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  from Ivana Redwine
Welcome to this week's DVD newsletter. DVDs hitting shelves this week include 21, a glossy, lightweight film about a group of students using card counting to win big in Vegas, the drama September Dawn and Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 German-language horror film Vampyr. In addition, we'll look at next week's DVD releases. We'll also explore upcoming August DVD releases, including recommendations. You can also read about top Ingmar Bergman movies.

 
In the Spotlight
New DVD Releases - July 22, 2008
The new DVD releases include 21, September Dawn and Vampyr. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.

 
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'21'
A glossy, lightweight drama, 21 is a Vegas story based loosely on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction book Bringing Down the House. Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne appear in the movie, but the central character is MIT student Ben Campbell, played by Jim Sturgess. Because Ben needs money to go to Harvard Med School, he joins five other students, including good-looking Jill (Kate Bosworth), in a group lead by a math prof (Spacey). They then start using an elaborate card-counting scheme to win big at Vegas blackjack tables, but they run afoul of a casino security expert (Fishburne).

 
'September Dawn'
Set in 1857, this drama is based loosely on a real-life incident, although the movie is not necessarily historically accurate. The incident was the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which Utah Mormons killed 120 California-bound settlers on September 11, and the filmmakers were presumably trying to deliver a message about religion-based fanaticism. In the movie, Jon Voight plays a local Mormon leader whose son (Trent Ford) falls for a young woman (Tamara Hope) on the settlers' wagon train. The film also has actors portraying Brigham Young and Joseph Smith.

 
 
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