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The Jane Austen Book Club (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [M]

Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit Sylvia's daughter Allegra; Prudie, a young teacher whose marriage may be on the rocks; and Grigg, a...  More

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-Ray)
(2003) [M]

Based on author Patrick O’Brian’s series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the movie is set during the Napoleonic Wars. Crowe is Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin. Their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, is...  More

No Country for Old Men (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [MA]

Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the...  More

There Will Be Blood
(2007) [M]

The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil...  More

There Will Be Blood (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [M]

The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil...  More

The Painted Veil
(2006) [M]

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920’s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in...  More

Casino Royale
(2006) [M]

Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. Bond is and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. "M" (Judi Bench), head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly-promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to...  More

Body of Lies
(2008) [MA]

He is the best man US Intelligence has on the ground, a sophisticated operative negotiating hot zones while no one close to him makes it out alive. But Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a man with no identity beyond his last blown cover, trusting his life to the dispassionate voice on the other...  More

I Served The King of England
(2006) [M]

Based on the best selling book by Bohumil Hrabal, winner of the Critic’s Award at the Berlin Film Festival and pleasing crowds wherever it goes, this hugely entertaining saga from veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel (winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his feature film Closely Watched...  More

Savage Grace
(2007) [R]

Based on the award-winning best selling novel, Savage Grace tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. The birth of their son Tony rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. As Tony...  More