Monday, September 28, 2009

****new release list no.236


And life continues zooming along. It’s the end of September, for crying out loud! Of 2009. Wow.

Well, Bernal Heights appears to be weathering the economic storm. We may not be thriving how we’d all like, but the businesses on Cortland for the most part appear stable. We have some new neighbors to say hello to. BERNAL FIT, the new dog-friendly gym on the hill has opened its doors, and I hear nothing but good things from its customers. STATE FARM has somehow arrived in Bernal Heights, and I hear that it is an individually-owned franchise. We wish you well. Construction appears to be moving right along at the old dry-cleaner spot next to BERNAL BUBBLES, we look forward to their opening with excitement. Soon soon soon, I hope, SANDBOX BAKERY at 833 Cortland will open their doors. I must admit, my excitement is almost overwhelming when what Mutsumi Takehara (a former executive pastry chef at Slanted Door) might prepare for us. Yum yum!

Right around the corner we have the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema festival. This event exists simply from the massively hard work and love from its founders, Leslie Lombre and Anne Batmale and an array of helpful volunteers. This is a strictly non-profit event that is basically a shining diamond in our little neighborhood, giving us access to local movies, local music and ten days of partying together all over the hood.

It starts this very Thursday, Oct 1st at Your Neighborhood Dive – El Rio(thanks, Dawn)! This year there will be music combined with film at many of the events, and they will be at some new places, such as SoCha Café, and the Bernal Playground. On Thursday, Justine Lucas-McPlague is opening the show at 7pm, with screenings between 8 and 9pm featuring local filmmakers like Caroline Blair and Audrey Daniel. Then, London Street will be playing at 9pm, and rising superstars The Ferocious Few will take the stage at 10:30pm.

On Friday, Four Star Video is happy to present the second night of the BHOC with music by Will Hammond, Jr. at 7pm in what was formerly known as our backyard screening patio and is now SUCCULENCE, Bernal Height's new Life and Garden store. Screenings will happen between 8 and 9pm and feature work by Katherine Bruens and Valerie Soe and Russell Jeung.

On Saturday (October 3rd for those of you following at home), the BHOC moves to the Bernal Playground behind the library. The event begins at 6:00pm with music by The Venusians Screenings will begin around 7:30pm and go until 9pm.

On Sunday, the event will be at Red Hill Books (Thanks, Kate). It will be a day event, from 4-5:30pm and will feature filmmakers Gustavo Vazquez and John Hewitt, discussing their book Documentary Filmmaking: A Contemporary Field Guide. This will be a multi-media event, with film clips and Q&A.

Monday, Oct. 5th, the BHOC ventures into the Excelsior with a co-presentation at the Excelsior Branch of the public library at 4400 Mission Street. Screenings will go from 6:00-8:00pm and will feature local filmmakers Max Strebel, Nathan and Kathy Kensinger, Michelle Meeker and more.

Here is a short breakdown of next week’s events. Check the BHOC website for updates and more information.

Tues – Red Poppy – Filmmaker/Musician Forum featuring Beth Custer, Marshall Crutcher and Greta Snider – I will be moderating this event.

Wed – Kingmond Young Studio – lots of music and short films (including one by Four Star’s own Andrew Friedman!).

Thur – SoCha Café – films and music by Vishnu’s Secret.

Friday – Films and Old Time Music and Dancing at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.

Saturday – Closing night at Precita park with music by my band, The Dont’s, short films and at 8pm a MAMMA MIA sing along! Fun fun fun!

Also, coming up is the VideoFest film festival in the Mission. This is another festival not to be missed. It is close to our hearts, and we are proud to let you know that this year a Four Star Video award was given to the top local filmmaker entered in the festival. The program runs Oct 15th and 17th at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and I urge you to go! More info to follow.

Fiesta on the Hill will be here soon, then Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, life, death and everything in between. Your life is flying by! Catch a moment by your fingernails and exploit it for everything its worth. That’s my plan. Maybe we can share a moment together?

In the meantime, movies. Man, there are finally a great batch of them in the last few months. Many I haven’t seen yet, but I am dying to. Movies like WHITE NIGHT WEDDING, TULPAN, SUGISBALL, RUMBA, TRUMBO, O’HORTON, LYMELIFE, NERDCORE RISING and more! Not to mention all those awesome documentaries that Rachel W got for her month of Highlighted New Additions. This week, my personal list increases, with movies like SITA SINGS THE BLUES, THE BROTHERS BLOOM, and EXTREME ANIMATION.

Alrighty, that’s all folks, hope to see you at the store.

Love and Kisses,
Ken

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AWAY WE GO.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy/Drama.
John Krasinski/Maya Rudolph/Maggie Gyllenhaal/Jeff Daniels.
Directed by Sam Mendes.
* Burt and Verona (Krasinski and Rudolph) are young expectant parents, traveling around the country trying to decide where would be the perfect place to live. They visit old friends and family, looking not just for the right home, but for the right role-models that will help them be excited about the future, about parenting, loving and building a future together. They visit Tucson, Phoenix…Madison, Montreal…they even visit Miami. Along the way, they find themselves. Co--written by locals, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.

THE BROTHERS BLOOM.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy/Crime.
Adrien Brody/Rachel Weisz/Mark Ruffalo.
Directed by Rian Johnson.
* …and then they wilt. Stephen (Ruffalo) and Bloom (Brody) have been on the prowl since they were kids, relying and their conning ways to make a living. Stephen tells the stories, and Bloom acts out the elaborate fantasies that he makes up as they scam their way through life. But now, Bloom is blooming, and he is ready to find out who he is, not who Stephen wants him to be. Of course, before he makes the break to normalcy, Stephen convinces him to pull one final job involving a wealthy heiress from New Jersey. Can Bloom stay in character long enough to finish the job before he falls in love with the mark? Or are the players being played?

FILTH AND WISDOM.
Comedy/Drama.
Eugene Hutz/Vicky McClure.
Directed by Madonna.
* The filth, we can guarantee. The wisdom? Harder to promise. Even harder to quantify. Will it be the kind of wisdom one gains with deep experience and contemplation? Or more like the kind you get when you accidently slam your finger in the car door? Guessing the latter…w/music by Gogol Bordello (who rule, by the way).

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Drama/Mystery/Horror/Fantasy.
Sasha Grey/Chris Santos.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
* Real life adult-film star Sasha Grey makes her non-porn debut in this tale of a high-end Manhattan call girl precariously perched in the high-life and seemingly completely under control. She is seriously high-end, as in the 2K an hour style. Which begs the question, what do you get for 2K an hour? Evidently much more than sex. With Chelsea, you get a caring friend, a sympathetic ear, a good-humored companion, and an excellent actor. Chelsea is more than a hooker, she is your girlfriend; that is, as long as you keep kicking down the big bucks. This film asks many questions about the price of dignity, the depth of soul, and where sex fits into our concept of sanity.

EXTREME ANIMATION: FILMS BY PHIL MULLOY.
Animation/Shorts.
Directed by Phil Mulloy.
* Mulloy creates grotesque, distorted and wildly hideous portraits of humankind in his strange and almost pornographic short animations.

JUST FOR LAUGHS/OVER THE EDGE.
Comedy/Standup.
* Flight of the Conchords is featured on this collection.

KATT WILLIAMS: LIVE.
Comedy-Standup-Sitdown-Falldown.
* Four Star favorite Katt Williams does his thing. Dude lives a crazy personal life.

MANAGEMENT.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy /Romance.
Jennifer Aniston/Steve Zahn/Woody Harrelson/Fred Ward.
Directed by Stephen Belber.
* I think this is your basic stalker comedy, about a guy (Zahn) who spends one night with a traveling salesperson (Aniston) and then chases her all of the country to recapture their moment.

MONSTERS VS ALIENS.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Animation/Action/Comedy/Family.
Reese Witherspoon/Seth Rogen/Hugh Laurie/Rainn Wilson/Kiefer Sutherland/Stephen Colbert/Paul Rudd.
Directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon.
* So, kids, watch out for quantonium, which will cause you to turn into a strange and grotesque monster! Then again, you may want to seek out some quantonium (maybe at 16th and Mission?) because President Hathaway (played by Stephen Colbert, portending the future?) will put you to work fighting aliens and saving San Francisco and even the planet from the bad guys.

SHRINK.
Comedy/Drama.
Kevin Spacey/Saffon Burrows/Robin Williams/Griffin Dunne.
Directed by Jonas Pate.
* Ah, it’s tough to be a celebrity shrink. Ask Henry Carter! After he deals with his own personal tragedy, acting as though he cares for strangers becomes more and more unbearable. Soon, he settles into a marijuana haze as his concern for his public profile melts into the background.

SITA SINGS THE BLUES.
Animation/Musical/Romance.
Annette Hanshaw.
Directed by Nina Paley.
* Nina Paley is an awesome animator and comic strip drawer. I bought this film simply because I know about her and she is amazing. This is the animated story of the Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. That’s all I know about it, yet I urge you to check it out because it is sure to be terrific.

STEAM.
Drama/Romance.
Ally Sheedy/Kate Siegel/Ruby Dee.
Directed by Kyle Schickner.
* Three woman who’s lives intersect at the local steam room (meet you there at 10) tell stories of longing and love (wait a sec…where is the local steam room?).

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN.
Criterion/Drama.
Vivien Leigh/Laurence Olivier.
Directed by Alexander Corda.
* From the Criterion synopsis: One of cinema’s most dashing duos, real-life spouses Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier live their greatest on-screen romance in this visually dazzling tragic love story from legendary producer-director Alexander Korda. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, That Hamilton Woman is a gripping account of the scandalous adulterous affair between the British Royal Navy officer Lord Horatio Nelson and the renowned beauty Emma, Lady Hamilton, the wife of a British ambassador. With its grandly designed sea battles and formidable star performances, That Hamilton Woman (Winston Churchill’s favorite movie, which he claimed to have seen over eighty times) brings history to vivid, glamorous life.

TREELESS MOUNTAIN.
Drama/Foreign (Korean).
Chae Gil Byung/Jung Gil Ja/Shin Hyun Je.
Directed by So Yong Kim.
* Two very young girls (6 and 3!) are abandoned by their mother as she goes in search of reconciliation with their father. The girls are left with a cranky aunt as they wait and hope for their mother’s return.

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THE BETRAYAL - NERAKHOON.
Documentary.
Directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.
* This Oscar-nominated documentary is the story of a family from Laos who has immigrated to the US after years of dealing with US Air strikes and war in Vietnam.

MICHAEL JACKSON: NEVER SURRENDER.
Documentary/Music.
Directed by.
* You seriously need to see my kids dance to MJ’s tunes....

NOT YOUR TYPICAL BIGFOOT MOVIE.
Documentary.
Directed by Jay Delaney.
* This is the story of two researchers from Ohio who have worked for years to prove that Bigfoot exists.

YELLOWSTONE: BATTLE FOR LIFE.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Documentary/Nature/BBC.
Directed by Jay Delaney.
* This gorgeously shot doc from the BBC Earth series shows the fragility of life in Yellowstone Park and the struggles that animals who live there face year after year.

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FRINGE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON.
Television/Drama/Horror/Mystery/Sci-Fi.
Anna Torv/Joshua Jackson/Lance Reddick.
* We must thank a customer for suggesting we get this freaky show! It is the story of an FBI agent who is forced to team up with a previously institutionalized scientist to investigate some over-the-top extra mysterious crimes potentially involving a shady, global multi-national corporation.

LIFE ON MARS: THE COMPLETE SERIES.
Television/Crime/Drama/Mystery.
John Simm.
* This two season show followed a cop in 2006 who has a car accident and awakes to find himself in the same place, only thirty-three years earlier! Who (over 40) wouldn’t want that problem?

MIDSOMER MURDERS: SET 13.
Television/Drama.
* Here is where I make my usual lame joke about how many people get killed in this little county. Get out!

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BABY EINSTEIN: WORLD ANIMAL ADVENTURE.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.

MR> TICKLE.

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THE DARK CRYSTAL.
* I just love this freaky movie.

THE GRADUATE.
* Mrs. Robinson…rarrrrr!

LABYRINTH.
* Sci-fi Bowie. What more can I say to ya?

THE WIZARD OF OZ.
* This three disc set is a must see for all true believers. Click your heels three times together, then bring the tag up to the counter.

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: THE THIRD SEASON

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!: COMPLETE COLLECTION
* Conjunction, junction…what is your function?

SONS OF ANARCHY: SEASON ONE
* Seriously, I have bought extra copies of this twice now. Is this show amazing or what?

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Monday, September 21, 2009

****new release list no.235


Buongiorno mi amici! Hola, my good friends. I have just spent two glorious weeks in Italia, and I feel refreshed, transformed and excited for the fall!

We missed two blogs, and as this train only moves forward, we shall delve into this week’s releases, and not dwell to sorrowfully on the past. However, I shall list with little info the movies we released that went blogless:

Sept 8th (a wonderful day I spent in Siena in the Tuscan hills outside of Roma – yeow!)

Crank 2 – Action – Jason Statham. ****Also on Blu-Ray****
Dance Flick – Comedy.
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire – Can’t have enough copies of these, I guess.
Homicide – D. – David Mamet – Criterion release.
The Human Condition – D. – Masaki Kobayashi – Criterion release.
Kabei Our Mother – Japanese – D. – Yoji Yamada.
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency – HBO (I thought this was gonna be super popular…no?)
Magnolia – Re-release. D. – P.T. Anderson.
The Office: Complete Season 5 – Television.
Parks & Recreation – Season One – Television - Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones.
Valentino – The Last Emperor – Documentary.
The Visioneers – Comedy – Zach Galifianakis.

Kids stuff:
Little Einstein’s – Firetruck Rockets Blastoff!
Enchanted Tale’s – Follow Your Dreams.
Power Rangers RPM – Race for Corinth.
Wow Wow Wubbzy Goes Boo!

September 15th (an insane day of traveling home for hours and hours – oof!)

Animal Armageddon – Nature Documentary.
Camille – Comedy – James Franco/Sienna Miller.
Crash – Complete First Season – Drama/Television.
Easy Virtue – Comedy/Drama– Jessical Biel/Kristen Scott Thomas. ****Also in Blu-Ray****
Four Dragons – Action/Martial Arts.
Gervaise – Essential Art House (Criterion) – D. Rene Clement.
Grace – Horror – D. – Paul Solet.
Grey’s Anatomy – Season Five – Television – Katherine Heigl.
In the Company of Whales – Nature Documentary.
The IT Crowd – Season Three – Comedy/Television.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Season Four – Comedy/Television.
Le Jour Se Leve – Essential Art House (Criterion) – D. Marcel Carne.
Mayerling – Essential Art House (Criterion) – D. – Anatole Litvak.
Next Day Air – Comedy – Mos Def/Mike Epps.
Rescue Me – Season Five – Television.
Rumba – France – D. – Dominique Abel (L’Iceberg) - ****Four Star Favorite****
Trumbo – Documentary – D. – Peter Askin.
White Night Wedding – Iceland – D. –Baltasar Kormakur (101 Reykjavik) – won a lot of awards at the Icelandic Academy’s.
X-Men Origins – Wolverine – Comic Book – Hugh Jackman. ****Also on Blu-Ray****

Kids stuff:

Bionicle – The Legend Reborn.
Go Diego Go – Diego’s Arctic Rescue.
Go Diego Go – Mega Missions!
Star Wars The Clone Wars – Clone Commandos

This week we have a lot of releases, including a few foreign films that have won many awards on the festival circuit (TULPAN, O’HORTEN, SUGISBALL). We also have the usual Hollywood fare (OBSERVE AND REPORT, GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST), animation (THE BATTLE FOR TERRA, THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, WALLACE AND GROMIT THE COMPLETE COLLECTION) and some interesting looking indie’s (LYMELIFE, ADAM RESURRECTED). Throw in a bunch of new television and a batch of documentaries, and you got mid-September at Four Star Video.

Alrighty, that’s all folks, hope to see you at the store.

Love and Kisses,
Ken

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ADAM RESURRECTED.
Drama/War.
Jeff Goldblum/Willem Dafoe.
Directed by Paul Shrader.
* Adam Stein (Goldblum) was a circus entertainer before WWII. In the concentration camp he was interned at, he became the entertainer for the commander of the camp, and loses his sanity as well. Years later, he is living at an insane asylum in Israel where he makes a bond with a young child who has been treated terribly.

BATTLE FOR TERRA.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Animation/Drama.
Directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas.
* As a renegade group of straggling aliens face death, they set their sights on a beautiful and peaceful planet to take over where they can live and breed and continue their species. However, the peaceful planet of Terra has no desire to be destroyed and will battle to retain their autonomy over the vicious aliens. The catch? The aliens are the remains of the human race.

BOOK OF BLOOD.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Drama/Mystery/Horror/Fantasy.
Jonas Armstrong/Sophie Ward.
Directed by John Harrison.
* Based on a Clive Barker tale, this story is about a house that is a sort of stopping point on the highway delivering souls to and from the afterlife.

GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy/Fantasy/Romance.
Matthew McConaughey/Jennifer Garner/Michael Douglas/Emma Stone.
Directed by Mark Waters.
* A player is haunted by ghosts of his exes while at his brother’s wedding.

THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO.
Action/Animation/Comedy/Horror.
Paul Giamatti/Rosario Dawson.
Directed by Rob Zombie.
* Freaky, weirdo, psycho animation by the living Zombie himself.

LYMELIFE.
Comedy/Drama.
Alec Baldwin/Kieran Culkin/Emma Roberts/Rory Culkin/Timothy Hutton.
Directed by Derick Martini.
* Is it the lyme’s disease that is taking its toll on the Bartlett family? Or is it the failing marriage of Brenda (Jill Hennessy) and Mickey (Baldwin)? Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Scott (Rory Culkin) and set in the late 70’s, this bittersweet tale should be relatable to many.

O’HORTEN.
Comedy/Drama/Foreign (Norweigan).
Baard Owe.
Directed by Bent Hamer.
* The winner of numerous European film awards, this film is about the moment of retirement for a 67-year-old train engineer, Odd Horten (Owe).

OBSERVE AND REPORT.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy.
Seth Rogen/Ray Liotta/Anna Faris.
Directed by Jody Hill.
* Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen) is a mallcop! No, he’s not Paul Blart, he’s his more psycho, and perhaps less funny cousin. Playing it straight for much of the film, in that funny peculiar manner that is guaranteed to draw many people in, and repulse perhaps even more, Rogen is begging Hollywood for a more serious role. We can only hope Hollywood listens.

SCOOBY-DOO! THE MYSTERY BEGINS.
Comedy.
Nick Palatas/Robbie Amell.
Directed by Brian Levant.
* The story of the origins of the relationship between Daphne, Velma, Fred and Shaggy.

SUGISBALL.
Drama/Foreign (Estonian).
Rain Tolk.
Directed by Veiko Ounpuu.
* From the IMDB: It's Autumn. We see a huge sprawling conurbation of tower blocks built in the Soviet era - the neighborhood called Lasnamäe. Unkempt youngsters are tossing a football around muddy squares in between buildings while yelling obscenities. Men with striped sailors shirts and blank faces are smoking on the balconies built close to accommodate their ever extending families. Women are fussing in their kitchens or hanging their washed linen out to dry. Infants in the yard hang from the iron monstrosities, once built as merry go rounds for a standardized childhood, now heaps of scrap metal waiting to bleed a nose or tear a sleeve. In between the few slim bushes lay the drunkards, twitching to the sounds of a distant siren. People wearing colorless overcoats and solemn gray faces are moving in herds to bus stations to discount supermarkets and then back again. In the evening, when the sky darkens, the windows are lit by the blue glow of television screens. Mati, a young writer, lives alone in a two bedroom apartment after his wife left him for his friend. Mati drinks, as every sane man would do in his situation, and spies jealously on his wife. Barber August Kask is an elderly bachelor with a monotone life. He cuts hair, sweeps the floors after, eats porridge and returns the bottles to the shop. He is getting attached to a little girl at the playground, but when approaching the girl is instantly accused of pedophilia intentions. The little girls mother, Laura, watches a lot of TV and turns down the men who show interest in her. Her daughters father, a devoted drunkard, makes harassing phone calls to Laura and stalks her at the gates of her workplace, a shoe factory. Architect Maurer is content with his life in Lasnamäe, he perceives the lifestyle as an inevitability that accompanies progress. He is a modernist and keen on the subject of the well being of humanity. His wife on the other hand has become alienated from him and finds solace in her secret relationship with Theo the bouncer. Theo's relations to other people are slowly deteriorating. Being an autodidact with no social status and possessing at the same time an uncompromising and strong personality, make it very hard for him to adjust. Women like him but are unable or unwilling to understand him. The Autumn Ball is a film about different forms of solitude. Sometimes unbearable but mostly endurable the feelings of loneliness are strongest in such intimate proximity to other people. The film is also an attempt to poetically extrapolate or generalize on the conditions of our existence; to find from the sum of all different angles something larger than the sum itself.

TULPAN.
Comedy/Drama/Foreign (Kazakh/Russian).
Directed by Sergie Dvortsevoy.
* Beautifully filmed Kazakh tale of a young man who years for a wife on the desolate steppe’s of Kazakhstan. This one also won a ton of European film awards.

VIRUS.
Comedy/Drama/Suspense/Foreign (Polish).
Directed by Jan Kidawa-Blonski.
* A story of a computer virus eating its way through Warsaw.

WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION.
Comedy/Animation.

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NERCORE RISING.
Documentary/Music/Comedy.
Directed by Negin Farsad and Kim Gatewood.
* This doc focuses on “nerdy” hip-hop rappers ostensibly rapping about what? Harry Potter? Star Wars? Pokemon? I think stuff like that. I hear this film is hilarious.

PRIVATE CENTURY.
Documentary/Foreign (Czech).
Directed by Jan Sikl.
* From IMDB: Jan Sikl expertly edits together actual home-movie footage from the 1920s to the 1960s in order to chronicle the history of Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. In eight episodes of 52 minutes, the major events of Czech history, including the Depression, the occupation by the Nazis, World War II, and the rise of communism are depicted through the experiences of real-life Czech citizens. The series reveals that history is the story of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances - not the dry, dull set of names and dates taught in schools.

RUNNING WITH ARNOLD.
Documentary.
Directed by Dan Cox.
* This doc focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign in California.

SHOOTER SERIES: VOLUME ONE BRETT RATTNER.
Documentary/Music.

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BROTHERHOOD: THIRD SEASON.
Television/Drama.
* The continuing saga of two brothers on different sides of the law in New England.

30 ROCK: SEASON THREE.
Television/Comedy.
Alec Baldwin/Tina Fey.
* Season three in the hysterical series about a fictional late night comedy show and the crazy hijinks that go on backstage.

UGLY BETTY: THIRD SEASON.
Television/Comedy.
America Ferrera
* Actually, Betty’s pretty damn hot.

............//KIDS/............

DORA THE EXPLORER: DORA SAVES THE CRYSTAL KINGDOM.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.

MR> TICKLE.

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PIERROT LE FOU
* Le Fou on blu!

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