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Family Films
Robert Zemeckis brings us the newest adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol this week, using motion capture and computer animation to spin on actor into most of the major roles. Here, Jim Carrey is Ebeneezer Scrooge, but he's also the three ghosts that visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve and take him on a journey through time, learning what makes him such a Humbug during Christmas time, and what really lies within the miser's heart. On DVD and Blu Ray.Derived from the popular animated series, M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender stars a cast of relative unknowns as the children who adventure to stop the Fire Nation from ruling the world. A young brother and sister from the Water Nation find a boy trapped in the ice and discover that his is the Avatar, a prophesied leader who will help to free the world. On DVD and Blu Ray.
A sequel to the popular kids movie, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore catches up with the super-spy conflict between household pets as a police dog (James Marsden) and his human owner (Chris O'Donnell) are recruited by secret agent dogs to bring down the supervillain Kitty Galore (Bette Midler). Led by Butch and Diggs from the first movie, the dogs have to best a cat agent
(Christina Applegate), secure an informant pigeon (Katt Williams), and take down Kitty Galore once and for all. On DVD and Blu Ray.Based on the character from Pixar's Cars, Mater's Tall Tales is a collection of shorts that let the rusty tow-truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) tell wild yarns about his past adventures. In the shorts, Mater gets to be a fire truck, a matador, a daredevil, and more as he tells the tales that make him a legend in his own mind.
Exactly what it claims to be, The Wonderful World of Kittens is all kittens, all the time. Set to music, the film is simply kittens running, playing, jumping and frolicking.
Relating
Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson) have been raised by their moms, the stern and powerful Nic (Annette Benning) and the softer more artistic Jules (Julianne Moore). Before she goes off to school, Joni seeks out her "father," a free-wheeling bachelor (Mark Ruffalo)
who donated to a sperm bank eighteen years ago, in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right. Though the kids are glad to meet him, involving him in their family causes unexpected consequences for everyone involved. On DVD and Blu Ray.Sophie Marceau is renown for writing biographies in Don't Look Back, but she wants to novelize her childhood in order to recapture a time she can't recall: she has no memory of her life before she was was eight years old. When she begins to change, both mentally and physically, into a new version of herself (Monica Bellucci), and no one can see these changes but her, she has to travel back to her childhood home to search for answers.
Outspoken and Opinionated
Louis (Paul Dano) moves to New York City and ends up living with a colorful and wildly over-the-top male escort in The Extra Man. Henry (Kevin Kline), his new roommate, is a collection of strange opinions on life, literature, and women, all of which seem contrary to his job as an "Extra Man," escorting wealthy women to social engagements... when he takes Louis with him on these assignments, they always seem to end in buffoonery and slapstick. With John C. Reilly and Katie Holmes.Jack Rebney, known across the internet as the agitated and foul mouthed spokesman from Winnebago advertisement outtakes, is the subject of the documentary Winnebago Man. As the film looks into Rebney's past and gets to know its subject, it explores who he is, why he's known as "The Angriest Man On Earth," and how his flowery and inventively profane language have made him a cult hero.
Set in 1912, the crotchety and argumentative Seth (Richard Dreyfuss) takes on an amnesiac lodger calling himself John Brown (Tom Wisdom) in The Lightkeepers. Though they bicker constantly, they agree on one thing: they don't want or need women around... especially since they can't seem to find any. When Blythe Danner and Mamie Gummer show up in their lives, they're suddenly at odds with their declarations.
From the Weird
"Your body smells rank and you've got no sense of delicacy, so I'd been worried you were unpopular with the ladies. Well, I gotta go concentrate on making these bombs."
The newest film from the director of Machine Girl, Robogeisha continues his tradition of hysterically over-the-top gore combined with the most overly earnest melodrama this side of Ed Wood. Centering on sisters who have dreamt of being geisha since they were little girls, the movie follows their recruitment into a society of female assassins and their modification into cybernetically enhanced super-soldiers. They are supposed to kill terrorists... but are they on the side of good or evil?Harmony Korine returns to form in the bizarrely non-sequitur Trash Humpers, a lo-fi experiment that combines images of violence, poetry, vandalism, manifestos, and deviant performance art that is closest in tone to Korine's own Gummo.
When his Grandma (Loretta Devine) sends Kevin (Bow Wow) out to buy a Lottery Ticket, he finds himself in a tricky situation. Holding a winning ticket worth millions, Kevin needs the help of his friends (Brandon T. Jackson and Naturi Naughton) to avoid the neighborhood bully (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and survive the three day weekend until he can cash in the ticket and secure his Grandma's future.
This week's only addition to our TV New Releases is the 6th season of the CBS procedural CSI: NY, rejoining the ex-marine Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his team, including Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper, and Eddie Cahill.
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