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DVD Tuesday: ‘Crazies’ and ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

W. Andrew Powell
Reviews
New this week on home video: Timothy Olyphant tries to survive a town of infected killers in The Crazies; John Cusack goes on a wild ride through the eighties in Hot Tub Time Machine; Paul Bettany plays Charles Darwin in the drama, Creation; and a look at Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
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Movies, music and zombies taking over Yonge & Dundas Square

W. Andrew Powell
Toronto Film Festival coverage
This is pretty much it. Take a deep breath and dive in, because for the next ten days the city of Toronto is going to be filled with wonderful mayhem. If you're not tripping over red carpets, or lineups for some of the 273 feature-length films, you'll probably see a crazy festival-goer running from one event to another, or perhaps even an international celebrity on their way to one of said events.
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DVD Tuesday: ‘National Treasure 2’, ‘Diary of the Dead’

W. Andrew Powell
Reviews
American history gets the adventure treatments once again in the often dizzyingly surreal National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets launches Ben Gates into another search for lost treasure as he also tries to clear his ancestor's name from the plot to kill President Lincoln. Also arriving this week is the zombie-driven horror Diary of the Dead, futuristic anime in Vexille, the 80s hit comedy Short Circuit, and the first season of 24.