title: A History of Violence function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: New Line Home Entertainment MPAA rating: R starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris DVD Release Year: 2006 film Release Year: 2005 film rating: Five Stars sound/picture rating: Five Stars reviewed by: Mel Odom “A History of Violence” began life as a graphic novel written and drawn by John Wagner and Vince Locke. When it was picked up and turned into a movie directed by David Cronenberg in 2005, “A History of Violence” arguably became one of the best movies of that year. The DVD case even advertises that the feature hit over 150 Top Ten lists.

title: Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Warner Home Video MPAA rating: PG-13 starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall Theatrical release year: 2005 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Five Stars sound/picture rating: Five Stars reviewed by: Mel Odom Harry Potter, everyone’s favorite teen wizard, returns in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth feature film made from J. K. Rowling’s bestselling series. As the film series has progressed, the nature of the stories and the character interactions have turned darker and more menacing, just as they have in the books.

  In the early 1950s, 11-year-old Satsuki and four-year-old Mei have moved with their father to a new house in the countryside, close to the hospital where their mother is recovering from tuberculosis. Mr Kusakabe is a teacher at a university in Tokyo and, while he commutes to work, Mei is looked after by Granny, the grandmother of a neighboring family. In the days leading up to summer holidays, Mei and Satsuki explore their new home and discover their house is "haunted" by tiny soot spirits who, according to Granny, spread ash and dust in old houses. Then Mei discovers the nest of a local forest spirits who lives in a giant camphor tree nearby. She calls them "Totoro" (which is a mispronunciation of "tororu," the Japanese word for troll), after an illustration in her "Three Billy Goats Gruff" picture book. The giant Totoro is a huge fuzzy creature like a cross between a ...

title: The Shaggy Dog: The Wild & Woolly Edition function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment MPAA rating: G starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture: Three Stars reviewed by: Dan Macintosh “The Shaggy Dog” was Disney’s first-ever live-action movie, and it’s a winner, too. It stars the loveable Fred MacMurray, who plays much the same fatherly role he popularized with the TV show “My Three Sons.” This admittedly shaggy dog story is about a teen forced to view the world from “inside” a dog, rather than the more typical tale of a boy “and” his dog.

title: Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru No Ugoku Shiro) function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment MPAA rating: PG Voices: Jean Simmons, Emily Mortimer, Lauren Bacall, Christian Bale, Billy Crystal, Blythe Danner, Josh Hutcherson, Jena Malone; Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yo Oizumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Daijiro Harada, Haruko Kato Theatrical Release Year: 2004 DVD Release Year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Tara O'Shea The 2004 Studio Ghibli animated film "Howl's Moving Castle," adapted by the novel of the same name from British fantasist Diana Wynne Jones, may be director/screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki's greatest film in terms of scope and complexity. Unfortunately, it also seems to be one of his most misunderstood by Western audiences.