Jennifer Carpenter

Grayson Arms
$9.98
Here's yet another movie that felt impelled to convey cool by having a host of pointlessly antagonist characters cursing each other at the drop of a hat. Then Judd Nelson as its lead character was presumably meant to lend an additional quality of hip with his hairdo. It's an odd mix of inadvertent morning dishevelment and studied punk - not something a professional psychologist such as he's playing would be likely to sport in public. All it does is introduce a distracting irrelevancy every time Nelson is on screen.

If you can make your way through this thicket though - of bristling lupine hair and bristling tempers - there is actually something worthwhile about this film.

You might think you can see the resolution coming a mile away. But wait. You have to hang in until the very last moments of the last scene, and indeed until the very last sentence of that last scene, in order to get the full impact of what might otherwise be dismissed as a too-common twist. When you hear it, its relative inventiveness reflects back well on the film as a whole and makes "Grayson Arms" a place to at least briefly rent after all.

Jennifer Carpenter - Autograph Dexter & Exorcism of Emily Rose
$99.99
Jennifer Carpenter - Actress who starred in 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose'. 8x10 Color In Person signed portrait from 'Dexter'.

Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 2 [Box Set]
$79.98
How someone can refer to Rape of Lucretia and Turn of the Screw (or Midsummer Night's Dream, for that matter, my personal favorite among his many operas) as lesser works of Britten's is beyond me. I guess it is just a matter of taste, but especially in these performances, those who truly love Britten could hardly do wrong. Libretti lacking, but don't let that stop you. You never know when these will go out of print again!

Rainy Days And Mondays
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