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So you only spent a few bucks to rent the DVD: We are your guide to help you save your money, and more importantly, your time.

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker, awarded the Oscar for the Best Picture of the Year, is an important film that will be remembered as a perfunctory exposition of the occupation of Iraq in the War on Terror.

March 18th, 2010

Funny People

Inorder to rediscover his comedy, Adam Sandler reverted to the worst within the ego of an overindulged former stand-up comedian turned low-brow actor

February 11th, 2010

Julie & Julia

Julia Child was the most influential culinary author of all time. Julie Powell respected that fact and piggy-backed her ambition on the shoulders of a very big woman.

February 11th, 2010

The Ugly Truth

I think Gerard Butler is a fine actor in the right film and the right script. This was not that film.

February 4th, 2010

The Merry Gentleman

Michael Keaton directs his first film and uses the old formula of substance over style to present the quirky fellowship between a hitman and a sweet girl.

January 22nd, 2010

The Hangover

Two hours of dizzy, nausea inducing laughter

January 18th, 2010

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino, a provacateur of inordinate skill, gives his public a fine film regarding the Jewish fantasy of near total retribution for the horrific treatment of the Jews at the hands of Nazis.

January 7th, 2010

Angels and Demons

Tom Hanks reprises his role as symbologist Robert Langdon as he struggles against all odds to save what he has little reverence for - the Vatican.

January 1st, 2010

A Christmas Story

Jean Shepherd's humorist view a of one family's Christmas skewed toward the bizarre in a very cold northern Indiana - very industrial, very middleclass, and of course, very funny.

December 24th, 2009

Public Enemies

The government named these bank robbers "public enemies," with John Dillinger as "Public Enemy No. 1." Ironically, the public saw the government, not the robbers as the real enemy.

December 22nd, 2009

John Adams

"John Adams survives" were the final words of John Adams' nemesis turned enduring confidant, Thomas Jefferson, while the genius Virginian was on his deathbed.

December 6th, 2009

Inkheart

Fairy tales do come true, but oh what a winding and precarious road they can take.

November 27th, 2009

The Proposal

Finally, a romantic comedy that works. I generally do not like romantic comedies. Often they exhibit too little comedy, and are too unbelievable.

October 31st, 2009

Camille

Camille was possibly one of the sweetest girls in Kentucky, but she was also possibly the most naive. And don't naive girls deserve some measure of happiness too.

October 6th, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

In this prequel to the X-Men series, we learn the origin of Logan (Wolverine) and his brother, Victor Creed, and what happens as their similar fates diverge.

October 5th, 2009

Cadillac Records

Polish immigrant Leonard Chess wanted a better life, and he built it on the talented backs of some pretty good musicians, like Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howl'n Wolfe, Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.