
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Our pre-Christmas video review is something of a mixed bag.
Despicable Me (above) comes to us as an animated comedy about a villain whose life is altered by a trio of orphans. The voices of Steve Carrell, Russell Brand, and Julie Andrews are featured. (Read Bill Wine’s review of Despicable Me)
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From 1985 there’s Trouble In Mind, in its debut on DVD, with Kris Kristofferson and Genevieve Bujold.
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Comedian-actor Robert Klein is out with his ninth HBO special. This one is titled, “Unfair & Unbalanced.”
And, if you’re in the market for a giant collection of 20th Century Fox features going back to 1933, you can order a hefty package of 76 disks of the studio’s major productions reissued for the studio’s recent anniversary.
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