21 (Buy DVD) Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor (Kevin Spacey) and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now, his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control. Details: Color |
Bird (Buy Two-Disc Special Edition) The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's "Jazz at the Philharmonic." The music streaked into the unknown daring listeners to grab hold and fly there too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles "Yardbird" Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood. "Americans don't have any original art except Western movies and jazz" observes Eastwood. Movie fans of course know that few heroes sit as tall in the saddles as Eastwood... more |
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Essential Family Television(Buy DVD) Enjoy endless hours of family fun in this wide-ranging collection of 150 episodes from 31 great TV series of the past. Details: Color |
Lost Boys: The Tribe(Buy DVD In the shady surf city of Luna Bay, vampire surfers quickly dispatch anyone who crosses their path. Into this dark world arrive Chris Emerson and his sister, Nicole. Having lost their parents in a car accident, the siblings move in with their eccentric aunt and become new prey for the local surfers. When Nicole unwittingly drinks the blood of a vampire, Chris must locate and destroy the head vampire before his sister's transformation is complete. Details: Color |
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