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The practice of organ donation has become untenable in the dystopian (what else?) future, but private companies like The Union have stepped in to offer synthetic organs to anyone willing to take out the biological equivalent of a mortgage on a house.

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Years of service on the mean streets of New York push three cops to consider protecting and serving themselves, not their community.

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Best buds flee the boring routine of their lives by escaping to a ski-resort where a hot tub transports them back to the '80s.

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Game Informer Magazine ranks the Top 10 PC games from June.

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In "TiMER," the concept of finding a soulmate no longer is a concept. Instead, it's a scientific, commercially viable reality, and anyone 14 or older with $80 to spare can implant a timer on either wrist that literally counts down the minutes until their soulmate comes into view.

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In post-apo calyptic America, the fate of civili-zation depends on one man guarding a sacred book. With Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson. Rated R (some brutal violence and profanity)

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Sometimes, the best special feature a DVD offers is the capacity to pause the film. That arguably holds true on multiple levels for "Shutter Island," which finds U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) hiding an ulterior motive and suppressing personal demons while investigating a missing persons case in an ocean-locked hospital for the criminally insane. The details of Teddy's motive, as well as the return favor the hospital has for him, are best left unspoiled, but the net result transforms "Island" from a slightly interesting mystery into a genuinely unnerving horror story about the state of Teddy's mind.

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It was a mere matter of time before someone with lots of money brought "Alice in Wonderland" back to the big screen as the adult-oriented fever dream so many have interpreted Lewis Carroll's book as being.

An old Western gets new life with Criterion release of 'Stagecoach’

When John Ford made “Stagecoach” in 1939, the Hollywood director had already been making movies for two decades and had one Oscar (for 1935’s “The Informer”) to his credit.

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The sound you hear, just as you heard it when this one hit theaters, is that of millions of fans mourning the seeming passing of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's action hero career. But here's the thing about "Tooth Fairy," which stars Johnson as a soon-to-be-washed out hockey star forced to work tooth fairy duty after angering the tooth fairy gods

'Fallout' heads to New Vegas

You've been shot and left for dead on the outskirts of New Vegas, Nevada. Drifting between blurred reality and a soothing blackness, your mind wanders from thoughts of the afterlife to questioning why you've been shot.

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Sometimes, the aftermath is better than the actual event, and "Five Minutes of Heaven" is a pristine example of why.

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"Crazy Heart" has all the ingredients one could want in a story about a country music star whose career has beeline south:

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The Baader Meinhof Complex (R, 2008, MPI Home Video) If your knowledge of world history falls in line with a dog's understanding of the U.S. Postal Service, "The Baader Meinhof Complex" might look like nothing more than a wonderful confluence of guns, blo

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A disclaimer at the top of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" claims "more of this is true than you would believe," and even if that's there for comic purposes (it might be, it might not be), that disclaimer has a point.

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