Personal: Movie, DVD and Video Reviews
Here are the DVD & Video releases for June & July 2008.
These do not include releases of classics, TV movies, and Direct-To-Video (which had never shown in cinemas).
The Advisories we include here are the one posted for that movie during cinematic release
in our FoundLocally movie listings, so that
parents can evaluate the movie they buy or rent for their families.
The Capsule Reviews
are provided to help you a plot overview and names of leading actors, to help you decide that a movie
is worth renting or buying.
The Star Ratings, are out of five and are our estimation of overall
movie value fora general audience. (NOTE: items without stars were unrated by FoundLocally in theatrical releases)
Date | Title, Advisory & Capsule Review |
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June 3 2008
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June 3 | Our Picks:
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Children of Men | 109 Mins. strong violence, language, some drug use and brief nudity |  In a dim 2027 futureworld when people can no longer procreate, a former activist (Clive Owen) and urban terrorists (Julianne Moore) help transport a miraculously pregnant woman (Claire Hope Ashity) to a sanctuary so her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
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CHiPs: The Complete Second Season |
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Control | 83 min |  A profile of Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
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Dante's Cove: The Complete Third Season |
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Flawless | 108 Mins. Brief strong language. |  A crime-drama set in swinging 1960s London, where a London Diamond Corporation executive (Demi Moore) is recruited by a long-time janitor (Michael Caine) to help him steal from their employer.
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Ironside: Season 1, Volume 1 |
| TV Series
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Mannix: The First Season |
| TV Series
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McHale's Navy: Season 1, Volume 1 |
| TV Series
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Meerkat Manor: Best of Season Two |
| TV Series
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Meet the Spartans | 84 Mins. Crude and sexual content throughout, coarse anguage & some comic violence. |  A star-cameo-filled parody of the movie '300' in which the heroic, leather-clad Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and 13 fellow Spartans defend their homeland from the invadng Persian army that includes a hunchbacked Paris Hilton, and many others.
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Miami Vice | 90 Mins. Violence, sexuality, nudity and language. | Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs (Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx) personal and crime-fighting lives become dangerously intertwined.
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Ozzie & Harriet Volume 1 |
| TV Series
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Semi-Pro | 90 Mins. Crude and sexual content. | Sports comedy, wherethe owner-coach-player (Will Ferrell) of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates (including Woodie Harrelson) to live their far-fetched NBA dreams.
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The Eye | 97 Mins. Some violence/terror and disturbing content | A young woman violinist (Jessica Alba) receives an eye transplant that also gave her the ability to see into the supernatural world.
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Waist Deep | 121 Mins. Some sexual content and coarse language. English Subtitles |  An ex-convict (Tyrese Gibson) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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Weeds: Season Three |
| TV Series
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Adventures of Superman: Season 1, Disc 1 |
| TV Series
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The Jetsons: Complete 1st Season, Disc 1 |
| TV Series
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June 10 2008
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June 10 | Our Picks:
  
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7th Heaven: The Sixth Season |
| TV Series
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American Gangster: The Complete Second Season |
| TV Series
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Boondocks: The Complete Second Season |
| TV Series
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Da Vinci's Inquest: Season 3 |
| TV Series
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Fantastic Four World's Greatest Heroes: Season 1 |
| TV Series
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Funny Games | 104 Mins. Some sexuality. |  Two psychotic young men take a family (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gerahart) hostage in their cabin.
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Hawaii Five-O: The Fourth Season |
| TV Series
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Home Improvement: The Complete Eighth Season |
| TV Series
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John Adams |
| TV Series
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Jumper | 100 Mins. Pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse. | A young man (Hayden Christensen) with a gentic mutation that allows him to teleport himself anywhere and any time, but finds himself in a long-running war between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.
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McLeod's Daughters: The Complete Sixth Season (Widescreen) |
| TV Series
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National Geo: Strange Days On Planet Earth 2 |
| TV Series
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The Bucket List | Coarse language, including a sexual reference. | Two terminally ill men (Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
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The Fugitive: Season 2, Volume 1 |
| TV Series
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The Other Boleyn Girl | 115 Mins, mature themes, some sexual content and violent images | Two sisters (Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson) vie for the affections of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
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Witless Protection | 97 Mins. Crude and sex-related humor | A small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) rescues a woman (Jenny McCarthy) he thinks is a kidnap victim but is the star witness in an upcoming white-collar crime trial, and now must try to protect both of them from those trying to "fix" the trial.
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June 17 2008
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June 17 | Our Picks:
 
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Be Kind, Rewind | 101 Mins. Some sexual references | Video store employee (Jack Black) who has a talent for accidentally erasing videotapes, works with his friend (Mos Def) to recreate the lost films, including Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.
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Californication: The First Season |
| TV Series
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Fool's Gold | 113 Mins. Action violence, some sexual material, brief nudity and language. | Discovering a clue to the location of a Lost Treasure rekindles a married couple's (Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson) sense of adventure and rekindles their romance
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Jericho: The Second Season |
| TV Series
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Meerkat Manor: The Complete Third Season (Widescreen) |
| TV Series
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Seasons 1-4 (Set) |
| TV Series
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch: The Fourth Season |
| TV Series
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June 24 2008
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June 24 | Our Picks:
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10,000 B.C. | 109 Mins. Intense action sequences and violence | A prehistoric epic that follows the jurney of a young mammoth hunter (Steven Strait) through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe (including Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel)
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Alien Encounters |
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Dogfights: The Complete Season 2 |
| TV Series
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Early Edition: The First Season |
| TV Series
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In Bruges | 107 Mins. Strong bloody violence, pervasive coase language and some drug use. | Two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) are holed up in msll town Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, and learn about their differing views of life and death.
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Lost World: John Rhys-Davies |
| TV Series
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National Geographic: Birth of Civilization |
| TV Series
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Persepolis |
| A precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl (voice: Chiara Mastroianni) comes of age during the Islamic Revolution (animated)
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The Big Easy: The Complete First Season |
| TV Series
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The Spiderwick Chronicles | 97 Mins. Scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements | Twin brothers (Freddie Highmore) and their sister (Sarah Bolger), move into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other fantasy creatures.
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July 1 2008
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July 1 | Our Picks:
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Alien Nation: The Complete Series (Set) |
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Drillbit Taylor | 102 Mins. Crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, coarse language, with drug references, and partial nudity. |  Three kids (Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile and David Dorfman) hire a low-budget bodyguard (Owen Wilson) to protect them from the playground bully (Alex Frost).
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House of Payne: Volume 2 |
| TV Series
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Lost In Space: Season Two Volume Two |
| TV Series
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Lost In Space: The Complete First Season |
| TV Series
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Millennium: The Complete First Season |
| TV Series
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Millennium: The Complete Third Season |
| TV Series
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The Closer: The Complete Third Season |
| TV Series
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The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 1 |
| TV Series
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Tru Calling: The Complete First Season |
| TV Series
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Tru Calling: The Complete Second Season |
| TV Series
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July 8 2008
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July 8 | Our Picks:
 
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Atonement / Pride & Prejudice (Back-To-Back) | 130 Mins. Disturbing war images, language and some sexuality. | A fledgling writer Briony Tallis, when 13 years old, falsely accuses the lover (James McAvoy) of her older sister (Keira Knightley) of a crime, changing many lives.
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Cannon: Season One, Volume One |
| TV Series
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Charlie Wilson's War / Erin Brockovich (Back-To-Back) | 97 Mins. Strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use. | An Enigmatic Texas congressman (Tom Hanks) to cajopled by a rich benfactor (Julia ROberts) to use his CIA allies to covertly arm the Afghani Mujahedeen against their Soviet Union invaders.
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Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Season 3 |
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Elizabeth: Golden Age / Elizabeth (Back-To-Back) | 114 min | England's First Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) struggles to maintain reign England in the face of domestic conspiracies, invasion threats by the Spanish Armada, and a budding relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen)
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Jake and the Fat Man: Season One, Volume One |
| TV Series
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Monk: Season 6 |
| TV Series
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Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fourth Season (Widescreen) |
| TV Series
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Stop-Loss | 113 Mins. Graphic violence and pervasive language (some sexuality was removed from the original edit) | Back in Texas after a combat tour in Iraq, a soldier (Ryan Phillippe) refuses to return to battle despite the "stop loss" government mandate requiring him to do so.
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Superhero Movie | 85 Mins. Crude & sexual content, comic violence, drug references and drug language. | A freak accident turns a bumbling young guy (Drake Bell) into the still-clumsy superhero known as Dragonfly (by writer-director Craig Mazin, of Scary Movie spoof fame).
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season |
| TV Series
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The Ruins | 91 Mins. Strong violence & gruesome images, language, some sexuality & nudity. | A Mexican vacation goes bad for a group of Americans (Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker) who head into the jungle to look for the missing brother of a fellow traveler, and gets worse after a warning received from a couple of locals.
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The X Files: The Complete Eighth Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Fifth Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete First Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Fourth Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Ninth Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Seventh Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Sixth Season |
| TV Series
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The X Files: The Complete Third Season |
| TV Series
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The X-Files: The Complete Second Season |
| TV Series
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July 15 2008
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July 15 | Our Picks:
 
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America's Test Kitchen: 8th Season |
| TV Series
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B.L. Stryker: The Complete Second Season |
| TV Series
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College Road Trip | 83 min | An overachieving high school student (Raven Symone)with an over-protective cop father decides to check out our of town colleges, her father (Martin Lawrence) decides to accompany her as chaperone.
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Dallas: The Complete Ninth Season |
| TV Series
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Evening Shade: Season One |
| TV Series
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MANswers: The Best of Season One |
| TV Series
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Penelope | 101 Mins. Adult themes, innuendo and language | A young aristocratic heiress (Christina Ricci) born under a family curse that can only be broken when she finds true love, and most men she dates are after her for her money, until she meets a down-on-his-luck guy (James McAvoy).
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Reno 911: The Complete Fifth Season |
| TV Series
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Saving Grace: Season One |
| TV Series
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Shutter | 85 min |
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Step Up 2 the Streets | 98 Mins. Coarse language, some suggestive material and brief violence. | Romantic sparks fly between two dance students (Briana Evigan, Adam G. Sevani) from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts.
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The Bank Job | 110 min |
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July 29 2008
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July 29 | Our Picks:
  
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Beowulf | Intense sequences of violence with disturbing images, some sexual images | The warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) must fight and defeat the monster Grendel (Crispin Glover) who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Beverly Hills 90210: The Fifth Season |
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Doomsday | 105 Mins. Strong bloody violence, coarse language, and some sexual content/nudity. | In 3037, thirty years after a killer plague hits Britain, and is successfully quarantined, another outbreak hits and scientists (Rhona Mitra) race to find a cure.
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Freakazoid! Season 1 |
| TV Series
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Girlfriends: The Fourth Season |
| TV Series
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo (Unrated Special Edition) | 100 Mins. Crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use. | Two potheads Harold & Kumar (John Cho, Kal Penn) boarding a misadventurous flight to Amsterdam with a bong, are caught and mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay.
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Inuyasha Season 5 (Boxed Set) |
| TV Series
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Law & Order Special Victims Unit: Year Seven |
| TV Series
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Maria Watches Over Us: 1st Season |
| TV Series
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Masters of Horror: Season 2 |
| TV Series
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Never Back Down | 110 Mins. Mature themes, intense fighting/violence sequences, some sexuality, partying and coarse language - all involving teens. | Attending a new high school, a rebellious teen (Sean Faris) joins an underground fight club, where he is mentored by a mixed martial arts veteran (Djimon Hounsou).
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Parking Wars: The Best of Season One |
| TV Series
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Robin of Sherwood: The Complete Collection (Set) |
| TV Series
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The Hills: The Complete Third Season (Widescreen) |
| TV Series
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Tristan Und Isolde | 125 Mins. Intense battle sequences and some sexuality | An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (James Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Sophia Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.
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Yu Gi Oh: Season 3 |
| TV Series
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