It’s been a week since our last entry in the blog. We’ve been really busy traveling around Spain, and haven’t been able to get as much done as we wanted. But, we’re back in the office now, so please accept our apologies!
This week’s set of DVD releases is an interesting and almost uniformly excellent bunch (Chipmunks, kaff). The most unlikely Best Picture nominee, An Education, is the strongest of the more traditional pictures. But the Criticker Pick of the week is Under the Sea 3D — released into IMAX theaters over a year ago, and now available for your home.
Sherlock Holmes – Average Tier 6.16
Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Sherlock Holmes @ Amazon
An Education – Average Tier 6.46
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age. An Education @ Amazon
Baader Meinhof Komplex, Der – Average Tier 6.41
A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s. Based on Stefan Aust’s best-selling nonfiction book. Baader Meinhof Komplex, Der @ Amazon
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – Average Tier 2.82
Alvin, Simon and Theodore are back and ready to rock in their second big-screen comedy that reteams them with their beleaguered manager, Dave (Jason Lee), setting them up for a new series of musical misadventures. David Cross reprises his role as music mogul Ian Hawke, with Cameron Richardson returning as Dave’s love interest. Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney provide the voices of the three miscreant marmots. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel @ Amazon
An underwater look at the diverse coastal regions of Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific areas and the impact of global warming on the oceans. Under the Sea 3D @ Amazon
Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family. 
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. 
A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect. 
A young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. 
In the early third century, the land of Wu is invaded by the warlord Cao Cao and his million soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan, calls on the rival warlord Liu Bei for help, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered. However, the Wu strategist Zhou Yu sees that Cao Cao’s army is unused to battling on the sea, which may just give them a chance if they can exploit this weakness properly. 
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. 
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. 
What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down and looks for explanations. 
The MacManus brothers are living in Ireland with their father, but when they learn their priest has been killed by mob forces, they return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible. 
The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home. 
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
A retired lawyer (Ricardo Darín) wants to write a novel about a crime he tried to solve thirty years earlier: a woman was raped and murdered. When the court decided to close the case for lack of evidence, he and his sidekick (Guillermo Francella) relay on one loose clue: a man looking at the victim, in an old photograph.
Sort of an update of the old Warner Brothers books come to life cartoon- only here logos come to life and populate the world.
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