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New DVD and Blu-ray Releases: 11/03/09
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Food Inc. - Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry in interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation"), Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Strictly for people who enjoy movies based on toys.
Lemon Tree - Eran Riklis' engaging human drama of a Palestinian widow who earns her living tending to her late father's lemon grove. When an Israeli government minister moves next door and declares the grove a potential security threat, Salma struggles to defend her peaceful livelihood - all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court.
The Marc Pease Experience - Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Anna Kendrick (Rocket Science and the upcoming Up in the Air), and Ben Stiller star in one of year's least funny movies. An absolute chore to sit through. Review
The Taking of Pelham 123 - Denzel Washington and John Travolta star in a would-be thriller that nosedives early and often with one mishandled, moronic scene after another. Goes from semi-watchable mess to headache-inducing lost cause of a movie before it hits the 30-minute mark. And I can't stress how awful Travolta is as the villain. He never connects with the rough language of his character so every time the script has him barking out profanity-laced tirades, he just couldn't be any less convincing. Tony Scott's forced and frenetic direction (with every current camera trick in the book and motion-stopping time codes with Law & Order style "chung chungs") is loaded with desperate diversionary devices. Beyond bad. 1 out of 4 stars.
New Blu-Ray releases include North By Northwest, It's a Wonderful Life, Wings of Desire, and Forrest Gump.
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