September 18th, 2008
Today’s featured DVD in Jane’s September Contest Slam:
THE DVD: “Smart People” stars Dennis Quaid as Lawrence Wetherhold, a recently widowed literature professor who’s wandering numbly through life until an accident lands him in the hospital. He reconnects with a former student (Sarah Jessica Parker) and his dysfunctional family: Ellen Page and Ashton […]
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September 17th, 2008
Today’s featured DVD in Jane’s September Contest Slam is a fun one for kids of all ages (though, most assuredly, tween girls…and their moms):
THE DVD: High School Musical 2: 2-Disc Deluxe Dance Edition (released on DVD Sept. 23, 2008). Directed by Kenny Ortega, this fun flick catches up with the Wildcats as they […]
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September 16th, 2008
Today’s featured give-away in Jane’s September Contest Slam is a cute prequel to one of the best animated movies ever:
THE DVD: “The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning” is a prequel to the popular Mermaid story. We learn why King Triton banned music from the kingdom, and how Ariel brought it back again. Read my […]
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September 15th, 2008
Today’s featured DVD in Jane’s September Contest Slam is Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Vol. 1.
THE DVD: This is one of the many cross-media offerings these days, a cartoon adaptation of a strategy game from Sega Toys and Spin Master. Dan Kuso and his five cyber friends were playing Bakugan when game cards fell from […]
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September 14th, 2008
My dear friend, Lori Hall Steele, is in a dire situation and needs our help. She’s been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, hasn’t been able to work in months, and is seriously close to losing the home where she and her 7-year-old son, Jack, live.
Ironically, three years ago — when Lori was in […]
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September 13th, 2008
Today’s featured DVD in Jane’s September Contest Slam is a great film from 2007 that I dearly loved:
The Golden Compass, a fantasy film based on the first book of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. You’ll wish you could travel into the movie, wander through the Old World cities, float gently across the horizon […]
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September 12th, 2008
Today’s featured giveaway in Jane’s September Contest Slam is a great family film for kids 8 and older:
THE DVD: Bridge to Terabithia, about a boy (Josh Hutcherson) who’s having trouble at school and home, but who’s inspired by the new girl at school (AnnaSophia Robb). She teaches him a few things about the […]
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September 11th, 2008
Today’s featured giveaway in Jane’s September Contest Slam:
The DVD: College Road Trip, a fun, innocent movie in which Disney sweetie Raven-Symone heads off to college, despite her overprotective dad. Read my review and watch a trailer here.
The Giveaway: I have TWO “College Road Trip” DVDs to give away. To enter the contest, […]
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September 10th, 2008
Today’s featured giveaway in Jane’s September Contest Slam is a great one for zombie lovers. Directed by Steve Miner, the straight-to-DVD “Day of the Dead” stars Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari, and Ving Rhames. It’s a remake of the George A. Romero classic zombie film about a mysterious virus that’s infected the small town of […]
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September 9th, 2008
I’m the first to admit that anything with the words “Pauly Shore” and “Komics” in the title wouldn’t be at the top of my must-watch list. But this DVD, Pauly Shore’s Natural Born Komics, appeared on Showtime, so it can’t be all bad, right?
The Giveaway: I have FOUR of these DVDs to give […]
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