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DVD Title: The Illusionist
DVD Release Date: January 9, 2007
Starring: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan
ASIN: B000K7VHQ4
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DVD Review: This elegant fable of art, love and politics is set in Vienna circa 1900. Eisenheim is a poor young boy who loves magic, he falls in love with Sophie, a beautiful girl from a class far above his own. Pulled apart by her parents, the young man left Austria to explore the world. He returns years later to Vienna as “The Illusionist.” By astonishing audiences he becomes a people’s hero, such that he is suspected of fomenting a “spiritual republic.” This puts him in direct conflict with the powers of the Austro-Hungarian government, specifically Crown Prince Leopold, who happens to be engaged to Sophie.

DVD Title: Serenity
DVD Release Date: December 20, 2005
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite
ASIN: B000BW7QWW
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DVD Review: A gritty space western with lots of action and suspense. Malcolm Reynolds is a hardened veteran who fought on the losing side of a galactic civil war between the defeated Independent Planets and the Alliance. Now he ekes out a living with his transport-for-hire spaceship, Serenity. He and his misfit crew hang out on the edge of space doing odd jobs — most of them illegal. When the crew of the spaceship Serenity takes on two new passengers, a young doctor and his unstable, telepathic sister, they get much more than they bargained for. The two are fugitives from the Alliance.