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Dirty Harry (Ultimate Collector's Edition)

Fans of the .44 magnum wielding, squinty-eyed vigilante cop should be feeling lucky now that all five films (Dirty Harry, Magnum...

Mike Sebastian

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Dans Paris

Dans Paris is essentially a film about the complex nature of family relationships. The despondent oldest son is broken up due...

Alexander L. Carpenter

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Cassandra's Dream

Woody Allen’s latest comes to DVD – though you’d hardly know it was Woody. It’s a stab at classical tragedy: tempting the Fates,...

Mike Sebastian

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Frank Sinatra - The Early Years

This is a collection mostly for the die-hard Sinatra fan, as the films are a mixed bag. Highlights include: It Happened in Brooklyn,...

Mike Sebastian

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The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly Collection

Sinatra and Kelly expertly sing and dance their way through three colorful MGM musicals from the mid-late ’40s. The real winner...

Mike Sebastian

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Frank Sinatra - The Golden Years

This collection, covering Sinatra’s career from the mid-’50s to the early ’60s, is the real winner, featuring some of his best...

Mike Sebastian

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Some Came Running

In his letter to the editor in the inaugural issue of The Paris Review, Bill Styron held up James Jones’ characters (Pvt. Prewitt,...

Sean Schlemmer

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James Stewart - The Western Collection

The highlight of this collection is Stewart’s collaborations with Anthony Mann in what have been called “psychological westerns.”...

Mike Sebastian

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The Bette Davis Collection

Bette Davis, if not the greatest American actress ever, certainly deserves a place in the top 10. By turns bitter, heartbreaking...

Angela Matano

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Le Gai Savoir

Alissa Simmons

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Le Chinoise

Jean-Luc Godard’s outright political commentary on 1967 France has been re-released this year. The story of French college students...

Alissa Simmons

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Three Sheets: Season 2

What better way to learn about cultural differences than by watching a TV show about getting drunk in every country in the world?...

Bourbon With Brendan

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Saturday Night Live: The Complete Third Season

The seminal third season of “SNL” had the Not Ready for Primetime Players really hitting their stride, with Bill Murray emerging...

Mike Sebastian

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Drawn Together - Uncensored!: Season Three

For those apparent few like me who remain baffled by the popularity of reality shows, yet entertained by twisted cartoons, “Drawn...

Natasha Desianto

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Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to Heartland

When Vince Vaughn takes a handful of comedians on the road for 30 shows in 30 days in 30 cities, we get a behind the curtain...

Bourbon With Brendan

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Rambo - The Complete Collector's Set

This six-disc extravaganza revives the biggest action icon of the ’80s in the uneven Rambo series. First Blood, based on the...

Mike Sebastian

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Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Man, oh man, does this movie rock. Sarah Jessica Parker starred in this campy and fun ode to 1980s music and dance. As Janey,...

Ebony March

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Sometimes, when everyone around you seems to like a movie – not only like but love, esteem, find transformative – admitting to...

Angela Matano

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The Lovers

For the young Louis Malle, cinema was about photography and fate. The Lovers reunites him with Jeanne Moreau and cinematographer...

Sean Schlemmer

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The Fire Within

Louis Malle shocked audiences in 1963 with this stark, bleak portrait of a disaffected writer living in a treatment facility...

Mike Sebastian

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Space: the final frontier. Many have tried and many have failed, but 2001: A Space Odyssey stands forth, 40 years after its release,...

Zach Bourque

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Youth Without Youth

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in a decade met with mixed reviews and quietly disappeared from theaters. It’s certainly not...

Mike Sebastian

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Serial Mom

John Waters’s cult classic is available in a new collector’s edition, which comes with several featurettes and feature commentary...

Mike Sebastian

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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

“MST3K” was the much beloved series about the guy trapped in space with his robot friends and forced to watch excruciating sci-fi...

Mike Sebastian

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Marvel Heroes Collection

This box set contains many of the Marvel comic adaptations from recent years, including: the X-Men trilogy, Daredevil, Elektra...

Mike Sebastian

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The Great Debaters

A cozy film about a snug college debate team, The Great Debaters both does and does not manage to take you back to a sweeter,...

Angela Matano

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The Golden Compass

Looking to ride the coattails of recent franchises based on children’s fantasy literature, The Golden Compass falls a bit short...

Angela Matano

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A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of short films get made every year with blood, sweat and tears. Few, if any, get seen...

Angela Matano

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The Andromeda Strain

While I haven’t seen the original ’71 version of Michael Crichton’s classic techno-thriller, I can’t imagine it could have been...

Jeff Bachman

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War/Dance

War/Dance documents the lives of young students in northern Uganda, the site of a long-standing civil war. Their stories are...

Dov Rudnick