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		<title>&#8216;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Goro Miyazaki Language: Japanese (dubbed/subtitled in English) Studio Ghibli has released the U.K. Blu-ray and DVD of Goro Miyazaki&#8217;s 2011 animation &#8220;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill).&#8221; Co-scripted by Hayao Miyazaki, the film is a nostalgic period piece about the campaign by Yokohama college students, circa 1963, to save their ramshackle clubhouse from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Man 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Shane Black Language: English I&#8217;ll take my Robert Downey Jr. however it&#8217;s served, and if it comes in a can, well, so be it. This third installment in what seems like one of a gazillion Marvel franchises doubles down on everything: This should really be called &#8220;Iron Men.&#8221; Plenty of metal on metal ass-kickings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farinelli (Castrato)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Gerard Corbiau Language: French, Italian (subtitled in Japanese) A golden oldie from 1994, &#8220;Farinelli&#8221; traces the life and times of 18th-century Italian singer Carlo Broschi (Stefano Dionisi), who was castrated in childhood to preserve his angelic voice and went on to a brilliant career. Carlo&#8217;s complex relationship with his less talented older brother Ricardo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Minnasan, Sayonara! (See You Tomorrow, Everyone)&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/12/films/minnasan-sayonara-see-you-tomorrow-everyone/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=minnasan-sayonara-see-you-tomorrow-everyone</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Oct. 14, Third Window Films (U.K.) will release an English-subbed DVD of Yoshihiro Nakamura&#8217;s &#8220;Minnasan, Sayonara! (See You Tomorrow, Everyone).&#8221; Starring Gaku Hamada as a boy who vows to spend his life in his Tokyo apartment complex, even as his childhood friends drift away, the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Paranorman&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell Language: English Oregon&#8217;s Laika stop-motion studio follows up 2009&#8242;s excellent &#8220;Coraline.&#8221; Eleven-year-old Norman can talk to the spirits, but when he warns that a long-dead witch is coming back for revenge, people just think it&#8217;s freak-boy trippin&#8217; out, so it&#8217;s up to him and a few other misfits to save [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Suits&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English &#8220;Suits,&#8221; the 2011 TV series, is now available for rental. Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is a brilliant but feckless young college dropout who runs from the scene of a botched drug deal and is miraculously picked up by New York hot-shot criminal lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). They become an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Arrow&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English The Dark Knight isn&#8217;t the only DC Comics hero with abs to die for &#8212; get ready to swoon over the 2012 TV series &#8220;Arrow&#8221; starring smokin&#8217; Hollywood stud Stephen Amell. He plays a billionaire who returns from five years stranded on a desert island as Arrow, a shirtless superdude whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kibo no Kuni (The Land of Hope)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Sion Sono Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Aug. 26, Third Window Films of the U.K. released a DVD and Blu-ray of &#8220;Kibo no Kuni (The Land of Hope),&#8221; Sion Sono&#8217;s drama about two families caught up in a near-future nuclear catastrophe that eerily resembles Fukushima&#8217;s. Shot with Sono&#8217;s usual love of extremes, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dark Horse&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Todd Solondz Language: English Todd Solondz is known for bringing a host of uncomfortable characters and situations to the screen &#8212; first prize is probably Philip Seymour Hoffman&#8217;s obscene phone caller in &#8220;Happiness&#8221; &#8212; and &#8220;Dark Horse&#8221; is no exception, a twisted rom-com for no-hopers. Obese, 30-something, still-living-at-home Abe (Jordan Gelber) convinces himself that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Criterion is releasing a Blu-ray/DVD box set of the first 25 films in the &#8220;Zatoichi&#8221; series. Starring the burly, charismatic Shintaro Katsu as the titular blind swordsman, this action-packed series, which ran from 1962 to 1989, was a gateway to samurai films in particular and Japanese films in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Addams Family&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Language: English The Addams Family really were a &#8220;scre-am,&#8221; and we can now relive the joy of seeing the happy/scary family assembled under one creaky roof: Barry Sonnenfeld&#8217;s 1991 classic starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd is out as a revival DVD and Blu-ray. This was the 11-year-old Christina Ricci&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Walking Dead Season 3&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English Season 3 of everyone&#8217;s favorite zombie series is finally out to rent here, just as the trailers for Season 4 on U.S. TV are making the rounds. Ex-cop Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors find a place that looks like shelter, but wind up in a brutal turf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kumo no Hitomi (Eyes of the Spider), Hebi no Michi (Serpent&#8217;s Path)&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/22/films/kumo-no-hitomi-eyes-of-the-spider-hebi-no-michi-serpents-path/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kumo-no-hitomi-eyes-of-the-spider-hebi-no-michi-serpents-path</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Sept. 9, Third Window Films of the U.K. will release an English-subbed DVD set of Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s&#8221;Kumo no Hitomi (Eyes of the Spider)&#8221; and &#8220;Hebi no Michi (Serpent&#8217;s Path),&#8221; two linked 1998 low-budget shockers both starring Show Aikawa as a salaryman-turned-killer. Though shot in a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Transporter: The Series&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English The courier-for-hire role perfected by Jason Statham has passed into the capable hands of Chris Vance as &#8220;The Transporter&#8221; series moves to TV. Vance makes for a classier, sexier and more amenable transporter who knows how to chat up the ladies and buy them drinks. Not an act that Statham is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From One Second to the Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Werner Herzog Language: English &#8220;It&#8217;s life. You get one chance, and you live with the choices you make.&#8221; Director Werner Herzog&#8217;s latest may be a work for hire &#8212; a 35-minute documentary for AT&#38;T on the consequences of texting and driving &#8212; but it&#8217;s this existential point that he hammers home, interviewing perpetrators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It&#8217;s Such a Beautiful Day&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Don Hertzfeldt Language: English Cinema is constantly cross-breeding, but a hybrid of Stan Brakhage&#8217;s impressionistic art cinema with naif stick-figure line drawing and overlapping narration like The Velvet Underground&#8217;s &#8220;The Murder Mystery&#8221; is not something I&#8217;d expected. One-man animator Don Hertzfeldt&#8217;s feature seamlessly combines three of his short films about the life &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Toho war films</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Amazon Spain is selling Spanish/English-subbed DVDs of old Toho war movies, including 1963&#8242;s &#8220;Taiheiyo no Tsubasa (Attack Squadron!),&#8221; with Toshiro Mifune starring as a fighter squadron leader, and 1968&#8242;s &#8220;Rengo Kantai Shirei Chokan: Yamamoto Isoroku (Admiral Yamamoto),&#8221; with Mifune as the title architect of the attack on Pearl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Flight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Robert Zemeckis Language: English National hero or drunken loser? Denzel Washington stars as a smooth operator in the cockpit as well as with his hottie cabin attendants. One morning in a rainstorm, he takes the plane too high, too fast, and when the engines malfunction he pulls off a feat of heroic maneuvering. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;First Position&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Bess Kargman Language: English &#8220;First Position&#8221; is director Bess Kargman&#8217;s understated but powerful depiction of children aged 9 to 15 who have trained for most of their lives to compete in the famed Youth America Grand Prix, hoping to launch their professional dancing careers. Don&#8217;t miss Michaela DePrince, adopted from a West African orphanage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ashes of Time Redux (Rakuen no Kizu)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Wong Kar-wai Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (subtitled in Japanese) Before &#8220;The Grandmaster,&#8221; Wong Kar-wai had already done a martial-arty film, and better. Now, 1996&#8242;s &#8220;The Ashes of Time&#8221; gets a rerelease on DVD, with a gorgeously restored print, but a cut that&#8217;s mysteriously seven minutes shorter. This dreamlike remix of spaghetti western and wuxia (martial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rurouni Kenshin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Keishi Otomo Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Amazon.com is offering an all-region English-subbed DVD of &#8220;Rurouni Kenshin.&#8221; Based on a best-selling comic, this swashbuckling samurai pic, whose former-assassin hero lays low dozens of foes with his swift, nonlethal sword, was a big hit in Japan and a fan favorite on the festival circuit. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Hayao Miyazaki Language: Japanese (English subs/dub) Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s 1992 anime &#8220;Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso)&#8221; is now available in Japan as a multi-language-subbed/dubbed Blu-ray. This action-fantasy about a porcine World War I pilot who battles air pirates while vying with a rival for the hand of the lovely Gina features stunning flying sequences &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Your Sister&#8217;s Sister (Love Triangle)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Lynn Shelton Language: English Rosemary DeWitt (&#8220;Rachel Getting Married&#8221;) and Emily Blunt (&#8220;Sunshine Cleaning&#8221;) are Hannah and Iris &#8212; they&#8217;re as different as sisters can be, but they wind up spending time in their family&#8217;s getaway cabin with Iris&#8217; chum Jack (Mark Duplass). Iris and Jack are nursing personal grievances while lesbian Hannah finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ted&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Seth MacFarlane Language: English I thought it was about as dumb as &#8220;Movie 43,&#8221; but everyone I know enjoyed this comedy about the magical talking teddy bear (Seth &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; MacFarlane) who grows up to be a foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, whore-consorting enabler of bad behavior to his human BFF (Mark Wahlberg). It&#8217;s too full of knee-jerk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Game of Thrones: Season One&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Language: English Someone coined the term &#8220;crack-TV&#8221; when &#8220;24&#8243; was hot to describe those pulse-racing series that always kept you chasing your next hit. I&#8217;d say &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; and &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; are two of the best current examples, but right behind them is HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221; the medieval/fantasy power-politics series that has even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Shokuzai (Penance)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) YesAsia has started selling an English-subbed Hong Kong version of &#8220;Shokuzai (Penance),&#8221; Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s five-part chiller about a mother (Kyoko Koizumi) who yearns for karmic retribution against the classmates of her dead daughter, who saw her murderer but failed to ID him to police. First broadcast on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wreck-it Ralph (Sugar Rush)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Rich Moore Language: English Widespread obesity has given sugar a bad name in the U.S. But in Wreck-it Ralph, &#8220;Sugar Rush&#8221; is a video game, and you can&#8217;t get fat from those &#8230; right? Anyway, this Rich Moore-directed Disney production swoons with nostalgia for the good ole days of arcade games and awkward but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Serial Mom&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: John Waters Language: English John Waters&#8217; fans can welcome this 1994 classic onto digitally remastered DVD and Blu-ray. Kathleen Turner stars as a prim and proper, holier-than-thou sort of Martha Stewart housewife who takes cleanliness and keeping up appearances so seriously that she dementedly murders anyone who flaunts the rules. This is basically a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Godzilla&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Roland Emmerich Language: English A new 4K mastered Blu-ray of &#8220;Godzilla,&#8221; the 1998 Hollywood reworking of the seminal 1954 Japanese monster movie, was released on July 16. Reviled by Godzilla fans upon its original release, this CGI extravaganza directed by Roland Emmerich did not spawn the planned film series, though Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s &#8220;Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pleasantville (Color of Heart)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Gary Ross Language: English I picked up 1998 movie &#8220;Pleasantville&#8221; at my rental store the other day &#8212; what a blast from the past. It stars a young Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon as teenage twins in suburbia, USA, who get zapped into the polite, pleasant, monochrome world of the 1950s. An insightful, well-crafted [...]]]></description>
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