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The City of Seattle Mayor's Small Business Award for 2007
Craig's excellent Las Vegas adventure
When Craig Wilson mounted the podium in Las Vegas last month to accept a video industry award, he looked out over the crowd of independent video store owners and wryly noted: "Each of you deserves this award, but I'm going to keep it."
Video Isle of Seattle Receives Award from Video Trade Association
ENCINO, CA (July 24, 2007) … The Independent Dealers of Entertainment Association (iDEA) has announced the 2007 winners of the iDEA Retailer of the Year Awards, which recognize outstanding independent DVD and video game retailers. Among the winners was Video Isle of Seattle, WA. The iDEA awards are presented jointly by the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and iDEA, EMA’s division for independent video retailers. The award was accepted by Craig Wilson, owner of Video Isle, at the just-concluded Home Media Expo 2007, held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 Video Isle Queen Anne Little League Team 2009
Quick Reviews
Hurt Locker, The
Available on January 12th
War - R - 130 min.
War is a drug. Nobody knows that better than Staff Sergeant James, head of elite squad of soldiers tasked with disarming bombs in the heat of combat. To do this nerve-shredding job, it's not enough to be the best: you have to thrive in a zone where the margin of error is zero, think as diabolically as a bomb-maker, and somehow survive with your body and soul intact. Powerfully realistic, action-packed, unrelenting and intense, The Hurt Locker has been hailed by critics as "an adrenaline-soaked tour de force" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) and "one of the great war movies." (Richard Corliss, ... More info...
(500) Days of Summer
Available on December 22nd, 2009
Comedy - PG-13 - 95 min.
In this quirky romantic comedy about love and fate, a young greeting card writer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is hopelessly, helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams...and his new co-worker, Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), may just be "the one." But the 500 days of their offbeat relationship reveal (in no particular order) that the road to happiness can be unpredictable, uncontrollable - and unbelievably funny!
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Available on January 5th
Family - PG - 90 min.
When Flint Lockwood's (Bill Hader) latest contraption accidentally destroys the town square and rockets up into the clouds, he thinks his inventing career is over. Then something amazing happens as delicious cheeseburgers start raining from the sky. His machine actually works! But when people greedily ask for more and more food, the machine starts to run amok, unleashing spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs that threaten the world! Now it's up to Flint, with the help of weather girl Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve, his talking monkey assistant, to find some way to shut down the machine be... More info...
District 9
Available on December 22nd, 2009
Sci-Fi - R - 112 min.
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that "soars on the imagination of its creators" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to... More info...
Inglourious Basterds
Available on December 15th, 2009
Action - R - 153 min.
Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino's high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as "The Basterds," is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with "action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is "another Tarantino masterpiece" (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!
Hangover, The
Available on December 15th, 2009
Comedy - R - 100 min.
They planned a Vegas bachelor party that they would never forget. Now they really need to remember what exactly went down! Whose baby is in the closet of their Caesars Palace suite? How did a tiger get in the bathroom? Why is one of them missing a tooth? And most of all, where is the groom?! What the guys did while partying can't compare to what they must do sober in an outrageous caper that has them piecing together all their bad decisions from the night before - one hazy clue at a time. Director Todd Phillips (Old School) and an all-aces comedy cast bring it big time with unpredictable situa... More info...
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