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Friday, September 30th
Maybe it's got something to do with director Michael Bay's outsized personality, but his larger-than-life Transformers: Dark of the Moon won't be released on Tuesday with the other movies... the third Transformers movie will arrive this Friday, September 30th.Once again, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) reunites with the Autobots to save the Earth from the Decepticons, battling over the evidence of a previous Transformer encounter that inspired the Apollo 11 moon landing... which results in massive amounts of gunfire, chases, and giant robots crashing together. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Released by the Criterion Collection, Olivier Assayas' three-part miniseries Carlos is the story of the notorious terrorist called The Jackal. From his raid on OPEC in 1975 to his eventual capture in 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Edgar Ramirez) was known to the world as "Carlos the Jackal," an enormous personality who publicly fought for the Liberation of Palestine-- Carlos covers the infamous actions that made him a target around the world, and the insatiable personal life that drove him. With Alexander Scheer. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Victor (Jay Baruchel) moves into an apartment in Montreal while the city is being terrorized by a serial killer in Good Neighbors. He's immediately infatuated with one neighbor, Louise (Emily Hampshire), but Victor's fidgety, neurotic demeanor makes him an easy target for another neighbor, sardonic, aloof, wheelchair-bound Spencer (Scott Speedman). The brittle relationship between three neighbors are compounded by the tension in the city, and they each use the fear to their own advantage, but none of them really understand the consequences of what they're beginning to do. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Freddy "Dead Cert" Frankham (Craig Fairbrass) has left his gangster life behind, and runs a legitimate nightclub with his friends (Perry Benson, Danny Dyer, and Jason Flemyng) in Dead Cert. When a Romanian businessman (Billy Murray) offers to buy the club, Freddy refuses, but the Romanians are more persuasive than he could imagine... they're vampires. Now Freddy and his gang have a war on their hands-- a war with the undead.
Don Lee (Nick Cheung) needs an informant if he's going to bring down a kingpin called The Barbarian (Lu Yi) in The Stool Pigeon. Don's suffering a crisis of conscience because of the fate of his last informant, but he still brings in Ghost (Nicholas Tse), a driver fresh out of prison, to infiltrate The Barbarian's gang. Ghost doesn't want to inform and Don doesn't want another informant to get hurt, but they're both placed in high pressure situations with very few options, and a slim chance of making it out in tact.
When guerillas take nearly all the men from a remote Latin American village, Eva Longoria reshapes the village as an all-woman utopia in Without Men. Though their priest (Oscar Nunez) is still with them, the society is predominantly women, and run by women, until a journalist (Christian Slater) arrives to investigate, and ruins the delicate balance of the town.
Officer Hollis Lucetti (Terrence Howard) is called out of personal crisis to talk down a suicidal jumper in The Ledge. On the ledge, Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) doesn't want to jump, but he begins to tell Hollis the story of how he got there, about the timid wife (Liv Tyler) and her stern, Evangelical husband (Patrick Wilson), and the battle of wills that escalated to a life-and-death face off with a rapidly approaching deadline.
Iris (Rose Byrne) is struggling to advance in Australia's jazz-age underworld in The Boxer and the Bombshell, playing the angles in a dangerous love triangle between her gangster, con man lover (Hugo Weaving) and a new boxer in their lives. As the gangster, boxer, and femme fatale each vie for position at the top of the triangle, but their secrets and moral compromises make their competition increasingly dangerous.
The new documentaries this week are the meditation on astronomy and human rights Nostalgia for the Light, a Chilean film that centers on the Atcama Desert, where the heat and dry climate make it the home of astronomers and the fallout from Pinochet's regime occur under the same clear skies.
Also new is The Godfather of Gore, a documentary about horror film provocateur Herschell Gordon Lewis, whose subversive exploitation films were the first "gore" movies, staples of the drive-in circuit of the 1960s, and a continuing influence on horror movies through the decades.
Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, the animated The Gruffalo is the story of a mouse (James Corden) who has to outwit a variety of predators as he makes his way to a faraway hazelnut tree, making up a creature called a "gruffalo" to threaten the animals who would eat him... until he meets a real gruffalo, and has to outwit him, too.
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New this week in our TV New Releases:
How I Met Your Mother Season 6 | Ted, Robin, Lily, Marshall, and Barney “suit up” for another season of fun and frolic in NYC. | Adventure Time My Two Favorite People | Come on, grab your friends, we'll go to very distant lands. Jake the Dog and Finn the Human-- the fun will never end. | ||
Call Me Fitz Season 1 | Unscrupulous car salesman Fitz is haunted by Larry-- a wholesome salesman who claims to be Fitz's conscience. | Hung Season 2 | A former high school sports legend and middle-aged high school basketball coach makes ends meet as a gigolo. |