But more and more, audiences are having to wade through a lot of CGI gunk to find the gems.]]></description>
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		<title>District B13 </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=31</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Though it barely registered as a blip on the cinematic radar outside of France, 'District B13' is an enthralling actioner produced and written by Luc Besson ('The Professional') that showcases a style of pseudo-martial arts called Parkour. Fans of 'Casino Royale' will instantly recognize Parkour from the series of fight-or-flight escape tactics that a henchman employs to escape through a construction site early in that film. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Queen </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=41</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Freedom Writers </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=39</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Relatively overlooked upon its theatrical release early in 2007, 'Freedom Writers' is inspired by the diaries of a group of real Long Beach, California teenagers after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.]]></description>
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		<title>Letters from Iwo Jima </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=43</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, 'Letters from Iwo Jima' was supposed to be a side project -- a companion piece helmed by Clint Eastwood to compliment the backstory of his 'Flags of Our Fathers.' But once audiences were exposed to it, the film quickly became more, earning stronger critical notices than 'Flags,' and even earning a pair of Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.]]></description>
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		<title>Closer</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=6</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Nichols is a legend for good reason. But in the last few years he seems to have come back into his own, with Wit, Angels in America, and Closer. Much like Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Closer is a film about seduction and the difficulties maintaining faithfulness and love and relationships in our time. This is a movie about four people who truly deserve each other. Fascinated by the game of love, seduced by seduction itself, they play at sincere, truthful relationships which are lies in almost every respect, except their desire to sleep with each other.]]></description>
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		<title>Catch and Release </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=13</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[&amp;quot;Catch and Release,&amp;quot; a romantic comedy that begins with the death of a fiancé just days before the wedding, feels so authentic that it's no shock to hear on one of the commentary tracks that it was based on a true story. But it also feels long, and one has to think that first-time director Susannah Grant might release a director's cut in the future--after she learns how to say &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to what we suspect are some of her writer's favorite scenes. The name of that writer? Susannah Grant.]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Earth</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=9</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Costing $25 million (quite substantial for a documentary), spanning seven continents, and taking five years to make, Planet Earth is the new standard for nature documentaries. The production team included some of the world's most respected and renowned nature photographers, and its amazing to wonder how so much of this was caught on film. Its truly a glimpse of the world that most of us don't usually get to see. ]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery Atlas: Brazil Revealed</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=23</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the other episodes in the series, 'Brazil Revealed' focuses its cameras on average citizens (rather than celebrities or famous political figures), and once again the concept delivers in spades. Presented as a series of vignettes punctuated by lush photography, each of those profiled presents a different and often entirely unique perspective, painting a rich and vibrant portrait of a country starkly divided between poverty and wealth.]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Day Afternoon</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=15</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sidney Lumet´s 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon" stars Al Pacino and is based upon actual events detailing a 1972 bank robbery by John Wojtowicz.]]></description>
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		<title>The Phantom of the Opera </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=18</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Gaston Leroux´s 1909 novel Le Fantôme de l´Opéra was first adapted in 1911. This adaptation was from its native French language to English, where it gained its more familiar name, The Phantom of the Opera. ]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Launch </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=16</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew McConaughey has slowly become one of the go-to guys for date movies, aka chick flicks. "The Wedding Planner," "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and now "Failure to Launch" have all been successful box office hits. "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" broke the one hundred million dollar mark and "Failure to Launch" was not far off. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Descent </title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=19</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The absolutely most horrific moment of the Neil Marshall directed "The Descent" happens quite early in the film. In fact, it occurs before the monsters crawl from the darkness of the caves. The moment I speak of is when the film´s central character, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) becomes wedged in a narrow ´tube´ within a cave and is unable to free her arms and move out of her claustrophobic situation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Black Rain</title>
		<link>http://dev.hollywoodinhidef.com/reviews_detail.php?id=12</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the middle of my High School career and a new Ridley Scott movie hit the theaters. This film was "Black Rain." I had known of Michael Douglas from the two Jack Coltrane films, "Romancing the Stone" and "Jewel of the Nile." I had also known that a crazy blonde woman had stewed his rabbit in another film. "Black Rain" didn´t have Harrison Ford or any other stars that I followed at that time, but Michael Douglas seemed cool enough and I knew that Ridley Scott made great films. In my mind, "Black Rain" would find "Blade Runner" in Japan and instead of chasing down superhuman clones; the hero would be going after the Yakuza. ]]></description>
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