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Mon, Apr 28 2008

New on DVD: April 29, 2008

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27 Dresses
Jane (Katherine Heigl) loves weddings, until her sister Tess (Malin Akerman) decides to marry the man of Jane’s dreams.
Gecko Review
Official Site * Buy It

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The Golden Compass
Young Lyra Belaqua (Dakota Blue Richards) sets out to save the universe from evil forces. Based on the Philip Pullman novel.
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Official Site * Buy It

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
After a stroke in 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) is paralyzed, but is able to blink out his memoir.
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How She Move
Raya Green (Rutina Wesley) returns to her inner-city life from swanky private school and dives into the world of step dancing.
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 More after the jump…

Nanking. This documentary explores Japan’s invasion of Nanking, China in the first days of WWII, during which a group of unarmed Westerners created a safety zone where over 200,000 Chinese were saved from the brutal assault. The tale comes alive through the stories of survivors, archival footage, and letters written by Westerners as read by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, Stephen Dorff and others. Official Site * Buy It

King Corn. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, two best friends from college, moved to the American heartland to find out where the food they eat actually comes from. The two pals became farmers themselves, raised their own crop of corn in the Iowa soil and followed the grain through the marketplace. Official Site * Buy It

Images: 27 Dresses, Fox 2000 Pictures, 2008; The Golden Compass, New Line Cinema, 2007; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Miramax Films, 2007; How She Move, Paramount Vantage, 2008

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