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DVD Report (Boston Globe) New Releases | Tom Russo Collateral damage of refusing to go back to Iraq If you're unfamiliar with the bureaucratic term that writer-director Kimberly Peirce has adopted as the title of her Iraq fallout drama "Stop-Loss" (2008), the knowledge will very likely come as a spoiler. War-haunted Texas enlistee Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) is certainly surprised to return home and ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Sepinwall on TV: 'Mad Men' DVD review (The Star-Ledger) Advertising is all about packaging, and vice versa. You want to make your product look so wonderful that people don't just want to buy it, but need to buy it. us.rd.yahoo.com
Television worth talking about (Toronto Star) Take a Number: Jim Caviezel ( The Passion of the Christ , The Thin Red Line ) and Ian McKellen ( The Lord of the Rings , The Da Vinci Code ) will play prisoners Number Six and Number Two in AMC's version of the 1960s cult classic The Prisoner . AMC is co-producing the six-part miniseries with ITV Productions and Granada International, with a worldwide premiere slated for 2009. The role of Number ... us.rd.yahoo.com
DVD Review: King of the Gypsies (Blogcritics.org) I say Dino De Laurent-it, and if that fails, steal it! Written by El FangorioOkay, this is what happens to the discerning viewer within the first 20 minutes of watching 1979’s King of the Gypsies:Ethnic music starts to play. Sounds Italian. You may even say to yourself, “Kind of sounds like The Godfather.” Credits start to roll. Sterling Hayden (“Love that guy. Can’t be... us.rd.yahoo.com
DVD Report (Boston Globe) New Releases | Tom Russo Shifting hits of one sort or another Maybe Colin Farrell's future lies in playing it uncool. In the hit man comedy-drama "In Bruges" (2008), the tabloid-acious star is at his best since first breaking out several years back. And yet his customary hunky swagger doesn't run very deep here. Sure, Farrell's Ray is a pint-hoisting ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Soap: The Complete Series (DVD Talk) Soap lasted four seasons on ABC from it's debut in 1977 until it was taken off the air in 1981, though it remained popular in syndication for some time after that and it wasn't hard to find it in reruns throughout the eighties. us.rd.yahoo.com
Library Birthday Celebration (North Lake Tahoe Bonanza) Cake and lemonade will be available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 28 at the Incline Village Library’s third year celebration at 845 Alder Avenue. us.rd.yahoo.com
Digital Breakdown: Along came a 'Spiderwick' (The San Francisco Examiner) The number of fantasy novels getting swallowed up by Hollywood is increasing at a feverish pace since the success of the first "Chronicles of Narnia" film, based on C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." us.rd.yahoo.com
Watcher: 'Damages' lands Hurt; more TV news (Chicago Tribune) us.rd.yahoo.com
Nick Robinson: Chancellor v govenor (BBC News) I'm brooding on the contrast between the two speeches at the Mansion House last night. The chancellor's message, indeed his peroration, was to be confident, although, of course, he insisted that he'd never be complacent. us.rd.yahoo.com
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