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Walk the Line

HighDefDigest — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:32:42 -0800

Singer. Rebel. Outlaw. Hero.

With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, the legendary "Man in Black" revolutionized music - and forged his legacy as a genuine American icon. Golden Globe winners Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon star (and sing) as Johnny Cash and June Carter in this inspiring true story of one man's unwavering devotion to his sound, his message and the greatest love of his life.

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2010-02-02)

Halo Legends

HighDefDigest — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:44:31 -0800

This 8 episode anthology of 10-15 minute length each, explores the origin and historical events of the HALO universe, and various characters inhabiting the world. Like Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight, each of the 8 episodes will be created by a separate prominent Japanese anime producer.

List price: ~~$34.99~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2010-02-09)

The House of the Devil

HighDefDigest — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:24:50 -0800

Sam (Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Noonan and Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creaky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life...

List price: ~~$34.98~~ Amazon: $21.99 (ships: 2010-02-02)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

HighDefDigest — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:56:12 -0700

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs tells the story of an eccentric wannabe scientist, Flint Lockwood. His latest contraption is a miraculous device designed to solve the world hunger crisis. But when Flint bites off more than he can chew, he sets in motion a global disaster of epic proportions. Based on the #1 best-selling book by Judi and Ron Barrett.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $35.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

A Perfect Getaway

HighDefDigest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:34:20 -0700

Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful and remote beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they've found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back.

Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples—Nick (Timothy Olyphant) & Gina (Kiele Sanchez) and Kale (Chris Hemsworth) & Cleo (Marley Shelton)—and things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins.

List price: ~~$39.98~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-29)

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

HighDefDigest — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:02:47 -0800

Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley stars in the greatest love story of all time. When Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) meets the handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfayden), she believes he is the last man on earth she could ever marry. But as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the very person she swore to loathe for all eternity. Jane Austen's masterpiece novel comes to the screen in the film critics said "makes you believe in true love and happily-ever-after" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).

List price: ~~$26.98~~ Amazon: $25.99 (ships: 2010-01-26)

Metallica: Français pour une nuit

HighDefDigest — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:29:51 -0700

Metallica concert filmed live at the Arènes de Nimes, the historic Roman amphitheatre in Nimes, France.

1. Blackened
2. Creeping Death
3. Fuel
4. Harvester Of Sorrow
5. Fade To Black
6. Broken, Beat & Scarred
7. Cyanide
8. Sad But True
9. One
10. All Nightmare Long
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Dyers Eve
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
16. Stone Cold Crazy
17. Motorbreath
18. Seek & Destroy

List price: ~~$91.98~~ Amazon: $64.49 (ships: 2009-11-23)

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

HighDefDigest — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:54:20 -0800

When Madea, America's favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy- drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend Randy, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Randy and the new possibilities of family, faith... and even true love.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Atonement

HighDefDigest — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:39:02 -0800

From the award winning director of Pride & Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever. Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all star cast in the film critics are calling "the year's best picture" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly)

List price: ~~$26.98~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2010-01-26)

IMAX: Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

HighDefDigest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:33:03 -0800

The depths of the ocean remain one of the last great mysteries on Earth. Far below the waves is an incredible place teeming with life, but few people have seen it... until now. For the first time you can be there, 12,000 feet below the ocean's surface, inside an unparalleled undersea volcanic world filled with strange creatures and dramatic landscapes. You've never seen anything like this as brand-new lighting technology far superior to anything that's ever been used before illuminates this secret realm. Exhibited to great acclaim in IMAX and other giant-screen theatres around the world.

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $15.99 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Staten Island

HighDefDigest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:44:46 -0800

In the shadow of Manhattan, the lives of three ambitious men intersect when Sully, a dim-witted septic tank cleaner, decides to rob $50,000 from the local mob boss. Starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofio, Seymour Cassel and Julianne Nicholson. Directed by James DeMonaco.

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

Across the Hall

HighDefDigest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:06:17 -0800

In this tense, stylish noir thriller, Terry (Danny Pino, TV's Cold Case) follows his fiancee, June (Brittany Murphy, The Ramen Girl, 8 Mile), to a seedy hotel where she's meeting another man. Drunk and distraught, Terry calls best friend Julian (Mike Vogel, Cloverfield) and reveals that he's holed up across the hall from the lovers with a stolen gun and murder on his mind. A chilling cat-and-mouse game ensues, forcing Julian to risk his own life to keep his friend from doing the unthinkable.

List price: ~~$35.98~~ Amazon: $24.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Triangle

HighDefDigest — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:40:07 -0800

When Jess (Melissa George, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, PARADISE LOST) sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realised when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she’s been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.

List price: ~~$29.98~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2010-02-02)

The Godfather: Part II: The Coppola Restoration - Sapphire Series

HighDefDigest — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:53:23 -0800

In what is undeniably one of the best sequels ever made, Francis Ford Coppola continues his epic Godfather trilogy with this saga of two generations of power within the Corleone family. Coppola, working once again with the author Mario Puzo, crafts two interwoven stories that work as both prequel and sequel to the original. One shows the humble Sicilian beginnings and New York rise of a young Don Vito, not played in an Oscar-winning performance for Best Supporting Actor by Robert De Niro. The other shows the ascent of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of the cast member who help make The Godfather, Coppola has produced a movie of staggering magnitude and vision, the film received eleven Academy Awards nominations, winning six including Best Picture of 1974.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $31.49 (ships: 2010-02-02)

The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration - Sapphire Series

HighDefDigest — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:36:22 -0800

Regarded as one of the best American films ever, by the American Film Institute, Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. The Godfather is a violent and chilling portrait of the Sicilian family's struggle to stay in power in a post-war America of corruption, deceit and betrayal. Coppola begins his legendary trilogy, masterfully balancing the story of the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $31.49 (ships: 2010-02-02)

Halloween II (2009)

HighDefDigest — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:44:21 -0800

Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, HALLOWEEN, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton).

Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.

List price: ~~$38.95~~ Amazon: $27.49 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Smokin' Aces

HighDefDigest — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:57:02 -0800

Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy "Aces" Israel isn't playing nice. Turns out, he's telling mob secrets to the FBI. After a $1 million contract is put out on him, Aces tries to pull his greatest disappearing act before a rogues' gallery of ex-cons, hit men and smokin' hot assassins tries to rub him out in this dark action comedy that takes no prisoners.

List price: ~~$26.98~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

50 Dead Man Walking

HighDefDigest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:09:39 -0800

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $29.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Cliffhanger

HighDefDigest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:22:34 -0800

For Rocky Mountain Rescue, the mission is almost routine: locate five climbers. With the woman he loves and his best friend , Gabe Walker braves the icy peaks only to discover that the distress call is really a trap set by merciless international terrorist Eric Qualen. Now millions of dollars and their own lives hang in the balance. Against explosive firepower, bitter cold, and dizzying heights, Walker must outwit Qualen in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

List price: ~~$24.95~~ Amazon: $17.49 (ships: 2010-01-12)

IMAX: Ride Around the World

HighDefDigest — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:08:26 -0800

Take a wild ride to discover the amazing 1200-year global history of the cowboy. Rope wild bulls on one of the most famous American ranches. Swim with horses through the watery Argentine backcountry. Stage an attack on the casbah with Moroccan mounted warriors. Gallop over mountaintops in spectacular British Columbia. Journey on horseback through these exotic landscapes and many more as you Ride Around The World!

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $16.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Last Action Hero

HighDefDigest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:05:20 -0800

A teenage boy's unfulfilling life takes a strange turn when he gets sucked into an action film and teams up with its hero, Jack Slater.

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Megafault

HighDefDigest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:56:31 -0800

In West Virginia, Charley “Boomer” Baxter (Eriq LaSalle) is supervising the placement of mountaintop-removal explosives. As he detonates the TNT, a massive earthquake liquefies the terrain. Within hours, Dr. Amy Lane (Brittany Murphy), a government seismologist, arrives at the epicenter. Amy determines that the initial quake has exposed a deep seismic fault that runs across the center of the North American continent and threatens to tear the world in half. Now, Amy and Boomer must race ahead of the massive crack in the earth while devising a plan to stop the devastation and warn everyone in its path.

List price: ~~$34.95~~ Amazon: $22.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

UFC: Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights

HighDefDigest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:47 -0800

For 16 years, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been the gold standard in combat sports. Now you can re-live the 100 greatest fights in UFC history with this once-in-a-lifetime collection. Featuring all the greats of the Octagon, from Royce Gracie and Chuck Liddell to Matt Hughes and Randy Couture, this set contains the most dramatic, explosive and memorable battles of the UFC in their entirety from 100 down to the greatest UFC fight of all time.

List price: ~~$119.97~~ Amazon: $73.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Weeds: Season Five

HighDefDigest — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:09:16 -0700

The hemptress returns in the complete fifth season of the Showtime Original Series of Weeds. When pot-selling soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, took her homegrown business south of the border, she found the grass wasn't greener on the other side. Now she's pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord - or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy's sure to find a whole new crop of trouble in an all-new season of Weeds - starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker.

List price: ~~$39.98~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Smokin' Aces 2 - Assassins' Ball

HighDefDigest — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:45:21 -0700

List price: ~~$36.98~~ Amazon: $25.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season

HighDefDigest — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:57:29 -0700

Doh!

List price: ~~$59.99~~ Amazon: $41.99 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Paris, Texas

HighDefDigest — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:38:34 -0700

German New Wave pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape of its own) to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $26.99 (ships: 2010-01-26)

Goodfellas: 20th Anniversary Edition

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:35:37 -0700

When Martin Scorsese, one of the world's most skillful and respected directors, reunited with two-time Oscar-winner Robert De Niro in GoodFellas, the result was one of the most powerful films of the year.

Based on the true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared GoodFellas great. It was named 1990's best film by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics. And it earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Robert De Niro received wide recognition for his performance as veteran criminal Jimmy "The Gent" Conway. And as the volatile Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Academy Award nominee Lorraine Bracco, Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino also turned in electrifying performances. You have to see it to believe it - then watch it again. GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie.

List price: ~~$34.99~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2010-02-16)

Extract

HighDefDigest — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:02:47 -0700

Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman) is sitting pretty. With a beautiful wife, a comfortable home and the almost finalized acquisition by General Mills of the culinary extracts business he has built with his loyal lieutenant Brian (J.K. Simmons), Joel seems to have it all. Except his wife is about as interested in him as she is in her career (supermarket coupon design), his employees want a piece of the pie and the sweet young thing with designs on him (Mila Kunis) is really a wily con-artist. On the advice of a drug-addled confidante (Ben Affleck), Joel cooks up a scheme to cheat with impunity by hiring a gigolo to seduce his wife—only to discover the young object of his affection is behind a lawsuit by long-time employee Step (Clifton Collins, Jr.) that will scotch the General Mills deal and leave Joel penniless. The best-laid plans unravel with hilarious results in this off-the wall comedy about life in the not-so-fast lane.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

Che

HighDefDigest — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:57:58 -0700

List price: ~~$49.95~~ Amazon: $33.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Angels & Demons Gift Set

HighDefDigest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:01:38 -0700

List price: ~~$54.95~~ Amazon: $38.49 (ships: 2009-11-24)

American Pie: The Book of Love

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:35:01 -0700

The all-new escapade of American Pie is packed with more sexy antics, smokin’ hot babes and good-natured uninhibited comedy than ever before. Rob, Nathan and Lube are three friends at Great Falls High determined to succeed in their mission of manhood and score with the ladies of their dreams. After some uproarious attempts with less than successful results, they accidentally discover a legendary guide to seduction hidden in the school library. It turns out to be a rarely-seen often-sought manual about the secrets to sexual success, penned by some of the school’s previous generations. But a few missing pages leads to hilarious surprises for everyone...including the alumni.

List price: ~~$36.98~~ Amazon: $25.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

9

HighDefDigest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:24:15 -0700

The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world's machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down.

But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. Another of their own, #9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), emerges and displays leadership qualities that may help them survive and possibly even thrive. The conflicted but resilient tribe already includes #1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran and the group's longtime leader; #2 (Martin Landau), a kindly but now-frail inventor; #3 and #4, scholarly twins who communicate nonverbally and mostly with each other; #5 (John C. Reilly), a stalwart and nurturing engineer; #6 (Crispin Glover), an erratic artist beset by visions; #7 (Jennifer Connelly), a brave and self-sufficient warrior; and #8 (Fred Tatasciore), the none-too-bright muscle and enforcer for #1.

With their group so few, these "stitchpunk" creations must summon individual strengths well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines, one of which is a marauding mechanized beast. In the darkness just before the dawn, #9 rallies everyone of his number to band together.

List price: ~~$39.98~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-29)

8 1/2

HighDefDigest — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:08:17 -0700

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8 1/2 was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $26.99 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Michael Jackson: This Is It

HighDefDigest — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:52:05 -0700

Michael Jackson's This Is It will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena.

Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before.

In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson's This Is It captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2000-01-01)

Universal Soldier: A New Beginning

HighDefDigest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:42:02 -0700

List price: ~~$34.95~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Chuck: The Complete Second Season

HighDefDigest — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:33:50 -0700

This season, Chuck is in luck. Intersect II is ready for espionage service. And that means the old Intersect (Chuck) can go back to his old life. But if Chuck goes, he’s gone: Casey has orders to off him. In the series called “TV’s funniest comedy” by EW.com, Chuck survives to unravel mysteries of the past, become a hero in the present, and – in a stunner of a season finale – chop-and-drop himself into an even more perilous future!

List price: ~~$69.97~~ Amazon: $55.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

According to Greta

HighDefDigest — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:34:28 -0700

Greta's a trip, but she's no vacation. She's sixteen, bright, beautiful, and seriously rebellious, full of sarcastic wit that barely disguises her hurt inside. Pushed aside by her mother, Karen, Greta is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, and she's not happy about it. In fact, she fully intends to kill herself before the summer is over and is currently compiling a notebook of suicide methods. Acerbic, yet willingly impulsive, Greta is a stunning force of nature, disrupting her grandparents' staid and settled lives and the Jersey Shore community they live in as well. But a near catastrophe gives Greta a wake-up call and demonstrates how deeply her own actions impact those around her. Greta's growing love for her elderly grandparents, along with the excitement of her first summer romance, gradually strips away her defenses, revealing the promising, charismatic young woman underneath her shell.

List price: ~~$34.97~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Gamer

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:57 -0700

Gamer is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people... for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Kable (Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent "Slayers." Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Riding Giants

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:45:59 -0700

From acclaimed director Stacy Peralta comes Riding Giants, the story of big wave surfing. Breaking the mold of traditional documentary filmmaking, Riding Giants uses its dynamic, cross-generational approach to profile the lives and times of the intrepid surfers who over the decades have dedicated themselves to finding and successfully challenging the biggest waves on earth.

We meet Greg Noll, the pioneer, whose relentless push into Hawaii's big surf in the late 1950s earned him the nickname "The Bull". There's Jeff Clark, Northern California's lone frontiersman, who , after discovering the massive waves of Maverick's near San Francisco, rode their alone for over a decade. And finally Hawaii's Laird Hamilton, the prototypical "extreme" surfer, a rare breed of athlete/innovator considered the best big wave rider who ever waxed a board.

Through a fast-paced combination of mediums that include classic archival photography, spectacular movie footage - both current and vintage - and contemporary interviews with the sport's greatest surfers, experts and storytellers, Riding Giants captures the rich visual history of one of the most dramatic athletic adventures of our time.

List price: ~~$24.95~~ Amazon: $17.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Toolbox Murders (1978)

HighDefDigest — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:08:30 -0700

In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering ‘immoral’ women with the tools of his trade – claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning of this landmark epic of violence and depravity that was vilified by critics, banned by censors, and treasured by splatter fans worldwide.

List price: ~~$29.95~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2010-01-25)

In The Loop

HighDefDigest — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:54 -0700

It's the razor-sharp smash that critics are calling "brilliant" (San Francisco Chronicle), "blisteringly funny" (USA Today) and "One of the best films of the year... a little piece of heaven" (Chicago Tribune). Peter Capaldi stars as a foul-mouthed British government spokesman who must act quickly when a mid-level minister (Tom Hollander of Pirates Of The Caribbean) tells an interviewer that U.S. war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable". But when they are both summoned to Washington D.C., the hapless politico quickly becomes a pawn of bureaucrats, spin doctors and military advisors, including a hardnosed General (James Gandolfini, in a performance Rolling Stone hails as "slyly hilarious"). Gina McKee (Wonderland), Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) and Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder) co-star in this hilarious satire from director/co-writer Armando Lannucci, the award-winning creator of the classic BBC sitcoms I'm Alan Partridge and The Thick Of It.

List price: ~~$29.98~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Dogtown and Z-Boys

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:13:42 -0700

A look at the origins of the skateboarding scene (from the '70s on), directed by one of the dudes who was there to witness it all (and one of the first to cash in), Stacy Peralta. Filmed on location in the empty swimming pools of Venice, CA.

List price: ~~$24.95~~ Amazon: $17.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:13 -0700

Leather-bound and lethal, Aeon Flux - secret agent, saboteur - engages in a never-ending battle of wills with her nemesis/love, Trevor Goodchild. And what she may lack in morals and warmth, she more than makes up for with cat-like reflexes and ammunition. This director's cut of the groundbreaking MTV series is a mind-blowing combination of killer comic-book style animation, complex plots and themes, and action-driven narrative. Aeon Flux doesn't skate the edge, she is the edge. And she will prevail, even if it kills her. Over and over again.

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $26.99 (ships: 2009-11-23)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

HighDefDigest — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:26:54 -0700

Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage), a homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department, is promoted to Lieutenant after he saves a prisoner from drowning in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. However, during his heroic act, he severely injures his back and is put on prescription pain medication.

A year later, Terence—struggling with his addictions to sex, Vicodin and cocaine—finds himself in the battle to bring down drug dealer Big Fate, who is suspected of massacring an entire family of African immigrants.

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The Hangover

HighDefDigest — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:25:16 -0700

They planned a Vegas bachelor party that they would never forget. Now they really need to remember what exactly went down! A baby? A tiger? Why is one of them missing a tooth? And most of all, where is the groom?! What the guys did while partying can't compare to what they must do sober in an outrageous caper that has them piecing together all their bad decisions from the night before-- one hazy clue at a time. Director Todd Phillips ("Old School") and an all-aces comedy cast tie one on... big time!

List price: ~~$35.99~~ Amazon: $19.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Pink: Funhouse Tour - Live from Australia

HighDefDigest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:26:20 -0700

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $17.49 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Sands of Oblivion

HighDefDigest — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:35:08 -0700

In 1923, legendary director Cecil B. DeMille constructed a replica of ancient Egypt in the California desert for his epic movie The Ten Commandments. When filming was completed, he mysteriously ordered the entire set buried. Now a soon-to-be divorced archaeologist couple (Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin of Serenity and Firefly) and an Iraq War combat veteran (Victor Webster of Charmed) have uncovered the secret DeMille could not keep hidden... and unleashed a horror that cannot be stopped. Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), John Aniston (Days Of Our Lives) and Academy Award winner George Kennedy co-star in this Director's Cut featuring additional footage not seen in the original cable broadcast.

List price: ~~$17.98~~ Amazon: $11.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Fame (1980)

HighDefDigest — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:51:17 -0700

Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That’s what New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That’s something the school’s teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for.

Fame sings the body electric, celebrating the growing-up process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, living life. Director Alan Parker brings an energetic style to the crisscrossing stories of students (including future Academy Award winner** Irene Cara, Paul McCrane (ER), Barry Miller (Saturday Night Fever) and two who returned in the later TV series, Gene Anthony Ray and Lee Curreri). Nominated for six Academy Awards,* Fame won Oscars for its dynamic score and title tune – and inspired a shoot-for-the-stars 2009 remake.

List price: ~~$20.99~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2010-01-26)

Wicked Lake

HighDefDigest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0700

Four beautiful but mysterious girls embark on a road trip for a relaxing weekend getaway in the woods. Unbeknownst to them, two clans of deranged male misfits follow them to their secluded and picturesque lakeside cabin in the mountains. The girls appear to be easy prey for the predatory perverts until the fateful stroke of midnight when all hell, literally , breaks loose and the tables are turned. Original score and on-screen cameo appearance by Grammy-nominated Alien Jourgensen, founder of the band Ministry.

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Moon

HighDefDigest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:28:43 -0700

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period.

List price: ~~$37.95~~ Amazon: $26.49 (ships: 2010-01-12)

Inglourious Basterds

HighDefDigest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:08:59 -0700

In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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IMAX: Solarmax

HighDefDigest — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:41:33 -0700

Every 11 years the sun's poles reverse with unimaginable violence. The peak of the storm is called a solarmax. The hottest film under the sun, Solarmax is a breathtaking exploration into the awesome vastness ande mysterious power of our closest star. Take a unique journey through time and space and experience the sun's cever force and beauty. Witness a total eclipse and the magnificence of the Aurora Borealis, viewed from both Earth and space. Real images captured by NASA;s SOHO satelite provide spectacular foothage of the sun as never seen before. A spectacular and historic film about mankind's relationship with our dangerous and beautiful life-giving star.

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All About Steve

HighDefDigest — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:31:14 -0700

Sandra Bullock (The Proposal) and Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) star in this off-the-wall comedy about a blind date gone hilariously wrong. When eccentric, but lovable, Mary gets set up with Steve, a news channel cameraman, she falls hard. He does not. Mary decides to follow Steve on a cross-country hunt for breaking news and soon finds herself entangled in the story. But despite the media storm surrounding her, Mary may just discover her true place in the world...and the man of her dreams!

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

10 Things I Hate About You: Special Edition

HighDefDigest — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:58:07 -0700

The classic comedy that launched the careers of Academy Award winner Heath Ledger (2008, Best Supporting Actor, The Dark Knight) and Julia Stiles celebrates its ten-year high school reunion with 10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition. This special edition is packed with a million things to love, including an exclusive sneak peek at Heath Ledger's screen test. New kid in school Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with the beautiful Bianca (Larisa Oleynik). The problem is that Bianca isn't allowed to date unless her surly older sister Kat (Stiles) does. Cameron's only hope is to enlist the help of Patrick (Ledger), the school troublemaker with a reputation as nasty as Kat's. This special edition brings back the love-struck high school classmates of '99 with a treasure trove of never-before-seen footage. Also featuring a retro soundtrack of memorable nineties tunes, 10 Things I Hate About You is a comedy you can count on.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $35.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

World's Greatest Dad

HighDefDigest — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:20:43 -0700

Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass who won't give his father the time of day. He is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.

List price: ~~$34.98~~ Amazon: $23.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

District 9

HighDefDigest — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:36:13 -0700

Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them.

Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.

The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable—he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)

HighDefDigest — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:40 -0700

In Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, high profile District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist, C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney’s perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act. Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his assignment, Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) becomes caught between her boss’s political ambitions and C.J.’s dangerous exposé. As mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella’s own life becomes threatened when she discovers incriminating proof that puts the fate of both Nicholas’s innocence and Hunter’s reputation in her hands.

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Taking Woodstock

HighDefDigest — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:07 -0700

Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business—a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank.

Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco—and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur's farm for "3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake."

With a little help from his friends, including theater troupe leader Devon (Dan Fogler), recently returned Vietnam veteran Billy (Emile Hirsch), and cross-dressing ex-Marine Vilma (Liev Schreiber)—and with a little opposition from townspeople, including Billy's brother Dan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)—Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life—and popular culture—forever.

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Terminator Salvation

HighDefDigest — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:43:24 -0700

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

List price: ~~$35.99~~ Amazon: $19.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Shorts

HighDefDigest — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:00:48 -0700

Eleven-year-old Toe Thompson is the designated punching bag for the bullies of the suburban community of Black Falls, where his and everyone else's parents work for Black Box Industries, makers of the do-it-all gadget that's sweeping the nation. But during a freak storm, a mysterious Rainbow Rock, which grants wishes to anyone who finds it, falls from the sky. Suddenly, the neighborhood that Toe already thinks is weird is about to get a lot weirder. As the Rainbow Rock ricochets around the town—from kid to kid and parent to parent—wishes-come-true quickly turn the neighborhood upside down in a wild rampage of everything from tiny aliens to giant boogers.

List price: ~~$35.99~~ Amazon: $19.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

It Might Get Loud

HighDefDigest — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:36:21 -0700

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White.

List price: ~~$37.95~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2009-12-22)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

HighDefDigest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:45:39 -0700

Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Meanwhile, Harry discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.

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Four Christmases

HighDefDigest — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:44:27 -0700

Every Christmas happily unmarried Brad and Kate escape divorced parents and exasperating relatives by getting on a plane. This year the airport shuts down and the couple is forced to celebrate four family Christmases in one hectic, hilarious day. Can Brad and Kate’s relationship survive Four Christmases?

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Red Mist

HighDefDigest — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:46:09 -0700

A group of medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidentally puts the hospital's creepy caretaker into a deep coma. But when Catherine (Arielle Kebbel) tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental drug, she instead sends his brainwaves beserk.

It’s not long before Catherine’s friends are picked off one-by-one in a spree of sick kicks as the ultimate out-of-body experience ushers in a bloodbath of brutal revenge.

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Cyclops

HighDefDigest — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:56:37 -0700

From Roger Corman comes a splatter-fest pitting slaves against the dreaded Cyclops in the Roman arena.

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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

HighDefDigest — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:23:23 -0700

Ever since he watched monsters brutally slaughter his family during a childhood camping trip, local plumber Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) has had major anger management issues. But when a busted pipe disturbs an ancient evil, Jack will unwittingly unleash a force that transforms his kindly night school professor (Robert Freddy Krueger Englund) into a ravenous, tentacled, infectious beast from Hell. Even if Jack can no longer run from the demons of his past, can he at least hack them to pieces before they devour his entire class? Rachel Skarsten (Birds Of Prey) and James A. Woods co-star in this over the top international film festival sensation that Fangoria hails as a gore oozing homage to wild and crazy 80s horror!

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The Music Man

HighDefDigest — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:31:40 -0700

The Music Man, the joyful film of the 1,375-perfromance Broadway smash, remains an irresistible skyburst of Americana. Robert Preston recreates his Tony-winning Broadway triumph as con artist Harold Hill, arriving in River City, Iowa, to form a boys band, much to the disapproval...and later delight of town librarian Marian Paroo. Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford and 7-year-old Ron Howard co-star. Meredith Wilson's sassy, brassy score, is orchestrated to Oscar-Winning effect by Ray Heindorf.

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Battlestar Galactica: Season 1

HighDefDigest — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:22:20 -0700

With the 12 colonies of man virtually destroyed in the climax of a hundred-year war with the Cylon Empire, President Roslin (Mary McDonnell) and Commander Adama (Edward James Olmos) gather up the few humans left and embark on a journey to find the mythical planet Earth, not realizing that the Cylon robot is no longer a recognizable enemy. Battlestar Galactica is a complete re-imagining of the 1970s series - upping the ante on the action, adventure, and drama that made the original so popular. Now, experience all 13 thrilling episodes of Season 1 and the four hour TV miniseries that started it all in this 4 disc Blu-ray set loaded with explosive bonus features and presented in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound.

List price: ~~$89.98~~ Amazon: $62.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Lower Learning

HighDefDigest — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:22:16 -0700

Welcome to Geraldine Ferraro Elementary, where the teachers are drunk, lazy or psychotic, every child has been left behind, and burned-out Vice Principal Tom Willoman (Jason Biggs) is barely holding on. But when totally hot district inspector Rebecca Seabrook (Eva Longoria Parker) arrives to shut down the school, she and Tom hatch a plan to take back the classrooms from insanely corrupt Principal Billings (Rob Corddry). What tragedy in Willoman's past has turned him into a complete wuss? When are Nyquil shots and boxing matches considered proper teaching tools? How much damage can be inflicted by a bunch of pissed-off 2nd graders? Monica Potter and Will Sasso co-star in this twisted comedy about the perils of public education and the higher calling to Lower Learning.

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My Sister's Keeper

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:50:34 -0700

Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric) live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life.

The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

List price: ~~$35.99~~ Amazon: $19.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

(500) Days of Summer

HighDefDigest — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:04:23 -0700

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t. This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be — it’s thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days “together” to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

Mystic River

HighDefDigest — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:34:31 -0700

Mystic River (2003) tells the story of three men whose dark, interwoven history forces them to come to terms with a brutal murder on the mean streets of Boston.

List price: ~~$28.99~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2010-02-02)

Paper Heart

HighDefDigest — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:27:52 -0700

In PAPER HEART, Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. At the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into a modern-day skeptic. PAPER HEART follows Yi as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand: Love. Combining elements of documentary and traditional storytelling, reality and fantasy, Paper Heart brings a fresh perspective to the modern romance and redefines the classic love story.

List price: ~~$39.98~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Julie & Julia

HighDefDigest — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:30:21 -0700

A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new generation to the magic of French cooking. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) co-stars in director Nora Ephron's delicious comedy about joy, obssesion and butter. Bon appétit!

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Cheaper By The Dozen 2

HighDefDigest — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:22:13 -0700

Steve Martin is funnier than ever in this hilarious sequel! Tom Baker (Martin) and wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) bring their clan together for a memorable summer getaway. But their dream vacation turns into an outrageous competition with the overachieving, overzealous family of Tom's long-time rival, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy). Featuring the original Baker kids, including Hilary Duff, Tom Welling and Piper Perabo, this supersized comedy is fun for the whole family!

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2010-01-05)

The Alphabet Killer

HighDefDigest — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:55:12 -0700

A crime scene photographer and a police detective engage the help of a college professor for leads on a child killer who picks his victims according to the initials in their name. Based on the true unsolved crimes in Rochester, New York in the 1970's.

List price: ~~$19.97~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

HighDefDigest — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:54:36 -0700

Streetwise charmer Eddie (Nick Moran) enters the biggest card game of his life with the savings of his three best friends: Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). But he leaves the table owing his underworld boss Hatchet Harry half a million and has a week to come up with the money. Now Eddie and his friends must outsmart and outgun all types of lowlifes on their way to pay off Harry before time runs out.

List price: ~~$26.98~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

La Boheme

HighDefDigest — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:20:47 -0700

Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. The chemistry between them is electric, unrivaled in the theatre today. Russian soprano Anna Netrebko is not only beautiful but has a marvelous voice and technique; on the other hand Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, has a wonderful voice and an incredible charisma.

The excellent bonus features include fascinating interviews with all the key performers and the director, who confirms that he not only wanted to remain steadfastly faithful to Puccini's design but also document two of the leading singers of the modern age rather than embarking on some kind of trendy contemporary recreation.

List price: ~~$44.99~~ Amazon: $33.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Magnolia

HighDefDigest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:00:06 -0700

Anderson’s follow up to Boogie Nights was called “one of the best movies of the year” by Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers and was nominated for three Academy Awards®-- Best Supporting Actor (Tom Cruise in an amazing performance as a sleazy infomercial host); Best Original Song (Save Me by Aimee Mann) and an Original Screenplay nomination for Anderson. The film takes place in a single day in Los Angeles, focusing on a number of interconnected people whose lives are forever changed as they search for love and meaning in a chaotic world. The film chronicles such diverse occurrences as a suicide turned homicide by a quirk of timing; a motivational speaker motivated by rage; and a quiz kid rendered stupid by a lightning strike. Besides Cruise, look for more great acting from Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Jason Robards, Philip Baker Hall and Julianne Moore.

List price: ~~$28.99~~ Amazon: $19.99 (ships: 2010-01-19)

Harry Potter Years 1-6 Giftset

HighDefDigest — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0700

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE - The magical adventure begins when Harry Potter is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS - Cars fly, trees attack and a mysterious house-elf warns Harry that he is in great danger as he returns for his second year at Hogwarts.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN - Harry must confront soul-sucking Dementors, outsmart a werewolf and learn the truth about the escaped prisoner of Azkaban – Sirius Black.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE - Harry must overcome a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - When few believe that Lord Voldemort has returned, Harry must secretly train his friends for the wizarding war that lies ahead.

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both Muggle and wizarding worlds, Harry and Dumbledore work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defenses.

Fantasy

List price: ~~$134.99~~ Amazon: $110.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

The Other Man

HighDefDigest — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:54:15 -0700

A taut thriller, THE OTHER MAN is an intimate tale of a man who discovers his wife's infidelity and sets out to track down his rival. Driven to pursue the mystery surrounding his wife’s adultery, Liam Neeson embarks on a global pursuit with a haunted passion that begins to probe the nature not simply of jealousy, but of loss and forgiveness. The film is beautifully shot on location in Milan and Lake Como as well as in London and Ely by renowned cinematographer Harris Zambarloukos (Mama Mia!, Heart in the Sand.)

List price: ~~$35.98~~ Amazon: $24.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3

HighDefDigest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:37:07 -0700

List price: ~~$129.99~~ Amazon: $90.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Funny People

HighDefDigest — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:24:36 -0700

George Simmons is a famous stand-up comedian who learns that he has a terminal illness and less than a year to live. When, he meets Ira, a struggling comedian at a comedy club where both the comedians are performing, George hires Ira to be his personal assistant and opening act at his performances. The two forge a close friendship as George helps Ira with his career and Ira helps George find closure in his legacy. However, when George learns that his disease has gone into remission and an ex-girlfriend re-enters his life, he's inspired to reevaluate what is important to him and what truly gives meaning to his life.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

G-FORCE

HighDefDigest — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:35:39 -0700

Buckle up for thrilling edge-of-your-seat action and laugh-out-loud fun in Disney’s family comedy adventure G-Force. Just as the G-Force — an elite team of highly trained guinea pigs — is about to save the world, the F.B.I. shuts the secret unit down. But these next-generation action heroes — Darwin, loyal team leader; Blaster, weapons expert with attitude to spare; Juarez, drop-dead gorgeous martial arts diva; and tag-along Hurley — won’t be stopped. Armed with the latest in high-tech spy equipment, and with the F.B.I. on their tails, the fur flies as they race against the clock to save the world. From the producer of the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy and National Treasure, and filled with high-octane action, daredevil stunts, cutting-edge special effects and outrageous comedy, G-Force is fantastic fun for the whole family.

List price: ~~$44.99~~ Amazon: $31.49 (ships: 2009-12-15)

The Mask of Zorro

HighDefDigest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:21:01 -0700

A sweeping romantic adventure of love and honor, tragedy and triumph set against Mexico's fight forindependence. Twenty years have past since Don Diego de la Vega (Hopkins) fought oppression as the legendary hero, Zorro. Now he must find a successor and he chooses Alejandro Murietta (Banderas), a bandit with a troubled past who he must, somehow, transform into the fearless fighter he once had been. Then, armed with sword, whip, mask and the jet-black stallion, Tornado, the new Zorro must stop tyrant Raphael Montero, newly returned from Spain with a plot to actually buy California and enslavethe populous to work in his mines.

List price: ~~$24.95~~ Amazon: $17.49 (ships: 2009-12-01)

The Mel Brooks Collection

HighDefDigest — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:42:29 -0700

Box set includes nine Mel Brooks films including: 'Blazing Saddles,' 'High Anxiety,' 'History of the World Part 1,' 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights,' 'Silent Movie,' 'Spaceballs,' 'To Be or Not to Be,' 'Twelve Chairs,' and 'Young Frankenstein'

List price: ~~$139.99~~ Amazon: $97.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Gomorrah

HighDefDigest — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:23:17 -0700

Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of undercover Italian reporter Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld (known as the Camorra), Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Filmed with an exquisite detachment interrupted by bursts of violence, Gomorrah is a shattering, socially engaged true-crime story from a major new voice in Italian cinema.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $26.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Gimme Shelter

HighDefDigest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:34:24 -0700

Called “the greatest rock film ever made,” this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When 300,000 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hell’s Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, direct cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin immortalized on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment.

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Ultimate Edition

HighDefDigest — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:49:18 -0700

Harry returns for his second year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. He ignores warnings not to go back to Hogwarts by a mysterious house elf named Dobby. Soon into the school year strange things start happening. Students are found in a petrified state, messages written in blood appear on the walls and Harry starts to hear voices in his head. It becomes apparent that someone has opened The Chamber of Secrets... but who is responsible and can the dark forces that lurk there be stopped?

List price: ~~$49.99~~ Amazon: $34.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Ultimate Edition

HighDefDigest — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:14:27 -0700

Harry Potter is a ten-year-old orphan who has been living under the stairs in the house of his cruel and abusive aunt and uncle. But on his eleventh birthday, Harry receives a letter informing him that he has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns not only that his parents were wizards, but also that he is destined to become a powerful wizard himself. Along with his new friends Ron and Hermione, Harry hones his magical powers and uncovers the secret of the Sorcerer's stone, which leads him into a confrontation with the evil wizard who murdered his parents.

List price: ~~$49.99~~ Amazon: $34.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

The Green Berets

HighDefDigest — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:42:53 -0700

John Wayne leads his special forces troops against the enemy in this first Hollywood treatment of the Vietnam War. It's rugged battle action all the way. David Janssen and Jim Hutton co-star.

List price: ~~$28.99~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2010-01-05)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

HighDefDigest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:52:40 -0700

History is larger than life — and twice as funny — in this monumental comedy sequel. Ben Stiller (Meet The Parents, There’s Something About Mary) stars as Larry Daley, a former night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, where the exhibits come alive after dark. But now Larry’s nocturnal friends are being retired to the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, luring him back for a hilarious, all-out battle against a cranky Egyptian Pharaoh who plans to take over the museum... and the world! From returning director Shawn Levy (Cheaper By The Dozen), the film also stars Amy Adams (Enchanted), Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting), Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers), Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”), Ricky Gervais (“The Office”), Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder) and Jonah Hill (Super Bad).

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Is Anybody There?

HighDefDigest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:17:40 -0700

Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence (Caine), a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that helps them both remember what magic is possible when life is lived to its fullest.

List price: ~~$29.98~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

The Open Road

HighDefDigest — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:28:55 -0700

In The Open Road, minor leaguer Carlton Garrett (Justin Timberlake) takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett (Jeff Bridges), when Carlton’s mother (Mary Steenburgen) becomes sick. Knowing his charming yet painfully immature dad’s likelihood to disappoint, Carlton enlists his on-again-off-again girlfriend Lucy (Kate Mara) for emotional support. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures caused by his father’s antics, including missed flights, car trouble, and bathroom brawls. Years of miscommunication, frustration and comically awkward attempts at bonding come to a head as the mismatched trio make their way from Ohio back home to Houston to reunite the family.

List price: ~~$34.98~~ Amazon: $24.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Brüno

HighDefDigest — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:10:41 -0700

Gay fashionista Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the host of the top-rated late night fashion show in any German-speaking country...apart from Germany. Brüno's mission? To become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler. His strategy? To crisscross the globe in the hopes of finding fame and love.

List price: ~~$39.98~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Death Warrior

HighDefDigest — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:23:14 -0700

When an MMA champion is thrown into a twisted world of underground fighting to save his wife's life, he takes desperate measures and violently fights to the death against many of his fellow MMA champions. They too, controlled by the underground cage, are fighting against their will to save the lives of their loved ones. While onlookers place online bets, one champion will rise to the top and uncover the identity of the mastermind behind the corrupt tournament. The ultimate showdown will prove that there can only be one true Death Warrior.

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Kong: Return to the Jungle

HighDefDigest — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:43:26 -0700

Kong hits the big screen in this creature feature! Jason and his friend Eric are living in New York City when the great adventurer and philanthropist Hunter Stag announces plans to fill his new enormous zoo with fantastical creatures. Jason and Eric helicopter to Kong Island to protect Kong and the other inhabitants, confident that with the island's high-tech radar devices, no one could follow them...but they're wrong.

List price: ~~$19.98~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2010-01-26)

Marilyn Manson: Guns, God and Government - Live In L.A.

HighDefDigest — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:14:44 -0700

A mind-bending look at one of the world's most controversial artists both on and off the stage.

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $17.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Ghost in the Shell 2.0

HighDefDigest — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:09:40 -0700

Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.

Kôkaku kidôtai receives a major visual and sound update. The 2.0 edition of the movie features new CG/SFX for a number of scenes and also a 6.1 surround sound recording. The original soundtrack has been overseen by Academy Award-winning sound enginner Randy Thom.

List price: ~~$29.97~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

HighDefDigest — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:53:39 -0700

An animé tale of vampires set in 1966 at Yakota Air Force Base, an American military compound in Japan which has been invaded by a league of shape-shifting vampires known as Chiropterans. It's up to Saya, a grim woman of mysterious origin, and her magic sword to rid the base, and the planet, of these unwelcome and menacing monsters.

List price: ~~$29.97~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

The Way of the Gun

HighDefDigest — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:19 -0700

From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Usual Suspects, this wickedly offbeat mix of crime, comedy and gunplay stars Ryan Phillippe and 2001 Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro (Best Supporting Actor for Traffic). Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, the two small-caliber crooks soon run into major problems. Realizing too late that they're in over their heads, the kidnappers fight to keep their plan from unraveling amid a rising tide of bloodshed, mind games and greed.

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

My Bloody Valentine: Special Edition

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:13:06 -0700

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy, a small town prepares for its annual holiday dance. When a box of candy arrives containing an eerie warning and a blood-soaked heart, the townsfolk realize that this Valentine's Day romance is as good as dead... and so are they!

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $17.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

New Police Story

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:33:16 -0700

Action superstar Jackie Chan is a disgraced police inspector who sets out to seek revenge on the sadistic punk gang that murdered his team in this superb thriller.

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Cujo: 25th Anniversary Edition

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:31:45 -0700

Monstrous canine evil stalks a helpless, isolated family in rural Maine. Vic and Donna Trenton (Daniel Hugh-Kelly and Dee Wallace) struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad (Danny Pintauro) befriends a hulking, lovable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote farm of their mechanic (Ed Lauter). As their aging Pinto sputters to a stop and dies, Cujo appears. But the once docile dog has undergone a hideous transformation - and becomes a slavering, demonic, implacable killer possessed by almost supernatural strength... and unholy cunning. Critically acclaimed, Cujo is a fearsome, spine-chilling tour de force from the most popular name in horror!

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Frailty

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:28:02 -0700

Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned -- leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer's identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family's sinister secrets.

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:49:40 -0700

You know who to call when you have ghosts, but who do you call about monsters? Whether it's a bat in your belfry, or a mummy in your microwave, The Monster Squad ain't afraid of no ghouls!

Count Dracula has until midnight to retrieve an ancient amulet that will give him final control over the delicate balance between good and evil in the world. To help him, the creepy Count calls on some old friends: the weird Wolfman, grotesque Gill-Man, mildewed Mummy and freaky Frankenstein. As the ghoulish group gets closer to the amulet, it's up to The Monster Squad, headquartered in the local tree house, to pool its questionable resources and stop the monster mayhem!

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Angel Heart

HighDefDigest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:02 -0700

Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) is Harry Angel, a down-and-out Brooklyn detective who is hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Oscar winner Robert De Niro, Raging Bull, The Godfather: Part II) to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite on an odyssey that will take Angel through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and ultimately to the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo in this cult thriller that is at once eerily thrilling, darkly sensual and completely unforgettable.

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Angels & Demons

HighDefDigest — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:27:56 -0700

In Ron Howard's thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals' lives on the line, and the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) desperate for help, Langdon embarks on a nonstop, action-packed race through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and the most secretive vault on Earth!

List price: ~~$39.95~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Ichi: The Movie

HighDefDigest — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:39:12 -0700

A blind shamisen player named Ichi (Haruka Ayase) travels the countryside trying to eke out a living while defending herself from unscrupulous bandits who are constantly trying to take advantage of her seemingly helpless state. However, Ichi is anything but helpless. She spent her childhood being trained in swordsmanship by her long lost father, a man she dreams of being reunited with. One day she crosses paths with a man named Toma (Takao Osawa), an expert swordsman who’s either unable or unwilling to draw his blade due to a traumatic incident from his past. When they get pulled into a vicious battle between two warring factions in a small town, Ichi becomes aware of a certain bandit warlord who may have knowledge of her father’s whereabouts. Will she find the information she’s looking for? And can Toma find the courage to defend the town from gangsters in her absence?

List price: ~~$34.98~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-12-29)

Earth, Wind and Fire: Live at Montreaux 1997

HighDefDigest — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:33:07 -0700

Tracks:

Rock That
Jupiter
Saturday Nite
Revolution
Gratitude
September
Let's Groove
Rockit
Sun Goddess
Can't Hide Love
That's The Way Of The World
Drum Solo
Reasons
Fantasy
Mo's Solo
Boogie Wonderland
After The Love Is Gone
Sing A Song
Shinin' Star
Devotion

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $17.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Air America

HighDefDigest — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:03:57 -0700

When renegade pilot Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man) finds himself all but blacklisted from flying in the United States, his last hope for work lies with Air America, a tiny, nondescript airline running in the jungles of Laos. But Billy soon discovers that Air America isn't just any airline - it's actually a covert CIA operation with the task of smuggling some dubious cargo across Southeast Asia. Soon Billy realizes that his only hope of getting out of Laos alive may be to align himself with another pilot, the wild and dangerous veteran Gene Ryack (Mel Gibson) - if Gene doesn't get them both killed first!

List price: ~~$19.99~~ Amazon: $13.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

My Brilliant Career

HighDefDigest — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:38:07 -0700

This is the film that became a worldwide sensation and remains perhaps the most beloved and acclaimed romantic epic of all time! Oscar®-nominee Judy Davis (Passage to India, Husbands and Wives) made her international breakthrough debut as Sybylla Melvyn, a free-spirited young writer who refuses to conform to society's expectations of how a 'proper woman' should live her life. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) co-stars as the wealthy suitor who tries to win her restless heart in this Oscar® nominated classic directed by Gillian Armstrong (Little Women, Starstruck).

Long unavailable in America, My Brilliant Career has been fully restored and remastered in sumptuous High Definition from the original negative, under the supervision of Academy Award® nominated Director of Photography Donald McAlpine (Moulin Rouge, Romeo+Juliet).

List price: ~~$29.95~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Darwin's Darkest Hour

HighDefDigest — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:11:07 -0700

List price: ~~$28.99~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Ben 10: Alien Swarm

HighDefDigest — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:15:47 -0700

In this thrilling, live-action adventure, Ben breaks rank with Gwen, Kevin and Max to help a mysterious young woman uncover an alien threat to our world. But it will take all the super powers they have to battle this unstoppable alien technology. The stakes are high and the action is intense as Ben fights to protect our planet from the Alien Swarm.

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Star Trek Limited Edition Replica Gift Set (Amazon Exclusive)

HighDefDigest — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:22:23 -0700

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

List price: ~~$130.0~~ Amazon: $90.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Galaxy Quest

HighDefDigest — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:41:06 -0700

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

The Sopranos: The Complete First Season

HighDefDigest — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:53:09 -0700

Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony, Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.

These days it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made"...doesn't mean you've got it made.

List price: ~~$69.98~~ Amazon: $55.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Basilisk: The Complete Series

HighDefDigest — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:58:54 -0700

List price: ~~$69.98~~ Amazon: $46.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Franklyn

HighDefDigest — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:53:16 -0700

Four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds--one contemporary London the other a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor--on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates.

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Kevin Smith Box Set

HighDefDigest — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:42:07 -0700

Includes 'Clerks,' 'Chasing Amy,' and 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.'

List price: ~~$89.99~~ Amazon: $62.95 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Chasing Amy

HighDefDigest — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:31:48 -0700

Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are enjoying success as the creators of the cult comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for him. With their relationship strugging to define itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at the notion of losing his best friend to emotional adulthood.

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.95 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Clerks

HighDefDigest — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:39:22 -0700

It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service! Even while braving a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lives. The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can --and WILL-- happen when these guys are left to run the store!

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side

HighDefDigest — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:55:58 -0700

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-12-22)

Samurai Champloo: The Complete Collection

HighDefDigest — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:36:16 -0700

List price: ~~$79.98~~ Amazon: $55.99 (ships: 2009-12-15)

Gunslinger Girl: Season 1

HighDefDigest — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:47:09 -0700

List price: ~~$59.98~~ Amazon: $41.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Rome: The Complete Series

HighDefDigest — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:11 -0700

Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. But now, the city's foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess...And two soldiers unwittingly become entwined in historical events, their fates inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself.

List price: ~~$139.99~~ Amazon: $97.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Secondhand Lions

HighDefDigest — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:03:54 -0700

This comedic and touching family film follows the adventures of a shy young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to spend the summer with his eccentric uncles (Michael Caine, Robert Duvall). At first shocked by his uncles' unconventional behavior that includes ordering African lions through the mail, the boy soon becomes enthralled with unraveling the mystery that has followed the uncles for years. Hearing tales of their exotic adventures involving kidnapped princesses, Arabian sheiks and lost treasure, not only brings him closer to his uncles but also teaches him what it means to believe in something... whether it's true or not.

List price: ~~$28.99~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2009-12-01)

The Marine 2

HighDefDigest — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:09:30 -0700

A relaxing five-star holiday turns into an all out battleground for Marine recon sniper Joe Linwood when a group of local rebels seize control of the hotel taking the billionaire owner, and a group of guests, including Joe's wife, hostage. With the victims in danger of being brutally murdered, Joe takes matters into his own hands in order to save his wife from certain death.

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $26.99 (ships: 2009-12-29)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas

HighDefDigest — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:01:46 -0700

Ho, ho, heyooo! Christmas is upon us and the Paddy's gang has got the spirit. Well, not really. For them, the holidays have always been a time of trickery, backstabbing, and disappointment. But this year things are going to be different as they are determined to rediscover the joy in Christmas. Join Mac, Charlie, Dennis, Dee and Frank as they embark on a holiday adventure filled with stolen toys, childhood videos, naked elves, and a bloody run in with Santa Claus that is guaranteed to blast Christmas spirit all over you!

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Star Trek [2009]

HighDefDigest — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:27:19 -0700

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $21.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Snatch

HighDefDigest — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:31:37 -0700

Guy Ritchie, writer/director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece, SNATCH - an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colorful Irish gypsy-turned-prize fighter...and a very temperamental dog.

In the heart of gangland, two novice unlicensed boxing promoters, Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham), get roped into organizing a rigged bare-knuckle fight with local kingpin/villain and fellow boxing promoter Brick Top (Alan Ford). But all goes wrong when wildcard Irish gypsy boxer One Punch Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt) starts playing by his own rules, and the duo find themselves heading for a whole lot of trouble.

Meanwhile, Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) and his stolen 86-carat diamond have gone missing in London. Head honcho Avi (Dennis Farina) hires local legend Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find them, launching everyone into a spiral of double-crossing vendettas and events, most of them illegal.

List price: ~~$28.95~~ Amazon: $25.99 (ships: 2009-12-01)

Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiation Kit

HighDefDigest — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:02:59 -0700

The show that revolutionized primetime proves once again why it is television’s most addictive and creative series, as the epic story of LOST twists, turns and spirals through time in its brilliant fifth season. Destiny sends the Oceanic 6 back to the Island and into the heart of the enigmatic Dharma Initiative. The reason they had to return and the fate of all those who were left behind is revealed as the momentum builds toward the much anticipated series finale in 2010.

List price: ~~$134.0~~ Amazon: $93.99 (ships: 2009-12-08)

Gone with the Wind: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition

HighDefDigest — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:05:32 -0800

List price: ~~$84.99~~ Amazon: $64.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

The Score

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:46:22 -0700

List price: ~~$29.99~~ Amazon: $20.99 (ships: 2009-09-15)

The Firm

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:50 -0700

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K-19: The Widowmaker

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:38:04 -0700

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48 Hrs.

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:06:36 -0700

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Escape from L.A.

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:02:01 -0700

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape

HighDefDigest — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:02:52 -0700

With smoldering sensuality and biting humor, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is revealed in sex, lies, and videotape, the most-talked about erotic comedy of the decade. James Spader (Stargate) ran away with the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and seductive performance as Graham, a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, Ann, and her saucy sister, Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very personal project Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed. A monumental debut effort from first-time feature director Steven Soderbergh, this comic original includes riveting performances by Peter Gallagher (The Player), Andie MacDowell (Michael) and Laura San Giacomo (TV's "Just Shoot Me").

List price: ~~$24.95~~ Amazon: $20.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition

HighDefDigest — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:02:53 -0700

List price: ~~$34.99~~ Amazon: $23.99 (ships: 2009-11-17)

Streisand: The Concerts

HighDefDigest — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:17:35 -0700

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $18.99 (ships: 2009-06-30)

Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season

HighDefDigest — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:51:05 -0700

List price: ~~$54.99~~ Amazon: $38.49 (ships: 2009-11-17)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

HighDefDigest — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:58:23 -0700

List price: ~~$49.99~~ Amazon: $34.99 (ships: 2000-01-01)

The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy

HighDefDigest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:30:06 -0700

The Fellowship of the Ring' - With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting Frodo are servants of the Dark Lord, Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, Middle-Earth is doomed.

'The Two Towers' - Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron. The Fellowship in the meantime has divided; they now find themselves taking different paths to defeating Sauron and his allies. Their destinies now lie at two towers — Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted wizard Saruman waits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.

'The Return of the King' - The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring. Aragorn struggles to fulfill his legacy as he leads his outnumbered followers against the growing power of the Dark Lord Sauron, so that the Ring-bearer may complete his quest.

List price: ~~$99.98~~ Amazon: $69.99 (ships: 2009-11-03)

Santa Buddies

HighDefDigest — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:48:28 -0700

he buddies are off on a jolly new adventure when Puppy Paws, pup of the legendary Santa Paws, and his friends travel to the North Pole to save Christmas from disaster!

List price: ~~$39.99~~ Amazon: $27.99 (ships: 2009-11-24)

Lost: The Complete Fifth Season

HighDefDigest — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:28:54 -0700

List price: ~~$79.99~~ Amazon: $67.49 (ships: 2009-12-08)

To Live and Die in L.A.

HighDefDigest — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:26:01 -0700

When a notorious, highly sophisticated counterfeiter murders his partner, Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) launches a furious vendetta to capture the man responsible. But master counterfeiter Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe) is always just one step ahead of Chance in William Friedkin's thrilling, suspenseful crime drama. With violent shoot-outs and a turbulent chase scene reminiscent of Friedkin's own The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. broke with tradition by making the ostensible hero as morally reprehensible as the villain he pursues. Clashing with bureaucratic obstacles, Chance is forced to break the rules in order to procure cash for a sting operation, but the risks he takes snowball into an avalanche of violence and moral repercussions, leading to a morally ambiguous cul-de-sac from which there may be no return.

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Rounders

HighDefDigest — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:42:14 -0800

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AC/DC: No Bull

HighDefDigest — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:20:56 -0700

Concert filmed in 1996 in the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, in Madrid, Spain, on Super 16 film.

Tracks:

1 - Back In Black
2 - Shot Down In Flames
3 - Thunderstruck
4 - Girl's Got Rhythm
5 - Hard As A Rock
6 - Shoot To Thrill
7 - Boogie Man
8 - Hail Caesar
9 - Hells Bells
10 - Dog Eat Dog
11 - The Jack
12 - Ballbreaker
13 - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
14 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
15 - You Shook Me All Night Long
16 - Whole Lotta Rosie
17 - T -N -T
18 - Let There Be Rock
19 - Highway To Hell
20 - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

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Maid in Manhattan

HighDefDigest — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:50:59 -0700

List price: ~~$28.95~~ Amazon: $19.95 (ships: 2008-09-30)

Mona Lisa Smile

HighDefDigest — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:30:52 -0700

List price: ~~$28.95~~ Amazon: $19.95 (ships: 2008-09-30)

My Best Friend's Wedding

HighDefDigest — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:28:04 -0700

List price: ~~$28.95~~ Amazon: $19.95 (ships: 2008-09-30)

The Band's Visit

HighDefDigest — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:43:37 -0700

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town

List price: ~~$38.95~~ Amazon: $26.95 (ships: 2008-07-29)

Went To Coney Island On A Mission From God... Be Back By Five

HighDefDigest — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:53:09 -0700

What if you discovered that someone you once were best friends with disappeared without a trace? Would you believe it? Would you look for him? This is the very dilemma that faces Daniel and Stan in the critically acclaimed comedy/drama, Went To Coney Island On a Mission From God...Be Back By Five.

When Daniel (Jon Cryer, Hiding Out, Pretty In Pink), and Stan (Rick Stear, Astoria) discover that Richie (Rafael Baez, Empire, Shanghai Noon), one of their best friends from high school, has vanished without a trace, they set out on a "Mission From God" to Coney Island to find him. But what they discover along the way, could change their lives forever.

Went To Coney Island On a Mission From God...Be Back By Five features an all-star supporting cast including Long Skye (Say Anything..., Wayne's World), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction, Swimming With Sharks), Dominic Chianese (HBO's The Sopranos, The Godfather Part II) and Judy Reyes (NBC's Scrubs) and is directed by Richard Schenkman (A Diva's Christmas Carol, The Pompatus of Love).

Based on a true story, Went To Coney Island On a Mission From God...Be Back By Five is a journey that goes from the hilarious to heart warming. Film critic Leonard Maltin calls it "A breath of fresh air...Moving and funny...A satisfying slice of life!" and the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott raves, "Quite funny!"

List price: ~~$24.98~~ Amazon: $17.45 (ships: 2008-01-15)