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DVD Tuesday: Mostly lackluster

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Even though they are the two big releases today, I just couldn't bring myself to lead with the awful Saw IV and the even worse The Game Plan. Save yourself some money and buy the truly entertaining The Hunting Party instead. Remember that Jessica Simpson movie that made only a few hundred bucks in theaters a few weeks ago? It's out on DVD, ready to be ignored again. Torchwood is a show I'm ready to catch up with after all the positive things I've heard. She Likes Girls 2 picks up where She Likes Girls left off...with more girl-liking.

The Hunting Party
Saw IV
Moliere
Adrift in Manhattan
The Game Plan
Sydney White
Masterpiece Theater: Northanger Abbey
Miss Julie: Criterion Collection
This Sporting Life - Criterion Collection
Sex and Breakfast
Torchwood - The Complete First Season
She Likes Girls 2
Blonde Ambition
Radiohead - The DVD Box Unauthorized
Butterfly Collectors
The John Frankenheimer Collection
Countdown to War
Inside the Smiths
The Jeff Corwin Experience - Season 1
Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains, Vol. 2

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