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Video/DVD
Current rankings, new and upcoming releases
By Times staff and wires
Published April 5, 2007
DVD SALES 1. Casino Royale 2. The Holiday 3. Peter Pan 4. Borat 5. The Departed 6. Barbie: Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow 7. Flushed Away 8. The Secret 9. The Prestige 10. Harsh Times TOP RENTALS 1. Casino Royale 2. The Holiday 3. Borat 4. The Departed 5. Stranger Than Fiction 6. The Prestige 7. Man of the Year 8. Babel 9. Flushed Away 10. The Guardian UPCOMING RELEASES Tuesday: Bobby April 17: Freedom Writers; The History Boys; Last King of Scotland; Notes on a Scandal; Smokin' Aces April 24: Deja Vu; The Queen; Night at the Museum; Thr3e May 1: Alpha Dog; Dreamgirls; Happily N'Ever After; The Hitcher; Little Children May 8: Because I Said So; Catch and Release; The Dead Girl; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Music and Lyrics; The Painted Veil May 15: Arthur and the Invisibles; The Fountain; The Last Sin Eater; Pan's Labyrinth; Stomp the Yard NEW RELEASES Title | Director | Cast | Synopsis | What we said | MPAA rating | Running time | | Charlotte's Web | Gary Winick | Dakota Fanning, voices of Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, Dominic Scott Kay, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Thomas Haden Church | Farm girl (Fanning) saves a piglet whose barnyard pals speak like a host of Hollywood celebrities. | The St. Petersburg Times gave the movie a B. | G; brief crude humor | 97 min. | | Black Christmas | Glen Morgan | Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Katie Cassidy, Andrea Martin | Sorority sisters are stalked by a killer during a holiday break. | The Times did not review the movie. | R; strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity, profanity. | 84 min. | | Death of a President | Gabriel Range | Hend Ayoub, George W. Bush, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Reilly Burke, Neko Parham, Holly Barrett, Patricia Buckley, Bryan Cohen, Andrea Frisby, John R. Haley, Theophilus Jamal, Christian Stolte, Matt Ukena, James Urbaniak, Jay Whittaker | What if President Bush were assassinated? This ingenious faux documentary set a year in the future respects the presidency - and certainly doesn't advocate violence - while thoughtfully evoking a nightmare scenario. | The Times gave the movie a A-. | R; brief violence and profanity, mature themes. | 93 min. | | The Good Shepherd | Robert De Niro | Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, John Turturro, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Macht, Tammy Blanchard, Vladimir Mashkov, Joe Pesci | A fictionalized account of the origins of the Central Intelligence Agency. | The Times gave the movie a B-. | R; violence, profanity, sexual situations. | 167 min. | | Volver | Pedro Almodovar | Yohana Cobo, Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo | A curvaceous waitress deals with a dead husband with the spiritual help of her late mother. | The Times gave the movie a B +. | R; sexual situations, profanity, brief violence. | 121 min. |
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