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Louis Armstrong – The Definitive Collection
Artist: Louis Armstrong Title: The Definitive Collection Label: Hip-O Rating: 8/10 FILE UNDER: The Legend THE REVIEW: Honestly there are no bad songs out of the twenty-three included. Each is a classic. Louis Armstrong had more classics—so many more that there was no way all of them could have fit on one CD. The record…
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PQ
Game: PQ Platform: PSP Studio: D3 Rating: 8/10 GAME DESCRIPTION: Find out how adept you are at solving logic problems in P.Q., an addictive new puzzle game. Your speed and accuracy will determine your PQ score. Upload your score to the online ranking site and see how smart you really are! All gameplay takes place…
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The Lashes – Get It
Artist: The Lashes Title: Get It Label: Red Ink Rating: 4.5/10 FILE UNDER: All hook no substance. CORPORATE LINE: Following their obscenely catchy debut EP on Lookout! Records (The Stupid Stupid), the band’s momentum has been unstoppable; sold-out headlining shows and support slots with national acts as varied as The Libertines and tour mates Ted…
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Pride and Prejudice
Cast: Keira Knightley, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn Studio: Universal Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: The glorious world of Jane Austen is at last brought back to the big screen in all its romance, wit, and emotional force in Pride & Prejudice. Faithful to the setting and period of the beloved novel and filmed entirely on location…
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The Simpsons: Kiss and Tell DVD
Cast: Animation Studio: Fox Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Fox Home Entertainment is set to release four romantically-themed episodes from FOX’s hit series THE SIMPSONS, arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day in a special DVD collection, “THE SIMPSONS KISS & TELL.” Coming to stores February 7th, 2006, “THE SIMPSONS KISS & TELL” features four classic…
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Freedomland
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco Studio: Sony Rating: 4.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) recounts to Dempsy police detective…
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Date Movie
Cast: Alyson Hannigan, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard Studio: Fox Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: The twisted minds of two of the six writers of Scary Movie – Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg – skewer the romantic comedy genre in DATE MOVIE, a film for people who love date movies and people who hate them. The filmmakers’…
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The Man DVD
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer Studio: New Line Cinema Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Federal Agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) walks the walk, while affable dental supply salesman Andy Fidler (Eugene Levy) talks and talks in the odd couple action comedy The Man. A case of mistaken identity forces the mismatched duo…
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Ron White – You Can’t Fix Stupid
Artist: Ron White Title: You Can’t Fix Stupid Label: Image Rating: 8.5/10 FILE UNDER: Lots of laughs! CORPORATE LINE: Ron White continues to headline theaters with his “Drunk In Public” tour across the United States. The tour was ranked in the top 50 tours in Pollstar Magazine of 2004. Ron taped a new One-Hour Special…
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Elizabethtown
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon Studio: Paramount Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Hours after a ruinous product debut, suicidal industrial designer Drew Baylor learns of his father’s sudden death. As the only son, Drew must travel to their small hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend to his father’s memorial. On the flight to Kentucky,…
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