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Oscar Watch 2012: Best Picture

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The 84th Academy Awards show is just days away, and we’re taking a look at the nominees for the big one — Best Picture. Read More

Top Weekly Rentals: 2/19/2012

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These were the top rentals from Blockbuster stores for the week ending 2/19/2012:

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
2. In Time
3. Real Steel
4. Drive
5. Dream House
6. The Rum Diary
7. The Thing
8. Moneyball
9. The Help
10. The Ides Of March

Best/Worst On-Screen Presidents

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It’s Presidents Day, and instead of being bitter that I don’t have the day off, I decided to list a few of my favorite and least favorite fictional presidents from movies and television. Read More

2012 Oscar Watch: Best Supporting Actor

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Next up in our recap of nominees for the 84th academy awards is Best Supporting Actor. These are the guys behind the guys (behind the guys? No, scratch that — it’s too many guys). Read More

Top Weekly Rentals: 2/12/2012

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These were the top rentals from Blockbuster stores for the week ending 2/12/2012:

1. In Time
2. Real Steel
3. Drive
4. Dream House
5. The Thing
6. Moneyball
7. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
8. The Ides Of March
9. Contagion
10. The Help

Twilight Debate

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In honor of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 DVD release, we decided to have a down-and-dirty TwiHard vs. Anti-Twilighter debate. Luckily, two of Blockbuster’s own are very passionate about their respective Twilight views. Heather and Sarah will face off in a no-holds-barred steel cage match. Two opinionated ladies enter, one opinionated lady leaves! Let us know in the comments whose side you’re on. Read More

Top Monthly Rentals for January, 2012

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Now that we’ve been assured there will be six more weeks of winter — with the scientific certainty only a marmot soothsayer can provide — it’s time to take a look back at our most popular rentals of January. Hopefully this will give you some ideas of what to watch over the cold, rodent-prophesied weeks ahead.

1. Killer Elite
2. Cowboys & Aliens
3. The Hangover Part II
4. The Help
5. Super 8
6. The Debt
7. Crazy Stupid Love
8. Horrible Bosses
9. The Change-Up
10. Friends with Benefits
11. Bad Teacher
12. Warrior
13. Abduction
14. Puncture
15. Mr. Popper’s Penguins
16. Water For Elephants
17. Contagion
18. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
19. Larry Crowne
20. Bridesmaids
21. Captain America: The First Avenger
22. Zookeeper
23. The Smurfs
24. Moneyball
25. Dolphin Tale
26. One Day
27. Kung Fu Panda 2
28. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
29. Green Lantern
30. The Scorpion King 3
31. Colombiana
32. Trespass
33. 30 Minutes or Less
34. Conan the Barbarian
35. Fast Five
36. Midnight In Paris
37. Thor
38. Our Idiot Brother
39. Cars 2
40. Margin Call
41. Hanna
42. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
43. The Ides Of March
44. X-Men: First Class
45. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 2
46. Fright Night
47. The Lincoln Lawyer
48. Limitless
49. Something Borrowed
50. Straw Dogs

Top Weekly Rentals: 2/5/2012

In-Time

These were the top rentals from Blockbuster stores for the week ending 2/5/2012:

1. In Time
2. Real Steel
3. Drive
4. Dream House
5. The Thing
6. Moneyball
7. Contagion
8. The Ides Of March
9. Abduction
10. The Help

Sweet New Queue Features

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We recently introduced two new features to the Blockbuster Total Access Queue. Our users have been clamoring for these options, and we think they’re pretty handy. Read More

Top Weekly Rentals: 1/29/2012

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These were the top rentals from Blockbuster stores for the week ending 1/29/2012:

1. Real Steel
2. Abduction
3. Moneyball
4. Contagion
5. The Ides of March
6. Killer Elite
7. Paranormal Activity 3
8. The Help
9. 50/50
10. Courageous