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What were you watching last month? Here are April’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

1. The Darjeeling Limited
2. No Country for Old Men
3. There Will Be Blood
4. I Am Legend
5. Atonement
6. Sweeney Todd
7. Juno
8. Michael Clayton
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Into the Wild

New Releases:

• African American Lives 2
• Bella
• The Business of Being Born
• A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films
• Dans Paris
• First Sunday
• How to Cook Your Life
• I’m Not There
• Kurt Cobain: About a Son
• P.S. I Love You
• Saawariya
• Spider Lilies
• Teeth

New Arrivals:

• Fortress (1986)
• Little Fugitive (Morris Engel)
• Lovers and Lollipops / Weddings and Babies (Morris Engel)
• Mystery Scence Theater 3000: The Movie
• Stargate
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II

New Releases:

• Bernard and Doris
• The Cats of Mirikitani
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• The Golden Compass
• The Guatemalan Handshake
• Pistoleros
• Slant: Vol. 1
• 27 Dresses
• 2012 The Odyssey

New Arrivals:

• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold
• The Living End
• Paddle to the Sea
• The Red Balloon
• Saludos Amigos / The Three Amigos (Double Feature)
• Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Collection
• White Mane

In honor of this week’s release of Giant-Monster-Movie Cloverfield, here is a link to an examination of the biology of B-Movie monsters, from Godzilla and his friends to the giant ants of Them! to E.T. the extra-terrestrial.

New Releases:

• The Book of the Dead
• The Case of the Grinning Cat
• Charlie Wilson’s War
• Cloverfield
• Dam Street
• Fine Dead Girls
• Garbage Warrior
• Hannah Takes the Stairs
• My Boy Jack
• Nina’s Heavenly Delights
• The Orphanage
• The Savages
• Wholphin #5

New Releases (TV Series):

• Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Season 1
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 1

New Arrivals:

• Death of a Cyclist (Criterion)
• Easy Living (Cinema Classics)
• The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Hypocrites / Eleanor’s Catch
• I Was Born, But… (Silent Ozu Collection)
• The Major and the Minor (Cinema Classics)
• Midnight (Cinema Classics)
• Passing Fancy (Silent Ozu Collection)
• She Done Him Wrong (Cinema Classics)
• Tokyo Chorus (Silent Ozu Collection)
• Wholphin #1
• Wholphin #4

New Releases:

• Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
• Bamako
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• The GMO Trilogy
• I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
• In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Seige Tale
• Inlaws & Outlaws
• Juno
• Lars and the Real Girl
• The Pied Piper of Hutzovina
• Running With Arnold
• War Dance

New Releases (TV Series):

• American Dad: Vol. 3
• Five Days

New Arrivals:

• Blast of Silence
• A Passage to India
• Sleepers (1991/BBC)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

New Releases:

• Lions for Lambs
• Lookng for Cheyenne
• Nana
• Reservation Road
• Sense & Sensibility (2007)
• Sharkwater
• There Will Be Blood
• Wakeful Nights
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
• The World According to Shorts

New Releases (TV Series):

• Meerkat Manor: Season 2

New Arrivals:

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Special Edition)
• All About Eve (Special Edition)
• Born to Dance / Lady be Good (Classic Musicals)
• Broadway Melody of 1936 / Broadway Melody of 1938 (Classic Musicals)
• Deep in My Heart (Classic Musicals)
• Hit the Deck (Classic Musicals)
• Kismet (Classic Musicals)
• Kissing on the Mouth
• Moulin Rouge (1952)
• Nancy Goes to Rio (Classic Musicals)
• No Deposit, No Return
• Solomon and Sheba
• Zen Noir

Here is an online petition which asks modern-day-Ed-Wood Uwe Boll to please stop making movies.

Uwe Boll himself responds, in this FearNet interview, that if the petition reaches one million signatures, he will be convinced to quit.

Come on, gang!  We can do it!

Charlton Heston (1924-2008)