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for Oct 15 DVDs

  • RED

    Retired, Extremely Dangerous – action-thriller with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren

  • JACKASS 3D

    Don’t try this at home!

  • 1. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON:

    This is a delightful animated feature that tells a great story about a time when dragons and people were at great odds with one another during the time of the Vikings.  Excellent characters, and a story that will appeal to kids on one level and to adults on another.  It was in 3D in theatres, but you miss nothing with 2D on DVD.  Voices of Montreal’s Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler, along with Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera. Rated PG.

  • 2. SPLICE:

    A Canadian-made film with Sara Polley (Road to Avonlea) and Oscar winner Adrian Brody as a pair of renegade scientists in a leading-edge think tank who are working on genetic engineering for the purpose of making pharmaceutical products … but they go a step too far and create a unique creature that they must keep under wraps.  In a great bit of inside humour, their characters are named Clive and Elsa after Colin Clive in the original Frankenstein, and Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein.  Excellent film – frightening, from a scientific ethics viewpoint.  Rated 18A.   

  • 3. BLOOD RIVER:

    As we get closer to Halloween, more and more of these direct-to-DVD horror-thrillers will surface.  This one features a young couple on their way to visit the in-laws to deliver good news about a baby on the way, interrupted in their journey when their car crashes in the Nevada desert, and strands them in a ghost town … the emphasis on “ghost.”  Pretty good, although somewhat derivative chiller. Rated 14-A.

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  • 4. SPLICE:

    Although there is one sexually explicit scene, garnering the 18A rating, outside of that, this is a very interesting and perhaps even important film.  The creature created through genetic splicing is named “Dren” … “nerd” spelled backwards.
SPECIES (1995): 

Genetic engineering again, this time with a message from space that shows how to manipulate DNA.  Forerunner to Splice, it’s Canadian connection is also its star, Natasha Henstridge, from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Also stars CSI’s Marg Helgenberger.  

  • SECRETARIAT  

    Diane Lane as Penney Chenery who took Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973 … excellent film!

  • LIFE AS WE KNOW IT  

    So-so romantic comedy with Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel

  • BURIED  

    Chiller with Ryan Reynolds buried in a coffin

  • MY SOUL TO TAKE 

    Wes Craven slasher-horror-flick
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