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16 Blocks
Cast: Bruce Willis, David Morse, Mos Def Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: ll he wanted to do was go home and get a drink. But at 8:02 a.m., hungover NYPD detective Jack Mosley (BRUCE WILLIS) is assigned a seemingly simple task. Petty criminal Eddie Bunker (MOS DEF) is set to testify before a…
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Yung Joc – Interview
The millennium hip-hop world is all about the pride, the culture, and the experience of the South. As the time ushered in a new age, so did it also ordain southern hip-hop, particularly that of Atlanta, as one of its most fertile breeding grounds for producing crops of prolific rappers. These artists flip a mellifluous…
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Thundercats: Season Two Volume One DVD
Cast: Bob McFadden, Earl Hammond, Larry Kenney, Lynne Lipton Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: The inhabitants of the planet Thundera evacuate just before it is destroyed. They were pursued by a band of mutants. All but one of their escape ships was destroyed. Only a small group of Thunderans (Thundercats) remained. With only…
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Gomez – How We Operate
Artist: Gomez Title: How We Operate Label: ATO Rating: 8/10 FILE UNDER: Gomez Version 2. CORPORATE LINE: For How We Operate, their fifth studio album, Gomez didn’t set out to reinvent the wheel. Oh no. The British quintet just wanted to change the blueprint for a different sort of rounded object: Their own records. “As…
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Grandma’s Boy
Cast: Allen Covert, Shirley Knight, Shirley Jones Studio: Fox Rating: 2/10 CORPORATE LINE: Alex (ALLEN COVERT) has one sweet life. After walking away from his death by accounting job, he’s now a video game tester at Brainasium, the company responsible for the worldwide gaming phenom of “Eternal Death Slayer.” At 35, he may be the…
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King of the Hill: Season Six
Cast: Mike Judge, Greg Daniels Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: “KING OF THE HILL” is a hilarious animated half-hour comedy series from Mike Judge, the creator of “Beavis & Butthead,” and Greg Daniels (“The Simpsons,” “Saturday Night Live”). “KING OF THE HILL” follows the day-to-day activities of Hank Hill, his family and their neighbors…
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Tristan and Isolde
Cast: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell Studio: Fox Rating: 4.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: After the fall of Rome, the warlords of England are brutally kept in line by the forces of Irish King Donnchadh. One of these leaders, Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell) seeks to unite the English tribes to form one strong nation to rule…
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RV
Cast: Robin Williams Studio: Columbia Rating: 0/10 CORPORATE LINE: In Columbia Pictures’ family-adventure comedy RV, an overworked Bob Munro (Robin Williams), his wife Jamie (Cheryl Hines), their 15-year-old daughter Cassie (Joanna “JoJo” Levesque) and 12-year-old son Carl (Josh Hutcherson) are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a…
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Hummer Badlands
Game: Hummer Badlands Platform: Xbox Studio: 2K Games Rating: 5/10 GAME DESCRIPTION: Global Star Software, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., announced today that HUMMER® Badlands is now available at major retailers in North America on PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Using the legendary HUMMER®…
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Violent Midnight
Cast: Lee Phillips Studio: Dark Sky Films Rating: 8/10 FILE UNDER: Shoestring slasher cuts through the clutter CORPORATE LINE: In this Psycho-esque thriller from director Del Tenney, Elliott Freeman (Lee Phillips) is a Korean War vet-turned-painter who becomes the prime suspect in the brutal stabbing death of his model, Dolores. Did Elliott kill her to…
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