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With President’s Day weekend behind us it’s now time to think about some late Valentine’s Day presents. In case you want to pick up something extra for your valentine or you completely forgot to get something at all, a great movie on Blu-ray or DVD makes a perfect gift. Fortunately, there’s some new ones coming out this week just in time.

Among this week’s selection we’re interested in are new to Blu-ray movies such as Law Abiding Citizen, Halo Legends, the Dirty Harry Collection, Contempt, Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and debut of TV series Barnaby Jones and the latest installment of Cannon. Also, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (pictured above with Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro) gets the 20th Anniversary treatment with a new Blu-ray release.

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Black Dynamite ~ Michael Jai White (Blu-ray and DVD)

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If the '60s was the time when everyone was stoned out of their gourds and the '70s was the decade of bad taste, the '80s will be remembered as the decade when those two impulses collided head-on, giving us some of the strangest TV shows ever made. After all, what can you say about a decade that kicked off with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari getting tarted up in drag in Bosom Buddies and then proceded on to Manimal, Knight Rider, Webster, and Alf? Still, maybe the most jaw-droppingly bizarre show of the Reagan era was Small Wonder...

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WWII in HD - Blu-ray Review

Roger Ebert recently made people aware of a video on YouTube called The Open Road London.

The film was taken decades ago. The hustle and bustle of life in the city is enough to make you think that even after all technology has done for us we’re still as busy as ever. The Beefeater who just saunters in the frame, the double-decker busses, the police directing traffic by hand, it’s all very quaint. The amusing thing about this full color...

Small Wonder confirmed the age-old adage: If it looks like a ten-year-old girl and talks like a robot… it’s a Robot! When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson (Dick Christie) brings home his top secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I. (Tiffany Brissette), life becomes anything but mechanic for the Lawson family. With Ted’s boss and nosy neighbors (the Brindles) next door, his family must pass off Vickie as a real child. It’s easy for his wife Joan (Marla Pennington) who can’t help dotting on her like a real daughter, but harder for his precocious son Jamie (Jerry Supiran) who uses Vickie to do his homework and ward off [...]...