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Love Actually (Widescreen Edition)
$12.98
This movie is entertaining and gives enough laughs throughout to make it bearable, but it could have used a serious dose of editing as, besides being very predictable for the most part, it just rambled on and on until you couldn't care less about any of the characters.

Shock Flash Light - Actually Lights Up!
$4.05
The kind of flashlight you DON'T want to rely on if you are stuck in the middle of the forest.

Actually
$8.94
IMO, "Actually" isn't just a great record--it's one of too few post-'60s records to successfully carry on that decade's pop-music archetype: songs (and album projects) simultaneously musically and intellectually challenging, that is both aesthetically rich (gorgeous! complex!) and modern/post-modern in their fundamentally analytical, de-constructive stance toward their subjects. (On "Actually," the subject is the '80s Reagan/Thatcherite society-as-casino.)

In recent years, PSB have become even richer, deeper, as they've brought an emotional vulnerability, a willingness to express loss and simple hurt to their songs, while hanging onto the artistic ambitiousness of their project. (See "Fundamental," their brilliantly dark take on the Bush/Blair terrordrome decade.) And Neil Tennant has steadily become a subtler, more accomplished lyricist. Even so, Actually's "What Have I Done to Deserve This," "It's A Sin" and "Rent" could hardly be improved, lyrically, conceptually or musically.

Pet Shop Boys wouldn't make "Actually" today--they couldn't--but there is no better record of the '80s, double entendre intended. "Actually" is of that decade, yet at a very smart remove from it that keeps the album fresh and challenging. Still a remarkable achievement--just brilliant!--and an awful lot of fun to listen to.

Definitely Maybe (Full Screen)
$19.98
This is the best Ryan Reynolds movie I've seen. It displays his full range of acting ability (which is quite good - he can be extremely funny but also has full dramatic leading man capacity) and the movie is just surprisingly good. I recommend this movie. As a strange aside that just popped into my head, Adam Sandler should step aside from doing movies like Click and Bedtime Stories and hand those roles over to Reynolds - he would have made those movies twice as good.

Anyway it was a good story with nice twists, much less predictable than many romcoms, it was funny and just plain good. Ryan Reynolds is something of a revelation in this role.