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This multi-pack collects Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's Indiana Jones tetralogy, in which Harrison Ford portrays the globe-trotting archaeologist falling neck-deep in ancient mysteries and historical conflicts. Titles include RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. For more detailed descriptions, see individual titles.

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A crowd has gathered in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center, where a security guard is about to unlock the main entrance. It's less than a minute before 9 am, the official opening of the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Show—typically a sleepy sales and marketing event known more for schmoozing than buzz. But as the glass doors open on this April morning, a hundred people race toward a large crimson tent in the center of the hall.  read more »

Ah, Torchwood the much anticipated and rather frustrating Doctor Who spinoff.  Anticipated because it gave popular support character Captain John Harkness his own series and promised to ramp up the adult content.  Frustrating, particularly in Season One, because brilliant support characters often find the transition to lead characters a difficult one.  Though it had some very strong moments Season One ended up being a mash of styles that never quite fit together the way people hoped and then ended in a ridiculously underwhelming finale. Luckily, Season Two made significant improvements.  They found something interesting to do with the callow Owen.  James Marsters thatd be Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - got himself a brilliant recurring support bit.  The tone evened out.  The writers seemed to adopt the nobody-is-safe ethic that drives Joss Whedons shows. And, perhaps most importantly, they realized the show needed someone to fill the comic-foil role that Jack himself had filled on Doctor Who and filled that bit with a revitalized Ianto Jones. Still not perfect but taking huge steps in the right direction Season Two of Torchwood is about to hit DVD from BBC America, who were good enough to pass an advance copy my way.  Video quality is very good which youd expect on a brand new show and well presented with a collection of out takes and deleted scenes added to the mix as well.  The series spans the first four discs of the set with the fifth disc containing the entire run of Torchwood Declassified , a behind the scenes series that aired in the UK throughout the run of the main Torchwood series to provide everything you could possibly want to know about what went into the making of the show.  Interviews with stars, writers and directors plus episodes themed to explore issues and motifs running through the show itself, Declassified is one of the most in-depth treatments of a television show youre ever likely to come across.  You couldnt really ask for any more from a DVD release.  read more »

Errol Flynn stars in one of the defining roles of his storied career, Robin Hood. Perhaps the best version of the Robin Hood mythos, The Adventures of Robin Hood captures thrills, energy, and action like no other swashbuckling film. (1 hr. 42 min.)

Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor follows his turn in AMERICAN GANGSTER by taking the lead role in this thoughtful fight movie from writer/director David Mamet. Ejiofor plays Mike Terry, a man who runs his own Jiu-jitsu studio in Los Angeles. Terry's business is failing, causing tension between him and his wife, Sondra (Alice Braga). But their lives change drastically when Terry is compelled to come to the aid of an actor, Chet Frank (Tim Allen), during a bar fight. Frank befriends Terry and invites him to come and work as a consultant on a movie he is shooting. Just as Terry's fortunes seem to be changing, he finds himself caught up in a deceitful plan that has been carefully hatched by Frank's devious agent (who is played by Mamet regular Joe Mantegna). With his debts piling up, Terry decides to go against all his instincts and enter the competitive fighting world, where he stands to win a huge cash prize. But the good-natured fighter is in for a shock when he gets a close-up glimpse of the corruption that runs rife throughout the sport.  read more »

The third in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical films by writer-director Jacques Nolot (PORN THEATER), BEFORE I FORGET is a harsh and darkly deadpan character study at the intersection of aging, homosexuality and prostitution. Pierre (played by Nolot himself) is an HIV-positive male escort on the precarious precipice of 60, set adrift by the death of his longtime sugar daddy. When his ex-lover's family cuts Pierre out of the will, the hustler's prospects for a comfortable twilight are thrown into jeopardy. Too old to get a new patron and too long steeped in the life of selling sex to find a new career, Pierre is increasingly resigned to awaiting his own death. In his inability to move forward, he instead begins to look back: he visits fellow hustlers (hiring the younger ones as sexual companions), reminisces with a therapist about his recently ended "arrangement," and finally begins to write his memoirs.  read more »

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