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Video Views Pick: Changeling

On March 10, 1928, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) came home to an empty house. Her nine year-old son Walter was missing. Five months later, Los Angeles Police Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), with a large crowd that included the press watching, reunited Christine with whom he said was her son. One look told her differently. This kid was not Walter. But the police department, known for its ineptitude and graft during this era, insisted that it was.

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February 17th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Nights in Rodanthe

Based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe is the story of two people who teach each other how to be better than they thought they could be. Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Viola Davis, Christopher Meloni and James Franco.

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February 10th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings team up for night of searching for a friend—and finding much more—in Peter Sollett's Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, this week's Video Views pick.

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February 3rd, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Rebecca Hall is Vicky. Scarlett Johansson is Cristina. Barcelona is where the two best friends are spending the summer.

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January 27th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: The Express

The true story of Ernie Davis is one that will touch the hearts of everyone, football fan or not.

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January 20th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Appaloosa

This week's Video Views pick is Appaloosa, written, produced, directed by and starring Ed Harris. Co-starring Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Irons and Renée Zellweger, this modern western combines a story line true to the westerns of the good old days with an in-depth look into human relationships. trails, full of betrayal, emotion and questions about the wisdom of our heroes and the motives of everyone else.

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January 13th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Pineapple Express

In Pineapple Express, this week's Video Views pick, Seth Rogen is Dale Denton, a serious stoner who works as a process server. James Franco is Saul Silver, the spaced-out pot dealer that supplies him. Together, the actors take audiences on a riotous ride, which includes a hilarious cop car chase and ends up with the boys involved in war between a drug lord and his rival Asian gang.

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January 6th, 2009 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading is this week's Video Views pick. CIA analyst Oswald Cox (John Malkovich) is a very angry man. He has just been demoted and his wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), doesn’t listen to anything he says. She’s too busy with other things, like her affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married man who also surfs the Internet for women to hook up with. Having quit his job, Oswald is now writing his memoirs, a computer disc of which is found by the cleaning man at Hardbodies Fitness Center. Two of the trainers there, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), think the disc contains top secret information and see an opportunity for blackmail.

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December 31st, 2008 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: Mamma Mia

Mamma Mia is this week's Video Views pick. Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep) runs a hotel on the Greek island to which she brought three men to more than 20 years ago. And while she had sent them all away, now her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is getting married to her boyfriend (Dominic Cooper) there tomorrow. Sophie wants her father to walk her down the aisle, but doesn’t know who he is. After reading her mother’s diary, she narrows it down to those three guys: Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgärd) and Harry Bright (Colin Firth)—and, unbeknownst to Donna, invites them all to the wedding.

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December 17th, 2008 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Art Slavin

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Video Views Pick: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is this week's VIDEO VIEWS magazine pick. In the sequel to Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Christian Bale returns as the caped crusader, hoping to stop Gotham from falling into the evil clutches of Heath Ledger's The Joker and his love from the arms of Aaron Eckhart's District Attorney Harvey Dent. The two-disc edition includes the record-breaking box office behemoth and special features like "Batman Tech: The Incredible Gadgets and Tools."

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December 10th, 2008 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Jennifer M. Wood

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Video Views Pick: Wanted

The editors of VIDEO VIEWS magazine pick Wanted, based on the Mark Millar graphic novel, as the best new DVD this week. Featuring eight bonus featurettes and a cast that includes James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, home video watchers can't go wrong.

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December 3rd, 2008 | Category: Video Views Pick | By Jennifer M. Wood

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