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for July 22 DVDs

  • CAPTAIN AMERICA

    The First Avenger helps the US win World War II

  • FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

    Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis in that already tired story about let’s just have sex and forget the friendship.
 

  • 1. LIMITLESS:

    You know that part of the brain it is said that we use – like 15%?  Bradley Cooper’s character, Eddie Mora, encounters a way to use the entire 100% and it makes h8im something of a superman, being able to identify the patterns in stock market ups and downs to his own advantage, and quickly becoming a very wealthy man.  But it’s now without a price, as there are very bad people that want what he’s got.  A great thriller, a terrific twist at the end, and a super cast that includes Robert Di Nero and Anna Friel (Pushing Up Daisies). Rated 14A.

  • 2. RANGO:

    An animated story of a chameleon who finds himself stranded in what appears to be a small town out of the old West complete with the requisite good guys, bad guys and saloon girls.   Johnny Depp voices the title character who has seen too many Clint Eastwood movies for his own safety.  This is a clever send-up of the classic western that I found delightful.  Other voices by Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin.  Watch for The Man With No Name – this one is wasted on kids – they won’t get half of what goes on! Rated PG.   

  • 3. ARTHUR

     I was a great fan of the Dudley Moore original, so I really didn’t expect much from this Russell Brand version in which a man-child, born to great wealth, but tied to a domineering mother who controls the family fortune, is being forced to marry the woman of his mother’s dreams, not his own.  For the first 20 minutes or so, all I did was compare it with the original, but as the movie progressed, I forgot more and more to do that, and found that Brand made the character his own.  Helen Mirren is superb in a co-starring role. Rated PG.

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  • 4. RICK’S PICK: LIMITLESS

    Based on the novel “The Dark Fields” by Alan Glyn …..   the only book he ever wrote … and an excellent one it is!
TAKERS: 

Despite some serious plot holes, this is a pretty good thriller.  Will you see the ending coming?  Probably!

  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART II

    A great ending to the Harry Potter franchise, the most successful in movie history – things wrap up … well!

  • WINNE THE POOH

    A return to the simple tradition of the original Winnie the Pooh – nice – no special effects – just Christopher Robin, Eyore, and Tigger too.
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