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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry's senior now, and that means more darkness, more danger, and of course, more lust. One absent from the test installment(s), Dumbledore is preparing Harry for battle patch his friends are overcome with the fuck bug. In her review, Jette Kernion wrote that the flick is "a dripless suspense flick that isn't likewise scary for senior kids, with a good pane of humor, Young Love, and charm." Save from whatever over-the-top moments in fuck and Lestrange shenanigans, Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.

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Julie & Julia
The profuse matter personality that brought French preparation stateside finally gets a film, distribution instance with the blogger who dared to attain every single instruction in digit year. Overall, Nora Ephron's flick is cute, but the charm, power, and dynamical force of the flick lies with Meryl Streep's Julia. In her review, Jette wrote: "It's a comfort-food movies, the mac and mallow or apple-pie of this year's season movie fare. And I same apple pie and mac and mallow meet fine, but I feel that the possibleness for something inferior run-of-the-mill and more passionate, Byzantine and memorable was there and sadly, was missed." If you're a foodie, Buy it for Ms. Child. If not, Rent it. Also on Blu-ray. Note: If this overcomes you with the propose to cook, this week's releases also includes Julia Child: The Way to Cook.

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Public Enemies
Johnny Depp as Evangelist Dillinger? With faith Bale hunting him as Melvin Purvis and Billy Crudup playing J. Edgar Hoover? It's a project that should've raked in the dough, but only prefabricated backwards its hefty budget in its external take. Nevertheless, in his review, Jeffrey M. Anderson wrote: "The actual person has embellish disconnected from his own legend, and he has embellish virtually obsolete. That [Michael] pedagogue constituted this and was healthy to so sublimely elaborate it shows that, not only has he prefabricated the unification between old gangster pictures and new ones, but also he has prefabricated the unification between movies and life." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.

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The Cove
Scott physicist said it perfectly, so I'll leave it to him: "Wow. Just wow. This is easily digit of the most powerful, heartfelt, and (yes, I'll feature it) essential 'nature' documentaries I've ever seen. Here's a brutally open and effortlessly fascinating flick most digit restricted cove in Taiji, Japan, in which roughly 23,000 dolphins are killed every year. Yes, you read that right: 23,000. Dolphins. Annually. And here's the really coiled part: Given the turn of metal that's found in these creatures, they're practically poison. But where there's money to be made, there are atrocities to be committed." Buy it.

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World's Greatest Dad
Bobcat Goldthwait's latest (black) comedy, World's Greatest Dad, stars Robin Williams as a sweet broad edifice teacher struggling with having mend safekeeping of his kinda filthy and hostile, recreation and porn-addicted son. In his review, Scott wrote: "As a director, Goldthwait (whom you belike advert as a adroit comedian unfree in a screechy exterior) continues to mine the middle ground between the derisory and the stupidly mundane, and patch it takes an open mind to appreciate the mismatched 'n' coiled messages that Dad has to offer, I conceive it's new to encounter a slick, smart comedy that's not afeard to trade in a lowercase "sick" humor." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.

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The Marc Pease Experience
While this flick marked Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, and Anna Kendrick, The Marc Pease Experiment swam low the radiolocation to this disc release. Schwartzman stars as "a former broad edifice singable [not the movie] superstar who insists on experience in the past' patch "his former teacher and intellect prepares for a specially disorganised opening-night performance." In his review, William Goss said: "Schwartzman does pathetic, Stiller does patronizing, Kendrick goes for indecisive, and there's nothing else to it. No case is worth caring about, worth pitying, worth stipendiary tending to; no perplexity they grappling isn't likewise petty. And, with a straightforward face, the exhibit within the flick goes on (and I staleness say, for a open school, they do put on a pretty elaborate production)." Skip it.

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Also out: The Dog Who Saved Christmas, McLeod's Daughters, The National Tree, The Skeptic, Moonlight Serenade, Run Bitch Run, The First Sat in May, Ghosted, Runaway, Humble Pie, Home Movie, This Beautiful City, Somers Town




Harry Potter Ultimate Editions and Gift Set
With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hitting DVD shelves today, filmmaker Brothers is releasing a Years 1-6 heritage set, nonnegative "Ultimate" Editions for Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. Will this really be the ULTIMATE? Something tells me everyone should meet wait until the last digit installments concealment and then dig into the true Ultimate Series. That saved change crapper acquire you whatever of the goodies in Collector's Corner.

Also out: The Alphabet Killer, Cyclops, Lower Learning, Red Mist, Sands of Oblivion



AK 100: 25 Films of Akira filmmaker - Criterion
Kurosawa fans, rejoice! Criterion has promulgation a stunning heritage box ordered featuring 25 of the celebrity director's most celebrity films, including an illustrated book and four rare films never released on DVD. It does, however, become at a price. The ordered has a suggested retail toll of $399.95, but Amazon has it for $284.99. And that's definitely worth it at inferior than $12 a film.

Coraline Limited Edition Gift Set
This heritage ordered (available on Blu-ray and DVD) offers the film, a restricted edition book most Henry Selick's insights into the making of the film, 4 pairs of 3-D glasses, and postcards you belike won't want to part with.