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Blu-ray Added on 2009-11-08

November 8th, 2009
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Gamer Includes Digital Copy Blu-ray

$30.29USD (Added: 2009-11-08, Released: 2010-01-19)
LIONS GATE

Reality and video games merge in this high-concept sci-fi action thriller from Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. In the not too distant future, mind-control technology allows humans to control the actions and movements of other humans, allowing reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) to create the ultimate video game. It's called "Slayers," and it's a mass-scale, multiplayer online first-person shooter that's as controversial as it is popular. In the world of g

Stories from the Vaults: Season 2 2 Discs Blu-ray

$19.54USD (Added: 2009-11-08, Released: 2009-11-10)
SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS



Weeds: Season Five 2 Discs Blu-ray

$32.02USD (Added: 2009-11-08, Released: 2010-01-19)
LIONS GATE



Whip It 2 Discs Includes Digital Copy Blu-ray

$31.96USD (Added: 2009-11-08, Released: 2010-01-26)
20TH CENTURY FOX

Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It!, the story of an ex-beauty pageant contestant named Bliss (played by Juno's Ellen Page) who leaves her crowns behind after joining a roller-derby team. While her mother would prefer that Bliss unlace her skates and step back before the judges, the rebellious teen instead seeks the wisdom of rowdy mentor Malice in Wonderland (Kristen Wiig) in learning the tricks of the circuit track. The Mandate Pictures production was writt

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Blu-ray Added on 2009-10-07

October 7th, 2009
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2 Discs Includes Digital Copy Blu-ray

$34.82USD (Added: 2009-10-07, Released: 2009-11-03)
PARAMOUNT

Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with this Paramount Pictures production that pits the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity against the evil forces of the organization known as Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum star as General Hawk and Duke Hauser, respectively, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marlon Wayans leading the rest of the cast, including Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, {$Christoph

Julie & Julia Blu-ray

$33.53USD (Added: 2009-10-07, Released: 2009-12-08)
SONY PICTURES

Nora Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen with this Columbia Pictures production starring Amy Adams as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) in order to chronicle it in a blog over the course of a year. Streep's Devil Wears Prada co-star Stanley Tucci re-teams with the actress as Child's husband. ~ Jeremy

Paper Heart 2 Discs Blu-ray

$30.99USD (Added: 2009-10-07, Released: 2009-12-01)
STARZ / ANCHOR BAY

Real-life sweethearts Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi head up this indie semi-documentary comedy, scripted by Yi, concerning the meaning of love. Fellow Judd Apatow veteran Nicholas Jasenovec makes his directorial debut with the production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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Blu-ray Added on 2008-12-21

December 21st, 2008
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Battle in Seattle

$22.56USD (Added: 2008-12-21, Released: 2009-03-10)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Actor-turned-filmmaker Stuart Townsend makes his screenwriting and directorial debut with this ensemble film set during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle and presenting the riots that swept through the streets during the five-day conference from the perspectives of police, protestors, and city officials. A typically laid-back Northwestern city, Seattle would erupt into violence when, for five days in 1999, tens of thousands of protestors flooded the streets to voice their disapprov

Let the Right One In

$21.16USD (Added: 2008-12-21, Released: 2009-03-10)
MAGNOLIA

A 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town suspiciously coincides with a horrifying series of murders in director Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the book by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. Oskar is a young boy who can't seem to shake off the local bullies, but all of that begins to change when a new neighbor moves in next door. After striking up an innocent friendship with his eccentric next-door neighbor, Oskar realizes that she i

Living Temples Blu-ray

$17.37USD (Added: 2008-12-21, Released: 2009-01-13)
THIRD PLANET

Grammy-winning writer-director Jan Nickman helms Living Temples, a philosophical examination of the American Southwest as a backdrop for the concepts of death and rebirth, and an examination of what specifically constitutes "sacredness." Nickman tells the story of the said landscape with a chronological approach, utilizing a succession of breathtaking vistas that (as the filmmaker reminds us) have survived adverse conditions and impacts, but remained flexible enough to be reshaped by those forces

Tell No One

$26.32USD (Added: 2008-12-21, Released: 2009-03-31)
MUSIC BOX FILMS

An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller from France. Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is a doctor who has slowly been putting his life back together after his wife Margot was murdered by a serial killer. Eight years on, Alex is doing well enough until he finds himself implicated in the murder of two people, with plenty of evidence pointing to him as the killer even though he knows nothing of the crimes. The same d

Tosca

$32.60USD (Added: 2008-12-21, Released: 2009-01-27)
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