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Sonic Heroes
Game: Sonic Heroes Platform: PS2 Studio: Sega Rating: 7/10 Game Company’s Description: In Sonic’s most exciting adventure yet, you maneuver a team of three Sonic characters through massive levels to overcome the ultimate evil! You guessed it, Dr. Eggman is on the loose once again, but this time he’ll have to take on three powerful…
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Welcome to Mooseport
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Christine Baranski, Marcia Gay Harden, Fred Savage Studio: Fox Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: After completing his two terms in the White House, a former president settles down in a small coastal New England town to write his memoirs and enjoy his retirement. He’s soon asked to run for the office…
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J.C. Chasez – Schizophrenic
Artist: J.C. Chasez Title: Schizophrenic Label: Jive Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Introducing the aptly-titled Schizophrenic, an age-appropriate and surprisingly different sonic venture for the 27-year-old grown-up JC Chasez. Anyone who paid attention to Chasez’s recent collaboration with electronic wünderkinds Basement Jaxx (“Plug It In” from Jaxx’s latest, Kish Kash) or Chasez’s solo debut on the…
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Against The Ropes
Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Joe Cortese, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington Studio: Paramount Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: The daughter of a trainer, Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) grew up skipping rope in a downtown Detroit gym alongside her uncle, a fighter himself. Now, at 36, Jackie’s ready to carry on the family tradition. Trying to make…
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Against The Ropes
Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Joe Cortese, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington Studio: Paramount Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: The daughter of a trainer, Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) grew up skipping rope in a downtown Detroit gym alongside her uncle, a fighter himself. Now, at 36, Jackie’s ready to carry on the family tradition. Trying to make…
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Roswell: The Complete First Season
Cast: Jason Behr, Shiri Appleby Studio: Fox Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Living among the citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four who are not there by choice. They are there to follow a destiny given to them by the members of their dying race, a race that they are someday destined…
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Runaway Jury DVD
Cast: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Beals Studio: Fox Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Set in New Orleans, this is the story of a mysterious man, Nick Easter (Cusack) who gets himself on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer in an attempt to influence the other jury members…
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Pitch Black – Pitch Black Law
Artist: Pitch Black Title: Pitch Black Law Label: Universal Rating: 2/10 Corporate Line: Pitch Black’s long awaited debut album Pitch Black Law is brimming with bangers and ready to go. The first single “It’s All Real” is produced by none other than DJ Premier who also appears in the video which is currently in rotation…
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The Coral – Magic & Medicine
Artist: The Coral Title: Magic & Medicine Label: Columbia Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: In a nutshell, for once here’s a band who make use of their different interests in every possible way – endeavoring to capture an energy, rather than using it as a mere template. Which is so refreshingly unlike so many of their…
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Just Correct
Cast: Ralphie May Studio: Melee Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Melee will be releasing a DVD and CD from a comedian Ralphie May on February 10th. By now you’ve probably heard of Ralphie or at least seen him. He was on the last season of NBC’s “The Last Comic Standing” and he came in second place.…
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