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As reported by Simon Raynolds, the Entertainment Reporter for DigitalSpy, after the huge buzz around the release of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford has revealed that he would like to return to the Jack Ryan franchise.

Ford starred as Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst character in Patriot Games and Clear [...]

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If you liked “Trekkies”, you will probably like this movie too – it’s a documentary about a niche in sport – competitive Donkey Kong players and their fans. If you are not watching it in theater where you pay to stay in, it will not be hard to walk away from this documentary if you are watching it on DVD. It probably qualifies as documentary for guys.

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Rambo IV
2008 R
When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he’s still haunted by violent memories of his time as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, Rambo is [...]

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The jury of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Sean Penn, named the Prize winners. At the end of the ceremony, Barry Levinson’s closing film What Just Happened? starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Bruce Willis was screened for the audience. The Palm d’Or remained in France – it was awarded [...]

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Son of Rambow (2007)

“Son of Rambow” is a British comedy/drama written and directed by Garth Jennings, the man behind the underappreciated The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005).
The plot: Summer of 1982 (we know that because the title of the movie refers to the first installment of Rambo franchise, First Blood, released in 1982). [...]

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Rob Knox, an 18 year old actor who plays minor role of Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming 6th installment of “Harry Potter” called “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince”, was stabbed after he got caught up in a fight outside a bar in southwest London early Saturday, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. [...]

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

19 years after “The Last Crusade”, Indiana Jones is back. So excited to see the favorite character of my childhood.
The plot: 1959. Indiana Jones is kidnapped by KGB agents to help them find the Crystal Skull, whose powers they plan to use to create a mind-controlling [...]

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
(2007) PG-13
Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) and Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) — who found riches and romance at the end of their first hunt for national treasure — reteam with their wisecracking partner in crime, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), for another romp through U.S. history. Now, armed with a [...]

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Netflix, the largest movie rental company, had for years been promising to begin streaming movies straight to TVs, and last year announced plans with LG to build a set-top box that would allow that. Netflix has just announced their new set-top box called Roku.

With $8.99/month unlimited subscription, you may be able to queue the movies [...]

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Cloverfield (2008)

The plot: A monster attacks Manhattan. A guy at a go-away party has a camcorder and keeps filming the story of survival of him and his friends among the devastation caused by the monster.
The good: Lots of loud explosions and cool CGI effects. The movie has no musical score – just “natural” sounds that [...]

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The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Jet Lee and Jackie Chan star together in The Forbidden Kingdom, directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little I & II, Haunted Mansion) and written by John Fusco (Young Guns, The Babe, Loch Ness, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Hidalgo, and now working on the 2009 remake of The [...]

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From the animation and the music theme of the opening credits sequence you know you are watching a witty comedy that won director Frank Oz (famous for directing movies like Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Stepford Wives and giving his voice to Yoda in Star Wars and other characters from Muppets to [...]

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Redbelt (2008)

This is a mixed-martial arts movie written and directed by David Mamet, a man behind scripts for The Untouchables, Ronin and Hannibal. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in main role, as well as Tim Allen, Mike Goldberg, Alice Braga and Ricky Jay.

The plot: In West-side Los Angeles mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) believes [...]

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Amazon.com is advertising “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” deal on their Blu-Ray disk inventory. Some of the titles you can grab there are

Independence Day
Predator
I, Robot
Ice Age
Terminator
Fantastic 4
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Sunshine
Wall Street
The Usual Suspects
The Adventures of Indiana Jones (The Complete Movie Collection)
Transformers
Gladiator
more…

They also advertise that all new Blu-Ray releases are sold at 30% off. You [...]

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This documentary directed by Nicolas Rossier examines the oft-suppressed story of the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti. Only an hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has twice been forced from office with complicity of the international community. Features Aristide, Denny Glover, Sen. Maxine Waters, [...]

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Another wonderful movie based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri directed and produced by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding (2001), Vanity Fair (2004)) starring Irfan Khan and Kal Penn.
The plot: In the late 60s-early 70s Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan) was traveling on the train to his grandfather in Calcutta and reading a book by Nicholai [...]

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P.S. I Love You
(2007) PG-13 | DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray

Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank), a young widow living in Dublin, has just lost her beloved husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) to a brain tumor. Inconsolable, Holly finds that Gerry left for her a series of letters to help cope with the grief. As months pass, Holly discovers [...]

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Iron Man (2008)

We tried to see this movie on Friday night, but it was sold out. On Saturday night we got in after standing in line for half an hour and watching commercials and trailers for another 25 minutes. Was the movie worth it?
The plot: The wealthy military industrialist, a brilliant engineer and a [...]

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The summary: this is definitely a better movie then Ocean’s Twelve, but the 11 was the best one of the trilogy. Good entertainment, in theater and on DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray – whatever you watch it on.

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