The Soloist : DVD released on Aug.4, 2009

Sometimes people randomly cross paths, and always will be amended. That is the subtle, but profound, message of the soloist, a deeply moving and deeply human film about people and what and who they connect with. Robert Downey Jr, who effortlessly charismatic, plays Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, whose job it is to report on the character and characters of Southern California. But even a (slightly) jaded reporter is deeply touched by a story that he, and then unfold in real time. The subject of Lopez column is Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx, also a stellar turn), a homeless street musician whose beautiful music - played on a battered two-string violin - Lopez is a day for a walk not far from the Times office. Lopez teaches Ayers once attended Juilliard before mental illness sent him into a spiral, and the column that Ayers' travel affects the community - and the two men. The film (based on the book by Lopez, following the stop of the journey of their friendship, and how sometimes people's lives can not be determined. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) cast real homeless Angelenos in the many street and social services scenes, making the film an even more heart-wrenching and realistic patina. If the movie does not always meet the high expectations (the trippy effects that supposedly show what Ayers sees when he hears Beethoven, his right to a light show 1968), but nevertheless has a big heart. And in a time when newspapers are struggling to survive, it is encouraging to see a contemporary story about a newspaper that still affect change.

Actors: Jr. Robert Downey, Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Stephen Root, Lisa Gay Hamilton
Directors: Joe Wright
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Number of discs: 1
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
DVD Release Date: August 4, 2009
Run Time: 116 minutes

Inkheart : DVD released on June 23, 2009

"I prefer a story that is the good sense to remain on the page - where it belongs! "Declares Loredan Elinor (Helen Mirren, in fine form upper crust) in Inkheart, a pleasant adventure that appeals to both adults and Tween and teens. But as Elinor got what they wanted, not the viewers - for the delicious premise of the film ( based on Cornelia Funke's best-selling novel is the book lover Folchart Mo (Brendan Fraser) is a way to book characters life. That means that adorable Toto from The Wizard of Oz is suddenly yapping under Mo's daughter's Meggie (Eliza Bennett) bed. But it also means that somewhere, a real person or thing was sucked into the book world - the fight flying monkeys and wrong that suddenly are real threats. The film is crisply directed by Iain Softley and Fraser and his costars (including Mirren, Paul Bettany and Jim Broadbent) deserve watchable characters that seem to be as much fun as the audience. And the film pro-book message please young readers and their parents, who know that a good adventure in one's imagination can never be rivaled by everything on a screen of any size.

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• Actors: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis
• Directors: Iain Softley
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: New Line
• DVD Release Date: June 23, 2009
• Run Time: 106 minutes

He's Just Not That Into You : DVD released on June 2, 09

Based on the bestseller by two Sex and the City scribes, He's just not that into you confirm that the HBO series is more than just a TV show - it was a cultural institution that gave tours, catchphrases, fashion trends, and much more. Ironically, the resulting film is both smarter and funnier than the big-screen version of Carrie and the gang. Of the nine central characters, the sweet, as Clue Less Gigi (Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin) is the most vivid impression. The Maryland career girl seems to fall for the friendly guys like Conor (Entourage's Kevin Connolly), who "just not that into" her. At the local watering hole installations, she meets bar manager Alex (Justin Long, Ed Goodwin's co-star), which states her straight on the difference between what people say and what they mean, and there are exceptions to every rule. Her seemingly permanent employees, Beth (Jennifer Aniston) and Janine (Jennifer Connelly), a relationship of their own problems: Beth's boyfriend of seven years, Neil (Ben Affleck), does not believe in marriage, and Janine's husband, Ben (Bradley Cooper), has a wandering eye ... for singer / yoga instructor Anna (Scarlett Johansson). Alt-weekly ad saleswoman Mary (executive producer Drew Barrymore), the link between this loose-knit community. An enthusiastic Internet Date and full-time technophile, she bemoans the fact that "people together more organically." At 132 minutes, Ken Kwapis film could use a few decorative caps, but he brings this complicated romantic entanglements to a convincing conclusion, and the confessions of random passers-by add to laugh.

• Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly
• Directors: Ken Kwapis
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: June 2, 2009
• Run Time: 129 minutes

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Underworld : Rise of the Lycan, DVD released on May 12, 09

This prequel to Len Wiseman’s Underworld and Underworld: Evolution is distinctively different, especially minus the nimble vampire warrior star, Selene (Kate Beckinsale). Underworld: Rise of the Lycans takes its cues from the vampire/werewolf battles that occur in the other films, but director Patrick Tatopoulos focuses here on the young werewolf Lucian's (Michael Sheen) rise to leadership. Read More and Watch Behind the Scenes ...........

Taken : DVD released on May 12, 2009

What can an agile but ordinary action movie gets a surprising emotional weight of the presence of Liam Neeson as the hero. Bryan Mills (Neeson) has his career as a spy for a relationship with his estranged teenage daughter - but then, on a trip to Paris, she is kidnapped by slavers, Mills used all his connections and skills to the city lights down and rescue her. As most of the films of writer / producer Luc Besson has a hand in (such as La Femme Nikita, The Transporter, Unleashed, and many other French action films), which drips with gruesome violence (a bit watered down to PG -- 13 rating, but there is still enough of), deranged sentimentality and stereotypes of all kinds. But this does not stop his films effective kick-runs, and taken, is no exception. Account pays just enough attention to the illusion of the procedure - which seems Mills knows the correct steps to trace his daughter - that movie gay seduces your suspension of disbelief, despite many plot holes and scenes in which Mills does not get scratched despite bullets fly in all directions or pretends to be, despite a French policeman not speak French or even adopting a French accent. What keeps it all together, Neeson and his gravitas and emotional availability of his character - the usual fantasy action impossible competence and righteous anger - some of the real and relatable.

• Actors: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating:
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
• Run Time: 93 minutes

Boston Legal Season 5 : DVD released on May 5, 09

Not really much to say - this kind of intelligent humor and character development will be sorely missed.

• Actors: James Spader, John Larroquette, Christian Clemenson, Tara Summers, Candice Bergen
• Directors: Bill D'Elia, James R. Bagdonas, Michael Lohmann, Mike Listo, Robert Yannetti
• Writers: Amanda Johns, Corinne Brinkerhoff
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating:
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 5, 2009
• Run Time: 607 minutes

Little Dorrit : DVD released on April 28, 2009

Shameful secrets, strangling bureaucracy and crippling debts collide in the imperative BBC / Masterpiece Classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' major novels, which debuted in serial form in 1855. Mrs Clennam (Judy Parfitt), a shut-in, start the complex story in action when she hires 21-year-old seamstress Amy Dorrit (newcomer Claire Foy, a warm and sympathetic presence) several days before her son, Arthur (Matthew Macfadyen, Pride & Prejudice) returns to London after 15 years at sea. Amy lives with her proud father, William (a heart-rending Tom Courtenay), in the Marshalsea, the debtor's prison, where Dickens' own father did time. Despite his mother's denials, Arthur is convinced that a relationship between the Clennams and Dorrit, so he tries to solve the mystery on his own with the help of sniveling rent collector Pancks (Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky) and obstruction of surly servant Flintwinch (Alun Armstrong, New Tricks) and the aptly named verbiage Office.

Last filmed in 1988, Little Dorrit offers material - about greedy lenders and investors enthusiastic - ripe for reinterpretation. If the series does not exceed Bleak House, a high-water mark in Dickens adaptations, screenwriter Andrew Davies, the author still proud despite a sketchy subplot about a miserable girl and her mysterious protector. But some things never change and Dickens presents extensive scene steal opportunities, which Amanda Redman as a chilly social lite, Pam Ferris as a shallow nanny, Russell Tovey as lovesick admirer, and Andy Serkis as a Gallic psychopath - are creep iest character since Gollum - fully potential. The Featurette, cast and crew a perceptive look at the making of this timely drama.

• Actors: Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Alun Armstrong
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009
• Run Time: 452 minutes

Caprica DVD : released on April 21, 2009

An amazing breakthrough form on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving field of human conflict and mechanical engineering, along with the fate of two families. Joined by the tragedy in one explosive moment of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) and Daniel Greystone (Eric Stoltz) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the last war for humanity looms. The most recent phenomenon of the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eicke), in a time of more than 50 years earlier, Caprica is absolutely its own world - challenging, exciting and surprisingly relevant to our own.

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Michelle Andrew, Roger R. Cross, Magda Apanowicz, Genevieve Buechner
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
Run Time: 93 minutes

The Wrestler : DVD released on April 21, 2009

The mystery of Mickey Rourke's career is a grungy apotheosis in The Wrestler the much-battered actor's triumphant return to the top rope. He plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a heavily battered and medicinal Battler the past twenty years his best moment in the ring. But he remains on schleps every second rate fight card he can learn, hands the paycheck (more likely a handful of cash) and what is nursing his pride. His attempts to adapt to a more normal form of life is the most absorbing parts in the film, though it is flirting with a stripper (Marisa Tomei is in good shape, in every sense of the word), establishing a link understandably angry with his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), or work behind the counter on a delicate matter inconspicuous Megastore. Rourk is commander of the role he obviously spent hours in the gym and tanning salon, and are easy with the semi-documentary style by director Darren Aronofsky leaves him naturalistically interact with colorful real-life wrestlers who crowd the film ultra---credible sites. All that helps distract from the movie in general compliance with the old formula. You might find yourself waiting for the scene where the risk-taking Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) pulls the switch and reveals his true motives for the pursuit of otherwise sentimental story, but there is no switch. The Wrestler is an old-fashioned grit Hoke machine given by an actor who does not seem to really carry out the role of a survivor on the hit.

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox Searchlight
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
Run Time: 111 minutes