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[MrHenryDog]

When the Strategic Response Unit arrives, the rules change. The bad guy's already caught - he just doesn't know it yet. The SRU are a hand-picked team of elite cops and high risk is their business. These men and women do it all: rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, talk down suicidal teens and even protect the Pope. Their job is to negotiate first, but if negotiations fail they go in, and go in hard! It's a tough job. A job that carries the kind of pressure only your team mates - your band of brothers - can really understand. These people are A-type risk-takers. On the job they play by the rules, bend them if they have to, but away from the job, all bets are off…

The most talked about show of 2007 comes to DVD! David Duchovny returns to TV with his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of author Hank Moody in the critically-acclaimed Showtime hit Californication. Author Hank Moody's life is spinning gloriously out of control as he juggles his sex and drug addictions while raising a daughter and trying to win back the love of his life in this edgy new series.

David Duchovny is back in his Golden Globe-winning role in this critically acclaimed hit series from Showtime. In Los Angeles, famed novelist and former New Yorker Hank Moody (Duchovny) is struggling to get his career back on track after suffering a severe case of writer's block, while also attempting to raise his teen-aged daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin) and hoping to keep things civil with his ex-girlfriend, Karen (Natascha McElhone). But he's enjoying his new life in the Golden State, and all his requisite vices - drink, drugs and women - with a refreshing sense of honesty and unapologetic candor.

The Showtime Original Series Californication is back with an all-new season, and this time famed novelist and NYC transplant Hank Moody is heading back to school as a college professor. The truth-telling, hard-living scribe struggles to balance his new life as the Big Man on Campus, while raising a rebellious daughter to "do as I say, not as I do".

[ripley]

The world's most famous team of superheroes returns in the sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba) and Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) prepare for their upcoming wedding celebration. But Reed cannot stay focused on the nuptials, he's distracted by wire reports of a bizarre, comet-like object hurtling toward the Earth with tremendous force, triggering brownouts, blackouts, tropical storms, and various other climatological disasters. When the said object hits the island of Manhattan, destroying much of the city in its wake, its identity becomes resoundingly clear. "It" is actually a "he" -- a psychotic villain known as The Silver Surfer (voice of Larry Fishburne) who intends, for some unascertainable reason, to destroy much of the Earth, just as he obliterated dozens of planets before it. Feeling compelled to rally their old gang and save the day, Sue and Reed summon Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) and Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) to take on the Surfer -- and end up battling not only him, but an obnoxious Army general (Andre Braugher) and the cantankerous Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon), who has broken out of his icy prison.

[tij2001]

Survivor : Season 6 (The Amazon)
What started as a battle of the sexes, will end for a battle of the sexes. For the first time ever in Survivor the tribes have been divided by gender. Will the female tribe use brains to dominate or will the male tribe use brawn. Stranded in the heart of the The Amazon 16 americans will battle torrential downpours. Harsh terrain and each other to claim the $1 million prize and title of sole survivor! 39 Days, 16 castaway, 1 survivor

In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet 'Alpha Centauri B-4', and for those scientists and astronauts who've traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as 'Pandora'.

A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world that harbors treasures and resources almost beyond price. But just as the original Pandora's Box wrought devastation on those who would use it for their own gain, so too this world may destroy not just the Pandorans home, but ours as well.

Avatar is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival.

When the sadistic Russian mob starts muscling in on their South Boston Irish neighborhood, Connor and Murphy McManus know what must be done. Feeling that the vengeance of God is flowing through their veins, they set out to rid the streets of gangsters, criminals and lowlifes. As the body count rises, the brothers become local heroes. Now, one unorthodox FBI agent must be cunning enough to bring them down.

From Ridley Scott, the visionary director of Black Hawk Down and Gladiator, comes a thrilling, action-packed epic of honor, passion and courage that "explodes with adventure" (Chicago Tribune). Orlando Bloom heads an all-star cast in this sweeping tale about a young knight during the Crusades who must battle overwhelming forces to save his people, and fulfill his true destiny.

Two fathers: Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), a hit man for the Irish mob in Depression-era Chicago; and Mr. John Rooney (Paul Newman), Sullivan's boss and the man who raised him as a son. Two sons: Michael Sullivan, Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) and Connor Rooney (Daniel Craig), each desperate to win his father's favor. Jealousy and competition put them all on a collision course, ultimately bringing Sullivan's work into his private life and leading to the death of his beloved wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and youngest son, Peter (Liam Aiken). Now Michael Sullivan and his surviving son are set on a journey instigated by tragedy and fuelled by revenge.