Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role – Sean Penn Check out some of his other starring roles:–21 Grams– HU DVD 792–Mystic River– HU DVD 840–The Game– HU DVD 2246 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role – Meryl Streep Check out some of her other starring roles:–The Devil […]

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2009 Golden Globe Awards

For a complete list of Golden Globe nominations and winners, click here for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association website. Slumdog Millionaire won this year’s award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and 3 other awards. Check out some films in our collection by Director Danny Boyle: Trainspotting – HU DVD 100228 Days Later – HU […]

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Must-See Video: Winter Soldier

This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It’s a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by […]

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Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life

Gorgeously presented by the British Film Institute, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life has just arrived on region 2 DVD and is now available in Media Services. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3074 Released in 1956, less than a year after Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life stands next to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows […]

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Must-see video: Our Daily Bread

If you’ve been on the fence about whether you want to become a vegetarian, this documentary may help you decide. From vegetables to livestock filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s vivid images of the mechanization of modern food harvesting on an epic scale are fascinating, disturbing, and often just surreal. This 80 minute film hasn’t a single line […]

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