Splintered Icon
by Bill Napier ()
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(20)
Harry Blake, an antiquarian book dealer specializing in old maps and manuscripts, agrees to help Sir Toby Tebbit translate a 400-year-old journal, written in code, that Sir Toby has inherited from a heretofore unknown relative in Jamaica. The manuscript chronicles the adventures of a young cabin boy, James Ogilvie, who traveled to the Americas as part of a secret mission.
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Posted: Monday, March 30, 2009 at 11:03 pm by Sylvhania
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Danny Deckchair
by (2004-12-21)
Lions Gate (100 minutes)
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(56)
An average joe uses gags & pranks to liven up his blue collar life & accidentally ends up taking off in a deckchair strapped to giant helium balloons while his friends watch helplessly from below. He starts a whole new life in the far-off town where he crash-lands - until his old life catches up with him.
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Posted: Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 1:11 pm by Sylvhania
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Futurama: Bender’s Game
by Dwayne Carey-Hill (2008-11-04)
20th Century Fox (88 minutes)
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(113)
The game in question is Dungeons and Dragons, and Bender wants in--only robots aren't programmed with the necessary imagination. The role-playing plotline later re-emerges via a subplot involving Professor Farnsworth's conversion of dark matter into spaceship fuel, which created a very D&D-influenced universe.
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Posted: Friday, March 27, 2009 at 12:14 pm by Sylvhania
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Igor
by (2009-01-20)
MGM (Video & DVD) (87 minutes)
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(62)
In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.
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Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:48 pm by Sylvhania
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The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007-06-19)
average customer review: (8)
The story of the Pyncheon family, residents of an evil house cursed by the victim of their ancestor's witch hunt and haunted by the ghosts of many generations.
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Posted: Monday, March 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm by Sylvhania
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Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh ()
average customer review: (118)
Grossly understaffed, the officers of Hollywood Station find themselves writing bogus field interviews with nonexistent white suspects in minority neighborhoods to avoid allegations of racial profiling. Crystal meth rules the streets, and crackheads and glass freaks dressed in costume work the tourist strip, bumming money for their next fix.
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Posted: Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 8:09 pm by Sylvhania
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Honey
by Bille Woodruff (2008-09-09)
Universal Studios (94 minutes)
average customer review: (118)
Honey Daniels dances in nightclubs; when she accidentally gets videotaped, a hip-hop video director spots her unique talent and hires her first as a dancer, then as a choreographer. Her life is shaken up after he gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.
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Posted: Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm by Sylvhania
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Red Road
by Andrea Arnold (2007-08-28)
Tartan Video (113 minutes)
average customer review: (17)
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
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Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:35 pm by Sylvhania
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Man Push Cart
by (2007-10-09)
Koch Lorber Films (87 minutes)
average customer review: (17)
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 8:28 pm by Sylvhania
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His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey (2009-02-10)
average customer review: (35)
The mother-son relationship forms the heart of Peter Carey’s new novel, and critics agreed that the touching bond that develops between the two gives the book its merit. Carey packs a strong emotional punch as he explores Dial’s conflicted view of motherhood and Che’s desperate love, attachments, and doubts.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 9:47 am by Sylvhania
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