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20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

2008-04-15T12:08:22Z

Released: June 1957 Director: Nathan Juran ***** Let's be honest: no one is lining up for the story or human characters in 20 Million Miles to Earth. The attraction remains the stop motion creature work by Ray Harryhausen. Perhaps a bit unde...

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Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show

2008-04-13T19:09:19Z

Released: April 15, 2008 ***** With each segment running no more than two minutes, there is never a chance for the kids or adults to get bored. For the children, a wonderful mix of animation styles, from seemingly "cut out" characters, a la "South...

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Street Kings (2008)

2008-04-13T16:21:08Z

Released: April 11, 2008 Director: David Ayer ***** "Street Kings" asks the audience to define corruption. Is a cop who goes outside the system to bring criminals to justice corrupt? How about a police department full of officers who watch each ot...

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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Season 6

2008-04-12T20:29:42Z

Released: April 9, 2008 ***** A spin off of "Def Comedy Jam," this series turns out to be much more fun than its parent if only because the performers aren´t concerned with punch lines or cursing. Rather, what they have to say is heartfelt, person...

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Dreamgirls (2006)

2008-04-11T02:56:52Z

Released: December 25, 2006 Director: Bill Condon ***** Much like it's 2007 movie musical brethren Hairspray, Dreamgirls concerns itself with race relations in a more straight forward, less pop way. Which isn't to say either approach is be...

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Socket (2007)

2008-04-10T13:09:45Z

Released: March 25, 2008 (DVD) Director: Sean Abley ***** The first thing we need to look at is the basic premise. I´ve heard of sounding, a form of sexual pleasure where a rod is inserted into the male genitalia and stimulated to the point o...

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John from Cincinnati: The Complete Series

2008-04-07T02:22:07Z

Released: April 1, 2008 ***** It is entirely possible I don´t under "John from Cincinnati" on the level creator David Milch intends. I will fully grant that possibility. After all, if I don´t "get it" after watching all ten episodes of the series...

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Flushed Away (2006)

2008-04-06T16:28:16Z

Released: November 3, 2006 Directors: David Bowers, Sam Fell ***** Armed with an all-star voice cast, the stop-motion studio behind the Wallace and Gromit adventures and the production studio which brought Shrek to life, Flushed Away was ...

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Martin: The Complete Fourth Season

2008-04-02T00:31:07Z

Released: April 1, 2008 ***** Lawrence isn´t the only offender in his acting. The entire cast is uniformly larger than life, almost as if they are putting on a theater production and audience members in the cheap seats need to understand what´s go...

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21 (2008)

2008-04-01T01:26:45Z

Released: March 28, 2008 Director: Robert Luketic ***** Card counting is not illegal. That point is made several times, quite pointedly. So when Ben eventually gets found out (please, it´s not a spoiler…anyone who´s seen a movie knows it´s going t...

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