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Blu-ray Added on 2009-11-01

November 1st, 2009
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9 Blu-ray

$32.28USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-12-29)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Academy Award-nominated for his groundbreaking animated short of the same name, filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature directorial debut with this expanded version of his acclaimed post-apocalyptic fable. In a world parallel to our own, the worst has happened, and humanity is in danger of extinction. From the ashes of destruction emerges a courageous rag doll named 9 (voice of Elijah Wood) whose unique leadership skills could prove the key to survival for those who have not yet perished. Perhaps

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love Rated/Unrated Blu-ray

$28.42USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-12-22)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS



City of Life and Death Blu-ray

$49.39USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-11-17)
MEGA STARS

Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese city on December 9, 1937, and in the six weeks to follow, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Director Lu Chuan directs this black-and-white, docudrama account of that horrifying six-week period, with the benefit of an ensemble cast that includes Hideo Nakaizumi as a conscience stricken Japanese

Extract Blu-ray

$30.36USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-12-22)
MIRAMAX

Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins, and J.K. Simmons star in writer/director Mike Judge's comedy about a flower-extract plant owner contending with an ever-growing avalanche of personal and professional disasters. An employee at the factory has just suffered an unfortunate accident on the assembly line, but little does the put-upon owner realize that things are about to get much worse. As the injured employee threatens to sue and it begins to look

MLB: 2009 World Series - New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia Phillies Blu-ray

$21.32USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-12-15)
SHOUT FACTORY THEATR



Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball Rated/Unrated Blu-ray

$28.42USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2010-01-19)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS



Superstar Blu-ray

$24.82USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-11-24)
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Written By Blu-ray

$49.39USD (Added: 2009-11-01, Released: 2009-11-17)
MEI AH

Two competing works of fiction begin to take on lives of their own in this dark comic fantasy from director Wai Ka-fai. A lawyer (Lau Ching-wan) is driving with his wife (Kelly Lin), daughter (Mia Yam) and son (Chung Ying-kit) when the car is involved in a serious accident that leaves the father dead and the daughter blind. Mother is wracked with grief, and the young daughter tries to lift her spirits by writing a book in which an auto wreck claims the lives of the rest of the family but

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Blu-ray Added on 2009-10-04

October 4th, 2009
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Blu-ray

$23.24USD (Added: 2009-10-04, Released: 2010-01-05)
20TH CENTURY FOX

The jumbo-sized Baker family are back in this sequel to the 2003 box-office hit Cheaper by the Dozen. College football coach Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and his wife, author Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt), have decided its time they took their sizable brood of 12 children on a summer vacation, and so they pack up the cars and take the kids to Lake Winnetka for some camping. Not all the kids are happy about this, but the one who is really annoyed turns out to be Tom, who discovers his old rival {%J

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Blu-ray

$20.97USD (Added: 2009-10-04, Released: 2009-12-01)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

British writer Guy Ritchie made his feature directorial debut with this crime-caper comedy-drama set in London's East End and heavy on the Cockney dialogue (with one scene in subtitled Cockney rhyming slang). A big-bucks scheme goes awry: Cardsharp Eddy (Nick Moran) and pals Bacon (Jason Statham), Tom (Jason Flemyng), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) scuffle to pile up enough money to put Eddy at the card table opposite gangland porn lord Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty). Unfortunately, the whole

Open Road Blu-ray

$27.11USD (Added: 2009-10-04, Released: 2009-11-17)
STARZ / ANCHOR BAY

Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Steenburgen star in writer/director Michael Meredith's tale of a young man looking to reconnect with his long-lost father -- a famous athlete -- and bring him back to the bedside of his ailing mother. Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, and Kate Mara fill out the supporting cast in the Perfect Weekend production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Blu-ray Added on 2009-09-27

September 27th, 2009
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G-Force

$34.87USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-15)
WALT DISNEY VIDEO

Two time Oscar-winning visual effects artist Hoyt Yeatman makes his feature directorial debut with this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced family film following a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world. Beginning in the Civil War -- when carrier pigeons delivered messages from the front lines -- the American government has been covertly training animals to work in espionage. The latest government program is a clandestine espionage tea

Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Fitness: Ultimate 3x30 Blu-ray

$13.74USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-08)
MUSIC ACCESS INC.



Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Fitness: Ultimate Abs Blu-ray

$13.74USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-08)
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Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Fitness: Ultimate Body, Vol. 1 Blu-ray

$13.74USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-08)
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Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Fitness: Ultimate Cardio Blu-ray

$13.74USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-08)
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La Bohème

$29.07USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-15)
KULTUR VIDEO

The legendary Robert Dornhelm directed this 2008 cinematization of Giacomo Puccini's seminal La Boheme - a film-opera starring Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon and George Von Bergen in the principal roles. This adaptation, like the original stage work, tells of the star-crossed love between writer Rodolfo (Villazon) and seamstress Mimi (Netrebko), who meet by chance one memorable Christmas Eve, and instantly fall in love - only to find that love ultimately ripped away by {%M

STAR TREK: ORIGINAL SERIES - THREE SEASON PACK

$224.75USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-15)
PARAMOUNT



Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 6 Discs Blu-ray

$83.96USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-15)
PARAMOUNT



The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter

$30.96USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-01)
CRITERION

This musical documentary concerns the Rolling Stones and their tragic free concert at Altamont Speedway near San Francisco in early December 1969. The event was all but destroyed by violence that marked the end of the peace and love euphoria of the 1960s. The night began smoothly, with the supercharged Flying Burrito Brothers opening up for the Rolling Stones and performing the truck-driving classic "Six Days on the Road" and Tina Turner giving a sensually charged performance. But o

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut 4 Discs Blu-ray

$49.08USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-11-03)
WARNER HOME VIDEO



World's Greatest Dad Blu-ray

$27.82USD (Added: 2009-09-27, Released: 2009-12-08)
MAGNOLIA

A high school poetry teacher and single father discovers that the thing he covets most in life may not be what makes him truly happy in this pitch-black comedy directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and starring Robin Williams. Lance Clayton (Williams) is a mild-mannered high school teacher from Seattle who was granted sole custody of his son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara), following a nasty divorce. As hard as Lance tries to connect with his hostile, loathsome son, all he receives for his sincere ef

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Blu-ray Added on 2009-07-15

July 15th, 2009
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Alien Trespass Blu-ray

$29.28USD (Added: 2009-07-15, Released: 2009-08-11)
IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

Will & Grace star Eric McCormack headlines X-Files veteran R.W. Goodwin's feature directorial debut, a playful send-up of 1950s-era sci-fi films tracing the bizarre events that unfold after a mysterious space object crashes into a California mountaintop. Based on a story by James Swift and Steven Fisher (who also penned the screenplay), the Technicolor-flavored genre-bender follows a benevolent alien (McCormack) as he attempts to fend off a seriously strange invader. {$Robert Patric

Monsters vs. Aliens Blu-ray

$33.53USD (Added: 2009-07-15, Released: 2009-09-29)
DREAMWORKS ANIMATED

When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is being helmed by Shrek 2 director Conrad Vernon and Shark Tale's Rob Letterman. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection 4 Discs Blu-ray

$23.19USD (Added: 2009-07-15, Released: 2009-09-22)
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WIDE OPEN LIVE & MORE

$20.34USD (Added: 2009-07-15, Released: 2009-08-25)
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Blu-ray Added on 2009-07-08

July 8th, 2009
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Rudo y Cursi Blu-ray

$35.93USD (Added: 2009-07-08, Released: 2009-08-25)
SONY PICTURES

Carlos Cuarón, who co-wrote the script for his brother Alfonso Cuarón's breakthrough hit, Y Tu Mamá También, makes his feature directorial debut with Rudo y Cursi. The film also reunites the stars of the earlier film, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and is the first release from the production company Alfonso started with Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cha Cha Chá. Rudo y Cursi depicts the changing relationship between two brothers who become soccer

Sugar Blu-ray

$35.93USD (Added: 2009-07-08, Released: 2009-09-01)
SONY PICTURES

Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Half Nelson) weave this introspective sports drama concerning a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. Miguel Santos is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team, but before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing into the United States' minor league s

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