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		<title>June 8th Releases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Paris with Love and Shutter Island]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two wild films you can take home this week. One with a twist and the other that has enough turns to make you car sick. Out on DVD today:</p>
<p><strong>From Paris with Love:</strong> A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.</p>
<p><strong>Shutter Island:</strong> Two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island&#8217;s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.</p>
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		<title>OLD DOGS on DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration CLOSED. Congrats to our winner Jennifer from Tallahassee, FL!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Fun for the whole family. Win your copy of: <strong>&#8220;OLD DOGS&#8221; </strong>on DVD!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Two best friends – one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA) – have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the vierge of the biggest business deal of their lives.  The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins (newcomers ELLA BLEU TRAVOLTA and CONNOER RAYBURN), leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Text the word COMEDY (space) and your zip code to 43549</strong> for a chance to win a complimentary copy of the <strong><em>OLD DOGS </em></strong>DVD. Winner will be notified Tuesday, Marc h 16.</p>
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		<title>March 9th Releases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up in the Air, Precious, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, Planet 51, Old Dogs and Capitalism: A Love Story.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Busy week in the DVD releases. Especially for two Oscar nominated films. Out on DVD today:</p>
<p><strong>Up in the Air:</strong> From Jason Reitman, the Oscar® nominated director of “Juno,” comes a dramatic comedy called “Up in the Air” starring Oscar® winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.</p>
<p><strong>Old Dogs:</strong> Two best friends &#8211; one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor &#8211; have their lives turned upside down when they&#8217;re unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins, leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what&#8217;s really important in life.</p>
<p><strong>Precious: </strong>Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant&#8230; again. Naïve and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher. She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own boundaries. Prepare for shock, revelation and celebration.</p>
<p><strong>Planet 51:</strong> Planet 51 is a galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Captain Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Baker, who lands on Planet 51 thinking he&#8217;s the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders&#8230;like Chuck! With the help of his robot companion &#8220;Rover&#8221; and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.</p>
<p><strong>Capitalism: A Love Story: </strong>On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger &amp; Me, Michael Moore&#8217;s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he&#8217;s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan.</p>
<p>From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Michael Moore once again takes filmgoers into uncharted territory. With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore&#8217;s Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings.</p>
<p>Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal&#8230;and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story is both a culmination of Moore&#8217;s previous works and a look into what a more hopeful future could look like. It is Michael Moore&#8217;s ultimate quest to answer the question he&#8217;s posed throughout his illustrious filmmaking career: Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?</p>
<p><strong>The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day</strong>: When a priest is murdered in Boston, the MacManus brothers abandon their secluded life in Ireland to look into the case.</p>
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		<title>From Paris with Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “From Paris with Love” granted you everything you could want from an action comedy: humor, gore, deceit, lies and one bang of an ending.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3851 alignleft" title="from_paris_with_love_ver5" src="http://www.joreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/from_paris_with_love_ver5-202x300.jpg" alt="from_paris_with_love_ver5" width="202" height="300" />“From Paris with Love” follows the story of a young employee in the US Ambassador Office who is teamed up with an American spy who is on an agenda. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is James Reece a newly promoted agent who has to quickly ditch his fiancé to save his new partner at the airport. He quickly learns his partner Charlie Wax, played by John Travolta is a bit boisterous and out of control. Immediately the two go on their first mission. James thinks they are going for a quick eat at a local Chinese restaurant only to discover they are on a drug bust as Charlie quickly kills everyone in the restaurant.</p>
<p>As the two continue on their 24 hour sting operation James discovers there is more to this mission than a drug bust. After many explosions and disruption in the city James finally discovers the truth. The search they are on involves a terrorist threat to the beautiful city. Finding it impossible to return home to his fiancé James is left wondering if she will ever understand why he disappeared for hours and hours. As the mission continues there are many bodies left in the wake of Charlie’s wax on – wax off attitude.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3850 alignright" title="From Paris with Love" src="http://www.joreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/alg_paris-300x199.jpg" alt="From Paris with Love" width="240" height="159" />“From Paris with Love” is an action comedy that will keep audiences entertained. John Travolta comes back in a humorous way that I found perfect for this film. I enjoyed his bad ass comedy much more than his recent work. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played well off of Travolta’s wild ways, making for a dynamic agent duo. The storyline had many twists and turns that were unexpected, making it an enjoyable story to the end. “From Paris with Love” granted you everything you could want from an action comedy: humor, gore, deceit, lies and one bang of an ending.</p>
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		<title>November 3rd Releases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Aliens in the Attic, and I Love You, Beth Cooper out today.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s starting to get cold outside, what better than a night in with your favorite DVD. There are four selections to choose from for your viewing pleasure. Out on DVD today:</p>
<p><strong>G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra:</strong> Based on Hasbro’s immensely popular action figures, G.I. Joe is the ultimate elite fighting force, engaged in an extraordinary action-adventure matchup of good versus evil! In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the G.I. Joe team, armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons, travels the world from the Egyptian desert to the polar ice caps in a high stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international organization threatening to use a technology that could bring the world to its knees.</p>
<p><strong>The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3:</strong> In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there’s one riddle Garber can&#8217;t solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?</p>
<p><strong>Aliens in the Attic:</strong> Kids on a family vacation must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions &#8212; while the youngsters&#8217; parents remain clueless about the battle.</p>
<p><strong>I Love You, Beth Cooper: </strong>Buffalo Grove High School valedictorian Denis Cooverman (PAUL RUST) has had quite an academic career&#8230;on paper, at least. Superlative student, conscientious young gentleman and patently obvious dork, Denis has played it safe and made it all the way to graduation day without ever having really experienced some of the joys of higher learning: breaking curfew, destruction of property, over-consumption of alcohol, fist fights, late nights, fast cars or faster women (actually, women of any sort).</p>
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		<title>The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jodmendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expecting a little twist and turn from the tracks you end up with what you see is what you get. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1948 alignleft" title="the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3" src="http://www.joreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3.jpg" alt="the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3" width="215" height="320" />Two mega Hollywood stars have paired up to remake a thriller from 1974. Denzel Washington and John Travolta take on starring roles in &#8220;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3&#8243;, a Columbia Pictures production where transit worker Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) becomes a hostage negotiator against a group of hijackers lead by Ryder (John Travolta), who turns out to be an intelligent mastermind of the markets. After taking over a subway train they request $1 million dollars for ransom, threatening to execute the train&#8217;s passengers every minute that passes after the deadline. As the tension mounts, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outmaneuver Ryder and rescue the hostages.</p>
<p>As time clicks down Ryder begins to feel the pressure, eventually snapping and killing the MTA motorman and another innocent hostage. At his wits end he insists his new “friend” Garber bring his money to him. Determined to not cost anymore New Yorkers their lives Garber complies and takes a crash course from the FBI on hostage negotiations and heads to the train car underground. Once there he is ordered to drive the train car at a high speed to getaway, eventually stopping at Roosevelt. As the criminal’s try to make an escape what will it cost Garber and the other hostages. It’s a high intense chase ending with a ride to safety.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1947 alignright" title="taking-pelham-travolta_l" src="http://www.joreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/taking-pelham-travolta_l-300x225.jpg" alt="taking-pelham-travolta_l" width="180" height="135" />&#8220;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3&#8243; contained the mix that every thriller has; the bad guy, the good guy, the mayor (portrayed by the entertaining James Gandolfini) and the hostages. As the train cars come to a rest and in the final scenes I expected an alternate ending. Expecting a little twist and turn from the tracks you end up with what you see is what you get. Denzel Washington’s depiction of Garber was very good, but his counterpart John Travolta as the bad ass Ryder was bizarre and over-played. It felt forced to view Travolta as the bad guy and unfortunately it just did not work. I think if Washington &amp; Travolta’s roles had been reversed perhaps we would have had fireworks. The cinematography and slicing of the film was rather distracting, effects not needed for the film. &#8220;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3&#8243; is not horrible, just not what I would expect from these A listers.</p>
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