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Happy Valley

Sarah Lancashire · BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Though crime is nothing new in Yorkshire, police sergeant Catherine Cawood finds her world turned upside down when the man she blames for her daughter's death, Tommy Lee Royce, is released from prison. Meanwhile, a desperate father arranges a kidnapping with a local drug lord to receive...
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Seven Swords

Leon Lai · Dragon Dynasty
Format: DVD

As the title indicates, Seven Swords is in the epic spirit of The Seven Samurai and its American cousin, The Magnificent Seven. A grittier enterprise, it may not surpass Tsui Hark's 1990s classics like Once Upon a Time in China, but offers its own unique pleasures--like non-stop action...
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Director's Cut

William Shatner · Paramount Pictures
Format: DVD video

The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly...
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12 Rounds 2: Reloaded

Roel Reiné · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

WWE superstar Randy Orton slams action into overdrive in this pulse-pounding thrill ride filled with gripping suspense! Paramedic Nick Malloy (Orton) is plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse when he receives a terrifying phone call from a vengeful psychopath (Brian Markinson) connected...
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Countdown the Sky's On Fire

Art Levinson · Direct Source Special Products

This campy, enjoyably over-the-top TV disaster movie about global catastrophe brought on by Earth's diminishing ozone layer features a surprisingly good cast, including Josie Bissett, Ben Browder, John Corbett of SEX IN THE CITY, and THE WEST WING's Bradley Whitford.
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Viking War: The Last Battle of the Vikings

Various · BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The story of a group of outmanned Scottish knights forced to take on 900 vikings invading from Norway is detailed in this historical documentary. Hosted by Jon Henderson and directed by Bill MacLeod, this special delves into the final days of the Norse Age and the men who sailed to, and looked...
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.

· Sony

Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a dramatic thriller set in the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. Denzel Washington stars as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is disrupted when a turbulent series of events challenge the activism that has defined his career. Colin Farrell...
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The Emperor's Club (Widescreen Edition) (2002)

Marc Abraham · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Kevin Kline is an assistant headmaster and classics professor at a well-to-do prep school in the 1970s. Beloved by the students, Kline finds a challenge in freshman Emile Hirsch, authority-bucking son of a West Virginia senator, whose antics and lack of respect for Kline and the faculty...
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Ballad of Littlejo

Maggie Greenwald · New Line Home Video

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female,...
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Slither

James Gunn · Universal
Format: DVD video

Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation. Wheelsy is a small rural town where not much happens, but that is all going to change, and not for the better. Grant Grant, the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizen, is taking a walk through the woods when he comes across a strange and unfamiliar...
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Pilates Workout for Dummies

Andrea Ambandos · Starz / Anchor Bay
Format: DVD

Pilates Workout for Dummies is a 60-minute DVD, ideal for both the first-time and intermediate Pilates exerciser. In the Basic Workout, well-toned instructor Michelle Dozois clearly and patiently presents 18 classic Pilates mat exercises, first demonstrating and explaining, then doing 6 to 10 repetitions....
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Seinfeld: Season 3

Jerry Seinfeld · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Relive your favorite Seinfeld moments like never before in this 4-disc set with all 22 episodes from the third season remastered in high definition for the best possible picture and sound quality! With approximately 13 hours of exclusive special features from the creative talents behind...
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Jarhead

Jake Gyllenhaal · Universal
Format: DVD

Based on the book by Anthony Swofford about his experiences in Operation Desert Storm. From his rigorous Marine basic training to the punishing heat of the desert, and the intolerable long wait for battle."The movie is so good you wish it were even better, particularly in its characterizations."--Newark...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)

Richard Burton · Paramount
Format: DVD

John le Carre's classic spy yarn gets a suitably brisk, unromanticized telling in this quintessential Cold War movie. A British agent (Richard Burton) sets up an elaborate cover story for being lured into defecting to the Communists, but he hardly needs to manufacture his disgust and cynicism...
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The golden compass

Deborah Forte · New Line Home Entertainment
Format: Book

In a parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened...
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