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March 2008
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March 18 | Our Picks:
  
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TV: The Complete First Season
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | |
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TV: The Complete First Season
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Atonement | |
130 Mins. Disturbing war images, language and some sexuality. |
 A fledgling writer Briony Tallis, when 13 years old, falsely accuses the lover (James McAvoy) of her older sister (Keira Knightley) of a crime, changing many lives.
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Battlestar Galactica | |
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TV: Season Three
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Bionic Woman | |
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YV: Volume One
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Enchanted | |
107 min. Some scary images and mild innuendo |
 Disney fairytale about a fairytale princess (Amy Adams) from the past in modern-day New York City by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon). The Princess Giselle meets a handsome lawyer (Patrick Dempsey), which creates a challenging storybook romance.
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I Am Legend | |
101 min. Intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence. |
A top scientist (Will Smith) cannnot stop a lethal virus, to which he happns to be immune, and ends up being the last human survivor in a sombre looking New York City, and maybe the world, as he fights to outlast virus-affected mutants.
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Love in the Time of Cholera | |
Sexual content & nudity and coarse language |
Florentino (Javier Bardem), rejected in his youth by the beautiful Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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Married... With Children | |
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TV: The Complete Eighth Season
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | |
94 Mins. Fantasy action and some scary images. |
 The life of young Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors (also Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston ) who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
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The Untouchables | |
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TV: Season Two, Volume One
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The Wild Wild West | |
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TV: The Fourth Season
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March 25 | Frisky Dingo | |
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TV: Season 1
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Frisky Dingo | |
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TV: Season 1
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It's a Big, Big World | |
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TV: Volume 7
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It's a Big, Big World | |
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TV: Volume 8
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Painkiller Jane | |
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TV: The Complete Series
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Party of Five | |
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TV: The Complete Third Season
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Sliders | |
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TV: The Fourth Season
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Stephen King's The Mist | |
127 Mins. Volence, terror and gore, and language |
A man (Thomas Jane) is caught up in a freak storm/fog that unleashes a species of blood-thirsty monsters on his small town, and the locals defend themselves from the supermarket.
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The Invisible Man | |
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TV: Season One
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The Kite Runner | |
122 Mins. Strong thematic material including the rape of a child (not shown), violence, and brief strong language. Eng. Subt. |
 An Afghani (Khalid Abdalla), who emigrated to California after the Soviet invasion, returns to his homeland to help his old friend, whose young son is in trouble.
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Wings | |
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TV: The Sixth Season
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April 2008
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April 01 | Our picks:
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Becker | |
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TV: The First Season
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John From Cincinnati | |
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TV: The Complete First Season
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Law & Order | |
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TV: Special Victims Unit The Sixth Year
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Martin | |
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TV: The Complete Fourth Season
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Murder, She Wrote | |
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TV: The Complete Eighth Season
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Graphic bloody violence. |
In 1800s London, a barber (Johnny Depp) opens his shop upstairs from a baker of special meat pies (Helena Bonham Carter), and begins a sinister relationship, in this scren adaptation of a musical.
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That '70s Show | |
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TV: Season Eight
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April 08 | Our picks:
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Hell's Kitchen | |
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TV: Season 1
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Lions for Lambs | |
War violence and language |
Injuries sustained by two idealistist students-turned Army rangers (Michael Peña, Derek Luke) in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman (Tom Cruise), a journalist (Meryl Streep) and their college professor (Robert Redford).
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Matlock | |
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TV: Season One
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P2 | |
89 Mins. Strong violence/gore, terror and coarse language. |
A businesswoman (Rachel Nichols) is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
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Perry Mason | |
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TV: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Reservation Road | |
102 Mins. |
A father (Joachin Phoenix) falls apart after witnessing his son's death in a hit-and-run accident, while another man (Mark Ruffalo) struggles with accepting his responsibility for it.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
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TV: Season 6
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The 11th Hour | |
95 min |
Leonardo DiCaprio looks at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.
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The Cosby Show | |
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TV: Season 7
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The Cosby Show | |
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TV: Season 8
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep | |
some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking. |
A lonely boy (Bruce Allpress) discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
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There Will Be Blood | |
158 Mins. some violence. |
Set in the turn-of-the-century early days of the Texas oil business, the story of one family's (led by Daniel Day-Lewis), greed and religion.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | |
sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language |
A mockumentary look at the life of fictional music legend Dewy Cox (John C REilly) and his turbulent career.
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April 15 | our picks:
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Alien vs. Predator/Aliens vs. Predator Requiem | |
86 Mins. Violence, gore and language |
 Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.
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American Dad | |
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TV: Volume 3
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In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale | |
124 Mins. intense battle sequences |
 A farmer (Jason Statham) sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife (Leelee Sobieski) and avenge the death of his son, taking on the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian (Ray Liotta).
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Juno | |
92 Mins. Mature thematic material, sexual content and language |
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman (Ellen Page) makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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Lars and the Real Girl | |
106 Mins. Some sex-related content. |
A delusional young guy (Brian Gosling) has an unconventional relationship with a realistic love doll, bought over the Internet.
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Melrose Place | |
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TV: The Fourth Season
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection | |
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TV: Volume 2
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April 22 | Our pick:
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Charlie Wilson's War | |
97 Mins. Strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use. |
An Enigmatic Texas congressman (Tom Hanks) to cajopled by a rich benfactor (Julia ROberts) to use his CIA allies to covertly arm the Afghani Mujahedeen against their Soviet Union invaders.
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Cloverfield | |
90 Mins. Violence, terror and disturbing images |
A group of young people (Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan) having a going away party in Manhattan, witness a monster's attack on New York which forcing them into a frantic fight for survival.
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Friday Night Lights | |
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TV: The Second Season
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One Missed Call | |
87 Mins. fItense sequences of violence and terror, frightening images, some sexual material and thematic elements. |
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves, which mention the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
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The Orphanage ("El Orfanato, El") | |
110 Mins. some disturbing content. |
A woman ( Belén Rueda) returns to the house where she was raised, and converts it into an orphanage. Soon, her son (Roger Príncep) makes an invisible friend...
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April 29 | Our Picks:
 
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27 Dresses | |
107 Mins. Coarse language, some innuendo and sexuality. |
After being a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman (Katherine Heigl) is conflicted when her sister becomes engaged to the man she's secretly in love with.
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Beverly Hills 90210 | |
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TV: The Fourth Season
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Cheers | |
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TV: The Ninth Season
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Sabrina | |
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TV: The Complete Animated Series
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones | |
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TV: Volume Three Years of Change
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | |
112 Mins. nudity, sexual content and some language. (English subtitles) |
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body with only his left eye not paralyzed.
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The Golden Compass | |
113 Mins. Fantasy violence, and some religious metaphors, which some may find objectionable |
In a Jules Verne-esque parallel universe, a young girl (Dakota Blue Richards) journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization (Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig).
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The Waltons | |
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TV: The Complete Seventh Season
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May 2008
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May 06 | Our Picks:
 
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'Allo 'Allo! | |
| TV: The Complete Series 8
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Bewitched | |
| TV: The Complete Sixth Season
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Crossing Jordan | |
| TV: Season 1
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First Sunday | | 96 Mins. Coarse language, some sexual humor, and brief drug references. | Two petty criminals (Icd Cube, Katt WIlliams) bungle their plot to rip-off a local church, only to learn the error of their ways from the parishioners they're holding hostage.
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I'm Not There | | 135 Mins. Coarse language, some sexuality and nudity | Biopic about Bob Dylan, with six actors (including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere) each portraying a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
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Over Her Dead Body | | 95 Mins. Some sexual content and language | A ghost (Eva Longoria Parker) tries to sabotage a fresh blossoming relationship between her old flame (Paul Rudd) and his new, psychic girlfriend (Lake Bell).
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P.S. I Love You | | 126 Mins. Sexual references and brief nudity | A romantic comeday about a widow (Hilary Swank) discovers love letters written by her recently deceased husband (Gerard Butler) to guide her through the next chapter of her life.
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The 4400 | |
| TV: The Fourth Season
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The Hottie & the Nottie | | 90Mins. Crude and sexual content. |  A yong man (Joel Moore) moves to L.A. to track down a woman (Paris Hilton) he's been in love with since childhood, but must get past her ever-present, not-so-hot best friend (Christine Lakin)
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The Invaders | |
| TV: Season One
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The New Adventures of Old Christine | |
| TV: The Complete Second Season
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