LUCKY YOU NOW AVAILABLE

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In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE LUCKY YOU FROM DVDTALK

OK, so it isn't "Rounders," but "Lucky You" gets surprisingly far cracking open the world of poker and exploring the personalities that can't help but be completely drawn to the game.

Huck (Eric Bana, "Hulk") is a compulsive gambler, looking for a seat in the World Series of Poker, but unable to keep a winning streak burning long enough to earn the seed money. Into his life comes Billie (Drew Barrymore), an aspiring Vegas lounge singer who helps Huck find some focus. The obsessive player will need all the assistance he can get when he finds out that his estranged, manipulative father, L.C. (Robert Duvall), is also looking for a win in the tournament.

Written by director Curtis Hanson ("8 Mile," "Wonder Boys," "In Her Shoes") with Eric Roth ("Munich"), the picture attempts to set up base camp as a romantic comedy, shoving Bana and Barrymore into roles that are ill-fitting and lack chemistry. It's a rather blatant way to inject something soft into a film about hard people (complete with eye-rolling poker-metaphor dialogue), and when it doesn't work, it grinds "Lucky You" to a full stop.

Far more involving is the rest of the film, which follows Huck and his itchy brand of fixation to the tables and back alleys of Vegas's finest and oldest casino floors. Hanson, employing his unmatched skill at bringing out the flavors of his locations, takes the viewer on a visually resplendent tour of downtown and suburban Las Vegas, poker players of all shapes and sizes, and their endless desire for trouble.

"Lucky You" contains fascinating scenes of Huck's desperation for money and respect. The script doesn't sugarcoat his tendencies toward betrayal for the chance to wet his fingers with some coin, but the writers are careful not to make him a monster either. In fact, all the gambling characters are given a fluid representation; these icy creatures of the night with a habit they like to pass off as their profession. Hanson digs into the pain of losing, the shame of defeat, and the fingers-through-hair lust for the next potential win. It's an understated depiction of hardcore gambling, while also respecting the art of the game and the temptation of combat. Hanson and Roth clearly hold poker in high regard, but they're not afraid to reveal the darker side of the participants to better detail the drama.

The film is set in 2003, and while that seems an odd choice at first, Hanson and Roth take their time rolling out the significance of the year. It seems 2003 is regarded as the last year the sport of poker was one played by kings. Especially in the tournament finale, Hanson draws some very distinct lines in the sand between the old guard who play with some semblance of honor and the new kids; the generation of social misfits who think a pair of sunglasses and caulked expression is enough to get themselves a passport to badasslandia. It's a strong point (thrown alongside jabs at television coverage technology and youthful internet poker rubes) made in a strong film.

2007, "Lucky You" is a much more stable, intricate effort than the romantic pap being smeared across television and trailers suggest. Perhaps it isn't the definitive peek at poker, but it gets inside the minds of those who live and die by the game, and rises above cutesy screenwriting to becoming a picture well worth the time spent with it.

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A KNIGHT'S TALE IS NOW AVAILABLE

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Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way. Written by Anonymous

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE KNIGHT'S TALE FROM DVDTALK

The Movie

I'm always baffled by the films deemed worthy of multiple dips by studios and those films, which are equally, if often not more worthy, languish in the vaults and on shelves, doomed to wait while the super-hyped-up-mega-tricked-out-with-11-extra-seconds-of-sexy-footage editions are trotted out. A Knight's Tale is one such flick – while moderately entertaining and worth viewing at least once through, it by no means warrants having had three separate DVD releases in almost as many years.

Writer/director Brian Helgeland's playful revisionist romp through the days of yore, when men proved their worth by strapping on some armor, gathering up a lance and riding full-tilt at each other, features a infectious break-out role for Paul Bettany, as well as winning turns from Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk and Shannyn Sossamon, but the central conceit – jousters as rock star athletes of the Middle Ages – wears thin quickly.

I'll skip summarizing the film's plot (you can find an excellent example of that in my colleague Aaron Beierle's review of A Knight's Tale: Special Edition). I will say however that the main thrust of Helgeland's idea is diverting and his cast is more than up to the challenge – the Seventies/Eighties-centric rock soundtrack also adds an extra kick, making for a fun couple of hours some lazy Saturday night.

As previously mentioned, this release of A Knight's Tale is the third DVD offering of this 2001 film in nearly as many years – the special edition was released Sept. 25, 2001; the Superbit edition streeted Aug. 27, 2002 and this "extended director's cut" dropped almost exactly three years after the inaugural release. Billing this release as a "director's cut" is fairly misleading, in my estimation, since all the studio really did was restore the 10 minutes of deleted scenes that were offered as supplemental material on the first DVD. Basically, if you own the special edition, you've got the director's cut, albeit in a slightly scattered form. The restoration of this cut material only makes an already overlong film even longer (the new running time is 144 minutes) and doesn't really add much to the overall story.

In short, fans of the film who have yet to pick up a copy of A Knight's Tale would probably be content with this latest edition, which didn't lose any of the special edition's bonus features – all's well for now, until, of course, the inevitable HD-DVD version.

The DVD

The Video:

A Knight's Tale: Extended Cut is presented in a solid 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer – from what I can tell, this image hews closer to the Superbit release than the first DVD, which is to say it's a sharp, clean image with deep blacks and excellent detail (dig those lances splintering, baby). Those who own the Superbit won't need to upgrade here, but visually, those owners of the first edition may want to consider a re-purchase.

The Audio:

Various flavors of Dolby Digital 5.1 – English, Spanish, Portuguese and French – are on board as well as subtitles in all of the aforementioned languages; I'm certain that much like the visuals from the Superbit release, the Dolby Digital track was likewise ported over. The rock-heavy soundtrack packs a hefty punch as do the jousting scenes; the dialogue comes through clearly with no distortion or drop-out.

The Extras:

Surprisingly, in its third incarnation, A Knight's Tale doesn't boast much in the way of supplemental material and what is offered is recycled from earlier editions: all 11 full-screen featurettes – from "The Rock Music Scene in 1370" to "Stories For The People" – are ported over from the first DVD release as is the 15-minute HBO making-of featurette and the wildly campy Robbie Williams/Queen music video for "We Are The Champions" rounds out the package. Inexplicably, the Helgeland/Bettany commentary track included on the first release has been dropped from this edition, making it the only bonus feature not to be ported over – go figure.

Final Thoughts:

A Knight's Tale: Extended Cut is a restored version of the film that reintegrates roughly 10 minutes of previously deleted footage – if you haven't checked out the film before, I'd suggest picking up the theatrical edition first. Fans of this rock-fueled dramedy who don't have the other two DVD releases should seek out a sale-priced copy of this latest edition. Recommended for rental for the curious and an iffy blind buy for Knight's Tale aficionados.

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WITCHES NIGHT NOW AVAILABLE

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Halloween weekend. A jilted groom. A hastily-organized canoe trip. A pristine river. A deep, dark forest. The strange old woman behind the bait shop should've been a warning, but too much beer dulls the senses. When they stumble upon four beautiful women deep in the woods, it all seems too good to be true. And slowly they realize they'll be lucky to escape alive... Witches' Night is a throwback to the horror classics of the 1970's, and features many of the same elements: well-rounded characters, titillating sexual scenarios, an indelible villain, and a plot that builds slowly and inexorably toward an unforgettable conclusion. Written by Michael Lent

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EMOTIONAL ARITHIMETIC NOW AVAILABLE

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Emotional Arithmetic tells the story of three people who formed a life-long bond while housed at a detention camp during World War II that are reunited some 35 years later after being separated from one another. Jakob Bronski, a young Jewish man, took a shine to two youngsters, Melanie and Christopher, while they were interred, by the Nazis, at Drancy, a housing complex on the outskirts of Paris that was used as a detention camp for Jews. Drancy operated as a way station; once there, having your name put on the wrong list meant relocation to a death camp. Their separation inflicts deep emotional wounds that grossly impact their lives in differing ways in the years leading up to their life-altering reunion. Now a beautiful woman in her 50's, Melanie Lansing Winters, wife of David Winters, balances her precarious emotional state with an innate sharp, deprecating wit. Jakob, now a senior citizen, is a heroic dissident and veteran of a Soviet psychiatric hospital. And her childhood friend, Christopher Lewis, a British novelist who has long carried a torch for Melanie, is haunted by the eternal question survivors ask themselves - "Why was I saved?" Melanie invites Jakob to stay with her at her home in Canada. Christopher accompanies Jakob there. With Melanie's marriage to David in shambles due to his compulsive infidelity, the pair's presence in the Winters' home revitalizes Melanie, but arouses unexpected reserves of jealousy in David, who is estranged from his and Melanie's grown son, Benjamin, a father himself to a young son, Timmy. On a balmy summer evening, the past explodes into the present in an unexpected and tender love story and its fatal consequences. The 'emotional arithmetic' of the title refers to the characters' struggle to face the past and move on. Written by the Official Press Release, modified by thefilmstudent

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