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Originally published Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM

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"Appaloosa" leads a pack of new DVDs

Ed Harris' "Appaloosa" leads a pack of new DVDs being released this week. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers...

Ed Harris' "Appaloosa" leads a pack of new DVDs being released this week. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, search the movie title on seattletimes.com).

3 stars"Appaloosa" (R): Harris and Viggo Mortensen make perfect pardners as lawmen for hire in this Western set in 1882 New Mexico.

3 stars"Brideshead Revisited" (PG-13): Emma Thompson stars in Julian Jarrold's screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel, which was also made into an acclaimed 1981 TV miniseries. It follows a young man's romantic involvement with the siblings of a grand country estate in 1930s England.

2.5 stars "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (PG-13): Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall form a love quadrangle in Woody Allen's featherweight relationship comedy filmed in a beautiful Spanish light.

2 stars"Swing Vote" (PG-13): In Joshua Michael Stern's melodrama/political satire, Kevin Costner plays an amiable yet neglectful single dad who winds up with the deciding vote in a presidential election.

1.5 stars"Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys" (PG-13): Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard head a fine cast as Atlanta matriarchs in Perry's melodrama of sibling rivalry, infidelity, power plays and terminal illness.

1 stars "My Best Friend's Girl" (R): Howard Deutch's romantic comedy puts Kate Hudson in the middle of a love triangle, with Jason Biggs as the guy she dumped and Dane Cook as his best buddy, whom he goes to for help.

"Mirrors" (R): Images in mirrors threaten the family of a disgraced ex-cop (Kiefer Sutherland) in Alexandre Aja's supernatural mystery.

TV on DVD

"Dallas: The Complete Tenth Season"

"Lovejoy: The Complete Season Four"

"Matlock: The Second Season"

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"Reba: Season Five"

"Walker, Texas Ranger: The Sixth Season"

Compiled by Lori Taki Uno: luno@seattletimes.com

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I'd like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress)actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clone was...  Posted on January 13, 2009 at 5:14 AM by sergal. Jump to comment


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