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Baghead

by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass  (2008-12-27)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (84 minutes)
average customer review:  2.5 out of 5 stars  (13)

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars.

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Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 at 10:04 am by Sylvhania
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The Beginner’s Guide to Humor and Healing

by  (2009-10-26)
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From how love helps us lead longer, more productive lives, to fascinating research about laughter's ability to boost the immune system, to true stories of miracles of spontaneous remission in terminally ill patients.

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Posted: Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 3:06 pm by Sylvhania
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Up

by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter  (2009-11-10)
Disney*Pixar  (96 minutes)
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (763)

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America.

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Posted: Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 10:19 pm by Sylvhania
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Husbands and Wives

by Woody Allen  (2002-04-16)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (108 minutes)
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (41)

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 4:24 pm by Sylvhania
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The Music of Chance

by Philip Haas  ()
 (98 minutes)
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (16)

Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 6:19 am by Sylvhania
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande  (2011-01-04)
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (233)

Harvard Medical School prof, Gawande, argues that a disciplined adherence to essential procedures—by ticking them off a list—can prevent potentially fatal mistakes and corner cutting.

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Posted: Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:37 pm by Sylvhania
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Shades of Ray

by Jaffar Mahmood  (2009-04-07)
Chapman/Leonard Studio  (90 minutes)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (46)

American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer.

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Posted: Monday, October 24, 2011 at 11:11 am by Sylvhania
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The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

by Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger  (2005-06-14)
average customer review:  2.5 out of 5 stars  (4)

In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously.

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Posted: Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 11:27 am by Sylvhania
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Longitude

by Charles Sturridge  (2000-08-29)
A&E Home Video  (200 minutes)
average customer review:  4.6 out of 5 stars  (56)

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

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Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 11:02 pm by Sylvhania
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Stardust

by Michael Apted  ()
San Paolo  (110 minutes)
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The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."

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Posted: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 11:21 am by Sylvhania
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