Week of October 25

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Avengers in the 40s

Weak and sickly Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is repeatedly rejected by the army when he tries to enlist during World War II, but a scientist (Stanley Tucci) makes him a super soldier in Joe Johnston's Captain America. Now bigger, stronger, and faster, Rogers is made into Captain America, an American icon, handled by his colonel (Tommy Lee Jones) and a British agent (Hayley Atwell), but he has to rise to the level of a real hero: Germany's super soldier, Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), has gone rogue. Red Skull's plans are so destructive he's left the Nazis behind and has set his own course for mayhem and world conquest, and he's as fast and as strong as Captain America. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Kids in Peril

Fifteen-year-old Moses and his gang roam the streets around their apartment complex with their hoods up, fighting, robbing, and causing trouble in Attack the Block, but their lifestyle is set aside when monstrous, feral aliens descend on their neighborhood. The boys use what little they have to survive the monsters loose in their building, and from one of their victims (Jodie Whittaker) to the drug dealer upstairs (Nick Frost), their survival depends on them rising to the challenge together. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

When an excavation team discovers a burial mound in a Finnish mountain in Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, they awaken the sacred grave's inhabitant, the basis for the Santa Claus myth. A creature from before he was re-imagined as a jolly gift giver, this Santa terrorizes naughty children, and begins a reign of terror once he's awakened. Even when captured and prepared to be sold as a "rare export," the madness doesn't stop: Santa's elves will do anything to free their master. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Doc or Doc-like?

Exploring the conflict between Star Wars fans and George Lucas, the franchise's creator and continual revisionist, The People vs George Lucas looks to see if the fans have a legitimate complaint against Lucas. Sifting through legions of super-fans who've developed a wide spectrum of complaints about George Lucas' manipulation of the Star Wars franchise, the film documents not just Star Wars, but fandom itself.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play slightly fictionalized versions of themselves on a restaurant tour of northern England in The Trip. As the pair reprise the roles of their fictional selves from Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, they riff together as two different comedians clash over fame, ego, and celebrity voices.

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Killers

A group of friends (including Tenika Davis and Dean Armstrong) are headed to a friend's cabin for winter break in Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, but they get lost in a storm and find shelter in an abandoned sanatorium... the same sanatorium that held the deformed cannibals from the first three Wrong Turn movies. When the cannibals killed their caretakers in the 1970s, they remained at the sanatorium, and aren't likely to respond well to the intrusion of a group of college students .

Anna Merchant (Milla Jovovich) survives an attack by a serial killer at large in Faces in the Crowd, but the attack leaves her stricken with prosopagnosia, or "face blindness." Though she is the only person to have seen the killer, she's unable to recognize or remember faces, which complicates working with a detective (Julian McMahon) to find and stop the killer... a killer that wants to get rid of a potential witness like Anna. With Michael Shanks and Sarah Wayne Callies. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Pooh

Disney reintroduces a stable of classic characters this year in the major motion picture release of Winnie the Pooh, reuniting Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, and Roo to search for Eeyore's missing tale. Created in the style of the hand-drawn Pooh films from the 60's and 70's, the new movie is adapted from the original stories by A.A. Milne and narrated by John Cleese. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Dramedy

Laura (Jenna Fischer) lives an unfulfilled life in A Little Help, sneaking beer and cigarettes to cope with a son that doesn't respect her, a mother (Lesley Ann Warren) who never stops criticizing her, and an unfaithful husband (Chris O'Donnell). As one thing after another goes wrong, her life spins completely out of control as she tries to find some stability and security in her life. With Kim Coates.

Infomercial titan Robert Axle (Kevin Spacey) loses everything when one of his products maims thousands of customers in Father of Invention. Released from prison eight years later, his ex-wife (Virginia Madsen) and her new husband (Craig Robinson) have squandered his fortune, and he's stuck living with his estranged daughter (Camilla Belle) and her roommate (Heather Graham). Robert is dedicated to getting back on top with a new infomercial and a new product, but he's almost a decade behind the times and saddled with an incompetent employee (Johnny Knoxville).

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Luther Series 2	Conflicted and obsessive DCI John Luther uses unique (and sometimes questionable) methods to solve crimes.		Going Postal Miniseries	The miniseries adapted from Terry Pratchett's novel follows a con man through his supernatural journey as a Postmaster
	The Street Complete Series	An ensemble BBC show with an all-star cast, dramatizing the lives of several Manchester neighbors.		Robot Chicken Season 5	The newest installment of stop-motion, puppet and action-figure based sketch comedy from Adult Swim.

Week of October 18

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Stranger Tides

Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) takes to the high seas again in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, this time ordered by King George to find the legendary fountain of youth. Forced to work with his old nemesis, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Jack searches for another mystical treasure, but Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his voodoo-magical daughter (Penelope Cruz) are after the same prize. With everyone searching for the Fountain, the three captains race to win the ultimate prize, but the contest is fraught with magic chalices, shrunken ships, and mermaids. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Survival

A British journalist (Mira Sorvino) is on assignment in Leningrad in 1941 when the Nazi's attack in Attack on Leningrad. While she avoids capture and goes into hiding to survive, her partner (Gabriel Byrne) believes her dead-- she has to endure the harsh environment, invading forces, and the threat of starvation without being discovered, and becomes a part of the underground resistance. With Vladimir Ilin. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Director Kevin Smith's first non-comedy, Red State sees three highschool boys (Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, and Kyle Gallner) on their way to an internet hookup, but their date (Melissa Leo) is simply bait. Drugged, abducted, and taken to a religious compound where Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) preaches intolerance of sin, vice, and wickedness... but their congregation does more to punish sinners than just preach and picket. As the boys' trip becomes more nightmarish, the situation pulls in the local sheriff (Stephen Root) and even the ATF (John Goodman) as Pastor Cooper's congregation spirals out of control. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Coco an his pregnant wife Pipi are quarantined in their apartment building in the Argentinean Phase 7. As the neighbors begin to worry about food and supplies, residents begin to take sides against on another. Coco befriends the prepared (and well armed) Horatio, but are Horatio's warnings about contagion, a New World Order, and their neighbors the key to Coco and Pipi's survival or the rantings of a paranoid lunatic?

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Comedy

When Elizabeth Halsey's (Cameron Diaz) attempt to marry rich and retire doesn't work out, she has to go back to work in Bad Teacher. Miss Halsey's mission hasn't changed-- she still wants a rich man to take care of her-- but her new plan is to raise enough money to get plastic surgery and win the heart of Justin Timberlake, the new teacher in school who comes from a rich family. Though she's willing to lie, cheat, and steal to make her goals, and easily wins over the naive principal (John Michael Higgins), some of the faculty see Halsey for who she really is: one teacher (Lucy Punch) who wants to expose what a bad teacher she really is, and another (Jason Segel) who likes her... cynicism, vanity, and all. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Craig Ferguson's new stand-up DVD, Does This Need to Be Said?, is a live performance of Ferguson's comedy, performed and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Documentaries

Granted rare access to film in North Korea, the Danish comedy team of Simon Jul Jorgensen and Jacob Nossell claim to be filming their show and praising North Korea in The Red Chapel, but their goal was to expose one of the most totalitarian societies in the world. Since all of their footage had to be turned in to the North Korean government daily, they had little choice but to accept the changes made to their act, say what they were asked to say, and participate in state functions... but their secret weapon was Jacob: though both performers are Korean-born, handicapped Jacob speaks what he calls "Spastic Danish," untranslatable by Korean censors, so his thoughts on the society survived government scrutiny.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the country's most prestigious newspapers, Page One: Inside the New York Times looks at the Times in the era of internet, where many respected papers have gone bankrupt. Documenting a full year within the New York Times newsroom, the paper works to stay relevant in the instant-access mediascape as well as keep their own journalistic standards, researching and breaking new stories.

Michael Rapaport's Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest documents A Tribe Called Quest's 2008 reunion tour, focusing on the past, present, and future of the influential hip-hop group. Interviewing the members about their beginnings in New York and the rise of the band to their break-up, eventual reunion, and the current state of A Tribe Called Quest... and the effect their career together has had on their friendship.

Talking to all the captains in the Star Trek universe, William Shatner's The Captains talks to all of the actors who've led a Star Trek cast, including The Next Generation's Patrick Stewart, Deep Space 9's Avery Brooks, Voyager's Kate Mulgrew, Enterprise's Scott Bakula, and the new Captain Kirk, Chris Pine. Shatner talks to them all about their impact on the Star Trek franchise, and, conversely, Trek's impact on each of them.

A Danish filmmaker posted for six months at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan in Armadillo, recording the day-to-day life of soldiers stationed on the front lines, in direct conflict with Taliban fighters. The film documents the soldiers' experiences from their down time in the base to the violent clashes that await them on patrol, as well as the effect that life in a war zone has on them.

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Monsters

Javier is a "sad clown" in 1970's Spain in The Last Circus, there to support the happy clown, to laugh at his jokes and be the butt of his pranks... but the happy clown in his new circus is Sergio, a sadistic and abusive scoundrel who abuses everyone around him. While Sergio may be a monster, there is also a darkness buried within meek and unimposing Javier: as a child, he saw his father recruited to fight in the Spanish Civil War, sent into battle in his clown costume, wielding a machete. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Will (Landon Liboiron) is about to graduate highschool in The Howling: Reborn, the newest entry in The Howling series, but he continues to spend his time trying to blend in and not be noticed. When he finally decides he doesn't want to miss a chance at the girl of his dreams (Lindsey Shaw), he decides to let some of his animal instincts take over, but but does this align him with or set him against the aggressive pack in his school? With Ivana Milicevic.

When a group of friends anger a truck driver on the freeway, they end up harassed and run off the road in Bunnyman. Stranded and hunted by a man in a bunny suit, they have to survive backwoods hillbillies, traps, chainsaws, and cannibals as they're picked off one-by-one.

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Teenagers

A coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa, Master Harold and the Boys is the story of 17-year-old Hally (Freddy Highmore) who spends all his time with his family's two servants: intellectual Sam (Ving Rhames) and Willie (Patrick Mofokeng), who still calls Hally "Master Harold." When they receive news that Hally's abusive father is about to return from the hospital, Hally begins to take out his frustrations on Sam and Willie, beginning to treat them as servants instead of friends.

Grace (Selena Gomez), Meg (Leighton Meester), and Emma (Katie Cassidy) have been dreaming of Paris... but their Paris vacation is a huge disappointment. Their vacation is saved when Grace is mistaken for a wealthy heiress in Monte Carlo, and they're whisked away to enjoy high society in ritzy Monaco. With Cory Monteith.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Da Vinci's Inquest Series 2	Vancouver's Dominic Da Vinci works as an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
	Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3	The continuing adventures of the Jedi, Obi Wan, and Anakin during the Clone Wars.

Week of October 11

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Room for Advancement

Jason Bateman works for a sadistic jerk (Kevin Spacey) who manipulates and lies to him, Charlie Day's boss (Jennifer Aniston) sexually harasses and attempts to blackmail him, and the owner of Jason Sudeikis's company dies and leaves him under the authority of the owner's selfish, drug abusing son (Colin Farrell) in Horrible Bosses. The three friends decide their only way out is to kill the awful people they work for, but none of them know a thing about crime, so they hire a "murder consultant" (Jamie Foxx) and end up in a massive comic misadventure-- trying to get rid of three people the world would be better off without. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Fighting Impossible Odds

Kellan Lutz is living in the gutter, drinking to forget a devastating tragedy, when he's scooped up by an underground gladiatorial tournament in Arena. Held against his will and forced to fight for an online audience, he's offered a deal by Samuel L. Jackson: defeat ten opponents and win his freedom. No one's ever won more than five battles, and the anything-goes, to-the-death combat is vicious and bloody, but fighting (and winning) is the only way out.

Cocky, self involved test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is chosen to join an intergalactic peace-keeping force in Martin Campbell's Green Lantern. When Hal discovers a crashed, alien ship, his discovery ushers him into the Green Lantern Corps. As the first human Green Lantern, he's not immediately trusted by his Green Lantern mentor (Mark Strong), but his duties to protect the Earth are quickly put to the test; a planet-destroying entity is poised to destroy the world, and only Hal can stop it. With Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, and Angela Bassett. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Art Film

Julie Taymor's stylized, gender-bending adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest stars Helen Mirren as the sorceress Prospera, usurped by her brother (Chris Cooper) and set adrift on a raft with her daughter (Felicity Jones). Stranded on an island with only one inhabitant (Djimon Hounsou), Prospera claims it as her own and waits... When the King of Naples' (David Strathairn) ship sails by her island, she conjures a tempest to strand the king and his shipmates on her island, and Prospera begins to plot her revenge. With Reeve Carney, Alfred Molina, and Russell Brand. On Blu-Ray. (DVD not yet available)

A meditation on life, family, the cosmos and mankind's place within it, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life focuses on the O'Brien family, where the father (Brad Pitt) is stern and authoritarian, preparing his sons for a dangerous and unforgiving world, and the mother (Jessica Chastain) is warm and loving, encouraging the boys to see the world as a place of wonder. As Jack (Sean Penn), one of the O'Brien boys, looks back on his childhood and forward to his future, the film explores not just his life, but all life, from the beginnings to the ends of the Earth. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Character Drama

Terri is a depressed, overweight 15-year-old whose tardiness and lack of participation in school earns him weekly counceling sessions with Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly) in Terri. With Mr. Fitzgerald's guidance, Terri makes his first steps towards connecting with his classmates, but he's still a little confused, and kind of awkward, and prone to mistakes... just like everyone else around him. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate's (Maria Bello) college freshman son (Kyle Gallner) goes on a shooting spree before turning the gun on himself in Beautiful Boy. With the press surrounding their house, they stay with Kate's brother (Alan Tudyk) and his wife (Moon Bloodgood) and try to cope with their son's actions, the public's response, and the question of blame. The crisis forces them to re-evaluate their relationship, and their roles as a family and as parents. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Family

Griffin (Kevin James) loves his job in Zookeeper, but his devotion to the zoo and its animals drives away Stephanie (Leslie Bibb), the love of his life, who wants him to find another career. When Stephanie comes back into his life, the animals at the zoo work together to ensure Griffin's happiness... but that means breaking the "animal code" and talking to Griffin. With a team of talking animals helping him out, Griffin can accomplish anything, but maybe he ought to pay more attention to the zoo's veterinarian (Rosario Dawson) who shares his love of animals. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Third grader Judy Moody and her brother, Stink, are staying with their aunt (Heather Graham) for the summer in Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, and she has a plan to ensure her not-bummer summer: a list of "thrill points." Her perfect summer is threatened when she finds out her friends have more thrill points than her, so Judy, Stink, and their aunt find a way to out-thrill everyone-- they plan to catch Bigfoot. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Fact or Fiction

A pair of filmmakers investigate a claim that the inhabitants of the moon are controlling life on Earth, Lunopolis is presented as their documentary of the widespread lunar conspiracy. As they investigate what they think is a hoax, the film they're making begins to expose a greater danger than they could have imagined.

The only actual documentary this week is Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, where Joe Cross, overweight and suffering from an autoimmune disease, wasn't being helped by doctors and modern medicine. Trading pills for a juicer, Joe seeks to heal himself with fresh fruits and vegetables, and takes his new fitness regimen on the road, interviewing Americans about food, health, and longevity.

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Independence

Cornelius Rawlings returns home to his family farm after eighteen years in Septien. Though his parents are dead, his brothers Amos, who fills the barn with odd, expressionist painting, and Ezra (Robert Longstreet), who is devoted to housework and taking care of the other brothers, are still maintaining the farm. Though they have trouble relating, the events that led them to their dysfunctional state slowly come to light.

When Richard's hamster is diagnosed with cancer, he takes time off work to spend time with his terminal friend in Etienne! As they bicycle through California, spending quality time, their road trip leads them from one unlikely encounter to another.

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Spooky

Six strangers are stranded in Bangkok in the Pang Brothers' The Child's Eye, unable to fly home. With the airport locked down during Taiwan's 2008 anti-government protests, they find a hotel together, but after strange occurrences and weird visions in their creepy hotel, they begin to disappear one by one.

Officer Frank Talbot is about to say goodbye to both his wife and his current partner when a zombie attack forces them to barricade themselves in together in Silent Night, Zombie Night. With his partner suffering from a gunshot wound, Frank has to keep the group together if he wants to keep them alive... even though they're the two people he was ready to say goodbye to.

Unfolding in real-time, the Uruguayan The Silent House follows Laura as she tries to survive her escape from a mysterious house. Hired to clean the house, which has no phone or electricity, Laura's night turns terrifying as her struggle to leave the house begins to uncover the secrets that haunt the house.

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Smaller Titles

Based on the exploits of Welsh drug dealer Howard Marks, Mr. Nice stars Rhys Ifans as Marks, who stumbled from his Oxford education into a life of hashish smuggling in the early 1970s. From his IRA contact (David Thewlis) who uses weapons connections to smuggle Marks product to the MI6 agent who recruits him for his ability to access circles that agents can't penetrate, Marks navigates his own life like a desperado, spy, and rock star. With Chloe Sevigny and Crispin Glover. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Winning the lottery allows Colin Hanks to win the girl of his dreams (Ari Graynor) in Lucky... but the extra attention and a new bride brings unwanted attention, and could expose his hobby: he's a serial killer. Their honeymoon doesn't exactly go as planned, but like any new couple, they have to learn to adapt and compromise if they're going to make things work. With Jeffrey Tambor and Mimi Rogers.

Mexican journalist Laura (Monica del Carmen) is living a tragically unfulfilled existence in Leap Year, until she begins a dark, sadomasochistic affair with Arturo (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) that awakens the dark secrets that haunt her past. Though he affects her deeply, he still can't change her plans for February 29th, which she has made the fixed end-point of her life.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Bones Season 6	"Bones" Brennan and Agent Booth continue to solve crimes with investigative expertise and forensic science.		Workaholics Season 1	Fresh out of college, three roommates share a house... and a cubicle at a telemarketing company.
	Chuck Season 4	Reluctant super-spy Chuck Bartowski digs deeper into the mystery of his family's background.

Week of October 4th

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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 wasn't released on Tuesday with the other movies... the third Transformers movie arrived on Friday, September 30th, and is already in our New Releases section.

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.

Number Five

Hiding out in Rio de Janeiro, street racer Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and ex-cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) are caught up in a heist-gone-wrong in Fast Five. To settle the score, they set aside the street racing plot of the previous Fast and the Furious movies and plan and Ocean's 11-style heist to take revenge on the crime boss who burned them. They assemble a team of fast talking Roman (Tyrese Gibson), driver and reconnaissance expert Han (Sung Kang), tech-savy Tej (Ludacris), weapons specialist Gisele (Gal Gadot), and explosives duo Leo and Santos (Tego Calderon and Don Omar)-- the team has to face not just an extended crime organization and an army of corrupt cops, but also special agent Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) on a mission to track down Dom and O'Conner. They face almost impossible odds, but with a good plan and the right team, they might pull off the perfect heist and ride off into the sunset. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Spooky

The Riverton Seven were all born on the same day, sixteen years ago... the same day notorious serial killer "The Riverton Ripper" died... in Wes Craven's My Soul to Take. On their sixteenth birthday, the Riverton Seven botch their annual Ripper Day ritual hosted by Brandon (Nick Lashaway), the bully of the group. Only Bug (Max Thieriot) thinks this will cause trouble, until, one by one, members of the Riverton Seven start turning up dead. Is the Ripper still alive, or is someone else killing the teenagers linked to the murderer's legacy? With Jeremy Chu, Zena Grey, John Magaro, and Denzel Whitaker.

Wes Craven also shepherds the newest entry in the Scream franchise onto video this week, where Sidney (Neve Campbell) returns to Woodsboro after years of being immortalized as a real-life "survivor girl" in Scream 4. Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) is still looking after the town, but Sidney's arrival coincides with a new set of murders, as Sidney's highschool-age cousin (Emma Roberts) and her friends (Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, and Erik Knudsen) are stalked by a new, movie obsessed, ghostface mask-wearing killer. With Courtney Cox. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

A photographer is hired to take the final pictures of recently deceased Angelica (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), but she comes alive through the lens of his antique camera in Manoel de Oliviera's The Strange Case of Angelica. The photographer begins to see her as a perfect but unattainable love, as she only lives, breathes, and moves in the pictures he has of her, but his obsession with her still grows.

Recently divorced Mary (Rachel Lefevre) moves into a new apartment, hoping to escape her abusive ex-husband in The Caller. When the antique phone in the apartment rings, Rose (Lorna Raver) is on the line... but she's calling from 20 years in the past. When Mary angers Rose, they discover that Rose's life in the past can affect Mary in the present, and she knows Mary's parents and the younger versions of the people in her life. With Stephen Moyer and Luis Guzman.

Mira Sorvino retreats to the cabin from her childhood in The Presence, but an invisible presence (Shane West) haunts her there, whispering dangerous thoughts into her subconscious. When her fiance (Justin Kirk) arrives, the presence's influence threatens to tear both their lives apart, drawing on the damaging memories from her past

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Documentaries

Buck is the story of Buck Brannama, the real-life figure that inspired The Horse Whisperer. The film covers Buck's difficult childhood and how his experiences in youth informed his approach to training horses with sensitivity instead of violence, and the skills that have made him an almost mythical figure.

Lemmy is a portrait of Motorhead's hard-living rock icon Lemmy Kilmister, covering his time in the Beatles-era The Rockin Vicars and the early 70s space rock band Hawkwind, and the continuing legacy of Motorhead, still playing after more than 35 years. The film also covers Lemmy's day-to-day life, his home, family, and relationship with other bands and musicians. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Documenting the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, Jig goes behind the scenes of the competition to see the dancers and trainers that struggle to win world dance titles. Following six dancers, ages ten to nineteen, the film looks at all of the training, expense, and costuming that go into the struggle for the championship.

Disney Nature's African Cats documents two families of cats in the wilds of Africa. As a cheetah family and a lion family both compete for the limited resources of the savannah, their prides embark on a real-life adventure through the untamed wild. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Smaller Dramas

Oliver (Craig Roberts) lives in his own private fantasy world in the coming-of-age film Submarine, re-imagining himself as the star of his own documentary. He's not quite sure who he is or how to behave, but he works on pursuing his goals, namely: winning the mischievous girl (Yasmin Paige), and keeping his depressed dad (Noah Taylor) and unsatisfied mother (Sally Hawkins) together. With Paddy Considine.

Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) finds an unexpected protector in The High Cost of Living. Just as her life is falling apart, she meets Henry (Zach Braff), a kind stranger dedicated to helping her through her tough times, though Nathalie doesn't know why Henry is so driven to help her.

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Giant Beasts

Based on the classic novel, Moby Dick stars William Hurt as the mad Captain Ahab obsessed with hunting the white whale. Ishmael (Charlie Cox) joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod where he meets the contemplative Starbuck (Ethan Hawke) and the tribesman Queequeg (Raoul Trujillo), but once they're on the water, they all have to survive Ahab's single-minded quest.

15-year-old Jun is transported out of modern-day Japan to an ancient time in Legend of the Millennium Dragon, where he becomes a reluctant hero in the middle of a war between humans and demons. Both sides want to recruit Jun to gain the advantage in the war, but neither side is exactly as they seem, but Jun hasn't yet discovered his destiny or all of his power. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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On Stage

A filmed performance of his current stage show, "Weird" Al Yancovic's Alpocalypse captures the live renditions of some of Al's most popular songs, including original songs, parodies, medleys, and (of course) a polka.

Paul Reubens takes Pee-Wee live in The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway, performing the show in front of a Broadway audience, recreating Pee-Wee from his original life in the 1980s.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Bored to Death Season 2	Inspired by detective stories, a struggling writer leads a double life by pretending to be a private detective.		The League Season 2	The members of a fantasy football league will go to any extreme to upstage one another.
	Ken Burns Prohibition	Ken Burns' three part miniseries about the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s.		Vera Series1	Forthright and hard drinking British inspector Vera Stanhope investigates murders with dedication and professionalism.
	CSI Season 11	Raymond Langston and his team investigate crime scenes and solve cases.		Lie to Me Season 3	Dr. Lightman reads the facial expressions of suspects to help the police close cases.
	In Treatment Season 3	Psychologist Dr. Paul Weston treats a new series of clients.