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Dvd release date: 09/16/2008

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell
Director: David Gordon Green
Category: Drama
Rated: R

A story of love lost and found in a small town, “Snow Angels” is a heartrending portrayal of three couples in various stages of life orbiting around each other in search of connection and meaning. An unexpected act of violence disrupts the lives of these intertwined couples revealing the profound moments in which they each realize how precarious and remarkable life can be. (Publisher)

Summary of critic ratings:

Chicago Tribune: **** (out of four)
New York Post: **1/2 (out of four)
USA Today: ** (out of four)

Overall: **1/2 (out of four)

Dvd release date: 09/09/2008

Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler
Director: Michael McCullers
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13

In a comedy that brings together some of today’s sharpest talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives: “Baby Mama”. Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she’s finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. (Publisher)

Summary of critic ratings:

Chicago Tribune: ** (out of four)
New York Post: **1/2 (out of four)
USA Today: *** (out of four)

Overall: **1/2 (out of four)

Dvd release date: 08/26/2008

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen
Director: David Mamet
Category: Drama
Rated: R

Set on the westside of the Los Angeles fight world, a scene inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types “Redbelt” is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue a life of honor and education by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai’s code. Terry and his wife Sondra (Sonia Braga) struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night, between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught laywer (Emily Mortimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). In order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life. (Publisher)

Summary of critic ratings:

Chicago Tribune: *** (out of four)
New York Post: *** (out of four)
Rolling Stone: *** (out of four)
USA Today: *** (out of four)

Overall: *** (out of four)

Dvd release date: 08/26/2008

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher
Director: Tom Vaughan
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13

Two strangers awaken together to discover they’ve gotten married following a night of debauchery in Sin City, and one of them has won a huge jackpot after playing the other’s quarter. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and get their hands on the money - only to find themselves falling in love amid the mutual backstabbing. (Publisher)

Summary of critic ratings:

Chicago Tribune: *1/2 (out of four)
New York Post: *1/2 (out of four)
USA Today: ** (out of four)

Overall: *1/2 (out of four)

Dvd release date: 08/19/2008

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker
Director: David Ayer
Category: Action & Adventure
Rated: R

Gripping performances by Keanu Reeves, Academy Award(R) Winner Forest Whitaker and an all-star supporting cast power this action-packed crime thriller, in which a veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a hard-nosed detective with a talent for delivering brutal street justice. When evidence implicates him in the murder of a fellow officer, the violence around Ludlow explodes as he realizes his own life is in danger and he can trust no one. (Publisher)

Summary of critic ratings:

Chicago Tribune: ** (out of four)
New York Post: **1/2 (out of four)
Rolling Stone: ** (out of four)
USA Today: *1/2 (out of four)

Overall: ** (out of four)