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When a small, bluish-white blob from outer space crash-lands in a forest, he is found by a young boy who sees the event from his treehouse. So begins "A Boy and His Blob," the best puzzle game since 2008's time-twisting "Braid."
SPACE INVADERS EXTREME 2
The Exiles" is one of those legendary American independent films that almost nobody has seen. Completed in 1961, it was never released theatrically.
SEATTLE - Airtight Games' debut video-game title, "Dark Void," doesn't go on sale until January, but it just hit one out of the park.
MY SISTER'S KEEPER 2 1/2 stars (Warner Home Video, '09) $28.98. 109 mins. A child conceived as a donor match to her leukemia-stricken sibling decides against painful operations and hires a lawyer to sue her parents for the right to decide how to use her body. With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Jason Patric. PG-13 (mature thematic content, some disturbing images, sensuality, profanity and brief teen drinking)
These are the Top 10 renting video game titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week that ended Nov. 15:
Could you take your finger off the trigger for a minute?
Newsweek magazine has put together a fun video taking a look back at the decade that (almost) was.
These were the Top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks from Nov. 9-15:
It is a core tenet of the push to improve American medical care and control its cost: Experts should study the effectiveness of treatments and procedures to determine which work best.
Thirst (R, 2009, Focus/Universal)
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" isn't just the biggest video game launch in history - it's the biggest launch across all forms of entertainment, beating out the likes of Harry Potter books, "The Dark Knight" and the band 'N Sync.
Arguably the most famous motion picture ever made, "Gone With The Wind" (1939), and a rebooting of a science-fiction legend, "Star Trek" (2009), sit atop this week's lineup of titles making their first appearance on the Blu-ray high definition DVD format.
The following games are among those scheduled for release this week. For a full list, visit vgreleases.com.
More than any other professional sport, Major League Baseball has a special bond with its history. The game we watch today is the same one our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers watched. The heroes of the past are still revered as much as the present crop of all-stars who patrol the nation's stadiums and ballparks.
The most popular movie of all time, winner of 10 Academy Awards, was released 70 years ago. For fans of "Gone With the Wind," the epic tale of the American South from the days of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction, this has resulted in seven decades of adoration for the dashing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the willful Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), the earnest Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and the self-sacrificing Melanie Hamilton Wilkes (Olivia de Havilland).
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In "Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2," a battle between superheroes and the villain Nitro has left hundreds dead, prompting Congress to pass the Superhuman Registration Act: All beings with unusual powers must reveal their identities and register with the government, or face capture and imprisonment.
