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Serious Man, A

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Set in late-60s suburban Minneapolis, the Coen brothers' relatively low profile, but highly effective dark comedy focuses on a timid, Jewish physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg), who has a crisis of faith amidst the disintegration of his family. "A labor of love...This isn't a laugh-laugh movie, but a wince-wince movie" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Co-starring Richard Kind, Fred Melamed,   More...



Hurt Locker, The

Rent this DVD 		  Hurt Locker, The (2009)

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Garnering universal critical acclaim, this nerve-shredding war movie from director Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break) follows an elite Army bomb squad through Baghdad during the height of the Iraq War. In an environment where every person and object is a potential threat, the remaining members of the beleaguered disposal team are conflicted about their new, gung-ho sergeant (Jeremy Renner) who arrives   More...



Capitalism: A Love Story

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After going after the health insurance industry with Sicko, Michael Moore took to Wall Street to rail against those "Masters of the Universe" who brought down the global economy and profited, while everyone else was left to suck an egg. Moore doesn't provide any real answers amidst the usual stunts, ambushes and amusing edits we've grown to love about his movies, but he does deploy brilliant   More...



Gomorrah

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Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, this Italian gangster film was based on Roberto Saviano's undercover account of life in Naples' crime underworld. Director Matteo Garrone weaves together five storylines from the bestseller, ranging from the highest rungs of the Camorra crime family to the mafia's influence on poor teens--poor teens in their underwear with guns!   More...



Coco Before Chanel

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Audrey Tautou stars as a complicated, young Coco Chanel before her ascendance to high fashion fame in this extravagant biopic. Based on the novel by Edmonde Charles-Roux. With Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, and Marie Gillain. In French with English subtitles.

Anne Fontaine---France---2009---105 mins.

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Moon

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Like Primer, this low-profile sci-fi thriller accomplishes a lot with little. Sam Rockwell plays a lonely spaceman in the last year of his stint on a lunar outpost. He is all alone, save for the company of GERTY, a HAL-like talking computer, and whomever else his fraying psyche conjures up. "A mesmerizing mindbender" (Rolling Stone). Filmed during a major writer's strike, this   More...



Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

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Precious is not easy to watch, but it is bound to be one of the most praised American films of 2009. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe embodies Precious, an overweight, undereducated Harlem teen who's carrying her second child. When given the chance to enroll in an alternative school, she sees an opportunity to escape her abusive upbringing and impoverished surroundings. "Everyone involved   More...



Inglourious Basterds

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For over a decade, Quentin Tarantino plotted an homage to freewheeling war movies of old like The Dirty Dozen. When it came time to finally bring his bulging script for a spaghetti WWII story to the screen, Tarantino supposedly got Brad Pitt so drunk he couldn't refuse the starring role of Lt. Aldo Raine. His mission: lead a band of Jewish bastards into occupied France to collect Nazi   More...



Synecdoche, New York

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The self-reflexive, metaphysical, almost-too-smart-for-its-own-good directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a defeated theater director who becomes obsessed with making a life-sized replica of Schenectady, New York, inside a massive warehouse for his first original production. It literally becomes   More...



Julie & Julia

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Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) directs this delightful film that bounces back in forth from 1940s Paris to present-day New York City. On one hand, you have Meryl Streep playing a young version of star cook Julia Child, visiting the City of Lights for the first time and experimenting with its cuisine. Flash forward 60 years, and blogger Julie Powell (Amy Adams) has taken on the task of cooking   More...



Fantastic Mr. Fox

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"Wait, what?! Spike Jonze is adapting Where the Wild Things Are with old school effects and puppets? That tears it! Get me the rights to a classic children's book, say that Roald Dahl one about a family of foxes. Then get George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson on the phone. And tell Noah Baumbach we need to get a script going. Oh, and find me the   More...



Broken Embraces

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For this self-reflexive, funny noir romance, writer-director Pedro Almodovar turned to Penelope Cruz to act as the centerpiece in a melodramatic tale of a blind, one-time movie director (Lluis Homar) who reflects on his past love affair with an aspiring actress (Cruz) and the vengeful producer (Jose Luis Gomez) he stole her from. If you're seeking a tangled narrative that jumps back and forth in   More...



Men Who Stare At Goats

Rent this DVD 		  Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)

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George Clooney and Ewan McGregor lead this assured, laugh-out-loud satire inspired by Jon Ronson's book about actual psychic experiments the U.S. military conducted on goats back during the Cold War. Now decades later, with the War on Terror raging, it's time for the psychic spy unit to reunite, for better or worse. Costarring Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Robert Patrick. Directed by Grant   More...



Thirst (2009)

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From the director of Oldboy comes this modern, violent, and half-loony vampire drama about a vaccine trial that turns a selfless priest (Song Kang-ho) into a libidinous bloodsucking killer. Based loosely on Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes. In Korean with English subtitles.

Park Chan-wook---South Korea---2009---133 mins.



Ponyo

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In this day of Pixar digital perfection, Miyazaki is still fighting the good fight on the side of masterful hand-drawn animation. After Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki plays slightly more towards younger crowds with Ponyo, a fantasy adventure about a goldfish-girl who leaves her father's underwater kingdom and meets a human boy ashore. He names her Ponyo, she falls in love with   More...



Man on Wire

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The artistic crime of the century. That's what people said about Philippe Petit's illegal, not to mention insane, tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974. Although he was arrested and taken for psychiatric evaluation, his feat was a dancing success, as is this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary from James Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip). In   More...



2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Criterion)

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Shot simultaneously with Made in U.S.A. (one was filmed mornings, the other in the evenings), this drama focuses on modern life in Paris. Vlady stars as a Parisian housewife who lives in a large housing estate and supplements her husband's income by working as a part-time prostitute. Against an aural backdrop of Beethoven, her life over a 24-hour period is detailed as it speaks about the   More...



Blind Side, The

Rent this DVD 		  Blind Side, The (2009)

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Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal of a rich lady who puts her busybodiness to work on the case of a poor, illiterate, near-orphan African American boy (Quinton Aaron) who happens to be physically huge--big enough to interest the local private school's football coach. She ends up taking him in and making him part of her family, proving that what the poor really need are rich people to   More...



Whip It

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In Drew Barrymore's first foray into directing feature films, Ellen Page (Juno) stars as a subculture kid who's dying to break out of her no-culture Texas town. On a trip to Austin, she finds her calling: roller derby! Fearing her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) won't approve of her participating in the all-girl fringe sport, she keeps her rookie glory a secret. What comes out is a   More...



Food, Inc

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When it comes to eye-opening, expose documentaries, they're usually marketed as "The movie the [name industry] didn't want you to see." In the case of Food, Inc., though, the line is true. The few corporations that dominate the immense American food industry refused to cooperate with filmmaker Robert Kenner (The American Experience) and crew, and for good reason--this documentary   More...



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