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The X-Files - Fight the Future [Blu-ray]

Actors: Blythe Danner, Jeffrey DeMunn, David Duchovny, Bruce Harwood, Glenne Headly
ASIN : B001G7PT4I
Sales Rank : 10345
Brand : Twentieth Century Fox
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Format : AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0024543554622
UPC : 024543554622
Release Date : December 02, 2008
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 122

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 12/02/2008 Rating: Pg13

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The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien conspiracy than ever before, but there's no more plot development here than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy--basically an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch who want to colonize Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What, which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggi's indispensable Assistant Director Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. --David Chute

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Murder, She Wrote - The Complete Eighth Season

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Ron Masak, William Windom
ASIN : B0011UF79M
Sales Rank : 6104
Brand : Universal
Studio : Universal Studios
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0025195017039
UPC : 025195017039
Release Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Universal Studios
Manufacturer : Universal Studios
Label : Universal Studios
Running Time : 1072

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Get ready to open another chapter of TV's most beloved crime series, Murder, She Wrote, with all 22 episodes from The Complete Eighth Season! Golden Globe® winner Angela Lansbury returns as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and more people are turning up dead wherever she ventures. But, Jessica is the only one clever enough to read between the lines and see the clues nobody knew were there.

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Midsomer Murders - Set Eight

Actor: John Nettles; John Hopkins
ASIN : B000L2129U
Sales Rank : 8841
Director : Caroline Graham
Studio : ACORN MEDIA
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0054961918799
UPC : 054961918799
Release Date : December 27, 2007
Publisher : ACORN MEDIA
Manufacturer : ACORN MEDIA
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Label : ACORN MEDIA
Running Time : 300

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What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer...

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with John Hopkins (Love in a Cold Climate) as his brash young assistant. Guest stars include John Burgess, William Gaunt, Freddie Jones, Keith Barron, and Margery Mason.

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The Maid in Splendour—Midsomer Worthy’s beloved local pub figures in a case involving unrequited love, secret business deals, and passionate affairs.
The Straw Woman—Scott becomes bewitched by a village schoolteacher as he and Barnaby unravel a centuries-old mystery in Midsomer Parva.
Ghosts of Christmas Past—Barnaby escapes Christmas with his in-laws only to be thrust into the shadowy world and dark secrets of the mysterious Villiers family.

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE John Nettles interview, Midsomer map, Caroline Graham biography, and cast filmographies.

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Idyllic Midsomer county has an alarmingly high mortality rate--at least on television. As actor John Nettles comments in a charming interview, after several series of the murder mystery program Midsomer Murders only a handful of villagers would be left alive. The show's writers tried to lower the body count to a more plausible number, but viewers complained, so Midsomer is as lethal as ever. Set Eight, featuring three episodes from Midsomer Murders' seventh series, racks up its share of corpses as the ever-observant DCI Barnaby (Nettles) and his brash right hand man Dan Scott (John Hopkins) sort through a tale of unrequited love and secret real estate deals that mirrors an old legend, a collision of the church and pagan ways that sparks several flaming deaths, and a Christmas gathering that turns murderous as the truth about a long-ago suicide comes out. Midsomer Murders is topnotch: The 90-100 minute episode length allows each episode to unfold intricate plots while cultivating a distinct atmosphere and establishing vivid characters. Anchoring it all is Nettles, whose combination of gravitas and sly wit make him not only an excellent detective but a delightful and engaging personality. Hopkins is less charismatic, but he provides a suitable foil for his senior colleague. Aside from the interview with Nettles, the extras are modest: A map of the county, a handful of cast filmographies, and a slender bit of biography about Caroline Graham, the mystery novelist who created DCI Barnaby and his rural miasma of passion, jealousy, and bitter revenge. --Bret Fetzer

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Columbo - The Complete Fourth Season

Actors: Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, Rosemary Forsyth, Martin Milner, Barbara Colby
ASIN : B000CRR3S8
Sales Rank : 4715
Director : Alf Kjellin, Ben Gazzara, Bernard L. Kowalski, Harvey Hart, Steven Spielberg
Brand : Universal
Studio : National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0025192925221
UPC : 025192925221
Number Of Discs : 3
Release Date : December 14, 2006
Publisher : National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Manufacturer : National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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Label : National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Running Time : 539

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Legendary actor Peter Falk returns in his 4-time Emmy® award-winning role as everyone’s favorite trenchcoat-wearing Police Lieutenant in Columbo The Complete Fourth Season! From a spoiled kidnapping plot to murder at a historic military academy, join Columbo in this three-disc set as he asks all the right questions in some of the most deceptive and deadly cases. The captivating fourth season also features such brilliant guest stars as Dick Van Dyke, Larry Storch, George Hamilton, Robert Conrad and more. The landmark crime series that inspired a genre is back, and no murderer can hide for long with Columbo on the beat!

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Prime Suspect 2

Actors: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis, Craig Fairbrass
ASIN : B0000X2ET2
Sales Rank : 3620
Director : John Strickland
Brand : Prime
Studio : Hbo Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783128771
ISBN : 0783128770
UPC : 026359184925
Release Date : December 24, 2004
Publisher : Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer : Hbo Home Video
Label : Hbo Home Video
Running Time : 208

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Helen Mirren is Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the second season of Prime Suspect. This case involves a death in the Afro-Caribbean community that puts D.C.I. Tennison and the rest of the police force in the middle of a racial controvery.

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In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighborhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself, and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance, and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker

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Numb3rs - The Third Season

Actors: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis, Craig Fairbrass
ASIN : B000SO7PBU
Sales Rank : 6998
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097361226842
UPC : 097361226842
Release Date : December 25, 2007
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Label : Paramount
Running Time : 1029

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FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematical genius brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Assisting Don at the FBI is behavioral specialist Megan Reeves and FBI agents David Sinclair and Colby Granger. Charlie’s colleagues at the University where he teaches include Dr. Larry Fleinhardt and former grad student Amita Ramanjuan, both of whom offer their math expertise to assist Charlie with the most perplexing cases. Don and Charlie’s father, Alan Eppes, is pleased to see his two sons working together, but fears their competitive nature will lead to trouble.

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Some key subtractions and additions invigorate the engrossing third season of this smart series about an FBI team led by Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) who gets assistance on its toughest cases by Don's brother, Charlie (David Krumholtz), a mathematical genius. Peter MacNicol, as eccentric physics professor Larry Fleinhardt, Charlie's mentor, departed mid-season for a stint on 24. Diane Farr, as FBI profiler Megan Reeves, left on maternity leave. Enter Kathy Najimy as Charlie's new boss, Mildred ("Millie") Finch, and the exotic Aya Sumika as Special Agent Liz Warner, to give the show what the creators call, in a bonus season retrospective, "more girl energy." What separates Numb3rs from TV's other, and more grisly, procedural shows is that it emphasizes brains over bleech and intellect over ick. Enjoyment of Numb3rs is not dependent on your knowledge of "multi-attribute compositional models," "hidden variable theory," or "quadratic discriminate analysis," Just do what the confounded agents on Don's team do whenever Charlie explains how he applies his "intuitive synthesis of established mathematical principles and theorems" to manhunting: "Nod your head and wait for the punchline." Big picture, the cases are compelling in themselves: a psyche-scarred teacher and her young lover embark on a murder spree; a valuable painting originally stolen by Nazis is heisted from an art gallery; someone is bent on killing, not catching, child predators; a music mogul's son is kidnapped; a sinkhole that destroys a school playground reveals the cover-up of illegal toxic waste dumping.

Season 3 also fleshes out the characters. The competitive brothers express newfound respect for each other ("It's amazing how you see things," Don tells Charlie at one point). Charlie and Amita (Navi Rawat), who has accepted a position at the university to teach and do research, attempt to take their budding romantic relationship to the next level. Megan and Larry also become a couple. And in the thrilling and suspenseful season finale, "The Janus List," there is a startling revelation about one of the members on Don's team. Among the notable guest stars include Lou Diamond Phillips, reprising his role as Agent Edgerton, who is willing to cross ethical lines that Don is not. In the episode "Provenance," Gena Rowlands gives a heartbreaking performance as a woman whose family was decimated by the Holocaust. Add such extras as selected episode commentaries, bloopers, and an entertaining set tour with Krumholtz, Morrow, and Judd Hirsch, who helps to anchor the series as Don and Charlie's father, and you have a season whose DVD release is a "special equation." --Donald Liebenson

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The X-Files - The Complete Eighth Season (Slim Set)

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick, Tom Braidwood
ASIN : B000EXDS3E
Sales Rank : 6681
Director : Barry K. Thomas, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Kim Manners, Peter Markle
Brand : Twentieth Century Fox
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543244202
UPC : 024543244202
Release Date : December 06, 2006
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Running Time : 930

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24 - Season 3 (Slim - Pack)

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, James Badge Dale
ASIN : B000NDEXKM
Sales Rank : 5172
Director : Brad Turner, Bryan Spicer, Frederick King Keller, Ian Toynton, Jon Cassar
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : Fox Network
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543442950
UPC : 024543442950
Release Date : December 22, 2007
Publisher : Fox Network
Manufacturer : Fox Network
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Label : Fox Network
Running Time : 1060

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 1064 minutes Rating: Nr

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Law & Order Special Victims Unit - The Third Season

Actor: Mariska Hargitay
ASIN : B000KGH00W
Sales Rank : 7796
Brand : Universal
Studio : Universal Studios
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0025193299826
UPC : 025193299826
Release Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : Universal Studios
Manufacturer : Universal Studios
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Label : Universal Studios
Running Time : 994

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/30/2007 Rating: Nr

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One of the few spin-offs that actually equals the original in terms of quality, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has another stellar season in its third year. Detectives Olivia Benson (Emmy winner Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) continue to investigate sexually-based crimes with compassion and vigor. There are a slew of guest stars playing roles we're not accustomed to. Former Saved By the Bell child actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar makes a heartbreaking appearance as a newlywed who gets involved in the gay porn industry to support his baby and indifferent wife. John Ritter guest-stars as a doctor who may have been involved in his pregnant wife's death. And Diane Neal--who joins the cast in the show's fifth season as attorney Casey Novak--plays a cocky businesswoman whose friend is found dead after a wild girls' night out. With a supporting cast that includes detectives Tutuola (Ice-T) and Munch (Richard Belzer), as well as Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), and psychiatrist George Huang (B.D. Wong), SVU tackles cases so heinous that viewers are never certain whether the detectives will be able to make it to the next case. Good storytelling aside, the biggest draw to the show are the characters of Benson and Stabler, whose chemistry is based on fierce loyalty and trust. That they haven't slept with each other is a testament to the skilled writing on the series. The show is so good that a romance between the two doesn't have to be forced on the viewers to keep us interested. From the first episode (involving a therapist who may have encouraged her patient to commit a crime) to the last (where the detectives uncover a sex scandal in the Catholic church), the stories stick with the viewer long after the episodes have been watched. The third season ran from 2001 to 2002 on NBC, but time hasn't tempered the impact of this powerful series. --Jae-Ha Kim

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 6

The X-Files - Fight the Future [Blu-ray]

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Murder, She Wrote - The Complete Eighth Season

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Midsomer Murders - Set Eight

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Columbo - The Complete Fourth Season

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Prime Suspect 2

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Numb3rs - The Third Season

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The X-Files - The Complete Eighth Season (Slim Set)

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24 - Season 3 (Slim - Pack)

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Law & Order Special Victims Unit - The Third Season

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